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Thursday, August 1, 2013

Search.coupons.com Virus Removal Guide

Search.coupons.com (http://search.coupons.com/) is a highly dangerous browser hijacker virus which corrupts most of well-known browsers, such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome. Once it installs onto your browser without any permission, it will modify the default settings of your search engine and lock its related domain as the homepage, which keeps redirecting victims to unwanted web sites where additional threats can be installed onto target computers, endangering the contaminated system more severely. Normally search.coupons.com penetrates into random computers unknowingly accompanied with freeware downloads, junk email attachments, various video players and dubious websites, etc. It lurks in a compromised machine stealthily by mutating itself in a quick speed and bypassing various types of antivirus software though it’s updated to the latest version. As we know, cyber hackers have created more and more infections to generate artificial traffic and boost affiliate payments so that they can rip off victims’ money in unethical way. As for search.coupons.com redirect, there are many variables according to different computers. What’s worse, as time goes by, it may start its variation. Just like what is mentioned above, this virus infection is a cascaded infection. The manual approach below is only for those computer users who own sufficient knowledge about computer. Otherwise, it will be a hard nut to crack.


How to remove Search.coupons.com virus manually and completely?

Step 1: Press CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC. Open the Windows Task Manager.
If that didn’t work, try another way. Press the Start button and click on the Run option. This will start the Run tool. Type in taskmgr and press OK. This should start the Windows Task Manager

Step 2: Open the Registry Editor, search for and delete these Registry Entries created by Search.coupons.com.
(Click Start button> click "Run" > Input "regedit" into the Run box and click ok)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\random
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run\random
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Installer\Products\5ATIUYW62OUOMNBX256 “(Default)”=”1?
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\“UninstallString” = “‘%AppData%\[RANDOM]\[RANDOM].exe” -u
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\“ShortcutPath” = “‘C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\5ATIUYW62OUOMNBX256.exe” -u’”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce “5ATIUYW62OUOMNBX256” = “‘C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\RANDOM.exe’

Step 3: Detect and remove Search.coupons.com associated files listed below:
C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC_64\Desktop.ini
C:\Windows\assembly\GAC_32\Desktop.ini
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ping.exe

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Step 3. Choose Select all>Remove to get rid of all the detected threats on your PC.

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