Not-robot.top Pop-up Virus — How to Remove Unwanted Ads?

Not-robot.top pop-up advertisements appear out of the blue, distracting and irritating you. Nonetheless, that is way more than simple pop-up ads – their essence is purely malignant, and they may install other malware to your PC. In this article, I will guide you on how to remove Not-robot.top pop-ups and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any time you interact with Not-robot.top push notifications will be useless at best. In worst case scenario, the sites it can open can introduce malware to your system. These push notifications may also advertise fake online shopping sites 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 Not-robot.top 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 pop-ups and Not-robot.top pop-ups is the malignant origins of the latter. Normal pop-up ads are offered for you to enable with a understandable purpose – notify you about the fresh articles, discounts and so on. It is a useful thing to help your site to keep visitor’s attention and help the interested visitors to have the best deal.

Brief summary of the Not-robot.top pop-up ads:

Not-robot.top pop-up notifications, as opposed, have a deal with less legit websites. You will commonly witness the proposition to turn them on following the redirection from another site. There’s nothing bad in redirecting unless it throws you into such a questionable place. In this case, enabling pop-up ads is offered under the guise of the anti-DDoS check. In other cases, the sites may deny showing you the content unless you apply these pop-up ads. These demands should be the red flag, as sites usually feature a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Spectating this offer should be the reason to close the site right away. In some cases, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not get to the web page – the sole page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up notifications.

Not-robot.top push notification.

How does it work?

The vast majority of browsers support turning on pop-ups from websites. Sites, on the other hand, may send out notifications with the content of their choice. It can be a promotion of the product or a page listed on this site, or an ad of the page of their partner. As a result, you can see the pop-up from site X, but interacting with it will throw you to website Y – because a referral link to that website was added.

Crooks bear on this ability in their attempt to gain money using illegal advertising. They trick users into allowing them to show the banners, and after that just spread hundreds of ads of other crooks they contract with. As you can suppose, no normal organisations will have a business with fraudsters. All the Not-robot.top popups you can see lead to other untrustworthy sites. In some cases, the same user may be trapped by several pop-up spamming websites, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.

The banners these criminals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It generally provides a miserable payment for one view, but when you can send ads to hundreds of users and show them hundreds of ads each day – that is a much more significant sum. Even though the majority of these banners are ineffective, it may still bring all the participants a lot of money.

Are Not-robot.top pop-ups dangerous?

Yes, they are. At the surface, they may look non-threatening – just a blinking pop-up that appears from time to time. However, the things this window promotes differ sharply from what you generally see in pop-up ads. Not-robot.top site is ruled by fraudsters, who intentionally spread hundreds of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any common sense 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 problems these pop-up ads carry.

As with any other thing that touches illegal ads, Not-robot.top pop-up advertisements do not contain any 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, Not-robot.top pop-ups are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Not-robot.top pop-ups?

Fortunately, Not-robot.top pop-up advertisements removal is pretty easy. They sit in the web browser and cannot conceal themselves on a disk. However, as I told before, some push notifications may promote malicious software to your system. It is nearly impossible to predict all of the cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is a poor idea. Thus, after disabling the push notifications it is recommended to use anti-malware software. I would especially recommend that if you have never allowed pop-up notifications, but they still appeared. This situation can be a sign of adware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both recovery and malware scanning and removal purposes, thanks to its system recovery functionality and superb detection system.

Initially, you should reset your browser settings. You can do that in both manual and automatic manner. The former, obviously, takes 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:

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 website 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 Not-robot.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).

How to Remove Not-robot.top Pop-ups?

Name: Not-robot.top

Description: Not-robot.top - 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 Not-robot.top push notifications?” or “why do Not-robot.top pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with Not-robot.top 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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1. More about this malware type on GridinSoft Encyclopedia.
2. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.