What is Finance Alert?

What is Finance Alert?

Finance Alert is described as a tool that informs users about changes in finances world and react to them to gain benefits. However, it’s just a description that is far away from reality. Once installed, this application will display various advertisements right on your web browsers. That is not only annoying and disturbing, but malicious as well. Even though you can download this application from their official website at http://financenewsalert.com/index.html but usually that’s not the case – Finance alert is traveling bundled with other free applications and gets installed without users even being aware of that.

Finance Alert

If your computer is infected with this adware  – here’s what you need to do. Download a trustworthy anti-malware application, such as SpyHunter, StopZilla or Malwarebytes install it and scan your computer. It will detect and remove Finance Automatically. It will also protect your computer from similar infections in the future. It’s recommended to scan your computer from time to time with one of these applications just to make sure your computer isn’t infected. If for some reasons you don’t want to download any anti-malware software, you can remove Finance Alert manually. We have developed a step-by-step Finance Alert removal guide to assist you – it’s below this article, go check it out. Or if you want to get more information about Finance Alert, keep reading this article.

About Finance Alert

Finance Alert works as a browser add-on that can be added to all most popular web browsers, including Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. It is listed as an adware because it displays various advertisements on your web browsers. They can be displayed in all kinds of forms, such as contextual, pop-up, pop-under, in-text or banner advertisements. Most of the time they appear on e-commerce websites, such as eBay or Amazon and offers you to purchase some particular goods at a very appealing price rate. Even though those advertisements look really appealing, you should not believe that as it’s just a trick to win your attention and make you click on them.

Finance Alert works as a middleman between you and advertisers. It is an advertising network mostly used by cyber criminals, such as hackers and scammers. Since they are blocked from all valid advertisement networks they use adware as Finance Alert to promote their webpages. That’s why you should not click on those advertisements and that’s why we list this application as malicious. If you do click on advertisement displayed by Finance Alert you will be immediately redirected to other website that might be owned by cyber criminals and this can lead to your computer getting infected or if you attempt to purchase something there you can get scammed and lose your money.

The main goal of Finance Alert is to make you click on those advertisements. They are usually labeled with a slogan “Ads by Finance Alert” or “Brought to you by Finance Alert”. They get paid for every click you make. That’s why Finance Alert is collecting your personal information – browsing history, search queries, Top visited sites, IP and email addresses and even your geographic location. They adjust their advertisements according to collected data so they look even more relevant and attractive to you based on your interests and browsing habits and chances that you will click on one of those advertisements rises.