Remove Redirect Path Virus — How to Fix Guide

Redirect Path pop-up notifications appear when you do not expect, detracting and annoying you. However, that is way more than simple pop-up ads – their origins is surely malicious, and they may install other malicious stuff to your computer. In this post, I will guide you on how to remove Redirect Path pop-up notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any time you interact with Redirect Path push notifications will be useless at best. At worst, the web pages it can open may introduce malware to your system. These pop-up notifications may also promote fake 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 Redirect Path 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 notifications and Redirect Path 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 publications, goods for sale and so on. It is an effective approach to help your site to keep visitors and help the interested ones to have the best deal.

Brief summary of the Redirect-path.com pop-up ads:

Redirect Path pop-ups, as opposed, are related to untrustworthy sites. You will commonly witness the proposition to enable them after a redirection from another site. It’s OK to see redirects unless it throws you to such a questionable place. At that point, turning on pop-ups is served as the anti-DDoS check. Alternatively, the sites can deny showing you the content unless you apply these pop-up advertisements. These theses should already raise suspicion, as websites generally have a different anti-bot mechanism. Spectating this requirement should be the reason to skip the site doubtlessly. In some cases, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not get to the website – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the push notifications.

Redirect Path push notification.

How does this work?

Most of web browsers support enabling push notifications from sites. Sites, on the other hand, can send notifications with the content they like. It may be a promotion of the product or a page listed for sale on this particular site, as well as a promotion of the page of their partner. As a result, you can see the push notification from site X, but interacting with it will direct you to site Y – because a link to the latter was added.

Cybercriminals rely on this ability in their approach to gain money through advertising. They trick victims into turning on pop-ups, and then just spread hundreds of promotions of other crooks they contract with. As you may suppose, no normal companies will contract with fraudsters. All the Redirect Path popups you can see lead to other fraudulent sites. At some point, the same user can get into a trap of multiple pop-up spamming web pages, and its web browser will turn into a complete mess.

The ads these rascals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It usually provides a negligible pay for one person, but when you can send ads to a huge number of victims and make it hundreds of times every day – that is a much bigger sum. Even though most of these ads giving no result at all, it may still give all the parties a lot of money.

Are Redirect Path pop-up advertisements dangerous?

Yes, they are. At the surface, they may look safe – just a blinking pop-up that appears from time to time. However, the things this window promotes differ drastically from what you generally see in pop-ups. Redirect-path.com web page is ruled by crooks, who deliberately throw hundreds and thousands of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any common sense and can make sporadic pop-ups into a storm of promotions. For weak computers, that may be enough to make the system slower. But problems are not over at this point.

As with any other thing related to illegal advertising, Redirect Path pop-up ads don’t have legit deals to offer. Even though crooks make the ads similar to ones from Walmart or Amazon, 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, Redirect Path 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 Redirect Path pop-ups?

Fortunately, Redirect Path push notifications removal is not very complicated. They parasite in the browser and can’t conceal themselves on a disk. Nevertheless, as I stated above, some pop-up ads can deliver malicious software to your system. It is nearly impossible to describe all cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is a bad idea. Therefore, after disabling the pop-up ads the best option is to use anti-malware software. This step is especially recommended if you have never clicked “Allow” to pop-ups, but they still appeared. That can point at adware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will perfectly fit both recovery and malware scanning and 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 accomplish in manual or automated way. 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 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 Redirect Path 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.