Coppingo.com

Posted by Sarah Stewart on May 14, 2015

What is Coppingo.com?

Coppingo.com is a search engine and a browser hijacker that makes use of freeware bundling to enter your system. This infection modifies your browser settings one-sidedly. It is strongly recommended that you remove Coppingo.com from your computer right now. Browser hijackers may not pose immediate computer security threat, but they could easily leak your personally non-identifiable information to cyber criminals, and, as a result, you could experience a cyber theft. Please consider your own financial security when you deal with such infections. You need to terminate all the similar threats without any further ado. test test test Download Removal Tool100% FREE spyware scan and
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Where does Coppingo.com come from?

We are familiar with this family of browser hijackers. According to our research, Coppingo.com is identical to Astromenda.com, Dregol.com, Vosteran.com, and many other browser hijackers from the same group. When infections belong to the same family, they exhibit similar infection symptoms, and they usually employ the same distribution methods.

What can we say about Coppingo.com now that we know which malware family it belongs to? You cannot download the installer file directly. This browser hijacker ALWAYS comes with the Installcore installers from such third-party websites as filewin.com. For example, it may come bundled with such potentially unwanted applications as Super Optimizer or Qihoo 360. This only proves that you ought to stay away from file sharing sites if you want to avoid Coppingo.com and similar intrusive infections.

What does Coppingo.com do?

Since this program is a browser hijacker, it is not hard to say what it does. For example, once it is installed on the target system, Coppingo.com modifies your default homepage and search engine. At first it might seem that the site can provide you with a reliable search function, but the reality is that all your search queries are redirected through bing.com. It means that all your search results are being customized.

Please take note that the Coppingo.com homepage has flash advertisement below the search box. It means that the hijacker survives on displaying commercial advertisements. Clicking those ads help the people behind Coppingo.com make money. Unfortunately, customized search results and third-party ads could be used by cyber criminals to promote their websites or even to distribute malware. You cannot risk that, so the sooner you remove Coppingo.com from your PC, the better.

How do I remove Coppingo.com?

Removing the uninstaller via Control Panel merely deletes the hijacker’s updater. Your browser settings remain hijacked, so you need to restore them manually. Please do not forget to run a full system scan with the SpyHunter free scanner.

Since this browser hijacker gets distributed in software packages, you ought to remove all the programs that might have arrived with it. Your computer’s security should be your utmost priority so you should to everything to keep your PC and your data safe.