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Should I remove SaveSense?

What percent of users and experts removed it?
62% remove it38% keep it
Overall Sentiment
Bad
What do people think about it?
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How common is it?
Global Rank #5,618
United States Rank #10,943
Reach 0.0851%
Lifespan of installation (until removal)
< 27.73 days
817.94 days >
Average installed length: 429.76 days

Versions

VersionDistribution
6.4.0.0 78.12%

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SaveSense

What is SaveSense?

From the EULA: "SaveSense provides you with services which are intended to enhance your online shopping experience, showing you same products or different stores with cheaper prices and exposing you to coupons allowing you to enjoy exclusive discounts when checking out products ("Offers"). The services are based on an innovative method of behavioral advertising which enables to offer you products, via browser add-on, banners or ads, based on your observed preferences while protecting your privacy. SaveSense provides you with its services, which is a shopping comparative service that includes a downloadable browser add-on ("Software"), banners ads, and coupons that provide you with relevant Offers while you shop online, in order to help you compare prices and products while shopping online through third party websites (the "Service").
The Offers provided through the Service may contain Third Party Content therefore SaveSense cannot warrant that they are accurate, relevant or that they are actually the lowest prices available world-wide."

About  (from savesense.com)

As you browse for a product, SaveSense will show you different online stores where you can find the same product at the lowest prices. SaveSense allows you to choose from a wide array of relevant coupons, deals and, flights and hotels special offers on the spot. Think of SaveSense as your personal online shopping assis...  Read more
Overview
  • Malware detected in the program
  • The wisdom of the experts agree, if you don't use it you should remove it!
Warning, multiple anti-virus scanners have detected possible malware in SaveSense.
updatetask.exe (75ed33031a4905b1a75f34b5257c460e) has been flagged by the following 7 scanners:
Anti-Virus softwareVersionDetection
AVG 2015.0.3582 MalSign.Generic
ESET-NOD32 8.9412 a variant of Win32/DealPly.M
McAfee 5600.7220 Artemis!75ED33031A49
McAfee-GW-Edition 7.7220 Artemis!75ED33031A49
Trend Micro 10.465.13 ADW_SAVESENSE
TrendMicro-HouseCall 7.2.44 ADW_SAVESENSE
VIPRE Antivirus 26380 Adware.SaveSense (fs)
Bundled relationships

Program detailsProgram details

Displayed publisher: SaveSense
URL: support.savesense.com
Help link: www.savesense.com
Installation folder: C:\users\user\appdata\roaming\savesense\updateproc
Uninstaller: C:\users\user\appdata\Roaming\SaveSense\UpdateProc\UpdateTask.exe /Uninstall
Estimated size: 22.93 MB

Program filesFiles installed by SaveSense

Program executable:updatetask.exe (Malware detected)
Path:C:\users\user\appdata\roaming\savesense\updateproc\updatetask.exe
MD5:75ed33031a4905b1a75f34b5257c460e

Program behaviorsBehaviors exhibited

Scheduled Task
  • UpdateTask.exe is scheduled as a task named 'At2' (runs daily at 18:04).

How do I remove SaveSense?

You can uninstall SaveSense from your computer by using the Add/Remove Program feature in the Window's Control Panel.
  1. 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.
  2. When you find the program SaveSense, 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).
  3. Follow the prompts. A progress bar shows you how long it will take to remove SaveSense.
  4. 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.

OS VERSIONS
Win 7 (SP1) 53%
Win 7 0%
 
USER ACTIONS
Uninstall it 62%
Keep it 38%
 
GLOBAL RANK
#5,618

Windows OS versionsWindows

Which Windows OS versions does it run on?
Windows 7 61.64%
Windows 10 29.36%
Windows Vista 4.71%
Windows XP 4.23%
Windows Server 2003 0.06%
Which OS releases does it run on?
Windows 7 Home Premium 24.24%
Windows 7 Ultimate 18.43%
Windows 8.1 10.95%
Windows 7 Professional 9.75%
Windows 8 5.86%
Windows 7 Home Basic 5.15%

Distribution by countryGeography

26.29% of installs come from Brazil
Which countries install it?
  Brazil 26.29%
  United States 18.84%
  India 6.00%
  Italy 5.69%
  France 5.51%
  Germany 3.88%
  United Kingdom 3.63%
  Canada 2.30%
  Sweden 2.00%
  Turkey 2.00%
  Portugal 1.76%
  Australia 1.70%
  Japan 1.51%
  Russia 1.15%

OEM distributionPC manufacturers

What PC manufacturers (OEMs) have it installed?
Hewlett-Packard 29.31%
Acer 22.93%
Dell 15.70%
ASUS 10.28%
Samsung 7.04%
Toshiba 5.33%
Lenovo 3.52%
GIGABYTE 3.33%
Intel 1.05%
American Megatrends 0.76%
Medion 0.76%
Common models
HP Pavilion g6 Notebook P... 5.97%
HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook ... 5.09%
Positivo Positivo Mobile 3.54%
Acer Aspire E1-571 2.43%
HP 2000 Notebook PC 2.43%
Dell Inspiron 3521 2.21%

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