How To Remove Alltopposts.com Adware

Proper Guide To Delete Alltopposts.com

Alltopposts.com is a malicious web domain that uses misleading claims to convince visitors to subscribe to intrusive third-party Push Notification service. Your internet browser redirects you to this site when the device runs an ad-supported program that runs its files under C:\Program Files\ or C:\ProgramData directories. This perilous site generally appears with a small white box asking users to press the “Allow” button in order to get notifications directly on their desktop screen. If you do that, you are flooded with thousands of intrusive ads and pop-ups all over the day that makes your web sessions very problematic.

More About Alltopposts.com:

Alltopposts.com ads are in various formats such as coupons, deals, banners, offers, discounts etc. These ads are based on cost-per-click mechanism and earn profits for the developers when clicked on. Nonetheless, most of these adverts include vicious links by clicking on which, you are redirected to potentially infectious domains that are filled with malevolent contents. Such web portals might host Trojans, spyware, ransomware and other PUPs. Visiting on these notorious web domains might result in more malware infections. So, stay away from these advertisements as much as you can.

Alltopposts.com adware can even trigger rogue prize giveaways, downloads of fake updates, display proposals that ultimately may end up with the downloads of virus. It can even lead people to scamming sites where they are presented with several fake error messages and security alerts and trapped into installing rogue software. In reality, there is nothing reliable about this advertising platform or the PUP that triggers it. This notorious threat consumes enormous amount of memory resources and drags down the overall computer performance severely. Alltopposts.com virus causes the machine to respond slower than ever before and take more than usual time to complete any task.

Another common symptom of PUPs is data tracking. This notorious threat monitors users’ online activities and collect important information regarding their browsing preferences and interests. The gathered data is then utilized by the advertisers for generating and displaying eye-catching advertisements in order to get as many hits on them as possible and earn maximum revenues. Additionally, it can also steal your personal and confidential data such as user IDs, passwords, banking account and credit card details that could be misused by the hackers for generating illicit profits. And hence, you must perform a quick Alltopposts.com removal from the work-station.

Threat Details

Name: Alltopposts.com

Type: Adware, Push notification virus, Potentially unwanted program

Short Description: Aims to get as many subscribers as possible, Redirects users to third-party sites, promotes sponsored products, services and programs and make online profits for the creators.

Symptoms: Frequent appearance of annoying adverts, fake pop-up messages, identity theft, home page, search engine, new tab settings. Users are enforced to search the Internet using fake search engines, slowness of infected system’s performance.

Distribution methods: Free software installers (bundling), malicious pop-ups ads, fake flash player installers.

Damage: Web browsing tracking (potential privacy issues), exhibition of unwanted ads, redirects to shady websites.

Removal: To get rid of this infection and other malware threats, our security researchers recommend scanning your device with an effective anti-malware tool.

Penetration of Alltopposts.com:

Browser-based cyber threats are commonly propagated bundled with freeware and shareware. The additional components such as plug-ins, extensions, add-ons, etc. are not revealed appropriately – they are disguised under Quick or Basic installation. When the users download a freeware program from unreliable site and then install it using the pre-set options, they often end up with installing such as PUPs in their work-station. If they choose such an installation setup, they will not find out that a bunch of malware has been installed alongside.

Tips To Avoid Adware Intrusion:

Having this trick of scammers in mind, people should cautiously select what freeware to install and how its installation process should be performed. The most primitive thing to keep in mind is to opt for the Custom or Advanced installation method and monitor the installation process carefully. Look for the offers to install “optional features” that are someway going to enhance the online experience. But at the moment, you must remove Alltopposts.com from the machine without wasting any time.

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 Alltopposts.com:

Remove the related items of Alltopposts.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 Alltopposts.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 (Alltopposts.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 Alltopposts.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 Alltopposts.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 Alltopposts.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 Alltopposts.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 Alltopposts.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.