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Coupon Genie

Posted: April 8, 2013

Threat Metric

Threat Level: 2/10
Infected PCs: 31
First Seen: April 8, 2013
OS(es) Affected: Windows

Coupon Genie Screenshot 1Coupon Genie is an adware program that is created by '215 Apps'. Coupon Genie displays offer coupons, pop-up advertisements and sponsored links via a pop-up box on Walmart, Amazon, Ebay and other online shopping websites that are visited by web users. These pop-up advertisements will be displayed as boxes, which contain a variety of coupons that are available or as underlined keywords, which, when clicked, will show a pop-up advertisement that declares it is sent to the victimized PC user by Coupon Genie. Coupon Genie is an extension for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome that is commonly inserted when the computer user installs other free software products. When the Internet user installs these free software products, they will also install Coupon Genie on the infected computer system. Once installed, Coupon Genie will show a box including associated keyword suggestions, ads and sponsored links, in the right top part of the attacked web browser, whenever the PC user will browse Best Buy, Expedia, Facebook or any other similar websites.

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