My Captcha Space Top Pop-ups (Mycaptchaspace.top)

“My Captcha Space Top” pop-up notifications appear out of the blue, distracting and irritating you. Nonetheless, they are much more than just notifications – their essence is purely malignant, and they can bring other malware to your device. In this article, I will guide you on how to remove Mycaptchaspace.top push notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any interaction with My Captcha Space Top pop-ups will be useless at best. At worst, the web pages it can show you may introduce malware to your system. These push notifications can also promote 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.

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What are My Captcha Space 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 push notifications and Mycaptchaspace.top pop-ups is the malicious origins of the latter. Normal pop-up advertisements are offered for you to enable on different sites with a benevolent purpose – notify you about the new publications, goods for sale and so on. It is a useful thing to help your website to retain visitors and help the interested users to have the best deal.

Short summary of the Mycaptchaspace.top pop-up ads:

Mycaptchaspace.top pop-ups, as opposed, are related to less legit web pages. You will commonly see the offer to turn them on following the redirection from another page. Redirects are OK unless it throws you into such a dubious place. In this case, enabling push notifications is served as the anti-bot filtering. Alternatively, the web pages can deny showing you the contents unless you enable these pop-up notifications. These theses should already raise suspicion, as websites usually have a different anti-bot mechanism. Spectating such an demand should be the reason to close the page doubtlessly. Sometimes, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not see the website – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up ads.

Mycaptchaspace.top push notification.

How does it work?

The majority of web browsers support enabling pop-ups from sites. Sites, on the other hand, can send notifications with the content they like. It may be a promotion of the product listed on this website, as well as a promotion of their partner page. As a result, you may see the push notification from site X, but clicking it will redirect you to website Y – because a link to that website was added.

Crooks rely on this feature in their attempt to earn money through advertising. They trick users into allowing them to show the banners, and after that just spread hundreds of ads of other crooks they have a deal with. As you may suppose, no benevolent organisations will contract with fraudsters. All the Mycaptchaspace.top notifications you may see lead to other untrustworthy sites. At some point, the same user may get into a trap of multiple pop-up spamming web pages, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.

The ads these criminals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It generally provides a negligible pay for one viewer, but when you can send ads to hundreds of victims and make it hundreds of times each day – that is a much bigger sum. Despite the majority of these banners are ineffective, it can still bring all the participants a lot of profit.

Are My Captcha Space Top pop-up notifications dangerous?

Yes, they are. Initially, they can 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 used to see in pop-ups. Mycaptchaspace.top website is controlled by fraudsters, who deliberately show hundreds and thousands of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any manners of advertising and can launch sporadic pop-up ads into a hurricane of banners. For weak computers, that may be enough to make the system slower. But that is not all troubles these pop-up notifications carry.

As any other thing that touches illegal advertising, Mycaptchaspace.top pop-ups lack legit offers. Even when crooks make the ads looking similar to ones from Amazon, Walmart or Ebay, the web page 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 pop-ups 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, My Captcha Space Top pop-up ads are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove My Captcha Space Top?

Fortunately, My Captcha Space Top push notifications removal is not very complicated. They sit in the browser and can’t conceal themselves on a disk. However, as I pointed out before, some pop-up ads can deliver malicious software to your system. It is hard to describe all of the cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is inconvenient. Thus, after getting rid of the pop-ups the best option is to use anti-malware software. I’d especially recommend that if you have never allowed pop-up advertisements, and they still appeared. This situation can point at malicious software activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will perfectly fit both system recovery and malware checkup purposes, thanks to its abilities of system recovery and advanced detection system.

Initially, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to accomplish in both manual and automatic manner. The former, obviously, takes 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 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:

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 Mycaptchaspace.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).

1. More about this malware type on GridinSoft Encyclopedia.
2. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.