What is Coupon Monkey?
Coupon Monkey is a potentially unwanted program that may show up on your computer without a warning about that. Nevertheless, it doesn’t mean that this program is a virus. In reality, it’s an adware type application that seeks to promote related parties. No matter that it claims that it is capable of helping people to improve their browsing routine (save the money, show the latest deals, coupons, price comparisons, etc.), after keeping it installed on the system for some time it becomes obvious that all what it does is showing tons of different ads. After clicking them, you can be redirected to Coupon Monkey’s affiliate websites that are either trying to increase their page rank or sales. While there is no guarantee that each of websites that are promoted with a help of such technique is safe, you should stay away from each of them.
In addition, Coupon Monkey redirects is not the only issue that can be caused by this program. Beware that next to its annoying pop-up ads, redirects on each of your browsers, slowdowns and similar issues, it may also start tracking you. Typically, it collects people’s search terms, mostly visited websites, data that they enter when visiting them, computer’s IP address, location, etc. Because of all of these abilities, there are lots of security experts who claim that there is no need to keep Coupon Monkey adware on the system. Of course, if you like to look at various pop-up notifications or if you don’t ming to deal with other activities, you can keep this program on your machine.
We must admit that there are hundreds of people who have already installed Coupon Monkey on their PCs voluntarily. That’s because it is actively advertised as a program that is capable of enhancing people’s browsing experience. If you have also been tricked into that, you should know that this program, next to previously listed activities, may track your browsing habits and collect such details as mostly-visited sites, data that was entered on them, etc. That’s why we highly suggest you to remove Coupon Monkey from the system.

How can Coupon Monkey hijack my computer?
Coupon Monkey is promoted using several different techniques: you can download it from its official website or install it in a bundle with freeware or shareware. Bu sure that this program can be really intrusive and enter your computer as an attachment of some download managers, PDF creator or similar application that is promoted for free. As soon as Coupon Monkey virus infiltrates the system, it hijacks all web browsers that can be found on it. In addition to that, it starts acting as a tracking cookie and collects different type of information. As a result, you may start noticing continuous pop-up ads, Coupon Monkey redirects and similar issues on your computer.
How to remove Coupon Monkey virus?
Technically, Coupon Monkey is not a virus. However, there is a wide list of questionable activities that are initiated by this program. If you were tricked into installing this program on the system, you can remove it with a help of this guide:
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.

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