Remove Find New Coupons browser hijackers

Effective guide to delete Find New Coupons

Find New Coupons is defined as deceptive application or tools that provide users to easily access to various popular coupons. At the first appearance, this application seems legit and useful and has been categorized as potentially unwanted application or browser hijacker. However, this PUP is mainly designed to make several modifications to browser settings in order to promote hfindnewcoupons.com which is identified as fake search engine. This dubious threat is developed and created by cyber crooks whose main motive is to make illegal money through novice users.

Furthermore, these apps are usually installed on your browsers such as Google chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Edge and others. After installation, they change the installed browser settings such as homepage, search engine and new tab URL. As long as these apps remain installed, users are forced to visit aforementioned domain while opening new browsing tab or enter any query into URL bar. Supposedly, hfindnewcoupons.com is useful search engine that simply redirect you to search.yahoo.com. However, the presence of such domain seems suspicious.

Browser hijackers also collect information relating to users browsing habits including entered search queries, IP addresses, visited websites, pages viewed and so on. Later, developers behind this send this data to the third parties who might be cyber criminals who misuse it in order to generate revenue as much as possible. This can cause’s problem related to privacy, browsing safety, financial loss etc. Thus, to prevent this critical problem, we recommend you to uninstall Find New Coupons and all browser hijackers immediately from the system.

How did Find New Coupons install on my PC?

In most cases, people download and install apps like Find New Coupons accidentally. Generally it, when software developers behind this uses bundling method that help them to deceive people into downloading and installing unwanted apps along with regular software. They hide information about PUAs in custom, advanced as well as other similar settings of the download/installation setups. Thus, by rushing through installation processes and skipping available steps might allowed bundled content to be get downloaded into their devices. It can also proliferate into your PC while clicking on intrusive ads designed to run scripts that download and install this kind of rogue software. This could happen when such are clicked. So, you must be very cautious while surfing online as well as downloading software.

How to prevent intruding unwanted apps?

It is highly recommended to research about content or products before downloading or installing it. Use only official and trustworthy websites. Avoid using untrustworthy download channels such as free file hosting sites, unofficial pages, third party installer and so on as they offer bundled content. Moreover, it is advised not to click on ads that are displayed on dubious pages as they redirect people to dangerous websites or cause unwanted installations. During installation of any program, it is important to read terms and agreements carefully till the end. In case, if your computer is infected by Find New Coupons then we suggest you to take immediate and quick steps and eliminate this browser hijackers immediately.

Threat specification

Name: Find New Coupons

Type: Browser hijacker, unwanted new tab, Search hijacker, Redirect

Description: It is a suspicious domain but the developer presents it as genuine and useful webpage that provide the tool for quick access to various popular coupons. 

Infiltration: spam email attachments, updating system software, downloading unwanted programs, harmful websites, suspicious links and performing other online activities.

Functionality: This browser hijacker main intention is to enhance web browsing experience by providing best and immediate searching results. 

Symptoms: modifying web browser settings like default search engine, homepage and new tab URL. After that users are encouraged to visit hijacker’s websites in order to search any query by using their search engines.

Damage: display lots of unwanted and annoying advertisements, redirect to unreliable websites, loss of private information, internet browser tracking (possibly privacy issues).

Removal process: in order to keep the system web browser safe and secure from more issues, you are highly suggested to remove Find New Coupons by using strong antimalware tool.

Antimalware Details And User Guide

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Important Note: This malware asks you to enable the web browser notifications. So, before you go the manual removal process, execute these steps.

Google Chrome (PC)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the Menu button
• Select “Settings”. Scroll the mouse downward to choose “Advanced” option
• Go to “Privacy and Security” section by scrolling downward and then select “Content settings” and then “Notification” option
• Find each suspicious URLs and click on three dots on the right side and choose “Block” or “Remove” option

Google Chrome (Android)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the menu button and then click on “Settings”
• Scroll down further to click on “site settings” and then press on “notifications” option
• In the newly opened window, choose each suspicious URLs one by one
• In the permission section, select “notification” and “Off” the toggle button

Mozilla Firefox

• On the right corner of the screen, you will notice three dots which is the “Menu” button
• Select “Options” and choose “Privacy and Security” in the toolbar present in the left side of the screen
• Slowly scroll down and go to “Permission” section then choose “Settings” option next to “Notifications”
• In the newly opened window, select all the suspicious URLs. Click on the drop-down menu and select “Block”

Internet Explorer

• In the Internet Explorer window, select the Gear button present on the right corner
• Choose “Internet Options”
• Select “Privacy” tab and then “Settings” under the “Pop-up Blocker” section
• Select all the suspicious URLs one by one and click on the “Remove” option

Microsoft Edge

• Open the Microsoft Edge and click on the three dots on the right corner of the screen to open the menu
• Scroll down and select “Settings”
• Scroll down further to choose “view advanced settings”
• In the “Website Permission” option, click on “Manage” option
• Click on switch under every suspicious URL

Safari (Mac):

• On the upper right side corner, click on “Safari” and then select “Preferences”
• Go to “website” tab and then choose “Notification” section on the left pane
• Search for the suspicious URLs and choose “Deny” option for each one of them

Manual Steps to Remove Find New Coupons:

Remove the related items of Find New Coupons using Control-Panel

Windows 7 Users

Click “Start” (the windows logo at the bottom left corner of the desktop screen), select “Control Panel”. Locate the “Programs” and then followed by clicking on “Uninstall Program”

Windows XP Users

Click “Start” and then choose “Settings” and then click “Control Panel”. Search and click on “Add or Remove Program’ option

Windows 10 and 8 Users:

Go to the lower left corner of the screen and right-click. In the “Quick Access” menu, choose “Control Panel”. In the newly opened window, choose “Program and Features”

Mac OSX Users

Click on “Finder” option. Choose “Application” in the newly opened screen. In the “Application” folder, drag the app to “Trash”. Right click on the Trash icon and then click on “Empty Trash”.

In the uninstall programs window, search for the PUAs. Choose all the unwanted and suspicious entries and click on “Uninstall” or “Remove”.

After you uninstall all the potentially unwanted program causing Find New Coupons issues, scan your computer with an anti-malware tool for any remaining PUPs and PUAs or possible malware infection. To scan the PC, use the recommended the anti-malware tool.

How to Remove Adware (Find New Coupons) from Internet Browsers

Delete malicious add-ons and extensions from IE

Click on the gear icon at the top right corner of Internet Explorer. Select “Manage Add-ons”. Search for any recently installed plug-ins or add-ons and click on “Remove”.

Additional Option

If you still face issues related to Find New Coupons removal, you can reset the Internet Explorer to its default setting.

Windows XP users: Press on “Start” and click “Run”. In the newly opened window, type “inetcpl.cpl” and click on the “Advanced” tab and then press on “Reset”.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 Users: Press the Windows logo, type inetcpl.cpl in the start search box and press enter.  In the newly opened window, click on the “Advanced Tab” followed by “Reset” button.

For Windows 8 Users: Open IE and click on the “gear” icon. Choose “Internet Options”

Select the “Advanced” tab in the newly opened window

Press on “Reset” option

You have to press on the “Reset” button again to confirm that you really want to reset the IE

Remove Doubtful and Harmful Extension from Google Chrome

Go to menu of Google Chrome by pressing on three vertical dots and select on “More tools” and then “Extensions”. You can search for all the recently installed add-ons and remove all of them.

Optional Method

If the problems related to Find New Coupons still persists or you face any issue in removing, then it is advised that your reset the Google Chrome browse settings. Go to three dotted points at the top right corner and choose “Settings”. Scroll down bottom and click on “Advanced”.

At the bottom, notice the “Reset” option and click on it.

In the next opened window, confirm that you want to reset the Google Chrome settings by click on the “Reset” button.

Remove Find New Coupons plugins (including all other doubtful plug-ins) from Firefox Mozilla

Open the Firefox menu and select “Add-ons”. Click “Extensions”.  Select all the recently installed browser plug-ins.

Optional Method

If you face problems in Find New Coupons removal then you have the option to rese the settings of Mozilla Firefox.

Open the browser (Mozilla Firefox) and click on the “menu” and then click on “Help”.

Choose “Troubleshooting Information”

In the newly opened pop-up window, click “Refresh Firefox” button

The next step is to confirm that really want to reset the Mozilla Firefox settings to its default by clicking on “Refresh Firefox” button.

Remove Malicious Extension from Safari

Open the Safari and go to its “Menu” and select “Preferences”.

Click on the “Extension” and select all the recently installed “Extensions” and then click on “Uninstall”.

Optional Method

Open the “Safari” and go menu. In the drop-down menu, choose “Clear History and Website Data”.

In the newly opened window, select “All History” and then press on “Clear History” option.

Delete Find New Coupons (malicious add-ons) from Microsoft Edge

Open Microsoft Edge and go to three horizontal dot icons at the top right corner of the browser. Select all the recently installed extensions and right click on the mouse to “uninstall”

Optional Method

Open the browser (Microsoft Edge) and select “Settings”

Next steps is to click on “Choose what to clear” button

Click on “show more” and then select everything and then press on “Clear” button.

Conclusion

In most cases, the PUPs and adware gets inside the marked PC through unsafe freeware downloads. It is advised that you should only choose developers website only while downloading any kind of free applications.  Choose custom or advanced installation process so that you can trace the additional PUPs listed for installation along with the main program.