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CouponAmazing

Posted: September 3, 2013

CouponAmazing is a browser toolbar that displays benign advertisements through your browser that supposedly are relevant online shopping bargains. Although CouponAmazing's advertising content generally is not malicious, CouponAmazing may be installed without your permission and offers poor options for controlling how CouponAmazing delivers its advertisements, forcing them to categorize CouponAmazing as both adware and a Potentially Unwanted Program. Because of CouponAmazing's noted obstinacy about being uninstalled, anti-malware software may be all but mandatory for removing CouponAmazing for casual PC users.

CouponAmazing and the Amazingly Annoying Way to Get Advertisements Delivered to Your Browser

CouponAmazing is a very standard adware program that claims to provide its advertisements as shopping advantages to the user, although SpywareRemove.com malware experts can't vouch for the accuracy of these claims (besides confirming that CouponAmazing's advertisements do not host malicious content as a matter of course). After its installation, CouponAmazing uses a basic code injection function to insert static image, link-based and video advertisements into most Web pages. These advertisements display automatically and can't be disabled through the CouponAmazing program, which is standard protocol for any adware. Some versions of CouponAmazing add-ons also install a search-based toolbar.
CouponAmazing is compatible with all major Windows Web browsers. However, malware experts have noticed several variants of CouponAmazing in distribution, including some versions that only install themselves to a specific browser such as Chrome or Firefox.

Tossing a Free Coupon Catalog into Your Recycling Bin

Because CouponAmazing provides limited options for managing its advertisements, may be installed without your permission and, above all else, may try to prevent itself from being uninstalled, SpywareRemove.com malware experts categorize CouponAmazing as an adware program and PUP that usually should be removed. If you experience any problems with deleting CouponAmazing, anti-malware products should be able to remove CouponAmazing with a traditional system scan. Avoiding using any browsers affected by CouponAmazing until CouponAmazing is uninstalled is a commendable but optional secondary step.

To keep CouponAmazing and other low-level PC threats from being installed without your input on the matter, SpywareRemove.com malware analysts continue to recommend avoiding the most common infection vectors. Fraudulent software updates from third parties, spam e-mail file attachments, freeware sites with bad histories and piracy-oriented download sources are some of the quickest ways to get an adware infection, whether it's using CouponAmazing or another site as its advertising network of preference.

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