Cooking Up Coupons is the name of a potentially unwanted program, meaning that this particular software is not considered as hostile by many antivirus programs because it’s not exactly a virus, plus we say “potentially unwanted” because its install is done quietly on Windows without us really knowing about it.
Cooking Up Coupons is installed to achieve two specific goals, first of all to broadcast as much ads as possible in our computer and to collect data about our browsing habits.
Ads shown by Cooking Up Coupons are capable of inserting themselves everywhere, sometimes directly onto the content of every visited website (banners, underlined words, pop-ups), or by means of new tabs that open up according to our clicks although sometimes they are opened unexpectedly without any action on our part.
These ads are usually labeled as Cooking Up Coupons Ads or Powered by Cooking Up Coupons, and is this label what warns users that they are victims of an adware.
Besides messing with your browsing experience, Cooking Up Coupons also takes the time to analyze everything you do online, saving every web search you make and every website you visit. It goes as far as scanning what you have on your computer, according to them (or so they say on their website) for statistics purposes only. The harsh truth is that they hope to fill databases with your profile so they can sold them afterwards.
If you happen to visit Cooking Up Coupons’ official website, make no mistake you won’t be infected there, it’s impossible to download it there even though they have a “download” option. The real goal behind this website is to make public their conditions of use where some of Cooking Up Coupons’ actions are explained… this is how they hope to protect themselves from any legal actions against them.
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