How To Remove Check-me.online Adware

Easy Steps To Delete Check-me.online

Check-me.online is a redirecting page that displays pop-ups, aiming to trick visitors into subscribing to its Push Notifications service. It often appears with a small dialogue box that includes couple of buttons – to allow and to block. If you press the “Allow” button, you are bombarded with a number of intrusive ads and pop-ups all over the day that makes your web sessions very complex and problematic. This nasty site displays eye-catching banners, offers, deals, discounts, coupons etc. and tries to make people click on them in order to earn revenues via cost-per-click mechanism.

More About Check-me.online:

Frequent redirects to Check-me.online only indicate that an adware or a potentially unwanted program is installed inside your computer. This notorious PUP secretly infiltrates the Windows computers without users’ approval and then makes unexpected changes to default browser’s settings. All of a sudden, you will notice that your home page, search engine and new tab page are replaced with another perilous domain. You have to use a fraudulent search tool that only produces inorganic results mixed with commercial materials and sponsored links.

Ads by Check-me.online may look very eye-catching but can be very risky for your system’s security as they might include vicious links and redirect you to potentially infectious sites filled with malicious contents. Due to visiting on such harmful web portals, you may end up with getting more nasty parasites in the machine. And thus, stay away from these adverts no matter how attractive or useful they look. This nasty adware consumes enormous amount of memory resources and slows down the overall PC performance drastically. It causes the machine to respond in a very slow manner and take more than usual time to complete any task.

Check-me.online virus modifies the registry editors by making spiteful entries in it which allows the threat to get automatically activated every time the machine is started. Due to this, victims may have to deal with many other notorious issues such as frequent system crash, hard drive failure, data loss, boot errors, application malfunctioning and so on. It messes with vital system files that are essential for smooth computer functioning and prevents many running apps as well as drivers from working in a proper manner. And therefore, an immediate Check-me.online removal is strongly recommended.

Threat Summary

Name: Check-me.online

Type: Adware, Push notification virus, Potentially unwanted program

Short Description: Aims to get as many subscribers as possible, makes changes to default browser’s settings, Redirects users to affiliated sites, promotes sponsored products, services and programs and make online revenues for the creators.

Symptoms: Numerous intrusive adverts, home page, search engine, new tab settings, Fake pop-up messages, identity theft. Users are enforced to visit hijacker’s website and search the Internet using their search engines, slowness of infected system’s performance.

Distribution methods: Free software installers (bundling), Deceptive emails, 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 is recommended.

Ways To Spread Check-me.online:

These adware programs are most often spread via software bundling method along with other free apps. Several components are included in a single package along with the regular software and when users download and install the app inaccurately (e.g. skipped steps and sections, used “Easy/Express” settings, etc.), they often end up with installing unwanted threats in the machine as well along with the main software.

How To Avoid PUP Attacks?

To prevent unwanted installations, you should always opt for the Custom/Advanced options to install the program that allows you to de-select the contents that look suspicious and pick only the carrier program. Furthermore, only official and verified download sources should be used and avoid using third-party downloaders/installers, Peer-to-peer networks, etc. In case your device is already infected with this machine, you must remove Check-me.online from the machine as early as possible.

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 Check-me.online:

Remove the related items of Check-me.online 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 Check-me.online 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 (Check-me.online) 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 Check-me.online 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 Check-me.online 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 Check-me.online 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 Check-me.online 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 Check-me.online (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.