Ad-Freeze.com Notification [AdFreeze] Removal

Ad-freeze.com (AdFreeze) pop-ups that you can see while navigating the Web are the result of a malicious software activity that resides inside your browser. Such pop-ups emerge in ample quantities, distracting and bothering you.

Most of the pop-ups from Ad-freeze.com site are not relevant to your choices, as they show any advertising material it receives a deal for. Given that a large number of pages promoted in this manner are not legitimate, it is apparent to expect them to contain dangerous content. Specifically, they can expose you to diverse varieties of web frauds.

What are Ad-freeze pop-ups?

By some of the properties, Ad-freeze.com pop-ups are similar to normal pop-ups you may experience on different websites. However, all the distinction – and malignancy – originates from this specific website. Pages like Ad-freeze are frequently formed with the sole objective – of presenting unsuspecting users to activate pop-ups and then begin spamming them.

Short summary of the Ad-freeze.com pop-up ads:

Ads by the Ad-freeze.com site are not trustworthy either. At best, those will be totally irrelevant ads, that will still be annoying considering their frequency. However, more frequent cases include advertisements of enigmatic deals with 90% off, adult web pages ads or phishing attempts. Below are some of the standard patterns for pop-up spam:

• Discover 5, 10, 20, or even 50 women near you who are eager to chat.
• Sign in on this new crypto exchange website and receive a substantial crypto bonus.
• Your system is infected with 15 viruses. Contact our tech support or perform an immediate scan.
• You’ve received a new message on Facebook, Twitter, or WhatsApp. Beware of phishing links.
• Visit this new, totally legitimate shopping site and claim your discount coupon.
• up your computer with an incredibly effective system cleaner.

Due to the illegal marketing model of Ad-freeze.com, no authentic companies will actually use their advertisement services. Instead, the whole array of topics I’ve delineated above is handled by the same fraudulent persons as those who stand behind Ad-freeze. Sometimes, upon interaction with the pop-up notification, you might be redirected to another page that suggests activating pop-up advertisements. The activity of numerous origins of pop-ups can transform your web browser into an outlet of a pop-up surge.

Where did Ad-freeze pop-ups come from?

The main and most common approach to access the pop-up spamming site is to browse content on warez sites, pages containing pirated content, and the like. The persons responsible for such dubious venues aim to compensate for expenses via redirects, often as a advertising maneuver. This type of redirection is commonly known as an “anti-bot verification”.

An extra plausible origin of pop-up advertisements is adware, currently active inside of your system. It alters browser settings in a way so it starts displaying Ad-freeze pop-ups without your knowledge. However, this circumstance is relatively uncommon, as such malware employs its own, more efficient approach to showcasing advertisements.

Are Ad-freeze pop-up advertisements dangerous?

Yes, they are. At the surface, they can look non-threatening – just a blinking window that appears from time to time. However, the things this window promotes differ sharply from what you generally see in pop-up advertisements. Ad-freeze.com website is controlled by crooks, who intentionally spread tons of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any common sense and can make sporadic pop-up ads into a storm of banners. For weak systems, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But that is not all troubles these pop-up ads carry.

As with any other thing related to illegal advertising, Ad-freeze pop-up notifications lack legit offers. Even when hackers make the ads similar to ones from Walmart or Amazon, the website these ads will throw you to are completely different. And these pages may offer you to turn on other pop-ups, install a “useful” program, or pay for a thing at a big discount and never receive it. Let’s leave aside the cases when pop-up notifications promote phishing pages or straightforward malware. There’s no way these pages will bring you any good, thus interacting with them is a very bad idea. For the same reason, Ad-freeze push notifications are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Ad-freeze pop-ups?

Reset your browsers manually

To reset Edge, do the following steps:

1. Open “Settings and more” tab in upper right corner, then find here “Settings” button. In the appeared menu, choose “Reset settings” option:

2. After picking the Reset Settings option, you will see the following menu, stating about the settings which will be reverted to original:

For Mozilla Firefox, do the next actions:

1. Open Menu tab (three strips in upper right corner) and click the “Help” button. In the appeared menu choose “troubleshooting information”:

2. In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option:

After choosing this option, you will see the next message:

If you use Google Chrome

1. Open Settings tab, find the “Advanced” button. In the extended tab choose the “Reset and clean up” button:

2. In the appeared list, click on the “Restore settings to their original defaults”:

3. Finally, you will see the window, where you can see all the settings which will be reset to default:

Opera can be reset in the next way

1. Open Settings menu by pressing the gear icon in the toolbar (left side of the browser window), then click “Advanced” option, and choose “Browser” button in the drop-down list. Scroll down, to the bottom of the settings menu. Find there “Restore settings to their original defaults” option:


2. After clicking the “Restore settings…” button, you will see the window, where all settings, which will be reset, are shown:

When the browsers are reset, you need to ensure that your browser will connect the right DNS while connecting to the site you need. Create a text file titled “hosts” on your pc’s desktop, then open it and fill it with the following lines²:

Find the hosts.txt file in C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc directory. Rename this file to “hosts.old.txt” (to distinguish it from the new one), and then move the file you created on the desktop to this folder. Remove the hosts.old from this folder. Now you have your hosts file as good as new.

Scan your system for possible viruses

Once the scan is complete, you will see the detections or a notification about a clean system. Proceed with pressing the Clean Up button (or OK when nothing is detected).

1. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.