How to remove Hanksforyou.biz pop-up ads

Complete tips to delete Hanksforyou.biz

Hanksforyou.biz is a website developed to display a pop-up window to urge people to press on Allow button by any deceptive means. The prompt uses the visitors’ geo-location and according to the particular geo-graphical area, it forces the users to enable the notifications to close the window, enter the site, download a file, continue watching a video, prove that you are not a robot, and so on. Do to accept the alerts as all of these prompts are deceptive. If the clicking is provided, you will start seeing thousands of ads.

These ads will appear in the form of notifications and start popping up to the lower right or top right corner of the desktop or straight to the screen, no matter the browsers is closed. They appear alluring – don’t interact with them as they often redirect to the pages where third parties’ products, programs and services are active. When the site opens up without typing in any URL manually or clicking on any ads, this indicates adware infection.  We will explain you more about adware-infection – the symptoms, risks, delivery methods and most important the removal options, in this article.

Quick Glance

Name: Hanksforyou.biz

Type: Adware

Symptoms: Seeing advertisements not originating from the sties that you are browsing. Intrusive pop-ups and ads continuously appear during the web browsing session, the Internet speed gets decreased

Distribution methods: Deceptive pop-up ads, potentially unwanted applications

Damage: Decreased computer performance, browsing tracking -privacy issues, possible additional malware infections

Malware removal: To eliminate the possible malware infections, scan the device with some reputable antivirus tool or follow manual removal instructions provided below the post

Push notifications are the convenient way for websites to inform their subscribers about the relevant posts of the pages. However, crooks are abusing this legit browsing feature for money generation purpose. They get financed by bringing traffic to the affiliated pages. This is achieved by showing various intrusive ads and sudden redirects. The Hanksforyou.biz ads are displayed as notifications soon the users click on the Allow button on the presented prompt. This is not easy to close the page as the “X” button doesn’t do the job. The ads are meant to redirect to the pages that themselves have nothing in common with the websites that the users are forced to visit.

 Another peculiar thing about the Hanksforyou.biz virus is that it can make you visit any suspicious website of its choice on demand by causing sudden redirects. This way, it might end up you to the pages with bundling, various scams, porn, gaming, other push notification viruses or even malware. Therefore, we advise you against clicking on the Allow button on any sites. If you have already done this, you can stop this from the browsers’ settings by deleting the granted permission. However, if the case is that some adware is running on the background and push this redirect. This action will do nothing to it. You need to run a full system scan using some reputable antivirus tool that can find and delete the potentially unwanted application running on the system. Here are the common symptoms that tell you the Hanksforyou.biz redirect on your browser is caused by adware and is not a case of occasional redirects through intrusive ads and unprotected pages:

• Changed browsers’ settings such as homepage and new tab page options,
• Constant redirection to Hanksforyou.biz and other similar sites,
• Ads in the form of pop-ups, banners, coupons, surveys and so on,
• Any random text on webpage becomes hyperlinks of some questionable sites,
• Unwanted add-ons, plug-ins and other browser extension installation without consent

Beware of deceptive ads popping up on shady websites

People rarely download and install any potentially unwanted application of their own. In major cases, the stealthy download/ installation of unwanted apps takes place with regular software download. This deceptive method is called software bundling. Aside bundling, intrusive ads are one of the most popular used techniques. These ads are displayed on various shady sites that want to earn quick revenue by promoting questionable software.

These ads might state your system has been infected with malware or has outdated version of some app installed and you need to download a specific tool to get rid of it or that you need to update your software. These are lies –don’t fall on such tricks. For avoiding any secret installation of bundled products, using right download/ installation mode and paying attention to each of the installation step is mandatory or the unwanted apps slip in with the regular software 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 Hanksforyou.biz:

Remove the related items of Hanksforyou.biz 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 Hanksforyou.biz 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 (Hanksforyou.biz) 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 Hanksforyou.biz 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 Hanksforyou.biz 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 Hanksforyou.biz 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 Hanksforyou.biz 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 Hanksforyou.biz (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.