Cupidconnect.top pop-up notifications appear out of the blue, distracting and annoying you. Still, that is much more than annoying pop-ups – their origins is clearly malicious, and they may bring other malicious stuff to your PC. In this article, I will show you the guide how to remove Cupidconnect.top pop-up notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any time you interact with Cupidconnect.top pop-up advertisements will be useless at best. At worst, the websites it can open may introduce malware to your system. These pop-up notifications may also advertise 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.
What are Cupidconnect.top push 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 pop-ups and Cupidconnect.top notifications is the malignant origins of the latter. Common pop-up ads are offered for you to enable with a legitimate purpose – keep you aware about the new posts, discounts and so on. It is an effective approach to help your website to keep visitors and help the interested visitors to have the best deal.
Brief summary of the Cupidconnect.top pop-up ads:
| Name | Cupidconnect.top |
| Hosting | AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc. United States, San Francisco |
| IP Address | 172.67.192.105 |
| Malware type | Adware1 |
| Effect | Unwanted pop-up advertisements |
| Hazard level | Medium |
| Malware source | Apps from third-party websites, ads on dubious websites |
| Similar behavior | Majormedialink, Superrroffers, Uidart |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
Cupidconnect.top pop-up ads, on the other hand, have a deal with unlegit web pages. You will generally see the proposition to turn them on following the redirection from another page. It’s OK to see redirects unless it throws you into such a questionable place. At that point, turning on pop-up ads is served under the guise of the anti-DDoS filtering. In other cases, the sites may refuse to show you the contents unless you enable these pop-up advertisements. These theses should be the red flag, as sites usually have a less obscure anti-bot mechanism. Seeing this requirement should be the reason to leave the page right away. In some cases, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not see the website – the only page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up ads.
Cupidconnect.top push notification.
How does this work?
Most of web browsers support turning on push notifications from sites. Websites, on the other hand, can send out notifications with the content they like. It may be an advertisement of the page posted on this particular site, as well as an ad of their partner page. As a result, you can see the push notification from site X, but opening it will redirect you to website Y – because a link to the latter was embedded.
Scoundrels rely on this feature in their attempt to gain money through advertising. They trick victims into allowing the pop-ups, and after that just spread numerous promotions of anyone they contract with. As you may suppose, no benevolent organisations will have a business with fraudsters. All the Cupidconnect.top push ads you can see lead to other fraudulent sites. In some cases, the same victim can be trapped by multiple pop-up spamming websites, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.
The ads these rascals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It commonly provides a miserable payment for one person, but when you have hundreds of users and make it hundreds of times each day – that is a much more significant sum. Even though the majority of these banners giving no result at all, it can still bring all the parties a lot of money.
Are Cupidconnect.top push notifications dangerous?
Yes, they are. Initially, they can look harmless – just a blinking pop-up that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the things this window promotes differ sharply from what you used to see in pop-up ads. Cupidconnect.top site is ruled by fraudsters, who deliberately spread hundreds and thousands of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any common sense and can launch sporadic pop-up ads into a storm of promotions. For weak systems, that may be enough to make the system slower. But problems are not over at this point.
As any other thing related to illegal ads, Cupidconnect.top pop-up advertisements don’t have legit offers. Even though hackers make the banners similar to ones from Amazon, Walmart or Ebay, the site these banners 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 ads 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, Cupidconnect.top pop-up ads are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.
How to remove Cupidconnect.top pop-ups?
Fortunately, Cupidconnect.top pop-up advertisements removal is pretty easy. They reside in the browser and can’t conceal themselves in the system. Nonetheless, as I told above, some pop-up advertisements can promote malicious programs to your system. It is hard to describe all cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is a poor idea. Therefore, after removing the source of the pop-up advertisements the best option is to use anti-malware software. I would especially recommend that if you have never allowed push notifications, but they still appeared. This situation may be a sign of malicious software activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both system recovery and malware scanning and removal purposes, thanks to its abilities of system recovery and advanced detection system.
First and foremost, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to do in both manual and automatic manner. The former, obviously, requires more time to complete and may 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 may 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:
- Open “Settings and more” tab in upper right corner, then find here “Settings” button. In the appeared menu, choose “Reset settings” option:
- 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:
- Open Menu tab (three strips in upper right corner) and click the “Help” button. In the appeared menu choose “troubleshooting information”:
- In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option:
After choosing this option, you will see the next message:
If you use Google Chrome
- Open Settings tab, find the “Advanced” button. In the extended tab choose the “Reset and clean up” button:
- In the appeared list, click on the “Restore settings to their original defaults”:
- 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
- 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:
- 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 website you need. Create a text file titled “hosts” on your pc’s desktop, then open it and fill it with the following lines2:
# Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
# localhost name resolution is handle within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost
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 Cupidconnect.top 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 Cupidconnect.top Pop-ups?
Name: Cupidconnect.top
Description: Cupidconnect.top - 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 Cupidconnect.top push notifications?” or “why do Cupidconnect.top pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with Cupidconnect.top 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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( votes)References
- More about this malware type on GridinSoft Encyclopedia.
- Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.
