How to remove Adblockology pop-ups? — Fix Guide

Adblockology pop-ups appear when you do not expect, detracting and annoying you. However, that is slightly more than simple pop-ups – their origins is cleanly malignant, and they can introduce other malicious stuff to your computer. In this article, I will show you how to remove Adblockology pop-up notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any time you interact with Adblockology pop-up advertisements will be useless at best. In worst case scenario, the pages it can open may introduce malware to your system. These push notifications may also promote fake shopping websites which will take your money and payment info. The latter generally ends up with losing all the money you have on the exposed card.

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What are Adblockology pop-up notifications?

As the pop-up definition goes, these are short and small advertisements that attract your attention to a product they promote. But the difference between regular push notifications and Adblockology notifications is the malignant origins of the latter. Common pop-up advertisements are offered for you to enable on different sites with a understandable purpose – keep you aware about the new publications, goods for sale and so on. It is an effective approach to help your site to keep visitors and help the interested visitors to have the best deal.

Brief summary of the Adblockology.com pop-ups:

Adblockology pop-up notifications, in contrast, have a deal with untrustworthy web pages. You will generally observe the offer to enable them after a redirection from another site. Redirects are OK unless it throws you to such a questionable place. At that point, enabling push notifications is offered under the guise of the anti-bot check-up. Alternatively, the sites may deny showing you the content unless you turn on these pop-up notifications. These requirements should already be the red flag, as websites generally feature a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Seeing such an demand should be the reason to leave the page right away. In some cases, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not get to the web page – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the push notifications.

Adblockology push notification.

How does it work?

Most of web browsers support enabling push notifications from sites. Sites, on the other hand, can send notifications with the content of their choice. It can be an advertisement of the page published on this particular site, or an ad of their partner page. As a result, you may see the push notification from site X, but opening it will redirect you to site Y – because a referral link to the latter was embedded.

Scoundrels bear on this feature in their attempt to gain money through advertising. They trick victims into allowing the pop-ups, and after that just spread hundreds of promotions of other crooks they have a deal with. As you may suppose, no image-caring organisations will have a deal with fraudsters. All the Adblockology push ads you may see lead to other untrustworthy sites. In some cases, the same user can get into a trap of multiple pop-up spamming websites, and its web browser will turn into a complete mess.

The ads these rascals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It commonly provides a negligible payment for one viewer, but when you have hundreds of victims and show them hundreds of ads every day – that is a way bigger sum. Despite the majority of these banners are ineffective, it can still bring all the parties a lot of money.

Are Adblockology pop-up ads dangerous?

Yes, they are. At the surface, they may look non-threatening – just a blinking pop-up that appears from time to time. However, the things this window promotes differ sharply from what you used to see in pop-up notifications. Adblockology.com website is ruled by fraudsters, who intentionally show tons of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any manners of advertising and can launch sporadic pop-up notifications into a hurricane of banners. For weak systems, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But problems are not over at this point.

As any other thing related to illegal ads, Adblockology pop-up advertisements do not contain any legit deals to offer. Even when hackers make the banners looking similar to ones from Amazon, Walmart or Ebay, the website these ads will throw you to are completely different. And these pages can 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, Adblockology pop-up notifications are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Adblockology pop-ups?

Fortunately, Adblockology push notifications removal is not very complicated. They reside in the browser and can’t conceal themselves in the system. Nonetheless, as I told above, some pop-ups may deliver malware to your computer. It is hard to show all cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is a bad idea. Thus, after getting rid of the pop-up ads it is recommended to use anti-malware software. I’d especially recommend that if you have never clicked “Allow” to push notifications, and they still appeared. That may be a sign of malware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both system recovery and malware checkup purposes, thanks to its system recovery functionality and advanced detection system.

First of all, you should reset your browser settings. You can do that in both manual and automatic manner. The former, obviously, requires more time to complete and can be somewhat complicated if you have never done that. Automated supposes the use of anti-malware programs that can reset all browser settings at once.

Reset your browsers with GridinSoft Anti-Malware

To reset your browser with GridinSoft Anti-Malware, open the Tools tab, and click the “Reset browser settings” button.

You can see the list of options for each browser. By default, they are set up in a manner that fits the majority of users. Press the “Reset” button (lower right corner). In a minute your browser will be as good as new.

The browser reset is recommended to perform through the antivirus tool by GridinSoft, because the latter is also able to reset the HOSTS file without any additional commands.

Reset your browsers manually

Manual method of browser reset

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 web page 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

After removing the Adblockology push notifications, it’s time to see if these pop-ups brought any threat to your system. Launch GridinSoft Anti-Malware, and then click on Standard scan. It will be enough in most cases to find and remove malware. The scan will last 5-10 minutes; you are free to use your system during that process.

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).

How to Remove Adblockology Pop-ups?

Name: Adblockology

Description: Adblockology - a lot of users became a target for the pop-up advertisements. I have a lot of friends who literally bombed me with the questions like “how to remove Adblockology.com push notifications?” or “why do Adblockology.com pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with Adblockology pop-ups, which may corrupt your browser’s correct performance, and create a lot of troubles while you are working.

Operating System: Windows

Application Category: Adware

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1. More about this malware type on GridinSoft Encyclopedia.
2. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.