Coupon Buddy
Posted: January 23, 2013
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Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.
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Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.
Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.
% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.
Threat Level: | 2/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 16 |
First Seen: | January 23, 2013 |
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Last Seen: | January 10, 2019 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Coupon Buddy is a browser add-on that's often classified as a PUP or adware, due to the potentially unsafe and unwanted nature of the coupon-based advertisements that Coupon Buddy displays. As with any Potentially Unwanted Program, Coupon Buddy may install itself during the installation routines of completely separate programs and attempt to resist being removed from your browser. If you're uninterested in Coupon Buddy's coupon offers and would like to remove Coupon Buddy in its entirety, SpywareRemove.com malware experts recommend the use of strong anti-malware programs that can be certain to rid your PC of all components of Coupon Buddy.
Why Coupon Buddy is More of an Insistent Tag-Along Than a Pal
Coupon Buddy is marketed as a supplier of digital coupons for easy shopping bargains, but there have been issues reported of PC users' browser being redirected to potentially hazardous web content. Such questionable advertisements can be a source of exposure to phishing attacks, drive-by-downloads or even exploit kits like Blacole and the Cool Exploit Kit.
Coupon Buddy is designed to function in most web browsers, including Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox. Because Coupon Buddy may be installed for multiple browsers simultaneously and include general system components, SpywareRemove.com malware experts advise against reinstalling your browser as a method of removing Coupon Buddy. Additionally, as a PUP, Coupon Buddy has been found to fail to remove all of its components when normal deletion methods are used against Coupon Buddy.
Choosing Your Own Browser Buddies for Online Shopping Trips
Since Coupon Buddy may be installed without your consent, degrade your browser's performance and has a chance to expose you to hostile web content inadvertently, malware researchers suggest removing Coupon Buddy under most circumstances. Hostile web content, it should be noted, is one of the primary infection vectors for many PC threats, particularly those that use multiple-exploit kits like the Blackhole Exploit Kit to install scamware, ransomware and other types of malicious software.
Although Coupon Buddy can, at worst, be considered a low-level threat, you still should use anti-malware software as necessary to delete Coupon Buddy from your PC. Failure to remove Coupon Buddy completely will cause a variety of browser settings changes and other Coupon Buddy-related system issues to remain on your computer even after Coupon Buddy is deleted.
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