About DiscountExt:
DiscountExt, categorized as an adware program or a potentially unwanted program (PUP), is another malicious application which is designed for marketing purposes. It is advertised as a useful tool which promises to enhance the users’ browsing experience like online shopping. For Example, it claims that it will provide users shopping online with various discounts, deals, coupons and other commercial offers for free, which will save their time and money. Though this service sounds good and attractive, ads by this adware program can be annoying even aggressive. In fact, it won’t help you save money. Once installed, DiscountExt will quickly monitor your browsing activities and collect the related information so as to deliver lots of personalized ads in form of pop-up, pop-under, in-text or banner ads within your web browsers no matter whether you want or not. As you see, this adware program mainly aims to help its designer to generate pay-per-click revenue.
