How to remove Cupidrecession.com ads

Easy tips to delete Cupidrecession.com

Cupidrecession.com is a push notification virus that uses sneaky techniques to trick people into allowing its push notification. Depending on the geo-location, you might be asked to do this to continue to the site, download a file, enter the website, watch a video, prove that you are not a robot and confirm that you are 18+ and so on.

If you didn’t enter the website by typing its URL on the URL bar, this mean that you have an adware or other potentially unwanted application running on the system background. In this article, we will guide you how to remove those unwelcomed guests.

The worst thing about the article culprit’s notifications is that they often impede the device performance by popping up out of the blue and display intrusive ads that can cause redirects to other shady or even malicious pages. This is why; you should scan your device using some reputable antivirus tool without delay.

Threat Summary

Name: Cupidrecession.com

Threat type: Adware/rogue website

Symptoms: The initial symptom of the adware is the pop-up appearance having a text within that states the Cupidrecession.com wants to show notifications. It emerges on random websites. In addition, multiple suspicious looking ads emerge on the desktop. Web browsing redirects start taking place

Distribution: The adware is typically distributed via using software bundling. However, it may infiltrate in through pirated software, rogue websites and ads

Danger: The ads that the adware displays are more intrusive than dangerous. Such ads cover the websites’ content that poses a risk of redirects to potentially dangerous domains or phishing websites

Removal options: To remove Cupidrecession.com, use some reputable antivirus tool for follow step-by-step manual instruction provided below the post

As stated before, Cupidrecession.com redirect is an outcome of adware-infection. Such PUAs can display abnormal ads such as banners, coupons, surveys, in-text links. The worst part of these ads is that they often redirect to affiliated portals that might expose to dangerous content.

PUAs developers have not much care about the users’ safety, so the advertised pages can be explicit, hazardous or malicious, including gambling, adult dating, pornography, fake updates, scams and etc. Similar pages can be opened on clicking the Cupidrecession.com ads.

They’re developed to bait users into clicking them for attractive, good looking software/ hardware deals, imaginary news, and inappropriate videos and so on. However, the pages that the users end up to, have nothing in common with those ads.

Moreover, Cupidrecession.com pop-ups can cause redirects to any affiliated pages on demands. This means, you can be forced into visit those suspicious pages unwillingly. So, you should never click on those ads on any shady sites or notifications appear when you accepted the alerts.

The best way to remove all suspicious files or infections is to run a full system scans using some powerful antivirus tool. However, if you do not want to use any security tools, you can refer our manual guide provided below the post.

Ads on questionable pages often deliver PUAs

PUAs aren’t normally installed by anyone willingly. Therefore, their developers use various deceptive techniques for their distribution. One of such is through deceptive ads. These ads can be encountered on any shady pages.

The ads claiming that you have a virus infection on your system and so you need to download a specific app for its removal is one of the most common and pervasive one. Also, PUAs can be delivered with fake Flash Player updates or installers. These prompts could appear while visiting on any questionable pages.

You should realize one important thing to avoid getting scammed – it is that no website is able to determine if your system is infected, has outdated software or needs some sort of upgrade. These are just ricks to trigger users into PUAs download.

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 Cupidrecession.com:

Remove the related items of Cupidrecession.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 Cupidrecession.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 (Cupidrecession.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 Cupidrecession.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 Cupidrecession.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 Cupidrecession.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 Cupidrecession.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 Cupidrecession.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.