Coupon Alert Toolbar

Although Coupon Alert Toolbar isn't considered to be a virus or other type of deliberately destructive program, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers have found that Coupon Alert Toolbar contains several characteristics that are standard for annoying adware. Further muddying up Coupon Alert Toolbar's reputation is the fact that it's been linked to other types of adware products that use deceptive methods to market themselves and remain on your PC, such as MyWay Speedbar, Incredimail, MyMailStamps and MyFunCards. Coupon Alert Toolbar may offer you seemingly useful coupons, but any offers that it provides are driven by affiliate marketing techniques that fund money back to the original Coupon Alert Toolbar designers. Links provided by Coupon Alert Toolbar are unlikely to be screened for safety, and due to this and Coupon Alert Toolbar's generally obnoxious behavior, it's strongly encouraged for you to remove Coupon Alert Toolbar with suitable anti-malware software.

The Little Secrets That Coupon Alert Toolbar Doesn't Want You to Know

Unlike a popular and trustworthy search engine, Coupon Alert Toolbar doesn't use unbiased search algorithms that would give you the most useful and relevant results for your interests. Instead, Coupon Alert Toolbar provides links that indirectly grant money to the Coupon Alert Toolbar company regardless of whether the coupons that it links to are reputable or disreputable.

Coupon Alert Toolbar may be downloaded from the couponalert.com website, which has been consistently ranked poorly in vendor trustworthiness, privacy and other important aspects of any software company. However, most Coupon Alert Toolbar installations happen by accident - when you install a completely unrelated program that just happens to have Coupon Alert Toolbar bundled with it during the installation process.

SpywareRemove.com malware researchers have found that almost all of these bundles will contain some form of opt-in or opt-out option that allows you to avoid installing Coupon Alert Toolbar, so simply paying attention to your installation procedure may save you a world of pain. Nonetheless, a minority of programs may force you to install Coupon Alert Toolbar, in which case it's recommended that you eschew the program entirely.

Similar products from the same company include all MyWebSearch suite programs, such as Cursor Mania, FunBuddyIcons, FunWebProducts, HistorySwatter, Incredimail, MyFunCards, MyMailStationary, MyMailSignature, MyMailStamps, MySpeedBar, MyWay Search Assistant, PopSwatter, Popular Screen Savers and SmileyCentral.

The Inconveniences of a Seemingly Convenient Coupon Add-On

Issues that our malware experts have seen tightly-linked to Coupon Alert Toolbar include, but aren't limited to:

• Coupon Alert Toolbar launching itself on startup without your consent, or any means of disabling this suspicious 'feature.'
• Coupon Alert Toolbar's noticeably excessive system resource usage, such as RAM, which can cause poor system performance, including slowdowns and stuttering in unrelated programs.
• Advertisements that Coupon Alert Toolbar presents spontaneously, and once more, without any easy way to disable this function.
• Coupon Alert Toolbar updates itself constantly and without requiring your consent. This may be exploited to allow Coupon Alert Toolbar to add on extra and potentially malicious functions, in addition to its already-explained features.

As an overall nuisance that raises plenty of red flags, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers can't help but heartily encourage you to remove Coupon Alert Toolbar at the first opportunity, if suitable anti-malware software is available.

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