{"id":1311,"date":"2014-08-08T20:38:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T20:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:02:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:02:48","slug":"remove-couponsupport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-couponsupport\/","title":{"rendered":"CouponSupport &#8211; Removal Instructions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just found another adware, called <strong>CouponSupport<\/strong>. As usual with this type of software, it was bundled with another software download. If you have this little CouponSupport bugger running on your machine, you&#8217;ll see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/library\/file\/couponsupport.exe-112020\/\">couponsupport.exe<\/a> running in the background \u00a0in the Windows Task Manager.<\/p>\n<p>The detection rate for <strong>couponsupport.exe<\/strong> is impressive. 41 of 50 anti-virus programs detected it. <strong>Trojan.Cafelom<\/strong>, <strong>Gen:Variant.Symmi<\/strong>, <strong>PUP.Optional.MultiPlug.A<\/strong> and <strong>ZBot<\/strong> are some of the detection names.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the removal, there is an entry in the Add\/Remove programs dialog, but I have not tried it. Notice the faked &#8220;Installed On&#8221; date in the screenshot. It was installed today, the 8th of August 2014, not in 2012.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/couponsupport-uninstall.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1312\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/couponsupport-uninstall.png\" alt=\"couponsupport uninstall\" width=\"643\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/couponsupport-uninstall.png 643w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/couponsupport-uninstall-300x98.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can also remove it with <a title=\"About FreeFixer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a> with a few clicks. Select the couponsupport.exe file and scheduled task for removal as shown in the screenshots below. You may have to restart your machine to complete the removal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/couponsupport.exe-file.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1313\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/couponsupport.exe-file.png\" alt=\"couponsupport.exe file\" width=\"604\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/couponsupport.exe-file.png 785w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/couponsupport.exe-file-300x125.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/couponsupport.exe-process.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1314\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/couponsupport.exe-process.png\" alt=\"couponsupport.exe process\" width=\"785\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/couponsupport.exe-process.png 785w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/couponsupport.exe-process-300x154.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 785px) 100vw, 785px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Did you also get <strong>CouponSupport<\/strong> on your machine? Any idea how you got it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just found another adware, called CouponSupport. As usual with this type of software, it was bundled with another software download. If you have this little CouponSupport bugger running on your machine, you&#8217;ll see couponsupport.exe running in the background \u00a0in the Windows Task Manager. The detection rate for couponsupport.exe is impressive. 41 of 50 anti-virus programs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-couponsupport\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CouponSupport &#8211; Removal Instructions<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,16],"tags":[48,97,143,144],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1316,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions\/1316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}