CoupontasticOffers is a recently released adware-type program that you ought to remove as soon as possible. Like all most adware, it is promoted as a shopping assistant that gives the ultimate advantage of comparing the best deals, discounts and promotions from popular online shopping websites. There is some truth to this, yes, it will display discounts, deals, and promotions, but they will hardly help you save money. Our research shows that CoupontasticOffers may promote misleading advertisements that redirect to potentially unreliable websites. Typically of all adware, this program will also collects certain information about you that is supposed to help advertisers tailor the ads. However, you might not want to share that information with unknown entities as they are unreliable. We invite you to read more about this adware and you will see that there is more to it than meets the eye.
This program belongs to the infamous Multiplug adware family, but is based on the JustPlugIt engine that has been developed by another infamous adware developer officially known as JustPlugIt Ltd. CoupontasticOffers has obviously been developed for someone as JustPlugIt Ltd does not run the advertising operation. This program has a working barebones promotional website whose purpose is only to host the legal documentation, such as Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Its distribution methods are currently unknown, but we have a hunch that like most JustPlugIt-based adware, CoupontasticOffers is being bundled with other software and featured on shady websites. As far as we know, this adware may be bundled with browser hijackers, such as Websearch.hotsearches.info or Websearch.simplesearches.info, as well as various potentially unwanted programs. Now that we got this out of the way, let us talk about what this program is capable of.
Promotional nonsense aside, CoupontasticOffers’s real purpose it to generate revenue for its developers and the advertisers who use it. People have grown wary of dishonest advertising, so only the best deceptions bring profit. Therefore, this program is bound to collect information about your browsing practices in order to determine what kind of content to present. The collected information most likely includes: browsing history, search queries, IP addresses, hardware information, ads viewed, and links clicked. The collected information s processed and tailored ads are rendered accordingly. CoupontasticOffers’s ads are mostly displayed as coupons, banners, pop-ups, and so on. And they are quite annoying as well. Apart from that, they may advertise shady software thy might actually be potentially unwanted programs, as well as adware. So clicking these ads is not advisable, yet difficult not to.
We urge you to resist the temptation to click inviting advertisements that claim to offer you the deal of the century and look at them as unnecessary distractions that can bring undesirable consequences. So, we invite you to remove CoupontasticOffers using the instructions that we have included below this article. We also recommend that you scan your computer with a malware scanner just to be sure that any software bundles it came with dud not contain additional malware.
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Microsoft Internet Explorer
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