 IanPremium
join:2002-06-18
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kudos:1 | 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. |
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 SundogPremium
join:2003-12-12
Baja AZ
1 edit | Do you use IE View extension?
It has a new developer and she has added WizeShoppy. |
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IanPremium
join:2002-06-18
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kudos:1 Reviews:
 ·Rogers Hi-Speed
| 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. |
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Have you tried the Mozilla forum? They may have a better idea where it came from? |
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 TK421Premium
join:2004-12-19
Canada | reply to Ian
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. |
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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. |
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SundogPremium
join:2003-12-12
Baja AZ | reply to Ian
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 |
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IanPremium
join:2002-06-18
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kudos:1 | Must have been a Cnet Download. I thought they had cleaned up their act about packaging things with malware. |
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jl747
join:2005-03-24
Mount Prospect, IL | reply to Ian
Did you print any coupons from places like Smart Source or Red Plum or even from food company websites? |
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 deke40Premium
join:2003-01-23
Texas
·Comcast
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said by Ian: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 |
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you could try "junkware removal tool", too:
»www.bleepingcomputer.com/downloa···al-tool/ |
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 therube
join:2004-11-11
Randallstown, MD | reply to Ian
(Assuming the is the correct "coupon-companion") Uninstall Information. |
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Mele20Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
kudos:4 | reply to Ian
ahhh...you should know better than to EVER use CNet for downloads! Geez....  |
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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-antivirus-download |
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Mele20Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
kudos:4 | I wouldn't use it. Get it here:
»www.majorgeeks.com/AVG_AntiVirus···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.
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 StuartMWWho Is John Galt?Premium
join:2000-08-06
Galt's Gulch
kudos:2
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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.
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IanPremium
join:2002-06-18
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kudos:1 Reviews:
·Rogers Hi-Speed
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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.
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 antdudeA Ninja AntPremium,VIP
join:2001-03-25
United State
kudos:4
·RoadRunner Cable
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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??! |
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StuartMWWho Is John Galt?Premium
join:2000-08-06
Galt's Gulch
kudos:2 Reviews:
·CenturyLink
| It can be easily disabled  There's a tickbox (ticked by default) in its options.
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