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Ian1
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Coupon Companion Plugin

Anyone know what this is or likely way it got installed? My firefox is pretty locked down (or so I thought), and somehow had this added. Killed it for now, but curious as to where it likely came from.

Sundog
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Do you use IE View extension?

It has a new developer and she has added WizeShoppy.

Ian1
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said by Sundog:

Do you use IE View extension?

It has a new developer and she has added WizeShoppy.

Nope. Don't use that one.

goalieskates
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Have you tried the Mozilla forum? They may have a better idea where it came from?

TK421
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Download something from CNET.com recently?

A little while back a friend asked me for help when "Coupon Companion" installed silently with a free comic reader app he grabbed from CNET.
dsilvers
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Run Adwcleaner

then Malwarebytes to clean up the left overs.

There a lot of complaints with various cnet downloads installing this.

Sundog
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Here are the current addons that the developer, ppclick, has added Superfish/WizeShoppy adware to:

IE View
Fab Tabs
Quick Locale Switcher
Copy Link Name
Email This Image

Ian1
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Must have been a Cnet Download. I thought they had cleaned up their act about packaging things with malware.
jl747
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Did you print any coupons from places like Smart Source or Red Plum or even from food company websites?

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said by Ian1:

Anyone know what this is or likely way it got installed? My firefox is pretty locked down (or so I thought), and somehow had this added. Killed it for now, but curious as to where it likely came from.

I posted awhile back about it and got some info from Tony Klein and others.

»Playbryte
redwolfe_98
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Run Adwcleaner

you could try "junkware removal tool", too:

»www.bleepingcomputer.com ··· al-tool/

therube
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(Assuming the is the correct "coupon-companion") Uninstall Information.
Mele20
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ahhh...you should know better than to EVER use CNet for downloads! Geez....
Expand your moderator at work
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Re: Coupon Companion Plugin

The page that appears to have the "official" AVG-free download links to CNET. Is that not a safe download?
»free.avg.com/us-en/free- ··· download
Mele20
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I wouldn't use it. Get it here:

»www.majorgeeks.com/AVG_A ··· 886.html

Avira pulls the same shit. Tries to force people to download.com that adds junk if you are lucky and trojans if unlucky to the downloads there. With Avira, if search their website you can find a DIRECT download even of the free product. I would imagine that AVG has it on their own site somewhere. Always use the vendor's site for downloads if at all possible for ANY software. If you must use third party sites then choose reputable ones like MajorGeeks, Softpedia, File Hippo.

StuartMW
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Anyone using stub installers (i.e. the small packages that download/install what you want plus "extras") vs full installers from a genuine site are likely to get crapware/malware like this. Sometimes they ask if you want to install the crap sometimes not.

Ian1
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said by Mele20:

ahhh...you should know better than to EVER use CNet for downloads! Geez....

Yeah, I hadn't been based on the controversy over their stub installers, but think I just got lazy with one. Oh well. The good news is that I never exhibited any symptoms of having the Malware. With Noscript, Adblock Plus, Ghostery, and Donottrackme, I never actually saw one of their coupon ads. I was only alerted to its presence when Firefox warned me that it disabled it. And I had already properly removed it when I posted. I was more interested in where I got it from. Cnet still sounds like the likely culprit.

antdude
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said by Sundog:

Do you use IE View extension?

It has a new developer and she has added WizeShoppy.

What the frak??!

StuartMW
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It can be easily disabled There's a tickbox (ticked by default) in its options.

antdude
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said by StuartMW:

It can be easily disabled There's a tickbox (ticked by default) in its options.

But still!

andyross
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Basically, what does IE View do that IE View Lite doesn't?
mblomme
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said by andyross:

Basically, what does IE View do that IE View Lite doesn't?

Only the adware.
Apparently 1.5.5 added this adware. 1.5.1 does not have it.
The original author of IE View (Paul Roub) does not own/support it anymore, but mentions that IE View Lite is based on the (open) source. IE View Lite does not have the adware.

andyross
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In my opinion:
1) Mozilla should CLEARLY mark add-ons that contain adware in their Add-Ons store. Don't allow authors to bury it in a privacy statement.
2) When an existing add-on is updated to include adware, the automatic updater MUST pop up a notification to the user stating that it now includes adware and offering to cancel the install and even offer to uninstall or disable.