What Is Coolbuy and How to Remove It?

Coolbuy looks like a cool application that help enhance users’ browsing experience; however, it is actually an adware program used to show advertisements on users’ computers in order to generate advertising revenue. This adware often gets into users’ computer without any permission. It can slip into the targeted computer via various means, such as spam email attachments, hacked websites, suspicious links, and freeware, etc. Basically, this adware consists of two parts: one part is the Windows program that manages all the adware processes, and other part is the web browser extension which gets installed onto users’ Web browsers like Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. As long as this adware stays in users’ computers, it keeps showing all sorts of pop-up ads, discounts, deals, coupon, etc. Apart from this, it may do other malicious things in the infected computers.

Coolbuy can generate various problems to users if not removed timely. It can affect the overall performance of users’ computer system by consuming the precious system resources as it is running in the background. Besides, this toolbar can interfere users’ normal browsing activities by displaying excessive undesirable pop ups on the web pages they are viewing. If users accidentally click on those pop-up ads, they may be redirected to some malicious websites and more malicious programs might be downloaded onto their PCs. Moreover, this adware could monitor and record users’ online activities, and then transfer the data to its creators. That information may conclude IP address, email address, search preferences, and even website log-in details. If users’ personal information is collected and exposed to unknown people, they would get more and more pop-up ads based on their interests and may even end up being victims of identity theft or money loss. Therefore, a timely removal of the adware is necessary.