Ian1 Premium Member join:2002-06-18 ON |
Ian1
Premium Member
2013-Mar-7 4:35 pm
Coupon Companion PluginAnyone 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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SundogI'm an analog man in a digital world Premium Member join:2003-12-12 Tucson, AZ 1 edit
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Sundog
Premium Member
2013-Mar-7 4:45 pm
Do you use IE View extension?
It has a new developer and she has added WizeShoppy. |
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Ian1 Premium Member join:2002-06-18 ON |
Ian1
Premium Member
2013-Mar-7 5:14 pm
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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to Ian1
Have you tried the Mozilla forum? They may have a better idea where it came from? |
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TK421 Premium Member join:2004-12-19 Canada |
TK421 to Ian1
Premium Member
2013-Mar-7 5:32 pm
to Ian1
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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to Ian1
Run Adwcleanerthen Malwarebytes to clean up the left overs. There a lot of complaints with various cnet downloads installing this. |
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SundogI'm an analog man in a digital world Premium Member join:2003-12-12 Tucson, AZ |
to Ian1
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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Ian1 Premium Member join:2002-06-18 ON |
Ian1
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2013-Mar-7 8:52 pm
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 |
to Ian1
Did you print any coupons from places like Smart Source or Red Plum or even from food company websites? |
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deke40deke40 Premium Member join:2003-01-23 Texas |
to Ian1
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 |
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to dsilvers
you could try "junkware removal tool", too: » www.bleepingcomputer.com ··· al-tool/ |
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therube join:2004-11-11 Randallstown, MD |
to Ian1
(Assuming the is the correct "coupon-companion") Uninstall Information. |
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Mele20 Premium Member join:2001-06-05 Hilo, HI |
to Ian1
ahhh...you should know better than to EVER use CNet for downloads! Geez.... |
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Re: Coupon Companion PluginThe 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 |
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Mele20 Premium Member join:2001-06-05 Hilo, HI |
Mele20
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2013-Mar-8 9:35 am
I wouldn't use it. Get it here: » www.majorgeeks.com/AVG_A ··· 886.htmlAvira 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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to Ian1
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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Ian1 Premium Member join:2002-06-18 ON |
to Mele20
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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antdudeMatrix Ant Premium Member join:2001-03-25 US |
to Sundog
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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StuartMW
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2013-Mar-8 3:55 pm
It can be easily disabled There's a tickbox (ticked by default) in its options. |
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antdudeMatrix Ant Premium Member join:2001-03-25 US |
antdude
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2013-Mar-8 3:56 pm
said by StuartMW:It can be easily disabled There's a tickbox (ticked by default) in its options. But still! |
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to StuartMW
Basically, what does IE View do that IE View Lite doesn't? |
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mblomme Premium Member join:2008-10-16 Auburn, NH
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mblomme
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2013-Mar-9 8:18 pm
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. |
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to Ian1
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. |
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