Remove Fly.copperblade.top Pop-up Virus — How to Remove?

Fly.copperblade.top pop-up notifications appear when you do not expect, disturbing and irritating you. However, that is slightly more than simple pop-up ads – their nature is purely malignant, and they may introduce other malicious stuff to your system. In this post, I will show you how to remove Fly.copperblade.top pop-up advertisements and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any interaction with Fly.copperblade.top pop-up notifications will be ineffective at best. At worst, the pages it can show you can introduce malware to your system. These pop-up notifications can also advertise 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.

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What are Fly.copperblade.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 ads and Fly.copperblade.top notifications is the malicious origins of the latter. Normal pop-up advertisements are offered for you to enable with a straightforward purpose – keep you aware about the fresh posts, discounts and so on. It is a useful thing to help your site to keep visitors and help the interested ones to have the best price.

Brief summary of the Fly.copperblade.top pop-up ads:

Fly.copperblade.top push notifications, as opposed, have a deal with less legit sites. You will generally see the proposition to enable them after a redirection from another page. There’s nothing bad in redirecting unless it throws you into such a dubious place. At that point, enabling pop-up advertisements is offered under the guise of the anti-DDoS check. In other cases, the websites may deny showing you the contents unless you turn on these pop-up advertisements. These theses should already raise suspicion, as websites usually have a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Seeing such an offer is a reason to skip the page right away. In some cases, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not see the website – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the push notifications.

Fly.copperblade.top push notification.

How does this work?

The majority of browsers support turning on push notifications from websites. Sites, on the other hand, may send notifications with the content of their choice. It can be an advertisement of the page published on this particular website, as well as an ad of the page of their partner. As a result, you can see the pop-up from site X, but opening it will throw you to site Y – because a link to the latter was embedded.

Cyber burglars bear on this ability in their approach to earn money using illegal advertising. They trick users into allowing the pop-ups, and after that just spread numerous promotions of anyone they contract with. As you may suppose, no normal organisations will contract with fraudsters. All the Fly.copperblade.top push ads you can see lead to other untrustworthy sites. In some cases, the same victim can get into a trap of multiple pop-up spamming sites, and its web browser will turn into a complete mess.

The promotions these crooks show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It generally provides a miserable commission for one person, but when you have hundreds of users and make it hundreds of times every day – that is a way bigger sum. Even though most of these ads are ineffective, it can still give all the participants a lot of profit.

Are Fly.copperblade.top push notifications dangerous?

Yes, they are. Initially, they may look non-threatening – 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 push notifications. Fly.copperblade.top web page is controlled by crooks, who intentionally spread tons of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any common sense and can launch sporadic push notifications into a storm of ads. For weak computers, that may be enough to make the system slower. But that is not all problems these pop-up notifications carry.

As any other thing that touches illegal advertising, Fly.copperblade.top pop-up advertisements lack legit deals to offer. Even when crooks make the banners looking similar to ones from Walmart or Amazon, 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 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, Fly.copperblade.top pop-ups are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Fly.copperblade.top pop-ups?

Fortunately, Fly.copperblade.top pop-up ads removal is pretty easy. They sit in the browser and can’t conceal themselves among system files. However, as I pointed out above, some pop-up ads may introduce malware to your computer. It is nearly impossible to show all cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is a poor idea. For that reason, after getting rid of the pop-up ads the best option is to use anti-malware software. I would especially recommend that if you have never clicked “Allow” to pop-ups, but they still appeared. That can be a sign of malware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both system recovery and malware checkup purposes, because of its abilities of system recovery and advanced detection system.

First and foremost, 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 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 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 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 Fly.copperblade.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 Fly.copperblade.top Pop-ups?

Name: Fly.copperblade.top

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