Cooking up Coupons Adware

What is Cooking up Coupons?

Cooking up Coupons offers features such as coupons and comparison shopping. This functionality may seem legitimate and useful, however, this browser extension is categorized as a potentially unwanted program (PUP) and adware.

SuperWeb LLC, the company responsible for development of this application, employs a deceptive software marketing method called 'bundling' to install Cooking up Coupons on Internet browsers (Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox) without users' permission.

Following successful infiltration, various intrusive online advertisements are displayed including banners, pop-ups, coupons, interstitial, transitional, search, and full-page. Ads generated by this adware may redirect to sites containing infectious content. Therefore, clicking them may cause further high-risk computer infections.

Cooking up Coupons collects various Internet browsing-related software and hardware information. The type of collected data includes Internet Protocol (IP) addresses (to determine users' geographic locations), websites visited, pages viewed, search queries, etc. This data may contain personally identifiable details and is later shared with third parties.

Cyber criminals can use these details for dubious purposes, thereby causing serious privacy issues or even identity theft. There are hundreds of PUPs identical to Cooking up Coupons. SuperWeb LLC releases identical browser plug-ins under different names to avoid detection by legitimate anti-spyware and anti-virus suites.

Although users are assured that Cooking up Coupons (and other extensions) provides significant features, it is useless to the user - the purpose of adware-type browser plug-ins is to generate revenue by displaying advertisements and sharing collected information with third parties.

Therefore, you are strongly advised to uninstall Cooking up Coupons from your system immediately.

Research shows that most adware-type applications are distributed together with free software downloadable on freeware download websites such as downloads.com, soft32.com, softonic.com, and other similar sites.

This is achieved via small programs called 'download clients' (also called 'installers', 'download managers', 'download clients', etc.) Download clients should ease the download process, however, they are employed to offer installation of third party applications together with the chosen software.

These additional apps are described as 'legitimate and virus-free', however, most are categorized as adware or malware. To avoid this situation, closely analyse the software download procedure to ensure that only the chosen software is downloaded.

Furthermore, applications downloaded from the Internet should be installed with the 'Custom' or 'Advanced' options - this will reveal any bundled third party apps listed for installation and allow you to opt-out. If you have installed Cooking up Coupons adware, the following removal guide will help you to eliminate it from your system.

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Quick menu:

• What is Cooking up Coupons?
• STEP 1. Uninstall Cooking up Coupons application using Control Panel.
• STEP 2. Remove Cooking up Coupons adware from Internet Explorer.
• STEP 3. Remove Cooking up Coupons ads from Google Chrome.
• STEP 4. Remove 'Ads by Cooking up Coupons' from Mozilla Firefox.
• STEP 5. Remove Cooking up Coupons adware from Safari.
• STEP 6. Remove rogue plug-ins from Microsoft Edge.

Cooking up Coupons adware removal:

Windows 11 users:

Right-click on the Start icon, select Apps and Features. In the opened window search for the application you want to uninstall, after locating it, click on the three vertical dots and select Uninstall.

Windows 10 users:

Right-click in the lower left corner of the screen, in the Quick Access Menu select Control Panel. In the opened window choose Programs and Features.

Windows 7 users:

Click Start (Windows Logo at the bottom left corner of your desktop), choose Control Panel. Locate Programs and click Uninstall a program.

macOS (OSX) users:

Click Finder, in the opened screen select Applications. Drag the app from the Applications folder to the Trash (located in your Dock), then right click the Trash icon and select Empty Trash.

In the uninstall programs window, look for "Cooking up Coupons", select this entry and click "Uninstall" or "Remove".

After uninstalling the potentially unwanted program that causes Cooking up Coupons ads, scan your computer for any remaining unwanted components or possible malware infections. To scan your computer, use recommended malware removal software.

Remove cooking up coupons adware from Internet browsers:

Video showing how to remove potentially unwanted browser add-ons:

Remove malicious add-ons from Internet Explorer:

Click the "gear" icon (at the top right corner of Internet Explorer), select "Manage Add-ons". Look for "Cooking up Coupons", select this entry and click "Remove".

Optional method:

If you continue to have problems with removal of the ads by cooking up coupons, reset your Internet Explorer settings to default.

Windows XP users: Click Start, click Run, in the opened window type inetcpl.cpl In the opened window click the Advanced tab, then click Reset.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 users: Click the Windows logo, in the start search box type inetcpl.cpl and click enter. In the opened window click the Advanced tab, then click Reset.

Windows 8 users: Open Internet Explorer and click the gear icon. Select Internet Options.

In the opened window, select the Advanced tab.

Click the Reset button.

Confirm that you wish to reset Internet Explorer settings to default by clicking the Reset button.

Remove malicious extensions from Google Chrome:

Click the Chrome menu icon (at the top right corner of Google Chrome), select "Tools" and click "Extensions". Locate "Cooking up Coupons", select this entry and click the trash can icon.

Optional method:

If you continue to have problems with removal of the ads by cooking up coupons, reset your Google Chrome browser settings. Click the Chrome menu icon  (at the top right corner of Google Chrome) and select Settings. Scroll down to the bottom of the screen. Click the Advanced… link.

After scrolling to the bottom of the screen, click the Reset (Restore settings to their original defaults) button.

In the opened window, confirm that you wish to reset Google Chrome settings to default by clicking the Reset button.

Remove malicious plug-ins from Mozilla Firefox:

Click the Firefox menu (at the top right corner of the main window), select "Add-ons". Click "Extensions", in the opened window, remove "Cooking up Coupons".

Optional method:

Computer users who have problems with ads by cooking up coupons removal can reset their Mozilla Firefox settings.

Open Mozilla Firefox, at the top right corner of the main window, click the Firefox menu, in the opened menu, click Help.

Select Troubleshooting Information.

In the opened window, click the Refresh Firefox button.

In the opened window, confirm that you wish to reset Mozilla Firefox settings to default by clicking the Refresh Firefox button.

Remove malicious extensions from Safari:

Make sure your Safari browser is active, click Safari menu, and select Preferences....

In the opened window click Extensions, locate any recently installed suspicious extension, select it and click Uninstall.

Optional method:

Make sure your Safari browser is active and click on Safari menu. From the drop down menu select Clear History and Website Data...

In the opened window select all history and click the Clear History button.

Remove malicious extensions from Microsoft Edge:

Click the Edge menu icon  (at the upper-right corner of Microsoft Edge), select "Extensions". Locate all recently-installed suspicious browser add-ons and click "Remove" below their names.

Optional method:

If you continue to have problems with removal of the ads by cooking up coupons, reset your Microsoft Edge browser settings. Click the Edge menu icon  (at the top right corner of Microsoft Edge) and select Settings.

In the opened settings menu select Reset settings.

Select Restore settings to their default values. In the opened window, confirm that you wish to reset Microsoft Edge settings to default by clicking the Reset button.

• If this did not help, follow these alternative instructions explaining how to reset the Microsoft Edge browser.

Summary:

Commonly, adware or potentially unwanted applications infiltrate Internet browsers through free software downloads. Note that the safest source for downloading free software is via developers' websites only. To avoid installation of adware, be very attentive when downloading and installing free software. When installing previously-downloaded free programs, choose the custom or advanced installation options – this step will reveal any potentially unwanted applications listed for installation together with your chosen free program.

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