Hotblawuyu.cc Ads Removal Guide — Fix Push Notification

Hotblawuyu.cc pop-ups that you can see while surfing the Web are the outcome of a malware infection that resides in your browser. Such pop-ups emerge in ample quantities, distracting and annoying you.

Most of the pop-ups from Hotblawuyu.cc site are irrelevant, as it shows any advertising elements it receives a contract for. Given that a large number of pages promoted in this manner are not benevolent, it is clear to anticipate them to include malicious content. In particular, they can throw you into various varieties of online deceptions.

What are Hotblawuyu.cc pop-ups?

By certain characteristics, Hotblawuyu.cc pop-ups are comparable to standard pop-ups you may encounter on different sites. However, all the distinction – and harmfulness – originates from this specific website. Pages like Hotblawuyu.cc are frequently established with sole purpose – to propose unsuspecting users to enable pop-ups and then start spamming them.

Brief description of the Hotblawuyu.cc pop-ups:

Name	Hotblawuyu.cc
Hosting	AS63023 GTHost Germany, Frankfurt am Main
IP Address	144.76.106.61
Malware type	Adware¹
Effect	Unwanted pop-up advertisements
Hazard level	Medium
Malware source	Apps from third-party websites, ads on dubious websites
Similar behavior	Mescnetwork, Hotbmutoku, Hotbpeguvu
Removal method	To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC

Ads by the Hotblawuyu.cc site are not trustworthy either. At best, those will be entirely irrelevant promotions, that will still be irritating taking into account the frequency. However, more typical instances encompass advertisements of obscure deals with 90% off, adult web pages ads or deception attempts. Below are some of the standard 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 unlawful advertising model of Hotblawuyu.cc, no legitimate corporations will really use their advertisement services. Instead, the complete range of topics I’ve named above is managed by the same scammy persons as those who are responsible for Hotblawuyu.cc. Sometimes, upon interaction with the pop-up ad, you might be thrown to another page that proposes activating pop-up advertisements. The activity of several sources of pop-ups can transform your browser into an outlet of a pop-up surge.

Hotblawuyu.cc push notification.

Where did Hotblawuyu.cc pop-ups come from?

The main and most widespread technique to access the pop-up spamming site is to browse content on warez sites, pages containing pirated content, and the like. The people responsible for such uncertain venues aim to compensate for expenses via redirects, often as a promotional strategy. This type of redirection is commonly known as an “anti-bot verification”.

An additional plausible source of pop-up advertisements is adware, currently active inside of your system. It changes browser settings in a manner so it starts displaying Hotblawuyu.cc pop-ups without your knowledge. However, this scenario is relatively rare, as such malware employs its own, more effective technique to showcasing advertisements.

Are Hotblawuyu.cc pop-up advertisements 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 things this window promotes differ drastically from what you generally see in pop-up ads. Hotblawuyu.cc website is ruled by crooks, who intentionally throw hundreds of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any manners of advertising and can launch sporadic pop-ups into a hurricane 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, Hotblawuyu.cc pop-up notifications do not contain any legit offers. Even though crooks make the banners similar to ones from Walmart or Amazon, 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 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, Hotblawuyu.cc 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 Hotblawuyu.cc 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.