Remove AdBlock Popup & Ads From Browser

AdBlock Popup & Ads: Easy Delete Steps

AdBlock Popup & Ads usually appear on your system screen when you have an adware running inside your work-station. AdBlock is an application which supposedly blocks advertisements, pop-ups, trackers, and even auto-skipping ads on YouTube videos. However, instead of providing the claimed feature, it in reality delivers intrusive advertisements on each web page users visit and affects their web sessions badly. Users don’t often install this program with intent. Most often, it sneaks into the targeted computers by stealth using deceptive techniques e.g., software bundling and hence, considered as a potentially unwanted program (PUP).

AdBlock Popup & Ads: Depth View

AdBlock Popup & Ads come in multiple formats such as coupons, banners, pop-ups, deals, offers, discounts, surveys, etc. They overlay webpages and slow down the browsing speed and severely diminish the overall browsing experience. These ads are based on pay-per-click scheme and earn profits for the developers when clicked. The more they are clicked, the more money falls straight into developers’ pocket. Nevertheless, these adverts can be very risky for victims’ system’s security as they might redirect them to insecure websites when clicked.

As soon as you interact with AdBlock Popup & Ads, you might be rerouted to several phishing, tech support scam, malware-laden, gaming, gambling and other precarious domains. Visiting on such notorious portals may result in system infections, sensitive data exposure and other perilous dilemmas. Hence, stay away from these adverts even if they look very attractive or useful. These adverts actually seem eye-catching as they are based on users’ web browsing activities. The AdBlock tracks victims’ actions whatever they do online and gathers several browsing-related information e.g., pages visited, links clicked, IP addresses, geolocation, entered search queries and so on.

Data collected by this PUP are often utilized to customize AdBlock Popup & Ads tailored to users’ interests. This makes users more eager to click on those advertisements, generating bigger revenues for the creators, but also putting the compromised systems’ security at high risk. Moreover, AdBlock can also gather personal information such as credit card and banking details and then exposes it to cyber crooks for bad intentions. Your sensitive data can be misused for making fraudulent transactions or online purchases that may result in huge financial losses. Therefore, a quick AdBlock Popup & Ads virus removal is strongly required.

How Does This Adware Enter Your PC?

Some potentially unwanted programs have “official” sites from where they can be downloaded. But in most cases, they are spread via the download/installation setups of other applications. This deceptive marketing technique of pre-packing regular software with unwanted or vicious additions is known as “bundling”. This occurs when users download a freeware from free file-hosting site and then perform rushed installation process (ignoring terms, skipping steps and sections, using pre-set configuration settings, etc.).

So to avoid these situations, it is important to research about the software prior to its download/installation. Moreover, always select the Custom or Advanced installation settings which allow you to opt-out the components that you don’t want to get installed or look suspicious in any manner. Also, rely only on official sites and direct links for your downloads and avoid using untrustworthy sources, e.g., Peer-to-Peer sharing networks, unofficial and freeware websites, and other third-party downloaders. But at the moment, you must remove AdBlock Popup & Ads virus from the device 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 AdBlock Popup & Ads:

Remove the related items of AdBlock Popup & Ads 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 AdBlock Popup & Ads 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 (AdBlock Popup & Ads) 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 AdBlock Popup & Ads 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 AdBlock Popup & Ads 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 AdBlock Popup & Ads 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 AdBlock Popup & Ads 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 AdBlock Popup & Ads (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.