CouponRockstar Ads

The CouponRockstar software from www[.]couponrockstar[.]com is reported to function as adware by computer security researchers. The name of CouponRockstar surfaced with reports of unwanted advertisements in September 2018. The CouponRockstar program was proposed to PC users as a shopping enhancer, and it was seen to travel in the company of free media players and browser extensions of questionable PC users who visited www[.]couponrockstar[.]com were shown promises of great discounts on trusted online stores like Walmart, Amazon, Target, Best Buy and Costco. However, the CouponRockstar application lacks developer and publisher information that should have been disclosed at www[.]couponrockstar[.]com/about. The only way to reach the team behind CouponRockstar is through a contact form at www[.]couponrockstar[.]com/contact.

The ads shown by CouponRockstar include in-text keywords, pop-ups and pop-under windows, browser notifications from sponsors, transitional page advertisements and shopping banners. The CouponRockstar adware is known to install a bar in Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, which can be used to search for discounted items on online retailers like Amazon, Best Buy and Walmart. You should take a look at the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy for CouponRockstar available at h[tt]p://www.couponrockstar[.]com/terms-of-use and h[tt]p://www.couponrockstar[.]com/privacy. The advertisements generated via CouponRockstar are likely to be related to your recent activity on the Internet since the application tracks what sites you visit and what content type you explore most of the time you spend on the Web. Having CouponRockstar running in the browser's background may increase the time it takes for the pages to load completely and the advertisements in your browser may link to corrupted pages. You may want to consider CouponRockstar for removal with a trusted anti-malware utility.