Should I remove Solid Savings?
What percent of users and experts removed it?
79% remove it21% keep it
What do people think about it?
(click star to rate)
How common is it?
Global Rank #11,246
United States Rank #6,539
Reach 0.0301%
Lifespan of installation (until removal)
< 18.98 days
559.89 days >
Average installed length: 294.18 days
Versions
Version | Distribution |
1.27.153.8 |
26.43% |
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1.27.153.3 |
9.93% |
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1.27.153.0 |
63.64% |
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Solid Savings
What is Solid Savings?
Innovative Apps' Solid Savings is a web browser plugin that displays coupon deals and other advertisements when users visit various online shopping sites. When a user visits an online shopping site and the program has a pre-arranged affiliate relationship with a similar merchant it will alert the user that other deals or prices exist, or in many cases just shows adverts. It injects ads and affiliate codes in product links directly by modifying web pages HTML content. In addition, it has been seen to display non-embedded pop-up advertisements that are non-attributed to the application making this program adware.
This software is detected by various anti-malware programs that typically flag it as adware or a potentially unwanted program. It is typically included in various 3rd party software bundles. Solid-Savings is a ad supported product and will show you advertisements as you browse the web by directly modifying the web pages visited and injecting new ads or adding advertisements over existing banner or text ads.
The software uses the Crossrider toolbar development platform.
About (from 215 Apps)
With Solid-Savings, you don't go anywhere to find savings, and we apply coupons for you with a single click. Stop spending time searching for coupons. THE PLUGIN MAY COLLECT OR STORE INFORMATION FOR AMAZING APPS(“LICENSOR”, “WE” OR “US”) ABOUT THE WEB PAGES YOU VISIT AND YOUR ACTIVITY ON THOSE PAGES, SUCH AS IMPRESSION... Read more
Overview
- Possible malware installed by this program
- Loads into the web browser
- Built on the Crossrider toolbar platform and potentially unwanted
- May inject ads in the web browser
- 'Offers' to modify the browser's home and search pages by default
- Connects to a server over the Internet
- Typically distributed through a pay-per-install bundle
- Injects advertisements unassociated with the underlying web page
- Generally known to have a low reputation
- The wisdom of the crowd agrees, you should remove it!
Warning, multiple anti-virus scanners have detected possible malware in Solid Savings.
Solid Savings-helper.exe (9279c583afd1cc2f6e068021f3386185) has been flagged by the following 2 scanners: |
Anti-Virus software | Version | Detection |
avast! |
2014.9-140126 |
Win32:Installer-M [Adw] |
VIPRE Antivirus |
19626 |
GamePlayLabs (v) |
Solid Savings-bho.dll (29543e745f71656f904fc78ac92419f6) has been flagged by the following 13 scanners: |
Anti-Virus software | Software version | Detection |
avast! |
8.0.1489.320 |
Win32:Installer-M [Adw] |
AVG |
13.0.0.3169 |
Generic5.AKBV |
Dr.Web |
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Trojan.Crossrider.1 |
ESET-NOD32 |
9132 |
a variant of Win32/Toolbar.CrossRider.H |
G Data |
22 |
Win32.Trojan.Agent.ERF3S0 |
K7 AntiVirus |
9.174.10410 |
Riskware ( 0040eff71 ) |
K7GW |
9.174.10410 |
Riskware ( 0040eff71 ) |
Kingsoft AntiVirus |
2013.4.9.267 |
Win32.Troj.Generic.a.(kcloud) |
McAfee |
5.600.0.1067 |
Artemis!29543E745F71 |
McAfee-GW-Edition |
2013 |
Artemis!29543E745F71 |
Sophos |
4.95.0 |
AppRider |
Symantec |
20131.1.5.61 |
Adware.Adpopup |
VIPRE Antivirus |
24018 |
GamePlayLabs (v) |
View all 15 all detections
Solid Savings has been found to be bundled with 3rd party software. If you have not purposefully installed this, you should be safe uninstalling it.
Program details
Displayed publisher: Innovative Apps
URL: www.50onred.com
Installation folder: C:\Program Files\solid savings
Uninstaller: C:\Program Files\Solid Savings\Uninstall.exe
Estimated size: 4.34 MB
Files installed by Solid Savings
Program executable: | Solid Savings-helper.exe (Malware detected) |
Path: | C:\Program Files\solid savings\Solid Savings-helper.exe |
MD5: | 9279c583afd1cc2f6e068021f3386185 |
Additional files:
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Solid Savings-bg.exe (by Innovative Apps) - Solid Savings (Solid Savings exe)
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(Malware detected) Solid Savings-bho.dll (by Innovative Apps) - Solid Savings BHO
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Solid Savings-buttonutil.exe
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Solid Savings-buttonutil64.exe
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Solid Savings-codedownloader.exe
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Uninstall.exe - Solid Savings Installer
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Solid Savings-buttonutil.dll
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Solid Savings-buttonutil64.dll
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Solid Savings-helper.exe
Behaviors exhibited
Internet Explorer BHO
- Solid Savings-bho.dll is installed in Internet Explorer as a BHO (Browser Helper Object) under the name 'Solid Savings' with the class of {11111111-1111-1111-1111-110211621178} (CrossriderApp0026278).
Network connections
- Solid Savings-bg.exe connects to a184-84-244-187.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com (184.84.244.187 port 80).
Resource utilization averages
Show technical details
Solid Savings-bg.exe |
Memory: | 9.13 MB | |
Total CPU: | 0.0285008469% | |
Kernel CPU: | 0.02031577% | |
User CPU: | 0.00818507% | |
How do I remove Solid Savings?
You can uninstall Solid Savings from your computer by using the Add/Remove Program feature in the Window's Control Panel.
- On the Start menu (for Windows 8, right-click the screen's bottom-left corner), click Control Panel, and then, under Programs, do one of the following:
- Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall a Program.
- Windows XP: Click Add or Remove Programs.
- When you find the program Solid Savings, click it, and then do one of the following:
- Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall.
- Windows XP: Click the Remove or Change/Remove tab (to the right of the program).
- Follow the prompts. A progress bar shows you how long it will take to remove Solid Savings.
- If for some reason uninstallation fails, please install Microsoft's uninstall fixer utility which will help fix problems with programs that can't be uninstalled at support.microsoft.com.
How do I reset my web browser?
If your web browser homepage and search settings have been modfied by Solid Savings you can restore them to their previous default settings.
Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Open Internet Explorer and click the Tools button, and then click Internet options.
- Click the Advanced tab, and then click Reset. Select the Delete personal settings check box if you would also like to remove search providers, Accelerators and home pages. When Internet Explorer finishes applying default settings, click Close, and then click OK.
- The changes will take effect the next time you open IE.
Mozilla Firefox
- At the top of the Firefox window, click the Firefox button, go over to the Help sub-menu and select Troubleshooting Information.
- To continue, click Reset Firefox in the confirmation window that opens. It will close and be reset.
- When it's done, a window will list the information that was imported. Click Finish and Firefox will open.
Google Chrome
- Open Chrome and click the Chrome menu on the browser toolbar.
- Select Settings. In the "Search" section, click Manage search engine. Check if (Default) is displayed next to your preferred search engine. If not, mouse over it and click Make default. Mouse over any other suspicious search engine entries that are not familiar and click X to remove them.
- When the "Show Home button" checkbox is selected, a web address appears below it. If you want the Homepage button to open up a different webpage, click Change to enter a link.
- Restart Google Chrome.
OS VERSIONS
Win 7 (SP1) 58%
Win Vista 0%
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USER ACTIONS
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Uninstall it 79%
Keep it 21%
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GLOBAL RANK
#11,246
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Windows
Which Windows OS versions does it run on?
Windows 7 |
60.67% |
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Windows 10 |
23.53% |
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Windows Vista |
9.41% |
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Windows XP |
6.39% |
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Which OS releases does it run on? |
Windows 7 Home Premium |
49.66% |
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Windows 8 |
13.51% |
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Windows Vista Home Premiu... |
6.93% |
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Windows 7 Professional |
6.93% |
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Microsoft Windows XP |
6.42% |
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Windows 8.1 |
5.91% |
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Geography
84.24% of installs come from the United States
Which countries install it?
United States |
84.24% |
Canada |
6.35% |
Australia |
4.12% |
United Kingdom |
3.88% |
France |
0.24% |
LY |
0.12% |
CY |
0.12% |
NG |
0.12% |
Russia |
0.12% |
CM |
0.12% |
Pakistan |
0.12% |
Israel |
0.12% |
Germany |
0.12% |
Egypt |
0.12% |
PC manufacturers
What PC manufacturers (OEMs) have it installed?
Hewlett-Packard |
39.09% |
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Dell |
20.45% |
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Toshiba |
14.32% |
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Acer |
14.09% |
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ASUS |
5.23% |
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Samsung |
2.27% |
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Lenovo |
2.05% |
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GIGABYTE |
1.82% |
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Alienware |
0.68% |
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Common models |
HP 2000 Notebook PC |
5.95% |
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HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook ... |
5.56% |
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HP Pavilion g6 Notebook P... |
3.97% |
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HP Pavilion g7 Notebook P... |
3.97% |
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TOSHIBA Satellite C655 |
3.17% |
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TOSHIBA Satellite C855D |
2.78% |
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About 215 Apps
215 Apps developes a number of adware driven toolbar programs such as DropinSavings, Vid-Saver, Giant Savings, Savings Sidekick, etc.
Publisher URL: www.215apps.com