Runesmith.top Ads Removal Guide — How to Fix It?

Runesmith.top push notifications appear out of the blue, distracting and irritating you. Nonetheless, they are much more than annoying pop-ups – their essence is clearly malignant, and they may install other malware to your system. In this article, I will show you the guide how to remove Runesmith.top pop-ups and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any interaction with Runesmith.top pop-up notifications will be ineffective at best. At worst, the web pages it can throw you to can introduce malware to your system. These pop-up advertisements may also advertise 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 Runesmith.top 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 Runesmith.top notifications is the malicious origins of the latter. Normal push notifications are offered for you to enable with a legitimate purpose – notify you about the fresh publications, goods for sale and so on. It is an effective approach to help your website to keep visitors and help the interested users to have the best price.

Brief summary of the Runesmith.top pop-ups:

Runesmith.top pop-up advertisements, on the other hand, have a deal with unlegit websites. You will generally witness the offer to enable them after a redirection from another site. There’s nothing bad in redirecting unless it throws you to such a dubious place. In this case, turning on pop-up advertisements is served as the anti-DDoS filtering. Alternatively, the web pages may refuse to show you the content unless you apply these pop-ups. These requirements should raise suspicion, as websites usually feature a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Witnessing this requirement is a reason to close the site doubtlessly. Sometimes, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not see the site – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the push notifications.

Runesmith.top push notification.

How does this work?

The vast majority of web browsers support turning on pop-ups from sites. Sites, on the other hand, can send out notifications with the content they like. It may be a promotion of the page listed on this particular site, as well as a promotion of their partner page. As a result, you can see the push notification from site X, but opening it will throw you to website Y – because a referral link to that website was added.

Cybercriminals bear on this feature in their approach to earn money through advertising. They trick users into turning on 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 Runesmith.top push ads you can see lead to other fraudulent sites. At some point, the same victim may get into a trap of several 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 generally provides a miserable commission for one view, but when you have hundreds of victims and show them hundreds of ads every day – that is a way bigger sum. Even though most of these banners giving no result at all, it can still give all the parties a lot of profit.

Are Runesmith.top pop-up ads dangerous?

Yes, they are. At the surface, they may look harmless – just a blinking window that appears from time to time. However, the contents of this window differ sharply from what you generally see in pop-up notifications. Runesmith.top web page is controlled by fraudsters, who intendedly throw tons of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any manners of advertising and can launch sporadic pop-up advertisements into a storm of promotions. For weak computers, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But that is not all troubles these pop-up notifications carry.

As with any other thing related to illegal advertising, Runesmith.top pop-up notifications do not contain any legit deals to offer. Even when crooks make the ads similar to ones from Walmart or Amazon, 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 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, Runesmith.top 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 Runesmith.top pop-ups?

Fortunately, Runesmith.top pop-ups removal is pretty easy. They reside in the browser and can’t conceal themselves on a disk. Nonetheless, as I pointed out before, some pop-up advertisements can deliver malware to your system. It is nearly impossible to predict all of the cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is a poor idea. Therefore, after getting rid of the pop-up ads the best option is to use anti-malware software. That is especially recommended if you have never allowed pop-up advertisements, but they still appeared. That can be a sign of malware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will perfectly fit both system recovery and malware scanning purposes, thanks to its abilities of system recovery 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 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 Runesmith.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).

How to Remove Runesmith.top Pop-ups?

Name: Runesmith.top

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