Remove CouponPeak Redirect Virus from IE/Firefox/Chrome

How to Remove CouponPeak Browser Hijacker Step by Step

Install CouponPeak program on your PC occasionally? And cannot remove it by all means? Why it is so stubborn? Read this article and know more about CouponPeak and remove it completely.

What is CouponPeak?

CouponPeak is classified as a vicious adware virus that can make your surfing process become a disaster. Although it pretends to be a useful browser toolbar, in fact, it is used by cyber criminals to gather illegal money through forcing victims to visit unwanted websites. Ways to propagate CouponPeak are various, including spam e-mail attachments, pornographic websites, pirated movie torrents and freeware.

Once the virus invades your system successfully, it will bring a series of troubles to you. On one hand, through modifying the browser settings and the registry entries, it is able to trigger lots of computer problems that will affect your browsing activities, such as hijacking your web browser, altering the default start page, rerouting search results and popping up numerous advertisements. Owing to so many unauthorized activities, CouponPeak can enhance the Internet traffic of the promoted websites and help hackers make money. On the other hand, CouponPeak has the ability to drop other malware onto your PC, as well as monitor your surfing activities and steal your private information.

The longer it stays in your system, the weaker your machine becomes. In addition, both your privacy and property are in danger. In conclusion, to avoid so many severe consequences, we strongly recommend using powerful antivirus programs to remove CouponPeak as quickly as you can.

CouponPeak is very dangerous

a.       CouponPeak virus is able to hijack various browsers like Chrome, IE, and Firefox

b.      CouponPeak virus can install lots of malicious programs on your PC

c.       CouponPeak virus affects your Internet activities

d.      CouponPeak virus displays annoying ads on your screen all the time

e.       CouponPeak virus changes your homepage and default search engine

The reason why your security tool cannot detect CouponPeak

It is very sure that some antivirus programs cannot detect all PC threats completely. And CouponPeak should be one of the threats that are hard to remove. Commonly, it uses root kit technology to hide deep inside the system and changes its location all the time. Thus, many security tools cannot find out its location exactly, not to mention to remove it. In such situation, you should get rid of CouponPeak manually. Please read the following guide and remove this browser hijacker quickly and efficiently.

Get Rid of CouponPeak Step by Step

Step1. Remove its program from the PC

Open the control panel>find add or remove programs>uninstall CouponPeak

Step2. Delete all add-ons about CouponPeak from the browsers

Google Chrome

Click “customize and control”>settings>basic options>use google.com as the homepage and make Google as your search engine at “Manage Search”

Internet Explore

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 “magnifier”icon>Manage Search Engine…”>select “search results”>click the removal button

Step3. Remove all files that are associated with CouponPeak

%CommonAppData%\WPM\wprotectmanager.exe

c:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins\ Ads.p.veruta.xml

Step4. Remove CouponPeak’s registry entries

Go to start menu>run>type regedit

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "MigAutoPlay" = %CommonAppData%\MigAutoPlay.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "DisplaySwitch" = %UserProfile%\Templates\syssecurity.exe"

Attention: the manual removal guide requires you to have some knowledge about computers. If you are an inexperienced computer user, you may operate mistakenly. Every wrong step will result in system programs. So you must be careful when remove CouponPeak.