Pipethoz Pop-up Ads Removal — How to Fix Your Browser?

Pipethoz pop-up advertisements appear when you do not expect, distracting and annoying you. However, that is much more than simple pop-ups – their origins is purely malignant, and they can bring other malicious stuff to your computer. In this article, I will guide you on how to remove Pipethoz pop-ups and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any time you interact with Pipethoz push notifications will be ineffective at best. At worst, the web pages it can show you can 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 Pipethoz pop-up advertisements?

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-up ads and Pipethoz pop-ups is the malignant origins of the latter. Common push notifications are offered for you to enable with a benevolent purpose – keep you aware about the new articles, discounts and so on. It is a useful tool to help your website to keep visitors and help the interested ones to have the best deal.

Short summary of the Pipethoz.com pop-ups:

Pipethoz pop-ups, in contrast, have a deal with untrustworthy sites. You will commonly see the offer to turn them on after a redirection from another site. There’s nothing bad in redirecting unless they throw you into such a dubious place. At that point, turning on pop-up advertisements is served as the anti-bot filtering. In other cases, the sites may deny showing you the contents unless you apply these pop-ups. These theses should be the red flag, as sites generally have a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Seeing this demand should be the reason to skip the page right away. Sometimes, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not get to the site – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up ads.

Pipethoz push notification.

How does this work?

Most of web browsers support turning on push notifications from websites. Sites, on the other hand, can send notifications with the content of their choice. It can be an advertisement of the product listed for sale on this website, as well as a promotion of the page of their partner. As a result, you may see the pop-up from site X, but interacting with it will redirect you to site Y – because a link to that website was added.

Cybercriminals rely on this feature in their attempt to gain money using illegal advertising. They trick victims into allowing the pop-ups, and then just spread hundreds of promotions of other crooks they contract with. As you can suppose, no image-caring companies will have a deal with fraudsters. All the Pipethoz notifications you may see lead to other untrustworthy sites. At some point, the same user can get into a trap of several pop-up spamming web pages, and its web browser will turn into a complete mess.

The ads these criminals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It usually provides a miserable commission for one person, but when you can send ads to a huge number of users and show them hundreds of ads every day – that is a way bigger sum. Even though most of such ads are ineffective, it may still bring all the parties a lot of money.

Are Pipethoz pop-up ads dangerous?

Yes, they are. Initially, they can look safe – just a colourful pop-up that appears from time to time. However, the things this window promotes differ sharply from what you generally see in pop-up notifications. Pipethoz.com web page is controlled by fraudsters, who deliberately spread hundreds of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any common sense and can make sporadic pop-up advertisements into a storm of ads. For weak computers, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But problems are not over at this point.

As with any other thing related to illegal advertising, Pipethoz push notifications don’t have legit offers. Even though hackers make the banners looking similar to ones from Amazon, Walmart or Ebay, the site these ads 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 push 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, Pipethoz push notifications are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Pipethoz pop-ups?

Fortunately, Pipethoz pop-up advertisements removal is pretty easy. They reside in the web browser and cannot conceal themselves in the system. However, as I pointed out above, some pop-up advertisements may deliver malicious programs to your computer. It is hard to predict all cases, and manual malware removal is inconvenient. Therefore, after disabling the pop-ups the best option is to use anti-malware software. I’d especially recommend that in the case when you have never clicked “Allow” to push notifications, and they still appeared. That can be a sign of adware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will perfectly fit both system recovery and malware removal purposes, thanks to its system recovery functionality and multi-layer detection system.

First and foremost, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to do in both manual and automatic manner. The former, obviously, requires 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 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 Pipethoz 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 Pipethoz Pop-ups?

Name: Pipethoz

Description: Pipethoz - 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 Pipethoz.com push notifications?” or “why do Pipethoz.com pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with Pipethoz 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.