PiccShare

Posted by Max Lehmann on September 21, 2015

What is PiccShare?

PiccShare is an advertisement-supported program that offers you a more convenient way to share your photos. It says you will save time because with it only a single click would be required to publish the selected image on a social network or send it via email. However, the program is 100% free not because of the good will of its creators, but because it allows third-party advertising. In addition, this program sometimes tricks users by coming to computers unnoticed. All in all, it is up to you to decide whether to keep PiccShare or remove it, but we speak for the second option. test test test

How does PiccShare act?

This program fulfills its promise and really helps you share pictures with a single click. Moreover, you can always write a comment on every image you share, and this may also seem a useful feature. However, PiccShare shows commercial advertisements, and this will surely interrupt your browsing sessions. Besides, this program is supported by the third-party advertisers. Those advertisers may place their cookies on your computer to collect information regarding your online behavior for their own objectives. The adware program has no control over those cookies and is not responsible for their use or misuse. It is also not responsible for whatever those third parties may use the information about you for. We cannot state that something dreadful will happen to you, but better to eliminate the application, thus eliminating all the possible risks.

Where does PiccShare come from?

The program was developed by HTTO Group, Ltd. The malware research team of Anti-spyware-101.com encountered the name of this company some time ago. It was responsible for the intrusive search engine Search.fbdownloader.com. The fact that this suspicious program and PiccShare were created by the same people raises some questions about the reliability of the photo sharing tool.

What’s more, our researchers have discovered that PiccShare can be distributed in various ways. The program is easy to download from its official page located at piccshare.com. However, sometimes it slithers to computers in a tricky way. It happens when unaware users download applications from free software websites and install them without paying close attention to the terms and conditions of those programs. Many adware applications are placed in bundles with those free programs, and cautious users are able to deselect them during the installation process. The fact that PiccShare may disguise the way it enters your computer also lowers the credibility of this application.

How to remove PiccShare?

The application creates extensions in all the popular browsers. Removing the program via Control Panel is enough only for Internet Explorer. Users of Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome will need to eliminate the unwanted browser extension from their browsers manually. It is not a hard task, and the guide will make it even simpler. Also, we advise that you check your system with an official antispyware scanner. Some leftovers of PiccShare could still be present, and you need to make sure that no additional unwanted applications have entered your system together with the adware program. Also, do not hesitate to contact us by posting your question in the box below if you have some problems regarding the elimination of this application.