RockDriller.top Ads Notifications Removal

Rockdriller.top pop-up notifications appear out of the blue, bothering and annoying you. Still, that is way more than just notifications – their nature is cleanly malignant, and they may install other malware to your device. In this post, I will show you how to remove Rockdriller.top pop-up advertisements and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any time you interact with Rockdriller.top pop-ups will be useless at best. At worst, the websites it can show you may introduce malware to your system. These pop-up notifications may also advertise fake online 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 Rockdriller.top pop-ups?

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 push notifications and Rockdriller.top notifications is the malignant origins of the latter. Common pop-up advertisements are offered for you to enable with a benevolent purpose – keep you aware about the fresh publications, discounts and so on. It is a useful thing to help your website to keep visitor’s attention and help the interested users to have the best price.

Short summary of the Rockdriller.top pop-ups:

Rockdriller.top pop-up advertisements, as opposed, are related to unlegit sites. You will commonly observe the offer to turn them on following the redirection from another site. It’s OK to see redirects unless it throws you to such a questionable place. At that point, enabling pop-up notifications is served under the guise of the anti-bot filtering. Alternatively, the sites can deny showing you the content unless you turn on these pop-up notifications. These requirements should raise suspicion, as sites commonly feature a less obscure anti-bot mechanism. Witnessing this demand should be the reason to close the website right away. In some cases, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not get to the website – the sole page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up advertisements.

Rockdriller.top push notification.

How does it work?

The vast majority of browsers support turning on push notifications from websites. Sites, on the other hand, may send out notifications with the content of their choice. It may be an advertisement of the product published on this site, as well as a promotion of their partner page. As a result, you can see the pop-up from site X, but opening it will redirect you to website Y – because a referral link to the latter was added.

Crooks bear on this ability in their approach to gain money through advertising. They trick victims into allowing them to show the banners, and after that just spread numerous promotions of anyone they have a deal with. As you may suppose, no legit companies will have a business with fraudsters. All the Rockdriller.top push ads you may see lead to other fraudulent sites. At some point, the same victim can be trapped by several pop-up spamming sites, and its web browser will turn into a complete mess.

The banners these crooks 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 hundreds of users and make it hundreds of times each day – that is a way bigger sum. Even though the majority of these banners giving no result at all, it may still give all the participants a lot of money.

Are Rockdriller.top pop-up notifications dangerous?

Yes, they are. Initially, they can look non-threatening – just a blinking pop-up that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the things this window promotes differ drastically from what you used to see in pop-up ads. Rockdriller.top website is ruled by crooks, who intentionally spread tons of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any common sense and can make sporadic push notifications into a hurricane of promotions. 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, Rockdriller.top pop-up notifications don’t have legit offers. Even though hackers make the ads similar to ones from Amazon, Walmart or Ebay, the web page 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 pop-up ads 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, Rockdriller.top push notifications are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Rockdriller.top pop-ups?

Fortunately, Rockdriller.top pop-up ads removal is pretty easy. They sit in the web browser and cannot hide themselves in the system. Nonetheless, as I pointed out above, some pop-up notifications can deliver malicious programs to your system. It is hard to describe all of the cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is inconvenient. For that reason, after getting rid of the pop-up notifications it is recommended to use anti-malware software. I would especially recommend that if you have never clicked “Allow” to push notifications, but they still appeared. That can be a sign of malicious software activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will perfectly fit both recovery and malware scanning purposes, because of its system recovery functionality and advanced detection system.

Initially, you should reset your browser settings. You can do that in both manual and automatic manner. The former, obviously, requires 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 site 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 Rockdriller.top 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.