How Remove CoupSeek Completely From Your Machine

Do you often receive annoying ads from CoupSeek when you are online and take a long time to wait for your browser to respond? Have you received many unwanted commercial ads, coupons and sponsored links? Don't worry. Read this article and you will learn how to remove it thoroughly.

CoupSeek is a potentially unwanted program which has been complained by many people. Though it claims that it is a tool which can help users to improve the browsing performance, the adware is not welcomed at all for this application brings a plenty of annoying ads. It can work on browsers including Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer as a browser extension. A variety of nettlesome ads, such as web banners, paid search, text ads, coupons and multi-media ads will occupy your screen. Besides, this adware tracks PC users' actions online by recording the visited sites, IP locations, and other data which can be used by the cyber criminals. It means that having this adware on your computer may lead to identify theft. Take immediate action to remove CoupSeek thoroughly from your computer to avoid further damage.

How Does the Adware Get Into Your Computer?

Installing third-party freeware from the Internet: Adware or PUP can attack the computer by attaching to the free program. If you think all the online free applications are safe for use, you are likely to get the adware from the Internet.

Visiting suspicious websites: Some unofficial websites also have the chance to redirect you to the page of the malware. This is because they are often harbors of all types of malware, including adware, Trojan, and spyware, and visiting those sites may get your computer infected by malware.

Opening the attachments or click on links from strange emails: The adware may be embedded in spam emails sent by cybercriminals. The adware is able start its infection once PC users click on the links or attachment accidentally.

Failing to update your antivirus program regularly: Moreover, if you have not updated your antivirus program for a long time and still using the out of date version, you are increasing the chance to get infected. Besides, other malware would also take the chance to infect your computer aggressively.

Several Steps to Get Rid of the Adware from Your Computer:

We now all know that CoupSeek will display tons of pop-up ads on your browser to interfere your online surfing. Your online behavior may be spied and some important data can be stolen for some commercial operation. To protect your privacy, we highly recommend removing CoupSeek from your computer immediately. You can follow the removal guide to remove it step by step.

Step 1: Remove the CoupSeek related programs.

Windows XP
Go to Start, navigate to Settings and click on Control Panel, navigate to Add or Remove Programs, choose Programs and Features, find the adware related programs, and hit Remove.

Windows 8
Move mouse cursor to the bottom right corner of the screen. Click Settings on Charms bar and go to Control Panel. Select Uninstall a program and remove the adware related programs.
 
Windows 7/Vista
Go to Start, navigate to Control Panel, select Uninstall a program/Programs and Features, find the adware related programs, and click on Uninstall.

Step 2: Remove the adware related add-ons from the browsers.

Internet Explorer
Open IE and go to Tools or gear icon in IE9 and then to Manage Add-ons.
Select add-ons related to CoupSeek or other which you find is unknown to you and remove it.
Restart IE.

Mozilla Firefox
Open Mozilla Firefox & click on Tools from the top menu.
Now go to Add-ons and select the unknown extensions from the list related to the adware.
Remove them by selecting and clicking on Remove button.
Restart the browser.

Google Chrome
Open Google Chrome, click 3-Horizontal Bar icon at the top left corner.
Now go to Tools and then Extensions.
Search for extension exact or similar to the adware and delete it by selecting and clicking Trash icon next to it.
Restart the browser.

Please be informed that manual removal is effective to get rid of CoupSeek, but is only for advanced PC users who can handle the process, files and registry entries. If you want to eliminate it for good, you'd better choose an automatic removal tool like SpyHunter to do a thorough scan for your computer and remove all threats completely.