Get Rid of WowCoupon Popup Virus Step by Step

Brief Information of WowCoupon

Like Quiknowledge, WowCoupon is an unwanted program which is created by hackers to collect users’ important information. Usually, it can be installed on your PC when you click on a vicious links or install a free program which you download from suspicious websites. Thus, if you don’t want to get infected, you’d better cultivate a good habit of surfing.



In many situations, WowCoupon will like to deceive you that it can save money for you if you use it. However, as a matter of fact, this dubious program only breaks its promise and generates thousands of disgusting ads for victims. Moreover, WowCoupon has been classified as an adware which can do great harm to the target computers once installed. So after it settles down on your PC, it begins to hijack all of your browsers including Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Google Chrome. By doing so, it can drive traffic to its own websites, so that it can collect money for its creators. And all those websites which are promoted by WowCoupon virus always contain vicious codes. Hence, once you are redirected to those websites, your PC will be infected by more malicious codes without doubt. For WowCoupon virus can cause so many chaos on your PC, you should delete it as soon as possible to prevent more damage.

 

How to remove WowCoupon

It is appreciated to remove WowCoupon once you find it. To remove it successfully, you cannot rely on antivirus. In this case, you are recommended to get rid of WowCoupon in manual way.

 

Step1-Reset your infected PC in Safe Mode with Networking

 

 Step 2- Stop all the harmful running processes of Win32/Boaxxe.BB.

1) Press Ctrl+ Esc+ Shift together in Windows7/vista to open Windows Task Manager;



2)  Press Ctrl+ Alt+ Del together in Windows XP/ Windows 8 to open Windows Task Manager




3) Click End process to end them

                 

Step 3-Delete all  files related to WowCoupon

  
 Firstly, show all hidden files to fully delete all files of WowCoupon

1) Click "Start" and open "Control Panel", then open "Folder Option";

2)  Click on " View", and then tick "Show hidden files, folders and drives", uncheck "Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)" then a Warning box pops up to confirm whether you are sure to uncheck "Hide protected operating system files

             
 Secondly, delete all files related to WowCoupon in Local disk

 Thirdly, please check all files related to WowCoupon as below:

Program Files \ WowCoupon\ WowCoupon
User Profile \Desktop\ WowCoupon.lnk
User Profile \Start Menu \ WowCoupon\WowCoupon. lnk
User Profile \Start Menu \WowCoupon \Help. lnk
User Profile \Start Menu \ WowCoupon\Registration. lnk
User Profile \Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\WowCoupon. lnk

Step 4- Remove all associated registry entries of WowCoupon:

1) Click Start menu, type "regedit" in the search programs and files box and press Enter key to open Registry Editor Or you could press Windows+R together to pull up Run box, then type in "regedit" to pull up Registry Editor

                   


  2) Find out and delete suspicious registry entries of WowCoupon in the "Registry Editor" as blow:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\ [RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\ WowCoupon HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\WowCoupon\SettingsMngr