Lp.basketball-fan pop-up notifications appear out of the blue, distracting and irritating you. Nonetheless, they are way more than simple pop-ups – their origins is clearly malicious, and they can install other malicious stuff to your PC. In this post, I will show you how to remove Lp.basketball-fan pop-up advertisements and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any interaction with Lp.basketball-fan pop-up notifications will be useless at best. At worst, the web pages it can throw you to may introduce malware to your system. These pop-up advertisements 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.
What are Lp.basketball-fan pop-ups?
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 push notifications and Lp.basketball-fan notifications is the malignant origins of the latter. Common pop-up notifications are offered for you to enable on different sites with a understandable purpose – keep you aware about the fresh articles, discounts and so on. It is a useful tool to help your website to keep visitors and help the interested users to have the best price.
Brief description of the Lp.basketball-fan.com pop-up ads:
| Name | Lp.basketball-fan.com |
| Hosting | AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc. United States, San Francisco |
| IP Address | 104.21.83.64 |
| Malware type | Adware1 |
| Effect | Unwanted pop-up advertisements |
| Hazard level | Medium |
| Malware source | Apps from third-party websites, ads on dubious websites |
| Similar behavior | News, Eudstudi, Adrgyouweb |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
Lp.basketball-fan pop-up advertisements, on the other hand, have a deal with less legit web pages. You will commonly see the proposition to enable them after a redirection from another website. Redirects are OK unless it throws you into such a dubious place. At that point, turning on pop-up advertisements is served as the anti-bot check. Alternatively, the sites can refuse to show you the contents unless you turn on these push notifications. These requirements should already raise suspicion, as sites generally have a different anti-bot mechanism. Seeing this offer is a reason to skip the page doubtlessly. Sometimes, even when you click “Allow”, you will not see the site – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-ups.
Lp.basketball-fan push notification.
How does this work?
The majority of browsers support turning on push notifications from sites. Sites, on the other hand, may send notifications with the content they want. It can be an advertisement of the product posted on this particular website, or a promotion of the page of their partner. As a result, you may see the push notification from site X, but opening it will redirect you to site Y – because a referral link to the latter was embedded.
Scoundrels rely on this ability in their approach to earn money through advertising. They trick victims into turning on pop-ups, and then just spread numerous ads of anyone they contract with. As you can suppose, no normal companies will contract with fraudsters. All the Lp.basketball-fan popups you may see lead to other untrustworthy sites. In some cases, the same user may be trapped by several pop-up spamming web pages, 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 viewer, but when you have a huge number of users and show them hundreds of ads each day – that is a much bigger sum. Even though the majority of these banners giving no result at all, it may still give all the parties a lot of money.
Are Lp.basketball-fan push notifications 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 things this window promotes differ drastically from what you generally see in pop-ups. Lp.basketball-fan.com web page is controlled by fraudsters, who deliberately spread hundreds and thousands of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any manners of advertising and can make sporadic push notifications into a hurricane of banners. For weak computers, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But that is not all problems these push notifications carry.
As any other thing that touches illegal ads, Lp.basketball-fan pop-up ads don’t have legit deals to offer. Even when hackers make the ads similar to ones from Amazon, Walmart or Ebay, 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 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, Lp.basketball-fan push notifications are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.
How to remove Lp.basketball-fan pop-ups?
Fortunately, Lp.basketball-fan push notifications removal is not very complicated. They sit in the web browser and can’t hide themselves on a disk. Nonetheless, as I stated above, some push notifications may deliver malicious programs to your system. It is hard to describe all of the cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is a bad idea. For that reason, after removing the source of the pop-up advertisements the best option is to use anti-malware software. I’d especially recommend that in the case when you have never allowed pop-up ads, and they still appeared. This situation can be a sign of malicious software activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will perfectly fit both system recovery and malware removal purposes, thanks to its abilities of system recovery and multi-component detection system.
First and foremost, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to do 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:
- 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”:
- In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option:
After choosing this option, you will see the next message:
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 web page 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
After removing the Lp.basketball-fan 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 Lp.basketball-fan Pop-ups?
Name: Lp.basketball-fan
Description: Lp.basketball-fan - 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 Lp.basketball-fan.com push notifications?” or “why do Lp.basketball-fan.com pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with Lp.basketball-fan 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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( votes)References
- More about this malware type on GridinSoft Encyclopedia.
- Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.
