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Posted: June 24, 2015

Threat Metric

The Threat Meter is a malware assessment that SpywareRemove.com's research team is able to give every identifiable malware threat. Our Threat Meter includes several criteria based off of specific malware threats to value their severity, reach and volume. The Threat Meter is able to give you a numerical breakdown of each threat's initial Threat Level, Detection Count, Volume Count, Trend Path and Percentage Impact. The overall ranking of each threat in the Threat Meter is a basic breakdown of how all threats are ranked within our own extensive malware database. The scoring for each specific malware threat can be easily compared to other emerging threats to draw a contrast in its particular severity. The Threat Meter is a useful tool in the endeavor of seeking a solution to remove a threat or pursue additional analytical research for all types of computer users.

The following fields listed on the Threat Meter containing a specific value, are explained in detail below:

Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.

Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.

Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.

Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.

% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.

Threat Level:	8/10
Infected PCs:	86

First Seen:	June 24, 2015
Last Seen:	May 29, 2020
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Coupon Titan (also referred to as 'Ads by Coupon Titan') is a browser extension that may load extra advertising content. In some cases, components of Coupon Titan may be disguised by random file names or missing entries, and most PC users report of not installing Coupon Titan intentionally. If you experience any Web surfing disruptions that you could attribute to Coupon Titan, then malware experts would suggest using reliable anti-adware tools for removing Coupon Titan from all affected browsers.

A Shy Giant Among Advertisement Deliverers

Coupon Titan is an adware product malware experts saw most recently associated with modifications of the Chrome browser. As an accompaniment to its telltale advertisements, Coupon Titan also sometimes may be related to attempts at hijacking your browser's default homepage, typically for bolstering search engine traffic. The latter changes may affected browsers other than Chrome, such as Firefox.

Aside from periodic homepage changes, Coupon Titan is well-known primarily for delivering advertisements to your browser. These advertisements may be formatted as product recommendations, with flags for identifying the responsible extension. Malware experts saw Coupon Titan offering controls for disabling advertisements as they appeared on each page. However, there were no global settings for disabling Coupon Titan advertisements' content without removing the underlying extension from the Web browser.

A minority of Coupon Titan installations also may include other, unwanted and potentially threatening software. Of these, the most notable is PC Optimizer Pro, a fraudulent system scanner. However, despite its poor company, Coupon Titan isn't, itself, threatening software.

Toppling a Titanic Advertising Plan

Random extension names, a lack of extension entries for your browser and a lack of installed program entries for Windows are some of the hallmark traits of Coupon Titan, like other adware. Since these issues, combined with Coupon Titan's Registry changes, may complicate its deletion, you normally shouldn't try to remove Coupon Titan by hand. Instead, anti-adware programs should scan any modified PC, allowing them to identify and remove each of Coupon Titan's components.

Coupon Titan may not be a threat, but shows all the standard inclinations of trying to profit from advertisement revenue without providing any beneficial functions to its users. Such adware products may be a heavy source of other, Web-based security problems, including exposure to hoaxes and attacks. Accordingly, even PC users who aren't significantly disrupted by its advertising should consider uninstalling Coupon Titan for their safety.

Coupon Titan has no confirmed relatives in the adware industry, although Coupon Titan does share its advertising format with other, recent extensions. Examples of these similar advertising applications include Ads by Name, Fassurun, Bizzybolt and ElectroLyrics.

Coupon Titan Ads

Threat Metric

A Shy Giant Among Advertisement Deliverers

Toppling a Titanic Advertising Plan

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