How To Remove Roofervideoads.com Pop-up Ads

Roofervideoads.com: Simple Delete Process

Roofervideoads.com is a precarious website that asks users to allow notifications to be shown in order to watch the video. However, once you press the “Allow” button, tons of annoying ads start appearing on your computer desktop or phone screen, no matter your Chrome, Firefox, Safari or other browsers are in use or not. If you are constantly getting redirected to this nasty webpage, then this only means that an adware or other potentially unwanted program (PUP) is installed on your computer. This browser-based intruder sneaks into the targeted computers by stealth and then starts rerouting users to phishing domains like this.

Roofervideoads.com Adware Performs Several Malicious Acts:

Roofervideoads.com and similar sites can target Windows, iPhone and even Android users. While there is a chance that no adware is injected into these devices, it is vital to terminate push notifications. However, if you see redirects often while surfing the web, it is highly likely due to adware. At first, it doesn’t look like a hazardous PC threat, the Roofervideoads.com PUP can perform numerous tasks that certainly do not benefit the system users:

• Modify web browser settings;
• Insert additional components, such as add-ons, toolbars, and similar;
• Show multiple ads that cover the content of ad-free pages;
• Redirect to sponsored, hacked, phishing, scam, or similar insecure domains;
• Run background processes;
• Track personal data, etc.

While the unsafe redirect from Roofervideoads.com can take you to a malware-laden site, the constant monitoring on you can lead to severe privacy issues and even identity theft. In most cases, adware uses tracking cookies to harvest the most valuable marketing data about users, including their IP address, sites visited, duration of the visit, links clicked, search queries and similar. That is why it is important to clear their browser cache and cookies once in a while.

Roofervideoads.com virus makes alterations to default browser’s settings and forces users to surf through a fraudulent search engine. This fake search tool is not even able to produce results, so it redirects to Yahoo or other genuine engines. But the results are still not relevant as they are filled with ads and sponsored links that are placed right at the top. This perilous adware slows down the overall computer performance drastically as it consumes enormous amount of memory resources and increases the usage of CPU. Hence, Roofervideoads.com removal should not be delayed.

Ways To Propagate Roofervideoads.com:

Potentially unwanted programs are very commonly distributed through other free software that users often download from the Internet. Several applications that are provided by third-parties can include unwanted components inside and download together secretly. This usually takes place when people download a freeware from popular site like softonic.com, cnet.com, download.com, soft32.com etc. and then perform careless installation processes (ignoring terms, skipping steps and sections, choosing pre-set configuration settings).

To avoid such unwanted installation, you need to de-select the Quick/Recommended settings and pick the Advanced one. Here you will be able to opt-out all dubious downloads. Moreover, choose only reliable sources, official sites, and direct links for your software and products and avoid using the unofficial channels, Peer-to-peer sharing networks, and other third-party downloaders. If your machine is already infected with this adware, you must remove Roofervideoads.com from the work-station 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 Roofervideoads.com:

Remove the related items of Roofervideoads.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 Roofervideoads.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 (Roofervideoads.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 Roofervideoads.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 Roofervideoads.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 Roofervideoads.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 Roofervideoads.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 Roofervideoads.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.