Hotblolomi.cc Pop-up Ads Removal — How to Fix Your Browser?

Hotblolomi.cc pop-ups that you can see while surfing the Internet are the outcome of a malicious software infection that resides in your browser. Such pop-ups emerge in excessive quantities, diverting and annoying you.

The vast majority of the pop-ups from Hotblolomi.cc site are irrelevant, as it displays any marketing material it gets a contract for. Given that a lot of websites promoted in this way are not legit, it is apparent to anticipate them to contain malicious components. Specifically, they can throw you into diverse types of web scams.

What are Hotblolomi.cc pop-up notifications?

By certain attributes, Hotblolomi.cc pop-ups are similar to normal pop-ups you may come across on different websites. However, all the distinction – and malignancy – arises from this specific website. Pages like Hotblolomi.cc are often created with sole purpose – to propose unsuspecting individuals to activate pop-ups and then start spamming them.

Short summary of the Hotblolomi.cc pop-ups:

Name	Hotblolomi.cc
Hosting	AS63023 GTHost Germany, Frankfurt am Main
IP Address	136.243.42.50
Malware type	Adware¹
Effect	Unwanted pop-up advertisements
Hazard level	Medium
Malware source	Apps from third-party websites, ads on dubious websites
Similar behavior	Hotbyafuni, Faitaphentswee, Ikqoqe
Removal method	To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC

Ads by the Hotblolomi.cc site are not legit either. At best, those will be totally unrelated banners, that will still be annoying taking into account the frequency. However, more typical cases include advertisements of mysterious deals with 90% off, adult web pages ads or deception attempts. Presented here are some of the standard patterns for pop-ups spam:

Discover 5, 10, 20, or even 50 women near you who are eager to chat.
Sign in on this new crypto exchange website and receive a substantial crypto bonus.
Your system is infected with 15 viruses. Contact our tech support or perform an immediate scan.
You’ve received a new message on Facebook, Twitter, or WhatsApp. Beware of phishing links.
Visit this new, totally legitimate shopping site and claim your discount coupon.
up your computer with an incredibly effective system cleaner.

Due to the illegal promotional approach of Hotblolomi.cc, no legitimate enterprises will actually employ their promotion services. Instead, the complete range of topics I’ve delineated above is managed by the same scammy persons as those who are behind Hotblolomi.cc. At times, upon interaction with the pop-up ad, you might be redirected to another page that offers activating pop-up advertisements. The activity of multiple sources of pop-ups can transform your browser into an pathway of a pop-up surge.

Hotblolomi.cc push notification.

Where did Hotblolomi.cc pop-ups come from?

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

A further plausible source of pop-up advertisements is adware, currently active inside of your system. It alters browser settings in a way so it starts displaying Hotblolomi.cc pop-ups without your knowledge. However, this scenario is relatively infrequent, as such malware employs its own, more effective technique to showcasing advertisements.

Are Hotblolomi.cc pop-ups dangerous?

Yes, they are. At the surface, they may look safe – just a blinking window that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the things this window promotes differ sharply from what you used to see in pop-ups. Hotblolomi.cc site is controlled by crooks, who deliberately throw hundreds and thousands of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any common sense and can launch sporadic pop-up advertisements into a hurricane of banners. For weak computers, that may be enough to make the system slower. But troubles are not over at this point.

As with any other thing that touches illegal advertising, Hotblolomi.cc pop-ups don’t have legit deals to offer. Even though crooks make the ads similar to ones from Walmart or Amazon, the web page these banners 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 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, Hotblolomi.cc push notifications are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Hotblolomi.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 website 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.