How to remove Oomoughtcall pop-ups? — Fix Guide

Oomoughtcall pop-up notices may appear unexpectedly, covering the post of the page you visited or opening your web browser when you don’t want it to be opened.

Clicking the Oomoughtcall ad can lead to the injection of various malware or unwanted programs. In this post, you will see the manual of Oomoughtcall popups removal in various manners, and also checking your personal computer for extra viruses existence.

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What are Oomoughtcall pop-ups?

Oomoughtcall popups are an outcome of adware activity. Adware is a type of malware that presents you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click ads, which creates a massive volume of profit for adware suppliers. These ads might have explicit information, or have a link to malevolent content/website, because adware maintainers have no purpose to examine the goodness of the material they are going to show – their solitary target is money.

Oomoughtcall push notification.

Pop-up marketing itself is a very good, low-priced and extremely effective advertising solution¹. It enables the seller to attach the buyers’ interest to their website, and the buyers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to buy. When the customer will receive a pop-up notification that the TV set he desires to buy is available at the online shop he/she checked out previously with a 15% price cut, one will certainly use this chance and purchase it. Considering the very low price for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising tool is a favorite thing amidst the marketing departments of large internet retailers.

However, such a successful plan could not be missed by malware creators. Option to demonstrate the popup advertisements by force to the victims of malware attack is an excellent basis for evil-minded manipulations with the popup advertisements. And Oomoughtcall.com promotions is among hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a short details for the Oomoughtcall

How have I got the Oomoughtcall virus?

There are a lot of methods of getting infected by the adware that trigger the Oomoughtcall popups storm. A lion’s part of this virus instances is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Free software can also be downloaded from the official website, and the adware is presented as a legit bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A number of people regularly utilize the dubious programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, a wide range of tools that are free, and even hacked programs. Every one of these sorts of programs are unsafe, due to the fact that it is quite simple to include a Oomoughtcall malware under the cover of part of the license hacking script, or as a component of the self-made algoritm inside of the Windows optimization tool.

Oomoughtcall popup virus can also be hidden in the advertisement somewhere on the odd site. Such web pages are in most cases packed with colorful and blinking advertisements, and their owners often accept any type of promotions to be posted on their page. Thus, clicking on such banners is a shot in the dark: only the advertisement contractor realizes what will occur when you press this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you may also receive something a lot more unsafe, like ransomware or coin miner; the substantial share of coin miners circulation is exactly after the malicious advertisements.

The statistic shows that people dislike popup advertising more than other types of promotions

Potentially undesirable applications, like Oomoughtcall pop-up virus can initiate a wide range of troubles on your personal computer. Distracting is not the single effect – pop-up notifications can display you the banners, where you are offered to download another unknown application, or “a perfect anti-malware tool”. Scareware is often distributed under the last slogun. Potentially undesirable applications, in turn, can have spyware functionality. And it is pretty hard to distinguish the undesirable app from a normal one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the potentially unwanted programs and pseudo antiviruses, popup-related advertisements are also used as a spreading way by different trojan viruses, for example – coin miners. The consequences of activity of such viruses is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not clicking these banners, they can be clicked by whoever who also uses your computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to deal with it without information loss. It is recommended to eliminate the viruses with antivirus programs as soon as possible.

How can I get rid of Oomoughtcall pop-up advertisements?

The guide of Oomoughtcall adware clearing includes 2 sections. Initially, we need to exterminate the malware, and afterwards deal with the consequences of its activity. The removal process is really simple, because it may be done even with using Microsoft Defender – anti-virus software that is present on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. Nevertheless, because of its huge resources usage, as well as some problems that can be serious for some kinds of individuals, Defender is frequently turned off by the users, so its usage is probably impossible. What’s more, a variety of trojan viruses are able to disable the embedded antivirus. It is much better to use the separated program that will not have such vulnerabilities.

I would certainly suggest you to utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven antivirus device that will certainly wipe out the viruses from your personal computer and also create an invulnerable shield with a Proactive protection feature. However, let’s take care of Oomoughtcall adware first.

Removing Oomoughtcall popup virus with GridinSoft Anti-Malware

• Download and install GridinSoft Anti-Malware. After the installation, you will be offered to perform the Standard Scan. Approve this action.

• Standard scan checks the logical disk where the system files are stored, together with the files of programs you have already installed. The scan lasts up to 6 minutes.

• When the scan is over, you may choose the action for each detected virus. For all files of Oomoughtcall malware the default option is “Delete”. Press “Apply” to finish the malware removal.

Now, when the computer is clean of viruses, we can proceed to the browser reset. You can do this step manually, as well as with the use of GridinSoft Anti-Malware.

Reset browser settings to default

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 web browsers are reset, you need to make sure that your browser will connect the correct DNS while connecting to the web page you want. Create a text file titled “hosts” on your computer’s desktop, then open it and fill it with the following content³:

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.

Nonetheless, there is one trouble that makes the things much more difficult to restore, specifically without the anti-malware software. The majority of adware variants that are used to show you the Oomoughtcall pop-up advertisements are adjusting the deep browser setups, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to change your browser settings after your machine was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will collapse soon. Sometimes, you will see no crash, but large lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 secs, and then it will be back to the normal, up until you try to open settings one more time.

Reset your browser settings 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 the options for each browser. By default, they are set up in the manner which 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 last is also able to reset the HOSTS file without any additional commands.

1. More about pop-up advertisements on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware review and the reasons why I advise it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.