What Is Coupon-Server?
Coupon-Server is claimed to save your time and money during the online shopping via offering some in-text, coupon codes, discounts or other on sales advertisements. Generally, it appears at right top corner of your websites. Technically, Coupon-Server is classified as an adware program which will display bunches of unstoppable ads to drive you crazy.
Usually, whenever you open a new tab, the Coupon-Server will show up constantly, the point is that mainly the coupons codes are based on the websites you are visiting, which will indicate that your online activities are tracked and stored with your knowledge. We can see that what the Coupon-Server do is malicious, It will monitoring your personal information such as user name, log Coupon-Server in number, your favorites to violate your privacy or even steal some of your confidential information.
Since Coupon-Server takes advantage of the system vulnerability to cause the automatic pop ups and is capable to bypass the security detection, we should remove it ASAP before it causes further damage. To live with it, your computer will run slower and slower and will create opportunity for additional malware.
Solution one:Remove Coupon-Server Manually
Step 1- Remove add-ons:
Internet Explorer
1) Go to 'Tools' → 'Manage Add-ons';
2) Choose 'Search Providers' → choose 'Bing' search engine or 'Google' search engine and make it default;
3) Select 'Search Results' and click 'Remove' to remove it;
4) Go to 'Tools' → 'Internet Options', select 'General tab' and click 'Use default' button or enter your own website, e.g. Google.com. Click OK to save the changes.
Google Chrome
1) Click on 'Customize and control' Google Chrome icon, select 'Settings';
2) Choose 'Basic Options'.
3) Change Google Chrome's homepage to google.com or any other and click the 'Manage search engines...' button;
4) Select 'Google' from the list and make it your default search engine;
5) Select 'Search Results' from the list remove it by clicking the "X" mark.
Mozilla Firefox
1) Click on the magnifier's icon and select 'Manage Search Engines....';
2) Choose 'Search Results' from the list and click 'Remove' and OK to save changes;
3) Go to 'Tools' → 'Options'. Reset the startup homepage or change it to google.com under the 'General tab';
Step 2- Open Windows Task Manager and close all running processes.
( Methods to open Task Manager: Press CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC or Press the Start button->click on the Run option->Type in taskmgr and press OK.)
Step 3- Remove these associated Files on your hard drive such as:
%AllUsersProfile%
%AllUsersProfile%\Programs\{random letters}\
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\~r
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\~dll
Step 4- Open the Registry Editor and delete the following entries:
(Steps: Hit Win+R keys and then type regedit in Run box and click on OK)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “CertificateRevocation” = ‘1’
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Attachments “SaveZoneInformation” = ‘0’
Step 5-Restart your computer normally to check the effectiveness.
Solution two: Get rid of Coupon-Server by automatic scan of SpyHunter removal tool
SpyHunter is a powerful, real-time anti-spyware application that designed to help computer users to clean up the infections like worms, Trojans, rootkits, rogues, dialers, spyware,etc. It is important to note that SpyHunter removal tool works well and should run alongside existing security programs without any conflicts.
Step one: Click the icon to download SpyHunter removal tool
Step two: After the installation, run SpyHunter and click “Malware Scan” button to have a full or quick scan on your PC
Step three: Select the detected malicious files after your scanning and click “Remove” button to clean up all viruses.
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