Remove TikTok Followers Hack scam PUP

Tips To Delete TikTok Followers Hack scam Virus

TikTok Followers Hack scam is a fraudulent method utilized by cyber criminals on various deceptive sites to redirect visitors to other suspicious and potentially dangerous web pages. This scheme offers to generate fans, followers and likes for users’ content on TikTok video-sharing platform owned by the ByteDance Ltd. Company. We highly emphasize that the “TikTok Followers Hack” has no relation with ByteDance Ltd. and usually doesn’t operate as advertised. It has been designed to redirect people to other questionable web portals and therefore, you should not use this fake service as it may lead to severe threat to you and also to your system.

More About TikTok Followers Hack scam:

TikTok Followers Hack scam claims that visitors need to provide their TikTok account username, point out their system (iOS, Android, “PC”) and tell in what numbers they want to create their followers, fans and likes. Once done, it provides users a supposed “verification” pop-up window that includes buttons clicking on which, redirect them to other untrustworthy and potentially dangerous sites. At the research time, this notorious scam advertised phishing sites, specially targeting users’ mobile phone numbers or crafted to sign them up for misleading/useless mobile services for a monthly fee.

Nonetheless, schemes like TikTok Followers Hack scam can promote a broad range of malicious sites, visiting which may result in various severe issues. You are often redirected to such notorious domains by potentially unwanted program which is already installed inside your PC systems. This nasty adware bombards your computer screen with a number of annoying ads and pop-ups all over the day which interrupts your web sessions badly. These ads are in multiple formats such as coupons, banners, offers, deals, discounts etc. They are based on pay-per-click mechanism and earn revenues for the creators when clicked.

Ads served by TikTok Followers Hack scam virus usually contain vicious links and redirect users to several scam, phishing and even malware-laced sites, hosting trojan, ransomware, PUPs and other threats. This notorious parasite is able to track users’ online activities and gather browsing-related information such as entered search queries, IP addresses, geolocation, URLs of visited pages and so on. It can also collect personal and confidential data relating to bank and credit card details and expose them to cyber criminals for evil motives. And hence a quick TikTok Followers Hack scam virus removal is strongly recommended.

Threat Details

Name: TikTok Followers Hack scam

Type: Adware, Potentially unwanted program, Phishing, Scam

Short Description: Claims that users can generate TikTok followers, likes and fans by using its services, shows annoying adverts, Redirects users to scam sites, promotes sponsored products, services and programs and makes online profits for the developers. 

Related Domains: tiktokfollowers.live

Symptoms: Fake security alerts, error messages, Constant appearance of annoying commercial contents, slowness of infected system’s performance.

Distribution methods: Free software installers (bundling), malicious pop-ups ads, fake flash player installers.

Damage: Web browsing tracking (potential privacy issues), exhibition of unwanted ads, redirects to shady websites.

Removal: To get rid of this infection and other malware threats, our security researchers recommend scanning your device with an effective anti-malware tool.

How Does This PUP Intrude Your System?

The most common technique through which PUP distributors spread their malicious apps is called “bundling”. In this method, unwanted programs are added to a package along with regular software. These additional contents also manage to root their place in the machine if you tend to install the software using ‘Quick’, ‘Default’ or ‘Recommended’ setting. These options don’t reveal the contents that are included in the software package and hence, they manage to get into the device without users’ knowledge.

So, to prevent this, you should always select the Custom or Advanced configuration settings while installing freeware or shareware apps because these options allow you to opt out all the components that look suspicious. Furthermore, choose only official sites, reliable sources, and direct links to download products or software and avoid using third-party downloaders, installers, Peer-to-Peer sharing networks etc. But at the moment, you must remove TikTok Followers Hack scam virus from the device 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 TikTok Followers Hack scam:

Remove the related items of TikTok Followers Hack 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 TikTok Followers Hack 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 (TikTok Followers Hack 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 TikTok Followers Hack 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 TikTok Followers Hack 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 TikTok Followers Hack 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 TikTok Followers Hack 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 TikTok Followers Hack 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.