Datelinkage.top Pop-up Virus — How to Remove Unwanted Ads?

Datelinkage.top push notifications appear when you do not expect, distracting and annoying you. Still, they are way more than simple pop-up ads – their essence is surely malignant, and they can bring other malware to your computer. In this post, I will show you the guide how to remove Datelinkage.top pop-up advertisements and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any interaction with Datelinkage.top pop-up notifications will be useless at best. At worst, the pages it can open may introduce malware to your system. These pop-ups may also advertise fake shopping sites 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 Datelinkage.top 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 pop-up advertisements and Datelinkage.top notifications is the malignant origins of the latter. Normal push notifications are offered for you to enable on different sites with a understandable purpose – notify you about the fresh publications, discounts and so on. It is a useful tool to help your site to keep visitors and help the interested ones to have the best price.

Short summary of the Datelinkage.top pop-up ads:

Datelinkage.top pop-up advertisements, on the other hand, are related to unlegit web pages. You will commonly see the proposition to enable them following the redirection from another website. Redirects are OK unless they throw you into such a questionable place. In this case, turning on pop-up advertisements is served as the anti-DDoS filtering. In other cases, the sites can deny showing you the contents unless you apply these pop-up ads. These demands should already raise suspicion, as websites usually feature a less obscure anti-bot mechanism. Witnessing this offer is a reason to skip the website doubtlessly. Sometimes, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not get to the web page – the only page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-ups.

Datelinkage.top push notification.

How does this work?

Most of web browsers support turning on pop-ups from websites. Websites, on the other hand, may send notifications with the content they want. It may be a promotion of the page published on this site, or an ad of the page of their partner. As a result, you may see the pop-up from site X, but clicking it will throw you to website Y – because a referral link to the latter was embedded.

Crooks bear on this feature in their attempt to gain money through advertising. They trick victims into turning on pop-ups, and then just spread numerous promotions of other crooks they contract with. As you can suppose, no legit organisations will have a business with fraudsters. All the Datelinkage.top popups you may see lead to other untrustworthy sites. In some cases, the same victim may be trapped by multiple pop-up spamming websites, and its web browser will turn into a complete mess.

The promotions these criminals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It generally provides a negligible pay for one person, but when you can send ads to 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 participants a lot of profit.

Are Datelinkage.top push notifications dangerous?

Yes, they are. At the surface, they may look harmless – just a blinking window that appears from time to time. However, the things this window promotes differ drastically from what you generally see in pop-ups. Datelinkage.top site is controlled by fraudsters, who intendedly show tons of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any common sense and can launch sporadic pop-up ads into a hurricane of ads. For weak systems, that may be enough to make the system slower. But troubles are not over at this point.

As with any other thing that touches illegal ads, Datelinkage.top pop-up notifications do not contain any legit deals to offer. Even when hackers make the ads similar to ones from well-known retailers, the web page 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, Datelinkage.top push notifications are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Datelinkage.top pop-ups?

Fortunately, Datelinkage.top pop-up notifications removal is pretty easy. They reside in the browser and cannot hide themselves in the system. Nevertheless, as I pointed out before, some pop-up advertisements can promote malware to your system. It is hard to predict all of the cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is inconvenient. For that reason, after removing the source of the pop-up advertisements it is recommended to use anti-malware software. I would especially recommend that if you have never allowed pop-ups, but they still appeared. This situation may be a sign of malicious software activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will perfectly fit both system recovery and malware scanning and removal purposes, thanks to its system recovery functionality and multi-layer detection system.

First and foremost, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to do in manual or automated way. 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:

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

After removing the Datelinkage.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 Datelinkage.top Pop-ups?

Name: Datelinkage.top

Description: Datelinkage.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 Datelinkage.top push notifications?” or “why do Datelinkage.top pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with Datelinkage.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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1. More about this malware type on GridinSoft Encyclopedia.
2. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.