2014-02-28

Fixed! How Can I Remove CouponPeak Popup Safely and Absolutely?

A lot of pop-up ads from CouponPeak shows up on your browser? Try to remove it but failed? Here are efficient manual and automatic removal guide to disable CouponPeak. 

Know something about CouponPeak Pop-up


CouponPeak is an malicious adware program which comes into the computer without the users' notice and permission. It will display endless pop-up ads on the user’s browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer, Yahoo, Bing, Opera, Safari.This extension spread itself by spam email, freeware or up dated program from the Internet.This adware plays a role as the accessory bound with the downloaded application.



Once installed, CouponPeakwill inject its malicious codes into your registry entries and inject its malicious file to your system. It will take up lots of system resources to make the PC performance poor. It change your browser setting and add itself as a plug in on your browser. When you open your browser, lots of banners, coupons and sponsor links from CouponPeak will pop up without your permission .

CouponPeak is an ads-supported platform created by the cyber criminals to promote some specific products. If you click those ads, you will be redirected to the malicious website which is full of commercial deals. And it will record your search terms and finacial data. You may also download some useless freeware or computer threats like adware, browser hijacker, spyware and other virus by clicking to hacked websites. To protect your computer, you need to remove it immediately.

Way to remove CouponPeak manually

1: Stop CouponPeak running processes in Windows Task Manager first.

( Methods to open Task Manager: Press CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC or Press the Start button->click on the Run option->Type in taskmgr and press OK.)


2: Open Control Panel in Start menu and search for Folder Options. When you’re in Folder Options window, please click on its View tab, tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then press OK.




3: Remove add-ons:

Internet Explorer

1) Go to 'Tools' → 'Manage Add-ons';
2) Choose 'Search Providers' → choose 'Bing' search engine or 'Google' search engine and make it default;
3) Select 'Search Results' and click 'Remove' to remove it;
4)  Go to 'Tools' → 'Internet Options', select 'General tab' and click 'Use default' button or enter your own website, e.g. Google.com. Click OK to save the changes.


Google Chrome

1) Click on 'Customize and control' Google Chrome icon, select 'Settings';
2) Choose 'Basic Options'.
3) Change Google Chrome's homepage to google.com or any other and click the 'Manage search engines...' button;
4) Select 'Google' from the list and make it your default search engine;
5) Select 'Search Results' from the list remove it by clicking the "X" mark.


Mozilla Firefox

1) Click on the magnifier's icon and select 'Manage Search Engines....';
2) Choose 'Search Results' from the list and click 'Remove' and OK to save changes;
3) Go to 'Tools' → 'Options'. Reset the startup homepage or change it to google.com under the 'General tab';



Step 4- Clear all the cookies of your affected web browsers.

Since the tricky virus has the ability to use cookies for tracing and tracking the internet activity of users, it is suggested users to delete all the cookies before a complete removal.

Google Chrome:

Click on the "Tools" menu and select "Options".
Click the "Under the Bonnet" tab, locate the "Privacy" section and Click the "Clear browsing data" button.
Select "Delete cookies and other site data" and clean up all cookies from the list.

Mozilla Firefox:

Click on Tools, then Options, select Privacy
Click "Remove individual cookies"
In the Cookies panel, click on "Show Cookies"
To remove a single cookie click on the entry in the list and click on the "Remove Cookie button"
To remove all cookies click on the "Remove All Cookies button"

Internet Explorer:

Open Internet explorer window
Click the "Tools" button
Point to "safety" and then click "delete browsing history"
Tick the "cookies" box and then click “delete”

Step 5, Disable proxy

1. Click on Tools on the menu bar
2. Select Internet options
3. Go to Connections tab
4. Select LAN settings at the bottom of the dialog
5. Under the Proxy sever, untick 'use a proxy server for your LAN (These settings will not apply to dial-up or VPN connections).'
6. Click OK


Way to remove CouponPeak with SpyHunter, an antivirus

1.Click the following button to download SpyHunter.


2.Click Save to save its application into your computer.

3.Follow the steps in the installation instructions.

4.Click Finish, then it can be installed into your computer successfully.

5.Press Start New Scan to find out dangerous program or software.
6.Tick Select All and then Remove to get rid of all threats.

Useful video guide on how to clean up CouponPeak



Notice: CouponPeakwill Ads is a malware which will do great harms to your computer. You should really pay attention when downloading software from the Internet. It is dangerous to keep it on the computer. It should be deleted as soon as possible. We propose you to use SpyHunter to help since it is more convenient.You can click the icon below to download it.


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