I wrote this article to help you remove Terrificshoper Virus. This Terrificshoper Virus removal guide works for Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer.

Terrificshoper is an application for Google Chrome. It promises to provide the user with top shopping deals for everything they need. The tool will bring you exclusive offers for various commodities, like clothes, technological devices, furniture, accessories, decorations, gardening equipment, sports gear, toys, and others. The utility may appear to be a good shopping assistant, but in reality it is misleading. Security experts have analyzed the behavior of Terrificshoper and the conclusion they have reached is alarming. The program exhibits the characteristics of a browser hijacker. This means that it interferes with the browser’s internal settings. It is ad-supported which makes the shopping deals risky. Besides all of this, the shady extension spies on users’ web sessions.

Terrificshoper is available for download from its official website, terrificshoper.com. There is a blue download button on the homepage which redirects to its purchase page in the Chrome Web Store. If you have not acquired the tool per own decision, you have been tricked to allow it into your system. There are a few possible scenarios for this event. We will address them separately, so that you could recollect your recent actions and figure out what you did wrong. First, there is the bundling method. Unlicensed programs, like freeware, shareware, and pirated copies of paid utilities, can host a given application. Terrificshoper would be included in the terms and conditions of the download client as a bonus. If you do not change the settings, the wizard will install it together with your tool of choice.

When transferred via email, Terrificshoper will be merged with an attachment. The sender will likely misrepresent a reputable entity to make the message seem genuine. He could state that the file is an invoice, a receipt, a recommended letter, a bill, a fine, a lease, a subpoena, or something else. Some fraud artists have developed their skills to the point where they duplicate the notifications of certain entities. It is not difficult. All the person has to do is copy a template, insert the logos and contacts of the corresponding entity, and create an email account which is similar to the original. To distinguish between spam and legitimate letters, you can check the email address. Consult the official website of the organization in question.

When Terrificshoper enters your system, it will start tampering with its settings. The rogue program changes the homepage and default search provider. This enables it to tamper with people’s browsing sessions. The hijacker inserts supported content amid the regular results. As we mentioned prior, the program is ad-supported. This means that its owners get paid to sponsor third party websites. As the term suggests, the main monetizing technique is displaying advertisements. The supported results are just a supplemental method. We already mentioned that Terrificshoper brings bargain shopping deals for miscellaneous items. This only scratches the surface, as there are a lot of details regarding them.

The covert program produces ads in different formats, such as coupon boxes, banners, in-text links, freebies, rebates, videos, inline, transitional, contextual, interstitial, floating, and full-page windows. The intrusive pop-ups will cover your active tabs and interrupt your work. The activity of generating them will take its toll on your system, as it exerts a high amount of CPU. Your machine will become sluggish and unable to complete some of your requests. The most severe problem is the security risk surrounding the ads. Terrificshoper does not proof the reliability of the platforms it links to. Any of them could turn out to be malicious. This is why we advice you to steer clear of the ads altogether.

The final threat around Terrificshoper could be the biggest. It depends on the purposes you use your computer for and the types of data you store into your online accounts. The hijacker can record your browsing history, tracking cookies, keystrokes, IP address, geographic location, zip code, residency, email, telephone number, demographic profile, user names, passwords. The gathered details will be packed into catalogs and sold on darknet markets. The people who purchase them will be enabled to access your personal accounts. If cyber criminals get their hands on your sensitive information, they can rob you. It should be noted that the creators of the extension, a company from Limassol, Cyprus called Aztec Media, Inc., have disclaimed responsibility for all consequential security issues.

Terrificshoper Virus Removal

Before starting the real removal process, you must reboot in Safe Mode. If you are familiar with this task, skip the instructions below and proceed to Step 2. If you do not know how to do it, here is how to reboot in Safe mode:

For Windows 98, XP, Millenium and 7:
Reboot your computer. When the first screen of information appears, start repeatedly pressing F8 key. Then choose Safe Mode With Networking from the options.

For Windows 8/8.1
Click the Start button, next click Control Panel —> System and Security —> Administrative Tools —> System Configuration.‌

Check the Safe Boot option and click OK. Click Restart when asked.
For Windows 10
Open the Start menu and click or tap on the Power button.

While keeping the Shift key pressed, click or tap on Restart.

Here are the steps you must follow to permanently remove from the browser:

Remove From Mozilla Firefox:

Open Firefox, click on top-right corner , click Add-ons, hit Extensions next.

Look for suspicious or unknown extensions, remove them all.

Remove From Chrome:

Open Chrome, click chrome menu icon at the top-right corner —>More Tools —> Extensions. There, identify the malware and select chrome-trash-icon(Remove).

Remove From Internet Explorer:
Open IE, then click IE gear icon on the top-right corner —> Manage Add-ons.

Find the malicious add-on. Remove it by pressing Disable.

Right click on the browser’s shortcut, then click Properties. Remove everything after the .exe” in the Target box.

Open Control Panel by holding the Win Key and R together. Write appwiz.cpl in the field, then click OK.

Here, find any program you had no intention to install and uninstall it.

Run the Task Manager by right clicking on the Taskbar and choosing Start Task Manager.

Look carefully at the file names and descriptions of the running processes. If you find any suspicious one, search on Google for its name, or contact me directly to identify it. If you find a malware process, right-click on it and choose End task.

Open MS Config by holding the Win Key and R together. Type msconfig and hit Enter.

Go in the Startup tab and Uncheck entries that have “Unknown” as Manufacturer.

Still can not remove Terrificshoper Virus from your browser? Please, leave a comment below, describing what steps you performed. I will answer promptly.