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Thehotposts.com: Step-by-step Delete Process

Thehotposts.com is another dubious portal that shows sponsored content to ensure that users visit required third-party sites. The site displays nothing but a message with encouragement to subscribe to particular notifications, enable additional material. Constant redirects to this page indicate that your Google Chrome, Safari, Mozilla Firefox, or other browsers are affected by the potentially unwanted program (PUP). Pushing ads and redirects are the only motives of the infection, so the sooner you get rid of it the better. This browser-based intruder often gets into the targeted systems by stealth along with other free applications and then starts performing malevolent acts inside.

Thehotposts.com Can Lead To Severe Issues:

Thehotposts.com might not be malicious itself, but visiting the site, clicking on the content it displays can lead to severe privacy or security issues. You should avoid allowing those alerts and try to clear traces of the application properly with anti-malware tools which detect infections. Vicious programs, and serious cyber threats. Sites like this are related to advertisers and third-party companies that display content on the screen with the purpose of creating views, visits, and showing users potentially spiteful material.

There is no need to keep browsing on these portals. Especially since Thehotposts.com adware is the one that controls all the symptoms from the background, and you may end up on malware-proliferating page, click on a vicious pop-up, banner. PUPs are not that dangerous, but the related content might be. This nasty parasite can trigger multiple processes in the background because it installs applications, adds files, and leads to the installations of browser-based infections behind users’ back. These operations are the most intrusive and damaging, you cannot notice these alterations until symptoms of the adware changes.

You should perform Thehotposts.com removal as early as you notice those redirects and commercial content pop-ups, other symptoms because the third-party involvement also means that information about your visited sites, most viewed pages, browsing habits can be accessed, monitored, and recorded. You cannot control these activities, because ads, banners, other material you click on can result in such issues. Your browsing preferences can be utilized by advertisers to customize ads in order to get as many hits on them as possible and earn maximum revenues via pay-per-click method. All these evil acts performed by Thehotposts.com adware consume enormous amount of memory resources and drag down the overall PC performance severely.

Distribution Of Thehotposts.com:

The main method that potentially unwanted program developers use for the distribution of their products is the software bundling. The borrowed technique allows pre-packing multiple applications together, so people are getting the complete package installed if they don’t pay enough attention to details. This generally occurs when they download a freeware from well-known site like cnet.com, download.com, soft32.com, softonic.com, etc. and then install it using the Quick or Recommended mode set.

You can control such behavior if you choose the source of freeware more wisely and select the proper Custom or Advanced installation options during any download from the internet. This is how you unpack the bundle and can be sure that suspicious, useless tools are not downloaded automatically. Also, keeping the anti-malware or security tool on the device and running could ensure that unwanted apps are not finding the way to your system that easily. But at the moment, you must remove Thehotposts.com from the PC 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 Thehotposts.com:

Remove the related items of Thehotposts.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 Thehotposts.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 (Thehotposts.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 Thehotposts.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 Thehotposts.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 Thehotposts.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 Thehotposts.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 Thehotposts.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.