RoboCheck Pop-up Ads Removal Guide — How to uninstall notifications?

RoboCheck pop-up notices can show up unexpectedly, covering the content of the website you checked or opening your web browser when you do not want it to be opened. Clicking on the RoboCheck pop-up promotion may lead to the injection of other malware or unwanted programs. In this post, you will see the manual of RoboCheck popups clearing in a couple of ways, and also check your computer for extra viruses presence.

What are RoboCheck pop-ups?

RoboCheck popups are a consequence of adware presence. Adware is a kind of malware that suggests the pay-per-view of pay-per-click promotions, which produces a major amount of revenue for adware suppliers. These promotions may consist of explicit information, or have a web link to malevolent content/website, due to the fact that adware maintainers have no reason to examine the goodness of the content they are going to show – their solitary target is money.

Pop-up promotions itself is a good, low-cost and also very successful marketing tool¹ It enables the seller to attach the customers’ attention to their website, as well as the customers to receive dynamic updates on the goods they intend to buy. When the person will receive a pop-up alert that the TV set he likes to purchase is available at the online shop he/she saw previously with a 15% discount, one will undoubtedly use this possibility and get it. Considering the incredibly low cost for the popups and their targeting, such a marketing tool is a much-loved thing among the marketing departments of big online sellers.

However, such a rewarding strategy could not be missed by malware developers. Option to show the popup advertisements forcibly to the people of a malware attack is a perfect basis for evil-minded manipulations with the popup advertisements. And RoboCheck ads are just one of the hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a some variants for the RoboCheck sites:

RoboCheck Notification

RoboCheck Notification

RoboCheck Notification

How have I got the RoboCheck virus?

There are a plenty of methods of getting contaminated by the adware that trigger the RoboCheck popups storm. A lion’s part of this malware incident is after the free software or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Free software can additionally be downloaded from the official website, and the adware is delivered as a legitimate bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A number of individuals frequently work with uncertain programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, different tools that are free of cost, and even hacked programs. Every one of these types of programs is dangerous, due to the fact that it is quite simple to integrate a RoboCheck malware under the cover of part of the license hacking script, or as a component of the self-made algorithm within the Windows optimization tool.

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

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

The guide of RoboCheck adware elimination contains 2 sections. First, we need to exterminate the malware, and afterward correct the results of its activity. The removal task is very simple, due to the fact that it can be done even with making use of Microsoft Defender – anti-malware tool that is present on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. Nevertheless, as a result of its huge resource utilization, as well as some defects that may be pivotal for some groups of users, Defender is frequently disabled by the users, so its usage is probably impossible. Additionally, different trojan viruses are able to turn off the embedded antivirus. It is better to use a separate program that will not have such weakness.

• 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 RoboCheck malware the default option is “Delete”. Press “Apply” to finish the malware removal.

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 web browser will connect the appropriate DNS while connecting to the site you need. Create a text file named “hosts” on your computer’s desktop, after that 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.

However, there is one problem that makes things a lot more difficult to fix, particularly without the anti-malware software. The majority of adware variations that are used to show you the RoboCheck pop-up advertisements are changing the deep browser configurations, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to change your browser settings after your PC was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will certainly collapse quickly. In some cases, you will see no crash, but a significant lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. The browser will stop responding for ~ 30 secs, and afterward, it will be back to the typical, till you try to open settings once more.

1. More about pop-up ads on Wikipedia.
2. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.