How To Remove Videolookact.ru Pop-up Ads

Videolookact.ru: Complete Uninstall Guide

Videolookact.ru is a dubious web portal that is categorized as a push notification virus. Right after enabling its notifications, you will start receiving advertisements in the top-right or bottom-right corners of your desktop or directly on your phone screen. Therefore, never accept alerts from untrustworthy sites. If the ads in form of notifications are already showing up, avoid clicking them as they might cause a lot of trouble. Since authors of such websites don’t care about users’ privacy or safety, they must promote whoever pays the most. That means they may redirect you to potentially insecure domains filled with malicious contents.

Videolookact.ru Ads Redirect To Harmful Pages:

As soon as you interact with Videolookact.ru pop-ups, you might be rerouted to treacherous pages which might entice you into tech support scams, draw out your personal data, steal your banking credentials, infect your device with malware, etc. Therefore, for your own safety, stay away from pop-up ads delivered by this shady page. You may end up on this site due by manually typing the address, due to clicking on deceptive ads, or when you have an adware or other potentially unwanted program (PUP) is installed on your computer.

Frequent redirects to Videolookact.ru are the indication of presence of an adware inside the machine. Usually, these infections intrude users’ systems without their direct approval. That’s done through a method called software bundling. Adware can cause several browsing session invasions. For instance, it can open a new tab with Videolookact.ru or other push notification viruses out of the blue, display an abnormal amount of deceptive ads, trigger redirects to scam and phishing sites, track victims’ web browsing activities, and so forth.

Videolookact.ru PUP is capable of recording your browsing activities, and selling or sharing the collected data with third parties, etc. Information such as your IP addresses, most visited pages, data entered into them, geolocations, search inquires, etc. can be utilized by advertisers to customize ads tailored to your interests, hence you are more likely to click on them. In addition, if scammers could access your personal details like credit card and banking details, they can misuse it for making fraudulent transactions, unauthorized purchases, and for other deceptive motives. Thus, having a browser-based infection in your PC may lead to severe privacy issues, identity theft, and huge monetary losses. So, Videolookact.ru removal should not be delayed.

Software Bundling Causes Adware Intrusion:

As stated before, adware and other unwanted applications are generally distributed through software bundling method. Packs containing installers for several apps are usually downloaded from third-party software bundles. If users pick Quick/Recommended/Standard installation mode, all apps, including all PUPs, are automatically installed onto the device in use. These modes don’t often disclose the components added to the package. So, users don’t notice adware infection.

You can avoid these pesky threats by either choosing the Custom/Advanced installation mode and deselecting all optional programs from installing on your computer or using anti-malware software that identifies PUPs and prevents you from installing them. Also, you should rely only on legitimate sources, official and verified sites to download applications, and avoid using the third-party or free file-hosting domains, Peer-to-peer networks, and other third-party downloaders. If your device is already infected with this intruder, you must remove Videolookact.ru 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 Videolookact.ru:

Remove the related items of Videolookact.ru 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 Videolookact.ru 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 (Videolookact.ru) 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 Videolookact.ru 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 Videolookact.ru 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 Videolookact.ru 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 Videolookact.ru 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 Videolookact.ru (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.