Foolprotect.store Notification Removal — How to Fix Your Browser

Foolprotect.store pop-ups that appear while navigating the Internet are the result of a malicious software infection that resides in your browser. Such pop-ups emerge in ample quantities, distracting and bothering you.

Most of the pop-ups from Foolprotect.store site are not relevant to your choices, as it displays any marketing material it gets a contract for. Given that a lot of websites promoted in this manner are not legit, it is obvious to anticipate them to include harmful material. Specifically, they can throw you into diverse varieties of web deceptions.

What are Foolprotect.store pop-up advertisements?

By some of the characteristics, Foolprotect.store pop-ups are to normal pop-ups you may encounter on different websites. However, all the difference – and detriment – arises from this specific website. Pages like Foolprotect.store are frequently created with only one objective – to offer unsuspecting users to activate pop-ups and then start spamming them.

Brief summary of the Foolprotect.store pop-ups:

Name	Foolprotect.store
Hosting	AS58061 Scalaxy B.V. Netherlands, Amsterdam
IP Address	38.180.68.202
Malware type	Adware¹
Effect	Unwanted pop-up advertisements
Hazard level	Medium
Malware source	Apps from third-party websites, ads on dubious websites
Similar behavior	Ladsstudi, News, Topvocedclub
Removal method	To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC

Ads by the Foolprotect.store site are not trustworthy either. At best, those will be totally irrelevant ads, that will still be irritating taking into account their frequency. However, more frequent instances involve advertisements of enigmatic deals with 90% discount, adult sites ads or deception attempts. Presented here are some of the traditional patterns for push ads spam:

You have a new message on Facebook/Twitter/WhatsApp *link to a phishing copy of the site*
There are 5 (10,20,50) women near you that wish to chat with you
Collect your 90% discount coupon on this new, totally not scam shopping site
Get a huge crypto bonus for signing in on this new crypto exchange website
Your PC is infected with 15(any number up to 100) viruses, scan your system urgently/contact our tech support
Use this extremely effective system cleaner to speed up your PC

Due to the illegal promotional approach of Foolprotect.store, no lawful corporations will actually utilize their promotion services. Meanwhile, the entire range of subjects I’ve outlined above is handled by the same fraudulent individuals as those who are behind Foolprotect.store. Sometimes, upon interaction with the push ad, you might be redirected to another page that proposes activating pop-up advertisements. The activity of numerous origins of pop-ups can transform your browser into an pathway of a pop-up surge.

Foolprotect.store push notification.

Where did Foolprotect.store pop-ups come from?

The main and most common method to access the pop-up spamming site is to navigate through content on warez sites, pages containing pirated content, and the like. The individuals responsible for such questionable venues aim to counterbalance expenses via redirects, often as a advertising maneuver. This type of redirection is commonly known as an “anti-bot verification”.

An extra plausible origin of pop-up advertisements is adware, currently active inside your system. It alters browser settings in a way so it begins displaying Foolprotect.store pop-ups without your knowledge. However, this situation is relatively rare, as such malware employs its own, more productive method to showcasing advertisements.

Are Foolprotect.store pop-up ads dangerous?

Yes, they are. At the surface, they may look safe – just a blinking window that appears from time to time. However, the contents of this window differ sharply from what you used to see in push notifications. Foolprotect.store web page is controlled by crooks, who deliberately show hundreds of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any common sense and can make sporadic pop-up 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-ups carry.

As any other thing that touches illegal ads, Foolprotect.store pop-up ads don’t have legit offers. Even when crooks 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 push 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, Foolprotect.store push notifications are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Foolprotect.store pop-ups?

Reset your browsers manually

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”:

The first step to revert Mozilla Firefox

In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option:

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 site 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

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).

References

Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.