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Should I remove Solid Savings?

What percent of users and experts removed it?
79% remove it21% keep it
Overall Sentiment
Bad
What do people think about it?
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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

VersionDistribution
1.27.153.8 26.43%
1.27.153.3 9.93%
1.27.153.0 63.64%

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 softwareVersionDetection
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 softwareSoftware versionDetection
avast! 8.0.1489.320 Win32:Installer-M [Adw]
AVG 13.0.0.3169 Generic5.AKBV
Dr.Web 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 detailsProgram 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

Program filesFiles 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:
  • Solid Savings-bg.exe (by Innovative Apps) - Solid Savings (Solid Savings exe)
  • (Malware detected) Solid Savings-bho.dll (by Innovative Apps) - Solid Savings BHO
  • Solid Savings-buttonutil.exe
  • Solid Savings-buttonutil64.exe
  • Solid Savings-codedownloader.exe
  • Uninstall.exe - Solid Savings Installer
  • Solid Savings-buttonutil.dll
  • Solid Savings-buttonutil64.dll
  • Solid Savings-helper.exe

Program behaviorsBehaviors 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).

Program resource utilizationResource utilization averages

Solid Savings-bg.exe
Memory:9.13 MB
21.09 MB average
Total CPU:0.0285008469%
0.031193% average
Kernel CPU:0.02031577%
0.016088% average
User CPU:0.00818507%
0.015104% average

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.
  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 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).
  3. Follow the prompts. A progress bar shows you how long it will take to remove Solid Savings.
  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.

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.
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OS VERSIONS
Win 7 (SP1) 58%
Win Vista 0%
 
USER ACTIONS
Uninstall it 79%
Keep it 21%
 
GLOBAL RANK
#11,246

Windows OS versionsWindows

Which Windows OS versions does it run on?
Windows 7 60.67%
Windows 10 23.53%
Windows Vista 9.41%
Windows XP 6.39%
Which OS releases does it run on?
Windows 7 Home Premium 49.66%
Windows 8 13.51%
Windows Vista Home Premiu... 6.93%
Windows 7 Professional 6.93%
Microsoft Windows XP 6.42%
Windows 8.1 5.91%

Distribution by countryGeography

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%

OEM distributionPC manufacturers

What PC manufacturers (OEMs) have it installed?
Hewlett-Packard 39.09%
Dell 20.45%
Toshiba 14.32%
Acer 14.09%
ASUS 5.23%
Samsung 2.27%
Lenovo 2.05%
GIGABYTE 1.82%
Alienware 0.68%
Common models
HP 2000 Notebook PC 5.95%
HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook ... 5.56%
HP Pavilion g6 Notebook P... 3.97%
HP Pavilion g7 Notebook P... 3.97%
TOSHIBA Satellite C655 3.17%
TOSHIBA Satellite C855D 2.78%

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

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