What is Shopper Pro
Shopper Pro by Goobzo Ltd. is a unwanted browser extension (BHO) for Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Usually, such browser extensions infiltrate your PC without your knowledge. These potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) can often cause many problems while surfing the Internet. The most common problems are annoying pop-ups, underlined words, inline-text advertisements and banners like “Ads by Shopper-Pro” or “Shopper Pro by Goobzo Ltd.” or “Powered by Shopper Pro” to generate web-traffic and earn revenue from advertising networks.
How Shopper Pro infected your PC
Shopper Pro adware usually comes with freeware programs. Download sites like “Softonic, Cnet, Updatestar, Zdnet” and similar websites which offer free software are the biggest sources of distributing adware and unwanted programs like Shopper Pro. While installing certain free programs that may contain additional software, you should pay attention to the End User License Agreements (EULA), and the installation procedure. When you have the possibility of an Custom or Advanced installation option, choose it and uncheck advertising offers.
Download Shopper Pro Removal Tool
To remove Shopper Pro completely we recommend you to use SpyHunter 5. It detects and removes all files, folders and registry keys of Shopper Pro and several millions of other adware, hijackers, toolbars.
Remove Shopper Pro manually for free
Here is manual step-by-step tutorial for full Shopper Pro removal from your computer. This works 99% and was checked with the latest versions of Shopper Pro installer on operating systems with latest updates and browser versions.
Remove Shopper Pro from Control Panel
To start removing Shopper Pro you should remove it using Control Panel. It should uninstall correctly, however, we recommend you to use IObit Uninstaller to clean leftover items after uninstalling. Here are instructions for Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8.
Remove Shopper Pro from Windows XP:
- Click on Start button.
- Choose Control Panel.
- Click Add or Remove Programs.
- Find Shopper Pro.
- Click Uninstall.
Remove Shopper Pro from Windows 7:
- Click Start button.
- Then go to Control Panel.
- Click Uninstall a Program.
- Find Shopper Pro and click Uninstall.
Remove Shopper Pro from Windows 8:
- Hover mouse pointer to the bottom-right corner to see Menu.
- Click Search.
- After that click Apps.
- Then Control Panel.
- Click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
- Find Shopper Pro, click Uninstall.
Cannot uninstall Shopper Pro
In some cases Shopper Pro won’t uninstall and gives you message that “You do not have sufficient access to uninstall Shopper Pro. Please, contact your system administrator” when you try to remove it from Control Panel or “Access denied” error when removing Shopper Pro folder and files. This happens, because process Shopper Pro.exe or service Shopper ProSvc does not allow you to do it. In this case I will recommend you to use SpyHunter 5 or Malwarebytes or uninstall Shopper Pro in Safe Mode. To boot in Safe Mode do the following:
- Reboot your computer.
- While it starts booting press F8 button.
- This will open Advanced Boot Options menu.
- Choose Safe Mode and wait until Windows loads.
- Go to Control Panel > Uninstall a program and remove Shopper Pro
>> See detailed instructions and video tutorial on how to boot in Safe Mode
Remove Shopper Pro add-on from your browsers
Removing Shopper Pro from Control Panel often does not bring desired effect. It is browser extension and it may still be active in Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Here are instructions on how to remove Shopper Pro extension from your browsers manually.
Google Chrome:
- Start Google Chrome browser
- In address box type (or copy-paste)
chrome://extensions/
. - Find Shopper Pro extension.
- Click the trash can icon to remove it.
Mozilla Firefox:
- Start Mozilla Firefox browser.
- In address box type (or copy-paste)
about:addons
. - Choose Shopper Pro extension.
- Click Disable or Remove button.
Internet Explorer (9, 10, 11):
Note: There is no feature to remove browser extensions from browser in latest version of Internet Explorer. To remove Shopper Pro from Internet Explorer, please, perform instructions for uninstalling program from Control Panel. To disable Shopper Pro, please, do the following:
- Open Internet Explorer.
- Click on gear/asterisk icon in the top-right corner.
- In opened menu Manage Add-ons.
- Select Toolbars and Extensions.
- Click Disable Shopper Pro.
Opera Browser:
Generally, Shopper Pro does not install in Opera browser however you can always double check. Do the following:
- Start Opera browser.
- Go to Tools > Extensions > Manage Extensions.
- Find Shopper Pro extension.
- Click Uninstall button.
Alternative way to remove adware browser extension Shopper Pro
For safe and effective browser extension removal use avast! Browser Cleanup utility. Run it with administrator privileges and remove all extension with bad rating including Shopper Pro. You can also reset your browser settings for each of your browsers: Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox.