Keycoupons

Posted by Max Lehmann on May 20, 2014

What is Keycoupons?

Keycoupons is not the kind of computer application that should be trusted blindly. You may think that it is useful, because this application promises to provide you with the most relevant shopping ads and discount suggestions. Unfortunately, good shopping deals are not the only thing Keycoupons provides you with. It is very likely that this application will also expose you to unknown websites, and it may eventually lead to serious computer security problems. Thus, it would be in your best interest to remove Keycoupons from your system right now. After manual removal, be sure to perform a full system scan.

Where does Keycoupons come from?

The reason why you are strongly recommended to scan your computer after manual removal is that Keycoupons most definitely comes along with a number of other potentially unwanted applications. We can make such an assumption, because we were not able to download Keycoupons at key-coupons.com. Click the Download Now! button would only open a pop-up message which said “Sorry, our extension is down for maintenance and currently unavailable”.

Thus, if you have Keycoupons installed onto your computer, and you see a lot of pop-up advertisements delivered by this application when you browse online shopping websites, then you clearly have installed Keycoupons together with third party downloaders and installers. And it is also obvious that your computer’s security is also at risk.

What does Keycoupons do?

According to the information on key-coupons.com, this application allows you to shop “online like a pro”. With this extension installed on your browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome), “you’ll be in the know when there’s a coupon available for your purchase”. Keycoupons supports over thousands of e-commerce websites, and the entire service seems to be useful.

However, you need to keep in mind that in order to provide you with this service Keycoupons needs to collect data on what kind of websites you visit and what you usually search for on online shopping malls. It is a common practice among a number of third party applications and browser plug-ins, but the problem is that we cannot really know what Keycoupons will do with the collected information.

In case Keycoupons gets exploited by a dangerous third party, your data could be leaked for marketing purposes and you would be exposed to an onslaught of potentially dangerous advertisements that might as well be related to malware distribution networks.

How to remove Keycoupons?

There is no need to risk anything. You just need to remove Keycoupons from your computer via Control Panel, and the potential threats will disappear. Nevertheless, once again we remind you that you ought to scan your system with SpyHunter free scanner to check for other unwanted and potentially dangerous applications.

Remove all the potential system threats at once, and acquire a powerful antimalware application if need be.