What is Coupon Champ?

Coupon Champ is a program that gets onto your computer in the form of browser extensions. Coupon Champ hijacks popular browsers such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Internet Explorer. Technically, Coupon Champ is not a virus, but this program can cause irreparable damage to your computer. Coupon Champ refers to the number of potentially unwanted programs. Basically, this program focuses on the distribution of advertising, which refers to the popular online stores, for example, eBay and so on. According to the developers, Coupon Champ created to help users to make purchases on the Internet and find the best offers. In fact, most of the proposals are deceitful. Coupon Champ displays banner ads, coupons and other promotional products. Coupon Champ also can serve as a corridor for other malware, since it is installed without user consent. Coupon Champ distributes its files all over your computer, to complicate the uninstall process. In any case, if you find Coupon Champ on your PC, then you need to remove it immediately.

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How Coupon Champ gets on your PC?

Programs, that are among the potentially unwanted programs come bundled with free software. Typically, such programs penetrate the PC without the user’s consent. Because of this, many users do not realize that a computer is infected with malware and the PC is at great risk. However, it is worth noting that the main reason for such penetrations – carelessness user. People do not read the terms and conditions during the installation of free software. It was there that may contain consent to install PUP. Also, during the installation, ensure that the installer did not offer you a third-party software. To prevent such problems, you should always follow the installation process, read the terms and conditions, do not agree to install additional software, and select Advanced type of installation. If Coupon Champ has already penetrated into your computer, you can use the instructions below.

How to remove Coupon Champ from your computer?

To uninstall Coupon Champ remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.

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You can try both of these products to remove Coupon Champ

Or uninstall Coupon Champ manually.

Removing from Control Panel

Windows XP:

  1. Click Start.
  2. Control Panel.
  3. Then click Add or Remove Programs.
  4. Find Coupon Champ.
  5. Click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows XP.

Windows 7/Windows Vista:

  1. Click Start.
  2. Then Control Panel.
  3. Click Uninstall a Program.
  4. Find Coupon Champ and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 7.

Windows 8/Windows 8.1:

  1. Open the Menu.
  2. Click Search.
  3. After that click Apps.
  4. Then Control Panel.
  5. Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
  6. Find Coupon Champ, select it and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 8 (8.1).

After that remove Coupon Champ from your browser.

Google Chrome:

  1. Open Google Chrome
  2. Push Alt + F.
  3. Click Tools.
  4. Choose Extensions.
  5. Find Coupon Champ.
  6. Click the trash can icon to remove it.

Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.

Mozilla Firefox:

  1. Open Firefox.
  2. Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
  3. Choose Coupon Champ.
  4. Click Disable or Remove button.

Learn more about removing extensions from Firefox.

Internet Explorer:

  1. Open IE.
  2. Push Alt + T.
  3. Click Manage Add-ons.
  4. Select Toolbars and Extensions.
  5. Click Disable Coupon Champ.
  6. Click More information link in the left-bottom corner.
  7. Click Remove button.
  8. If this button is grayed out – perform alternative steps.

Learn more about removing extensions from IE.

Remove following registry entries:


no information

Then remove following files:


Coupon Champ.dll

And following folders


%PROGRAMFILES%Coupon Champ

Written by Rami Douafi

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