84,488,480 programs installed

Should I remove Coupon Savings?

What percent of users and experts removed it?
77% remove it23% keep it
Overall Sentiment
Bad
What do people think about it?
(click star to rate)
How common is it?
Global Rank #16,727
United States Rank #7,934
Reach 0.0152%
Lifespan of installation (until removal)
< 18.18 days
536.25 days >
Average installed length: 281.76 days

Versions

VersionDistribution
1.0 100.00%

Coupon Savings

What is Coupon Savings?

Coupon Savings from Savings Apps (signed by) installs a web browser extension to view web pages loaded and looks for affiliated merchants in order to possibly provide better pricing or alternative deals on a given product or merchant. It is a ad supported product and will show you advertisements as you browse the web. Warning, this program is very aggressive adware. Not only does it hijack the user's browser and settings, it hijacks visited web sites by injecting its own advertising over the web sites ads including Adsense.

Overview

The program adds a toolbar to Microsoft Internet Explorer. The primary executable is named toolbar.dll. A majority of users end up uninstalling this less than a week of it being installed. The setup package generally installs about 5 files and is usually about 764.82 KB (783,178 bytes).
  • Integrates into the web browser
  • Injects advertisements unassociated with the underlying web page
  • The experts agree, you should remove it!

Program detailsProgram details

Installation folder: C:\Program Files\coupon savings chrome
Uninstaller: C:\Program Files\Coupon Savings Chrome\uninst.exe
Estimated size: 764.82 KB

Program filesFiles installed by Coupon Savings

Program module:toolbar.dll
Path:C:\Program Files\coupon savings\toolbar.dll
MD5:9870417a317a4d33165d91fca7005217
Additional files:
  • uninst.exe
  • setupu.exe
  • uninstu.exe
  • couponprinter.exe (by Coupons.com) - Coupon Printer (Coupon Printer Installer)

Program behaviorsBehaviors exhibited

Internet Explorer BHO
  • toolbar.dll is installed in Internet Explorer as a BHO (Browser Helper Object) under the name 'Coupon Savings' with the class of {C3F62D94-EEBB-11E1-B88F-CBBD4CC15727}.
Internet Explorer Toolbar
  • toolbar.dll is installed as an Internet Explorer Toolbar with the class of {DFEFCDEE-CF1A-4FC8-89AF-189327213627}.

How do I remove Coupon Savings?

You can uninstall Coupon Savings from your computer by using the Add/Remove Program feature in the Window's Control Panel.
  1. On the Start menu (for Windows 8, right-click the screen's bottom-left corner), click Control Panel, and then, under Programs, do one of the following:
    • Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall a Program.
    • Windows XP: Click Add or Remove Programs.
  2. When you find the program Coupon Savings, click it, and then do one of the following:
    • Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall.
    • Windows XP: Click the Remove or Change/Remove tab (to the right of the program).
  3. Follow the prompts. A progress bar shows you how long it will take to remove Coupon Savings.
  4. If for some reason uninstallation fails, please install Microsoft's uninstall fixer utility which will help fix problems with programs that can't be uninstalled at support.microsoft.com.

How do I reset my web browser?

If your web browser homepage and search settings have been modfied by Coupon Savings you can restore them to their previous default settings.
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Mozilla Firefox
Google Chrome

OS VERSIONS
Win 7 (SP1) 72%
Win Vista (SP1) 0%
 
HOW DOES IT RUN?
Plugs into Internet Explorer
 
USER ACTIONS
Uninstall it 77%
Keep it 23%

Windows OS versionsWindows

Which Windows OS versions does it run on?
Windows 7 74.67%
Windows Vista 14.00%
Windows 10 7.33%
Windows XP 4.00%
Which OS releases does it run on?
Windows 7 Home Premium 63.88%
Windows Vista Home Premiu... 13.04%
Windows 7 Professional 5.35%
Windows 7 Ultimate 5.02%
Microsoft Windows XP 3.68%
Windows 10 Home 2.68%

Distribution by countryGeography

99.81% of installs come from the United States
Which countries install it?
  United States 99.81%
  Canada 0.19%

OEM distributionPC manufacturers

What PC manufacturers (OEMs) have it installed?
Hewlett-Packard 43.72%
Dell 32.47%
Toshiba 12.55%
Acer 7.36%
Intel 1.73%
American Megatrends 1.30%
Lenovo 0.87%
Common models
HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook ... 4.52%
HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook ... 3.95%
HP G72 Notebook PC 3.39%
HP Pavilion g7 Notebook P... 3.39%
HP 2000 Notebook PC 2.82%
TOSHIBA Satellite L655 2.82%

comments1 comment

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Janeover a year ago
Don't install Coupon Savings. It is a piece of GARBAGE that plasters ads everywhere, including your Facebook timeline and refuses to uninstall. The company peddling this MALWARE are scum.