How DO I Remove CouponMaker Ads?

It seems that my laptop has been infected a CouponMaker Ads Virus. The scanning report of AVG says it's in my disc c somewhere. I followed the path and found the file but can't remove it. After I removed it then went back to that folder, I still found the virus and my anti-virus still kept opening that report to me and showed me the virus. How can I remove it if my AVG doesn't work?

What is CouponMaker Ads?

CouponMaker Ads is a dangerous Trojan infection that can target on computers with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7/8, in a word, this Trojan infection aims on all versions of Windows OS. Mostly, this Trojan can be spread from the Internet as cyber criminals who create this Trojan also have the ability to hack into many websites which can be used to hide this virus. Those hacked websites' servers are the best place for hackers to store this Trojan as people who visit the infected websites can get infected immediately. Other free programs that can be found online can also be used to spread this Trojan, as the Trojan makers can embed this infection to those freeware as publish them to many websites to let people to download. Inexperienced computer users usually download applications from unreliable resources which can increase the chance to make their computers get infected by different kinds of viruses. CouponMaker Ads virus is usually installed with share programs or games that users downloaded from the Internet, or it can also be installed if users click hacked web sites or spam email attachments. CouponMaker Ads corrupts your computer as other Trojan viruses do. It opens backdoors on target system, and injects other infections, viruses or malware programs into your computer through backdoors. What is worse, it is able to connect your computer to remote servers, helping hackers accessing into your computer remotely. Your personal information stored in your computer such as business files, photos, email passwords or financial accounts may be revealed to hackers in this case. Users have to remove Trojan Win32/Sirefef.GC virus as soon as possible to protect your computer and your personal information in this case.

CouponMaker Ads Summary Plus If one unfortunately get harassed by CouponMaker Ads, one may very well suffer from the following listed troubles: Browser hijacking/redirecting happens to ruin surfing experience. More unknown items are found in local disk as well as browser settings. The overall PC performance will be considerably degraded when multiple and unknown processes running in the background. It is easy for the machine to get extremely hot when running more services simultaneously to cause freezes and sometimes errors or malfunctions. Additional virus can be detected after getting held hostage by CouponMaker Ads. Manual Removal Guides: 1.Reboot the PC and keep pressing F8 key on the keyboard upon PC startup but before logging in. Hit the arrow keys to choose "Safe Mode with Networking" option, and then tap Enter key to enter Safe Mode with Networking.

2.Find Ctrl, Alt, and Delete these 3 keys and then press them together to open task manager to end the process related to this Trojan, the name of the process of it is random.

3.Try to find Folder Options in Control Panel, select the View tab, and then tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click OK.

4.Open Registry entries. Search malicious files and registry entries related to CouponMaker Ads and then remove all of them.

5. Delete all add-ons related to CouponMaker Ads from the browsers Google Chrome Click on wrench icon-> locate Tools-> click on Extensions-> click on the bin icon or uncheck the items related to CouponMaker Ads.

Internet Explorer Click Tools>select "Manage Add-ons">"search providers">set Yahoo or other reputable search engine as your default one>go to "search results">remove its add-ons

Mozilla Firefox Click on Firefox button-> click on Add-ons-> search for all the extensions of CouponMaker Ads from the list-> click on the Remove button on each line.

In summary

From the above passage, you can realize CouponMaker Ads turning to be a dangerous rogue program. The main threat of this malware is that it redirects your search results to unsafe websites contains false contents, which brings you into a scam. This malware makes your system be shown into threat and even use antivirus delete it, it will come back to users’ computer in a minute. Once your computer gets infected with it, cyber criminals can monitor your computer using traces in background. In order to protect your computer and your privacy, we strongly recommend you to remove it as early as possible.