Should I remove Saving Zapper?

What percent of users and experts removed it?

84% remove it16% keep it

Overall Sentiment

Bad

What do people think about it?

(click star to rate)

How common is it?

Reach <0.001%

Versions

Version	Distribution
1.0	100.00%

Saving Zapper

from Offer Laboratories (SpiritQuote)

Remove Saving Zapper by Offer Laboratories (Spi...

What is Saving Zapper?

Saving Zapper (optimizeyour.net) is advertising supports software for the web browser that displays various forms of ads on many of the sites a user visits. In addition to displaying ads, it collects information about the user's web browsing habits (From the EUAL: "what Websites you visit, what advertisements appear on those Websites, and what advertisements you click on at those Websites").

"In addition to the Data Use, the Toolbar may, at times, modify your internet browser or how it appears to you, including, for example, inserting or injecting advertisements, in text advertisements, banners or coupons, or inserting, injecting or overwriting advertisements on websites that you would not normally see if you had not installed the Toolbar.The Toolbar may also install tracking cookies on your Web browser. After installing the Toolbar, advertisements and offers for products or services will be displayed to you. The ads that are displayed to you will be based on Websites you have visited." - EULA

About (from Offer Laboratories (SpiritQuote))

If you have Optimizeyour.net installed and enabled on your computer, you will see ads placed by our app while browsing. Once you have installed the Toolbar, certain information and data will be gathered through access to your computer in order to provide targeted advertising to you. Examples of the types of informatio... Read more

Overview

Malware detected in the program
Typically distributed through a pay-per-install bundle
Displays unwanted advertisements
Most users and experts agree, you should remove it!

Warning, multiple anti-virus scanners have detected possible malware in Saving Zapper.

olInj.dll (a3df3b9b121d13eac786c447394f4671) has been flagged by the following 2 scanners:
Anti-Virus software	Version	Detection
Symantec	8/6/2014 rev. 4	WS.Reputation
TrendMicro-HouseCall	7.2.218	Suspicious_GEN.F47V0719

Saving Zapper 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: Offer Laboratories

URL: www.optimizeyour.net

License: View the full license agreement (EULA) for Saving Zapper

Installation folder: C:\users\user\appdata\local\sz

Uninstaller: C:\users\user\appdata\Local\sz\uninst.exe

Estimated size: 7.63 MB

Files installed by Saving Zapper

Program module:	olInj.dll (Malware detected)
Path:	C:\users\user\appdata\local\sz\olInj.dll
MD5:	a3df3b9b121d13eac786c447394f4671

Additional files:

(Malware detected) olInj.dll
uninst.exe

How do I remove Saving Zapper?

You can uninstall Saving Zapper 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 Saving Zapper, 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 Saving Zapper.
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.