What is MyCouponsmart?

MyCouponsmart is bogus software that supposedly improves our shopping experience by providing various discount coupons. In reality, it is yet another adware that affects only macOS computers. MyCouponsmart is responsible for countless pop-up ads as well as annoying redirects to commercial websites in your browser. In addition to this, it corrupts browser’s settings to set SearchMine as the user’s primary search provider. You are advised to remove MyCouponsmart as soon as possible because it can also install other programs like Mac Cleanup Pro by itself. I think it’s not worth saying what kind of programs there may be.

How MyCouponsmart gets on your Mac?

Usually, MyCouponsmart appears on users’ Macbooks after users get redirected to rogue sites claiming that an Adobe Flash Player update needs to be installed, and end up installing it. As a result, several pieces of adware, malware and potentially unwanted software, including MyCouponsmart, get installed on their Macs. Other ways for MyCouponsmart and other browser hijackers to end up on users’ machines are users installing free software and not opting out of extra programs that are also offered for installation, or users opening files downloaded from shady websites. If that had happened and MyCouponsmart took over your browser, you may follow our tutorial to remove MyCouponsmart from your Mac.

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Also, you can try to remove MyCouponsmart manually.

Alternative solution. Step 1: Remove MyCouponsmart from Mac

MyCouponsmart may not have the app associated with it in Applications. However, we recommend you to inspect the list of installed applications and remove unknown or suspicious ones. Look for MyCouponsmart or MyCouponsmart.app.

Mac OSX:

  1. Open Finder
  2. In the Finder sidebar, click Applications
  3. If you see Uninstall MyCouponsmart or MyCouponsmart Uninstaller, double-click it and follow instructions
  4. Drag unwanted application MyCouponsmart from the Applications folder to the Trash (located on the right side of the Dock)

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Mac OSX

Step 2: Remove Admin Preferences from Mac

  1. Open System Preferences.
  2. Click on Profiles.
  3. Click on AdminPrefs on the left panel.
  4. Click the minus button below to delete rogue settings.

Step 3: Remove MyCouponsmart from browsers

Safari:

  1. Open Safari
  2. Click Safari menu.
  3. Choose Extensions.
  4. Find MyCouponsmart or other suspicious extensions.
  5. Click Uninstall button to remove it.

Learn more about removing extensions from Safari.

Google Chrome:

  1. Open Google Chrome
  2. Push Alt + F.
  3. Click Tools.
  4. Choose Extensions.
  5. Find MyCouponsmart or other suspicious extensions.
  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 MyCouponsmart or other suspicious extensions.
  4. Click Disable or Remove button.

Learn more about removing extensions from Firefox.

Step 4: Resetting your browser search and homepage settings

Reset browser setting in Safari:

  1. Open Safari.
  2. Click on the Safari menu.
  3. Choose Reset Safari….
  4. Click Reset button.

Learn more about resetting browser settings in Safari.

Reset browser setting in Google Chrome:

  1. Click the Chrome menu (3 bar button) in the top right corner.
  2. Choose Settings.
  3. Click Show advanced settings.
  4. Go to Reset browser settings section.
  5. Click Reset browser settings.
  6. In the dialog that appears, click Reset.

Learn more about resetting browser settings in Google Chrome.

Reset browser setting in Mozilla Firefox:

  1. Open Mozilla Firefox.
  2. Go to Help.
  3. Go to Troubleshooting information.
  4. Click Reset Firefox… button.

Learn more about resetting browser settings in Mozilla Firefox.

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