What is CouponSamurai?
CouponSamurai is categorized as an adware which claims that it can enhance your browsing experience. But actually, it doesn’t help you to save money and tome on your online shopping. By contrast, it generates lots of ads to disturb your online activities. So CouponSamurai is also regarded as Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP).
How does CouponSamurai come into your PC?
Are you annoying about the installation of CouponSamuraiv? You should figure it out. Usually, free program is the main source of PUPs including CouponSamurai. PUPs packed together with free programs. So if you pay no attention to the installation of free program, and install it automatically and skip some important steps, you may open a gate to CouponSamurai. In addition, spam email, attachment, malicious websites and others are also used by this adware to deceive you into installing it. Hence, you should be sensitive to all of these mediums.
CouponSamurai can screw your PC up:
1. You will face an influx of ads. All sorts of ads through search link, text link, pop-ups, video or graphics and many others display on the webpage you visiting.
2. Browsers including Firefox, Google Chrome, or Internet Explorer may be hijacked and attacked by CouponSamurai. Once it happened, your browser setting can be changed and your online activities can be monitored.
3. Redirect you to malicious or unknown websites.
4. Important information like email address, passwords can be stole.
Therefore, you shall not trust CouponSamurai and you are better to get rid of it as quickly as you can. Take action now!
How to Remove CouponSamurai ?
There are five steps to remove CouponSamurai .
Step 1. Show hidden files by changing system folder setting.
Step 2. Find out and delete CouponSamurai related malicious files in hidden folders.
Step 3. Delete CouponSamurai from Control Panel.
Step 4. Remove the plug-ins of CouponSamurai of browsers.
Step 5. Search for and remove registry files generated by CouponSamurai .
Step 4. Remove the plug-ins of CouponSamurai of browsers.
Step 5. Search for and remove registry files generated by CouponSamurai .
Step 1. Show hidden files by changing system folder setting.
For Windows xp:
1. Press Win key + R together on the keyboard → Type"control panel" → OK
2. Click "Folder Options"
2. Click "Folder Options"
3. Select View → Show hidden files, folders, and drives → OK
For Windows 7:
1. Click Start button → hit Control Panel
2. Choose Appearance and Personalization → folder option
2. Choose Appearance and Personalization → folder option
3. Click View → select Show hidden files, folders, and drives → OK
For Windows 8:
1. Press Win key + R together on the keyboard → Type "control panel"→ OK
2. Type "folder"into the search bar → Show hidden files and folders
2. Type "folder"into the search bar → Show hidden files and folders
3. Click View → choose Show hidden files, folders, and drives → OK
Step 2. Find out and delete CouponSamurai related malicious files in hidden folders.
Removing CouponSamurai manually requires advanced computer skills. If you are lack of relating skills and experience, you may not find out the hidden files related with CouponSamurai and delete some important files. Moreover, you may ruin your system once you remove some inportant system files from your PC. So you need to concentrate on the process of manual removal. And if you want to remove CouponSamurai safelier and quicklier, just use SpyHunter to remove it.
Step 3. Delete CouponSamurai from Control Panel.
For Windows xp Users:
1. Hit start button → choose Control Panel.
2. Enter"Change or Remove Programs" as follow.
3. Click CouponSamurai → Remove → Yes → OK.
For Win 7 & Win 8 Users:
1. Click start button → choose Control Panel.
2. Select "Category"view, click"Uninstall a program"under the Programs.
2. Select "Category"view, click"Uninstall a program"under the Programs.
Note: Above steps may not be enough to get rid of all malicious parasites related with CouponSamurai from Control Panel. And your PC is still easy to be damaged by CouponSamurai if you do not clear it away completely. So you need a more powerful tool to help you deal with it. Under this situation, you can rely on SpyHunterto finish this step.
Step 4. Remove the plug-ins of CouponSamurai of browsers.
For Internet Explorer Users:
1. Open IE, press"Alt" and "A" at the same time → Tools → Manage add-ons.
2. Hit "Toolbars and Extensions", then choose CouponSamurai → Enable.
For Google Chrome Users:
1. Start Google, click on the top right corner → More tools → Extensions.
For Mozilla Firefox Users:
1. Open Firefox, hiton the top right corner → Add-ons → Extensions.
Step 5. Search for and remove registry files generated by CouponSamurai .
1. Open Registry Editor.
a. Press Win key + R together on the keyboard
b. Type "regedit" → OK
b. You can see the Registry Editor tag as follow.
2. Search for and remove registry files generated by CouponSamurai .
HKEY_LOCAL_Machine\Software\Classes\[ CouponSamurai ]<br />
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREsupWPM<br />
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftGoogleChromePage_URL”<br />
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesWpm<br />
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\[ CouponSamurai ]
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