Remove Coupon Genies Virus from IE/Firefox/Chrome

Do you receive many ads from Coupon Genies and cannot remove it and popups? What is Coupon Genies and how it comes onto your PC? Read more to know more about Coupon Genies and remove it from your browser step by step.

The Introduction of Coupon Genies

Coupon Genies is a kind of adware program that can compromise various types of browsers like Safari, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome. Usually cyber criminals will use Coupon Genies to promote ads and distribute malicious programs. So this adware is very malicious and dangerous. If Coupon Genies is inside your PC, you will be annoyed by lots of ads which are displayed by this adware. Those ads keep popping up on your browser constantly when you are surfing the Internet. And you cannot get rid of them even restart your web browser.
Moreover, during your shopping activities online, Coupon Genies also displays many deals and coupons for you, which cheat you that it can save money for you. However, Coupon Genies just wants you to click on those pop-up ads, so that it can collect money for its creators. In general, you won’t be able to know how Coupon Genies comes into your machine because its penetrated way is very hidden. For example, it will bundle itself with some free downloads. Once you download one of those free programs, you will install Coupon Genies on your PC as well. In a word, such malicious program should be removed from PC as early as possible.

The screenshot of Coupon Genies

Step by Step by Remove Coupon Genies

Step 1: navigate to Control Panel>click Uninstall a program>remove Coupon Genies from the list

Step 2: right-click on Taskbar and click Start Task Manager>stop all processes related to Coupon Genies

Step 3: remove Coupon Genies from Google Chrome. Steps: click Menu icon>click Tools>Extensions>find Coupon Genies and remove it

Step 4: remove Coupon Genies from Internet Explorer. Steps: Click Tools>Manager Add-ons>delete all suspicious add-ons

Step 5: remove Coupon Genies from Mozilla Firefox. Steps: Go to Tools>click Add-ons>click Plugins to remove all dangerous plugins and click Extensions to remove all risky extensions

Step 6: Disable Coupon Genies’s startup items. To do this, you should click Start Menu>input “msconfig” in the search box>hit Enter. Then, the system configuration utility will be opened. Now go to Start up tab and disable all items belong to Coupon Genies.

Note: you should know that any mistake changes happen in the registry will cause other serious system problems. So before you make some changes, you should back up your registry first!

How to Open & Back up the Registry