Remove Play.copperblade.top Virus — How to Fix Guide

Play.copperblade.top push notifications appear out of the blue, detracting and annoying you. However, that is much more than simple pop-ups – their origins is surely malicious, and they may introduce other malicious stuff to your computer. In this post, I will show you how to remove Play.copperblade.top pop-up notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any time you interact with Play.copperblade.top pop-ups will be ineffective at best. At worst, the websites it can show you can introduce malware to your system. These pop-up advertisements may 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.

What are Play.copperblade.top pop-ups?

Brief summary of the Play.copperblade.top pop-up ads:

Play.copperblade.top pop-up notifications, on the other hand, have a deal with less legit sites. You will generally see the offer to enable them following the redirection from another site. Redirects are OK unless they throw you into such a dubious place. In this case, enabling pop-up ads is offered as the anti-bot check. Alternatively, the websites may deny showing you the contents unless you turn on these pop-up ads. These demands should be the red flag, as websites usually feature a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Seeing this offer should be the reason to close the website right away. Sometimes, even when you click “Allow”, you will not get to the website – the only page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-ups.

How does this work?

The majority of browsers support turning on push notifications from websites. Websites, on the other hand, can send out notifications with the content they like. It can be a promotion of the page posted on this website, as well as a promotion of the page of their partner. As a result, you can see the push notification from site X, but clicking it will redirect you to website Y – because a referral link to the latter was built in.

The promotions these rascals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It generally provides a miserable payment for one view, but when you have a huge number of victims and show them hundreds of ads every day – that is a much more significant sum. Despite the majority of such ads are ineffective, it may still give all the parties a lot of money.

Are Play.copperblade.top pop-up notifications dangerous?

Yes, they are. At the surface, they may look non-threatening – just a colourful window that appears from time to time. However, the contents of this window differ drastically from what you used to see in pop-up advertisements. Play.copperblade.top site is ruled by crooks, who intentionally show tons of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any common sense and can make sporadic pop-up ads into a hurricane of ads. For weak computers, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But problems are not over at this point.

How to remove Play.copperblade.top pop-ups?

First and foremost, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to accomplish 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 manually

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

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. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.