Datemeup.top push notifications appear when you do not expect, distracting and annoying you. Nonetheless, they are much more than simple pop-up ads – their nature is surely malignant, and they may install other malware to your system. In this article, I will show you the guide how to remove Datemeup.top pop-ups and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any time you interact with Datemeup.top pop-ups will be ineffective at best. At worst, the websites it can show you may introduce malware to your system. These pop-up notifications can also promote fake online 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.
What are Datemeup.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 notifications and Datemeup.top pop-ups is the malignant origins of the latter. Common pop-up notifications are offered for you to enable on different sites with a legitimate purpose – notify you about the latest articles, discounts and so on. It is a useful thing to help your website to keep visitors and help the interested visitors to have the best deal.
Brief summary of the Datemeup.top pop-up ads:
| Name | Datemeup.top |
| Hosting | AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc. United States, San Francisco |
| IP Address | 104.21.18.28 |
| Malware type | Adware1 |
| Effect | Unwanted pop-up advertisements |
| Hazard level | Medium |
| Malware source | Apps from third-party websites, ads on dubious websites |
| Similar behavior | Mentbradshed, Tozimg, Removeadsaddon |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
Datemeup.top pop-up ads, in contrast, have a deal with less legit sites. You will commonly observe the proposition to turn them on following the redirection from another site. There’s nothing bad in redirecting unless it throws you to such a questionable place. At that point, turning on pop-up ads is offered under the guise of the anti-bot check. In other cases, the web pages can refuse to show you the content unless you apply these pop-up notifications. These requirements should already be the red flag, as sites commonly have a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Spectating such an offer is a reason to close the site right away. Sometimes, even when you click “Allow”, you will not get to the web page – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up advertisements.
Datemeup.top push notification.
How does it work?
Most of browsers support turning on pop-ups from websites. Websites, on the other hand, may send out notifications with the content of their choice. It can be a promotion of the page posted on this site, or an ad of their partner page. As a result, you may see the push notification from site X, but clicking it will direct you to site Y – because a referral link to that website was embedded.
Cybercriminals rely on this feature in their approach to gain money using illegal advertising. They trick victims into allowing them to show the banners, and after that just spread hundreds of ads of anyone they have a deal with. As you can suppose, no image-caring organisations will have a business with fraudsters. All the Datemeup.top notifications you can see lead to other fraudulent sites. At some point, the same victim can be trapped by multiple pop-up spamming web pages, and its web browser will turn into a complete mess.
The ads these rascals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It usually provides a miserable payment for one person, but when you can send ads to hundreds of victims and make it hundreds of times every day – that is a much more significant sum. Despite the majority of these banners giving no result at all, it may still bring all the participants a lot of profit.
Are Datemeup.top pop-ups dangerous?
Yes, they are. At the surface, they may look safe – just a colourful window that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the contents of this window differ sharply from what you used to see in pop-up advertisements. Datemeup.top web page is ruled by fraudsters, who intentionally throw hundreds of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any common sense and can launch sporadic pop-up advertisements into a storm of ads. For weak computers, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But that is not all problems these push notifications carry.
As any other thing that touches illegal advertising, Datemeup.top pop-ups lack legit offers. Even when hackers make the ads looking similar to ones from Walmart or Amazon, the website 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, Datemeup.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 Datemeup.top pop-ups?
Fortunately, Datemeup.top pop-up advertisements removal is pretty easy. They reside in the web browser and cannot hide themselves on a disk. However, as I pointed out before, some pop-up notifications can deliver malicious software to your system. It is nearly impossible to predict all of the cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is a poor idea. For that reason, after removing the source of the push notifications the best option is to use anti-malware software. I would especially recommend that if you have never clicked “Allow” to pop-up advertisements, and they still appeared. This situation may point at adware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will perfectly fit both recovery and malware scanning and removal purposes, because of its system recovery functionality and superb detection system.
Initially, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to do in manual or automated way. The former, obviously, takes 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:
- 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 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:
# 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 Datemeup.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 Datemeup.top Pop-ups?
Name: Datemeup.top
Description: Datemeup.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 Datemeup.top push notifications?” or “why do Datemeup.top pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with Datemeup.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.
