How to remove Totalcoolblog.com ads

Easy tips to delete Totalcoolblog.com

If Totalcoolblog.com ads won’t stop showing up on your screen, you have been a victim of a scam or enabled the push notifications from the site. To be more precise, you have clicked on Allow button within its notification prompt. The crooks might use various social engineering techniques to convince users into doing this.

As evident, many users do not access to the site on purpose as they would not want to put their computers at risk. But, the redirect to Totalcoolblog.com could occur at any time during visiting some less secure pages and on clicking to any links. After the redirect occurs, the users are presented with a message with a claim of something which is actually not true and just to make you enable the notifications.

Some examples are “there is video to be watched- clicked Allow to continue”, “Enable notifications to verify that you are not a robot”, “The download is ready! Click Allow to download the file”, and “if you are 18+, tab Allow” and etc.

Actually, there is nothing that the site has to show. It has no content within and the only purpose of the site is to make you interact with those notification prompts. If you have been a victim of this, you should not to be worry and just follow the guideline provided below. You will learn how to clean the browser and ensure that no potentially unwanted app is in the background.

Push notifications themselves are not malicious as it is simply a tool to deliver ads to the users. Since it is a part of web browser, you can’t completely remove it, although there is a way to make these prompts not to show up at all for you – through the browsers’ settings that we will discuss later on the article.

The main confusion is that many people believe that the push notifications are same as pop-up ads and they start scanning the device using some security tools for Totalcoolblog.com removal. This will however not help you in getting rid of the notifications, but it is something users should do when experiencing strange system’s behavior.

Scam sites show up on systems infected by adware

As said, the Totalcoolblog.com site is not visited on purpose. It is thought to be visited because of visiting those pages that would trick people into doing something that they normally wouldn’t, via redirects. To stop the redirects, we recommend you using some special software, including ad-blockers and security tools. This way you will be warned about dangers and diverted to safety before bad happening.

However, the random redirects after a click on a link somewhere is not the only way you end up to Totalcoolblog.com and similar pages. In some cases, the browser might open new tab or window or engage you with the shady redirects without anything triggering it.

This is the case when adware is installed and running on the system. It is a potentially unwanted app and is not generally considered as malicious, although it falls into a grey area. Some adware can be close to malware and many security experts advocate for it to be treated as such.

Nevertheless, if you notice the browsers show ads in more frequent ways that they should be and you commonly pages with dubious content, it is worth to check the system for adware. The best way of doing this is to employ a reputable antivirus tool. The security will check the system for malicious processes or files and remove them as necessary.

Antimalware Details And User Guide

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Important Note: This malware asks you to enable the web browser notifications. So, before you go the manual removal process, execute these steps.

Google Chrome (PC)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the Menu button
• Select “Settings”. Scroll the mouse downward to choose “Advanced” option
• Go to “Privacy and Security” section by scrolling downward and then select “Content settings” and then “Notification” option
• Find each suspicious URLs and click on three dots on the right side and choose “Block” or “Remove” option

Google Chrome (Android)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the menu button and then click on “Settings”
• Scroll down further to click on “site settings” and then press on “notifications” option
• In the newly opened window, choose each suspicious URLs one by one
• In the permission section, select “notification” and “Off” the toggle button

Mozilla Firefox

• On the right corner of the screen, you will notice three dots which is the “Menu” button
• Select “Options” and choose “Privacy and Security” in the toolbar present in the left side of the screen
• Slowly scroll down and go to “Permission” section then choose “Settings” option next to “Notifications”
• In the newly opened window, select all the suspicious URLs. Click on the drop-down menu and select “Block”

Internet Explorer

• In the Internet Explorer window, select the Gear button present on the right corner
• Choose “Internet Options”
• Select “Privacy” tab and then “Settings” under the “Pop-up Blocker” section
• Select all the suspicious URLs one by one and click on the “Remove” option

Microsoft Edge

• Open the Microsoft Edge and click on the three dots on the right corner of the screen to open the menu
• Scroll down and select “Settings”
• Scroll down further to choose “view advanced settings”
• In the “Website Permission” option, click on “Manage” option
• Click on switch under every suspicious URL

Safari (Mac):

• On the upper right side corner, click on “Safari” and then select “Preferences”
• Go to “website” tab and then choose “Notification” section on the left pane
• Search for the suspicious URLs and choose “Deny” option for each one of them

Manual Steps to Remove Totalcoolblog.com :

Remove the related items of Totalcoolblog.com using Control-Panel

Windows 7 Users

Click “Start” (the windows logo at the bottom left corner of the desktop screen), select “Control Panel”. Locate the “Programs” and then followed by clicking on “Uninstall Program”

Windows XP Users

Click “Start” and then choose “Settings” and then click “Control Panel”. Search and click on “Add or Remove Program’ option

Windows 10 and 8 Users:

Go to the lower left corner of the screen and right-click. In the “Quick Access” menu, choose “Control Panel”. In the newly opened window, choose “Program and Features”

Mac OSX Users

Click on “Finder” option. Choose “Application” in the newly opened screen. In the “Application” folder, drag the app to “Trash”. Right click on the Trash icon and then click on “Empty Trash”.

In the uninstall programs window, search for the PUAs. Choose all the unwanted and suspicious entries and click on “Uninstall” or “Remove”.

After you uninstall all the potentially unwanted program causing Totalcoolblog.com issues, scan your computer with an anti-malware tool for any remaining PUPs and PUAs or possible malware infection. To scan the PC, use the recommended the anti-malware tool.

How to Remove Adware (Totalcoolblog.com ) from Internet Browsers

Delete malicious add-ons and extensions from IE

Click on the gear icon at the top right corner of Internet Explorer. Select “Manage Add-ons”. Search for any recently installed plug-ins or add-ons and click on “Remove”.

Additional Option

If you still face issues related to Totalcoolblog.com removal, you can reset the Internet Explorer to its default setting.

Windows XP users: Press on “Start” and click “Run”. In the newly opened window, type “inetcpl.cpl” and click on the “Advanced” tab and then press on “Reset”.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 Users: Press the Windows logo, type inetcpl.cpl in the start search box and press enter.  In the newly opened window, click on the “Advanced Tab” followed by “Reset” button.

For Windows 8 Users: Open IE and click on the “gear” icon. Choose “Internet Options”

Select the “Advanced” tab in the newly opened window

Press on “Reset” option

You have to press on the “Reset” button again to confirm that you really want to reset the IE

Remove Doubtful and Harmful Extension from Google Chrome

Go to menu of Google Chrome by pressing on three vertical dots and select on “More tools” and then “Extensions”. You can search for all the recently installed add-ons and remove all of them.

Optional Method

If the problems related to Totalcoolblog.com still persists or you face any issue in removing, then it is advised that your reset the Google Chrome browse settings. Go to three dotted points at the top right corner and choose “Settings”. Scroll down bottom and click on “Advanced”.

At the bottom, notice the “Reset” option and click on it.

In the next opened window, confirm that you want to reset the Google Chrome settings by click on the “Reset” button.

Remove Totalcoolblog.com plugins (including all other doubtful plug-ins) from Firefox Mozilla

Open the Firefox menu and select “Add-ons”. Click “Extensions”.  Select all the recently installed browser plug-ins.

Optional Method

If you face problems in Totalcoolblog.com removal then you have the option to rese the settings of Mozilla Firefox.

Open the browser (Mozilla Firefox) and click on the “menu” and then click on “Help”.

Choose “Troubleshooting Information”

In the newly opened pop-up window, click “Refresh Firefox” button

The next step is to confirm that really want to reset the Mozilla Firefox settings to its default by clicking on “Refresh Firefox” button.

Remove Malicious Extension from Safari

Open the Safari and go to its “Menu” and select “Preferences”.

Click on the “Extension” and select all the recently installed “Extensions” and then click on “Uninstall”.

Optional Method

Open the “Safari” and go menu. In the drop-down menu, choose “Clear History and Website Data”.

In the newly opened window, select “All History” and then press on “Clear History” option.

Delete Totalcoolblog.com (malicious add-ons) from Microsoft Edge

Open Microsoft Edge and go to three horizontal dot icons at the top right corner of the browser. Select all the recently installed extensions and right click on the mouse to “uninstall”

Optional Method

Open the browser (Microsoft Edge) and select “Settings”

Next steps is to click on “Choose what to clear” button

Click on “show more” and then select everything and then press on “Clear” button.

Conclusion

In most cases, the PUPs and adware gets inside the marked PC through unsafe freeware downloads. It is advised that you should only choose developers website only while downloading any kind of free applications.  Choose custom or advanced installation process so that you can trace the additional PUPs listed for installation along with the main program.