JoniCoupon

JoniCoupon is an adware program that loads shopping-related advertisements, such as digital coupons, in your Web browser. These advertisements may have some marginal theoretical value to JoniCoupon's users, but malware researchers are quick to call them out as likely causes of a range of security and performance problems that shouldn't be dismissed. JoniCoupon's site and software haven't been categorized as a threat, but deleting JoniCoupon, nevertheless, is advised; at least, if you value your browser's stability and safety while you browse the Web.

The Coupons that Make No Bones About Wanting to Be in Your Browser

JoniCoupon is a browser add-on whose marketing at JoniCoupon.com claims JoniCoupon to be a useful source for online 'chopping coupons' [sic]. Unfortunately, as far as malware researchers are concerned, JoniCoupon's developers appear to have taken as little care in JoniCoupon's features as they did in the associated website. Although JoniCoupon does load coupons in your Web browser, the benefits of these advertisements are extremely questionable, and JoniCoupon, itself, claims to have no responsibility for any security issues or other problems that may arise from its advertisements. At the same time, JoniCoupon also denies its users any simple way of disabling or modifying how these advertisements are loaded.

JoniCoupon's coupon-based advertisements also are powered, in part, by JoniCoupon's tracking of your online behavior. The constant use of cookies and other tracking methods to monitor your Web activities may be considered invasive of individual privacy. Malware researchers also are in the habit of discouraging the use of any software that uses the nigh-constant tracking behavior of JoniCoupon, even if these functions aren't used for illegal activities like stealing passwords.

Putting JoniCoupon on the Chopping Block

Like most adware products, JoniCoupon advertisements have very few advantages for your browser and may harm your Web-browsing performance... or even expose you to Web-based PC threats. Eliminating JoniCoupon and its advertisements always should be treated as better for your Web browser than allowing JoniCoupon to stay on your PC, and this only is rendered even more important by JoniCoupon's suspicious tracking methodology. Although removing JoniCoupon from your computer is strongly advised by malware researchers, doing so with anything less than an updated anti-adware program (or similar security product) may not eliminate all of the attendant browser problems.

While JoniCoupon is in the wild and is an actively-distributed adware program, malware researchers haven't yet confirmed its proliferation methods of choice. For the moment, general safe browsing practices like scanning potential JoniCoupon-bundling installers, along with staying away from sites with adware-rich reputations, are the best defenses that can be recommended. The different brands of Web browsers being targeted by JoniCoupon's advertising changes also still are under analysis, although malware researchers expect to see Windows-based browsers like Internet Explorer and Firefox at the greatest overall risk.

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