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‘AddsByCoupon’ Pop-Ups

Posted: September 8, 2015

Threat Metric

Threat Level: 8/10
Infected PCs: 7
First Seen: September 8, 2015
Last Seen: August 4, 2020
OS(es) Affected: Windows

AddsByCoupon is an ad-supported browser extension, which works equally well on Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. It doesn't do anything besides displaying ads, so you should seriously consider if you need it. The developers of this questionable add-on promote it as a tool that will optimize your online shopping. However, this statement isn't entirely accurate. There are good reasons to assume the creators of AddsByCoupon benefit more from its presence than the client. Whenever you reach the sponsored pages through the new pop-ups and banners, these people will get referral commissions. If you indeed buy products at a cheap price, this process could be perceived as mutually beneficial. The problem is that the affiliated platforms are often quite unreliable. This fact is not too hard to explain – you can probably guess that the popular e-commerce sites don't rely on the help of adware to get visitors. Virtually any page can become a part of the partner network of AddsByCoupon as long as its administrators pay the necessary price. As a result, sometimes fraudulent or potentially dangerous sites may also be included, so you should be very careful with the ads by AddsByCoupon. They come in such large quantities that you may even notice some annoying functionality problems such as increased loading time or even sporadic freezes. Even if your PC is powerful, and there are no performance issues, the new pop-ups, banners and interstitial ads may prove to be pretty distracting and exasperating. The add-on attaches to the web clients very firmly. For this reason, you should use a dedicated malware removal tool to get rid of AddsByCoupon.

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