Hello there and welcome to the FreeFixer blog. Found another adware called Cheapster a few days ago. If the Cheapster adware is installed on your computer, you will find msilnk.exe and msilnk64.exe running in the Windows Task Manager and a new entry called “Cheapster for Internet Explorer” in the uninstall programs dialog.

I’ll show how to remove Cheapster in this blog post with the FreeFixer removal tool.

Cheapster is distributed by a tactic called bundling. Bundling means that a piece of software is included in other software’s installers. Here’s one example how it appears in the iLivid installer:

The anti-virus programs does not appear to detect Cheapster. When I uploaded the file to VirusTotal this morning, none of the scanners detected it, except Symantec which reported WS.Reputation.1:

Removing Cheapster is straightforward with FreeFixer. Just select the Cheapster files (msilnk.exe and msilnk64.exe) for removal and then click the Fix button and the problem will be solved.

Hope this helped you solved the Cheapster problem.

Did you also find Cheapster on your machine? Any idea how it installed? Please share in the comments below. Thanks!

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