How to Remove Coupon2Mac Adware?

Can anyone tell me about this Coupon2Mac? This Coupon2Mac keeps showing on my computer. But I don’t know how it comes up. I used my Norton to scan my computer and it reported that this was an adware installed in my computer. What threats will it bring to the computer if it is not eliminated promptly? It is so disturbing to think about it! How do I get rid of it completely? Please advise!

Coupon2Mac Description:

Coupon2Mac is classified as a hazardous adware threat which displays nasty ads and coupons on your browsers. It is rampant on the internet and its purpose is to gain benefits by promoting advertisement and increase sales by displaying pop-up ads and so-called saving coupons. It generates web traffic by redirecting you to commercial websites constantly. Therefore when you go online, you may not get the websites you want, instead some unsafe websites and advertisements which are not trusted pop up crazily. It would revamp the default home page or default toolbar without your permission and alter registry entry with executable files in order to run automatically with the Windows. What is more, it provides a backdoor to for other infections to intrude into the computer.

Coupon2Mac will spread onto the user PC if you visit adult related websites, play online gambling or open attachments of spam emails from a seem-to-be-normal contact user. You may get it via free downloads, especially video player and download manager program. After it is installed automatically, you will find that the adware alters the web pages you browse and you are flooded with countless advertisements, discount coupons and sponsored links in search results. Furthermore, it will trace your personal data such as tax return figures, ID password of online bank account and credit card numbers to report it to the third party. And you will find task manager can’t be used, internet speed is drastically slow and it takes a long time to wait for respond and etc. Coupon2Mac is totally a dangerous threat on your computer and should not be allowed to remain in your computer any longer.

Coupon2Mac May Initiate the Following Symptoms:

1. It can not only change your web pages, but also alter other settings to add toolbars, pop-up advertisements, and bookmarks that you did not create.
2. It can modify the homepage settings of your web browser, more commonly by reducing your internet security options. And the worse thing is it prevents you from changing them back.
3. New toolbars or Favorites are installed that give you icons and links to web pages that you don’t want.
4. It may block you from visiting certain website you’d like to visit and show an error page instead.
5. It will display constant pop-up ads, sometimes in such large amounts that you are not able to close neither the ads nor the browser.

Malicious Browser Hijacker Manual Removal Guides:

Coupon2Mac hijacks your browser to redirect your web search results and changes the homepage and browser settings. To completely uninstall it from an infected system, manual removal is the first choice because sometimes antivirus software cannot pick up the exact computer threat timely or remove it permanently. Now most browser hijackers are quite similar to spyware and adware threats and therefore cannot be removed with the help of popular antivirus products. Users can follow the manual guide here to get rid of this browser hijacker completely.

1. Clear all the cookies of your affected browsers.

Since this tricky hijacker virus has the ability to use cookies for tracing and tracking the internet activity of users, it is suggested users delete all the cookies before a complete removal.

Google Chrome:

Click on the “Tools” menu and click the “Clear browsing data” button.
Select “Delete cookies and other site data” to delete all cookies from the list.

Internet Explorer:
Open Internet explorer window
Click the “Tools” button
Point to “safety” and then click “delete browsing history”
Tick the “cookies” box, then click “delete”

Mozilla Firefox:

Click on Tools, then Options, select Privacy
Click “Remove individual cookies”
In the Cookies panel, click on “Show Cookies”
To remove a single cookie click on the entry in the list and click on the “Remove Cookie”
To remove all cookies click on the “Remove All Cookies” button

2. End the malicious process from Task Manager.

Once Coupon2Mac adware is installed, computer user may notice that CPU usage randomly jumps to 100 percent. At any time Windows always has many running processes. A process is an individual task that the computer runs. In general, the more processes, the more work the computer has to do and the slower it will run. If your system’s CPU spike is constant and remain at a constant 90-95%, users should check from Task Manager and see if there is a suspicious process occupying the system resources and then end it immediately.

(The name of the virus process can be random.)

Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to quickly bring up Task Manager Window：

3. Show hidden files and folders.

Open Folder Options by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, and then clicking Folder Options.

Click the View tab.

Under Advanced settings, click Show hidden files and folders, uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click OK.

4. Remove all the malicious files related to Coupon2Mac hijacker manually.

%AppData%Local[random].exe
C:\Documents and Settings\LocalService\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\*.exe

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main StartPage
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Video Shows You How to Safely Modify Windows Registry Editor:

The goal of Coupon2Mac is to promote commercial websites and gain profits from pay-per-click policy. Once it made a successful invasion, it is capable to modify system registry settings and generates arbitrary files onto system to make programs not responding, eating up system memory to make computer poor in launch. What is worse, what you will get are nasty ads, false messages and etc after it kidnaps target browser successfully. As a matter of fact, many antivirus programs are unable to deal with it as it can hide itself so well, so it is hard for users to use antivirus to delete the adware once for all. It can really be an annoying infection for many innocent users. Therefore, the manual removal process is a more effective way to delete the adware completely.

Note: If you are not a computer expert and have no idea how to perform the removal, please contact experts from YooCare Online Tech Support for further help.

Published by & last updated on October 29, 2014 9:25 pm