How to remove Coupon Locker

What is Coupon Locker?

Coupon Locker is one of those programs that are presented as powerful shopping helpers. Typically, they seek to make people believe that they can help them to save the money, while in reality they are showing their ads just for redirecting them to predetermined websites and helping them to increase their page rank or sales. We can’t guarantee that after installing Coupon Locker on your computer you will know about the best deals, the best prices, coupons, price comparisons and other deals. Yes, if you won’t spend much time while analyzing Coupon Locker ads, you will be tricked into believing that this program is seeking to fulfill what it promised. However, after paying more attention to its ads, it becomes obvious that this program seeks to make you visit specific websites that are actively seeking to increase their page rank or sales. Next to Coupon Locker redirects and pop-up ads, you may also notice slow downs on each of your web browsers. Finally, this program may start tracking your browsing on the web and may collect your search terms and mostly visited websites. Please, do NOT ignore these things because you may tricked into visiting insecure websites. If you have been suffering from Coupon Locker ads, its a sign that your PC was affected by adware-type application. For eliminating it from the system, you should follow a guide at the end of this post or use Fortect Intego.

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How can Coupon Locker hijack my computer?

Coupon Locker is a typical adware, so it can be installed on your computer with or without your permission asked. This is done using other free downloads, such as download managers, PDF creators, video streaming software, etc. Such programs have been involved to the distribution of Coupon Locker adware not for free. That’s why you should be very careful when trying to prevent infiltration of suspicious or unwanted programs. The main rule that you have to remember is that you must choose Custom or Advanced installation when downloading your next free program from the Internet. In addition to that, you should uncheck all suspicious check boxes that claim that you really want to install Coupon Locker on your computer. Of course, you should remember these installation rules when installing any kind of program. Remember that there are hundreds of legitimate applications that can also be used for spreading adwares. In most of the cases, this program hijacks each of web browsers (Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, etc.) as soon as it enters computer. So, there is no way to miss the fact that this program is hiding in your PC system. For eliminating Coupon Locker, you should follow these steps:

How to remove Coupon Locker virus?

Technically, Coupon Locker is not a virus. That’s why you can remove it using manual instructions that are given down below or with a help of automatic removal option. We recommend selecting Automatic removal of this program because that’s the only way to make sure that your computer is free from this adware and its components.

Uninstall from Windows

Uninstall from Windows 10/8:

Type Control Panel into the Windows search box and open the result.
Under Programs, select Uninstall a program.

Uninstall from Windows 7/XP:

Click on Windows Start > Control Panel (Windows XP users should click on Add/Remove Programs).
In Control Panel, select Programs > Uninstall a program.

Remove the unwanted program:

In the Programs and Features window, look for any recently installed suspicious entries, select them, and click Uninstall.
If User Account Control appears, click Yes to confirm, then complete the removal.

Delete from macOS

Remove the unwanted application:

From the menu bar, select Go > Applications.
In the Applications folder, look for any suspicious entries, then drag them to Trash (or right-click and pick Move to Trash).

Delete leftover files and folders:

Select Go > Go to Folder.
Enter /Library/Application Support and remove any suspicious folders related to the unwanted program.
Repeat the same check in the /Library/LaunchAgents and /Library/LaunchDaemons folders, deleting any suspicious entries.
Finally, empty the Trash to permanently remove the leftovers.

Remove from Microsoft Edge

Delete unwanted extensions from MS Edge:

Select Menu (three horizontal dots at the top-right of the browser window) and pick Extensions.
From the list, pick the extension and click on the Gear icon.
Click Remove.

Clear cookies and other browser data:

Click on the Menu (three horizontal dots at the top-right of the browser window) and select Settings > Privacy, search, and services..
Under Clear browsing data, pick Choose what to clear.
Select Cookies and other site data and Cached images and files. (apart from passwords, although you might want to include Media licenses as well, if applicable) and click on Clear.

Restore new tab and homepage settings:

Click the menu icon and choose Settings.
Then find On startup section.
Click Remove next to any suspicious startup page.

Reset MS Edge if the above steps did not work:

Press on Ctrl + Shift + Esc to open Task Manager.
Click on More details arrow at the bottom of the window.
Select Details tab.
Now scroll down and locate every entry with Microsoft Edge name in it. Right-click on each of them and select End Task to stop MS Edge from running.

Instructions for Chromium-based Edge

Delete extensions from MS Edge (Chromium):

Open Edge and click select Settings > Extensions.
Delete unwanted extensions by clicking Remove.

Clear cache and site data:

Click on Menu and go to Settings.
Select Privacy, search and services.
Under Clear browsing data, pick Choose what to clear.
Under Time range, pick All time.
Select Clear now.

Reset Chromium-based MS Edge:

Click on Menu and select Settings.
On the left side, pick Reset settings.
Select Restore settings to their default values.
Confirm with Reset.
This will disable extensions and reset startup pages but will not delete bookmarks, saved passwords, or browsing history.

Remove from Mozilla Firefox (FF)

Remove dangerous extensions:

Open Mozilla Firefox browser and click on the Menu (three horizontal lines at the top-right of the window).
Select Add-ons.
In here, select the unwanted extension and click Remove.

Reset the homepage:

Click three horizontal lines at the top right corner to open the menu.
Choose Settings.
Under Home, set your preferred homepage and new tab settings.

Clear cookies and site data:

Click Menu and pick Settings.
Go to Privacy & Security section.
Scroll down to locate Cookies and Site Data.
Click on Clear Data...
Select Cookies and Site Data and Temporary cached files and pages, then click Clear.

Reset Mozilla Firefox

If clearing the browser as explained above did not help, reset Mozilla Firefox:

Open Mozilla Firefox browser and click the Menu.
Go to Help and then choose Troubleshooting Information.
Under Give Firefox a tune up section, click on Refresh Firefox...
Once the pop-up shows up, confirm the action by pressing on Refresh Firefox.

Remove from Google Chrome

Delete malicious extensions from Google Chrome:

Open Google Chrome, click on the Menu (three vertical dots at the top-right corner) and select More tools > Extensions.
In the newly opened window, you will see all the installed extensions. Uninstall all suspicious extensions related to the unwanted program by clicking Remove.

Clear cache and web data from Chrome:

Click on Menu and pick Settings.
Under Privacy and security, select Clear browsing data.
Select Browsing history, Cookies and other site data, as well as Cached images and files.
Click Clear data.

Change your homepage:

Click menu and choose Settings.
Look for a suspicious site in the On startup section.
Click on Open a specific or set of pages and click on three dots to find the Remove option.

Reset Google Chrome:

If the previous methods did not help you, reset Google Chrome to eliminate all the unwanted components:

Click on Menu and select Settings.
In the Settings, scroll down and click Advanced.
Scroll down and locate Reset and clean up section.
Now click Restore settings to their original defaults.
Confirm with Reset settings.

Delete from Safari

Remove dangerous extensions:

Open Safari, click Safari in the menu at the top-left of the screen, and select Preferences.
Go to the Extensions tab, look for any suspicious entries, and click Uninstall to remove them.

Clear history and website data:

Click Safari in the menu and pick Clear History.
Set Clear to all history and confirm with Clear History.

Reset Safari:

Click Safari in the menu and select Preferences > Advanced.
Enable Show Develop menu in menu bar.
From the menu bar, click Develop and select Empty Caches.