Remove AOL Winner Email Scam: Step By Step Guide

Learn Detailed Information About AOL Winner Email Scam

The frequent eruption of AOL Winner Email Scam and pop up ads powered by the same is a newly discovered social engineering attack circulated by cyber crime master minds. It enforce users into subscribing push notifications from AOL Winner Email Scam, just to send unwanted or malicious advertisements on screen. Actually, the AOL Winner Email Scam brings notification to users while opening first and asks to subscribe to its notifications in order to view its content. And once the user ends up doing so, the AOL Winner Email Scam starts to display fake or deceptive error messages on screen in form of pop ups placed at right bottom of the screen. This will truly disrupt your way further to access the web and keep you redirected to various unknown sources which can even bring more malware invaders inside your system. Therefore, the detection and removal of AOL Winner Email Scam is highly recommended and all required methods are discussed here.

Threat Summary

Name: AOL Winner Email Scam

Type: Adware, browser hijacker, redirect virus

Description: AOL Winner Email Scam enforce you into subscribing its push notification spam that causes frequent eruption of pop ups or commercial banners on screen linked with unsafe contents or sources.

Symptoms: Frequent pop ups or commercial banners on screen, unintentionally modified browser settings, and many more

Distribution: Spam/junk email attachments, freeware or shareware sources, malicious file downloads, etc

Removal: Quick guidelines or methods are described under this article

How AOL Winner Email Scam mostly intrudes and impacts a targeted system?

Although the AOL Winner Email Scam has its own official website and a user can visit the site if they intend to access this page, but some other techniques are also used by cyber criminals to promote AOL Winner Email Scam and install its configuration on targeted computers. Some well known methods include software bundling, email spamming, creating malicious ads or links, etc. Under all these circumstances, the installation of AOL Winner Email Scam and its impacts are not disclosed to users in prior, and unfortunately a user interacts with any such objects processed through aforementioned distribution techniques, their browsers get affected and leads to throw a number of problematic issues on screen. If you are also one among those users, then you might be seeking some helpful methods or steps to get rid of AOL Winner Email Scam completely for which here included guidelines or methods can be very helpful.

Speaking about the vicious impacts caused by AOL Winner Email Scam, there’s endless of intolerable circumstances can be brought on screen which will turn your day into nightmares. Well speaking about the impacts faced over browsers first, the AOL Winner Email Scam will take over commonly used settings like homepage, new tab, search engine, and many more without your permission. So, these modifications will interrupt you throughout the day while browsing the web and will keep you irritated with pop ups or banners covering each and every website you have. Apart from these, AOL Winner Email Scam can also be disastrous by compromising security aspects and creating a loophole inside. In such cases, the victims can suffer more problems and even their private data or details would be revealed to hackers for cyber crime purposes. So, the impacts of this redirect virus should not be underestimated and should be dealt with some proper solution as soon 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 AOL Winner Email Scam:

Remove the related items of AOL Winner Email Scam 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 AOL Winner Email Scam 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 (AOL Winner Email Scam) 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 AOL Winner Email Scam 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 AOL Winner Email Scam 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 AOL Winner Email Scam 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 AOL Winner Email Scam 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 AOL Winner Email Scam (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.