Famtoaphoob Ads Removal Guide — Fix Push Notification

Famtoaphoob pop-up notifications appear when you do not expect, distracting and annoying you. However, they are much more than simple pop-up ads – their origins is clearly malignant, and they can bring other malware to your system. In this post, I will show you the guide how to remove Famtoaphoob pop-ups and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any interaction with Famtoaphoob pop-up notifications will be ineffective at best. At worst, the sites it can show you can introduce malware to your system. These push 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.

It is better to prevent, than repair and repent!

Removing Famtoaphoob manually may take hours and may damage your PC in the process. I recommend you to download GridinSoft Anti-Malware for threats removal. Allows to complete scan and cure your PC during the trial period.

DOWNLOAD NOW

Gridinsoft Anti-Malware 6-day trial available.
EULA | Privacy Policy | 10% Off Coupon

What are Famtoaphoob 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-ups and Famtoaphoob pop-ups is the malignant origins of the latter. Normal pop-up notifications are offered for you to enable with a understandable purpose – notify you about the latest articles, discounts and so on. It is a useful tool to help your website to keep visitors and help the interested ones to have the best deal.

Brief summary of the Famtoaphoobo.com pop-ups:

Famtoaphoob pop-up advertisements, on the other hand, have a deal with unlegit sites. You will commonly observe the offer to turn them on following the redirection from another website. Redirects are OK unless it throws you into such a questionable place. At that point, turning on push notifications is offered as the anti-bot check-up. Alternatively, the web pages may refuse to show you the content unless you enable these pop-up notifications. These theses should already be the red flag, as websites commonly have a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Seeing such an offer should be the reason to close the site doubtlessly. In some cases, 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-up ads.

Famtoaphoob push notification.

How does it work?

The vast majority of browsers support enabling pop-ups from websites. Sites, on the other hand, can send notifications with the content they want. It can be a promotion of the product posted on this website, as well as a promotion of the page of their partner. As a result, you can see the push notification from site X, but opening it will throw you to website Y – because a referral link to the latter was embedded.

Crooks bear on this ability in their attempt to gain money through advertising. They trick users into allowing them to show the banners, and then just spread hundreds of promotions of anyone they have a deal with. As you can suppose, no normal companies will have a business with fraudsters. All the Famtoaphoob notifications you can see lead to other fraudulent sites. At some point, the same user may get into a trap of several pop-up spamming sites, and its web browser will turn into a complete mess.

The banners these crooks show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It usually provides a negligible payment for one view, but when you can send ads to hundreds of users and show them hundreds of ads each day – that is a much more significant sum. Even though most of such banners are ineffective, it can still give all the participants a lot of profit.

Are Famtoaphoob pop-up ads dangerous?

Yes, they are. At the surface, they may look safe – just a colourful pop-up that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the contents of this window differ sharply from what you generally see in pop-up ads. Famtoaphoobo.com web page is ruled by fraudsters, who intendedly show hundreds and thousands of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any common sense and can launch sporadic pop-up notifications into a storm of banners. For weak systems, that may be enough to make the system slower. But problems are not over at this point.

As with any other thing related to illegal advertising, Famtoaphoob pop-ups lack legit offers. Even when crooks make the ads similar to ones from well-known retailers, the site 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 advertisements 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, Famtoaphoob pop-up advertisements are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Famtoaphoob pop-ups?

Fortunately, Famtoaphoob pop-up notifications removal is not very complicated. They parasite in the browser and cannot hide themselves on a disk. Nevertheless, as I stated above, some pop-up advertisements may deliver malicious software to your computer. It is hard to show all of the cases, and manual malware removal is a poor idea. For that reason, after disabling the pop-ups it is recommended to use anti-malware software. I’d especially recommend that if you have never allowed pop-up advertisements, and they still appeared. This situation can be a sign of malware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both recovery and malware checkup purposes, thanks to its system recovery functionality and advanced detection system.

First of all, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to accomplish in manual or automated way. 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 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 website 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 Famtoaphoob 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 Famtoaphoob Pop-ups?

Name: Famtoaphoob

Description: Famtoaphoob - 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 Famtoaphoobo.com push notifications?” or “why do Famtoaphoobo.com pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with Famtoaphoob 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

Sending

User Review

3.8 (5 votes)

Comments Rating 0 (0 reviews)

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