Remove Runicmaster.top Pop-up Ads — How to Fix Gude

Runicmaster.top pop-up notifications appear out of the blue, distracting and irritating you. Nonetheless, they are much more than annoying notifications – their origins is clearly malicious, and they may install other malicious stuff to your system. In this post, I will show you how to remove Runicmaster.top pop-up advertisements and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any interaction with Runicmaster.top pop-ups will be ineffective at best. At worst, the pages it can show you may introduce malware to your system. These push notifications can also promote 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 Runicmaster.top push notifications?

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 ads and Runicmaster.top pop-ups is the malicious origins of the latter. Common pop-ups are offered for you to enable with a straightforward purpose – keep you aware about the latest publications, goods for sale and so on. It is a useful tool to help your website to retain visitors and help the interested visitors to have the best deal.

Brief description of the Runicmaster.top pop-ups:

Runicmaster.top push notifications, in contrast, have a deal with untrustworthy sites. You will generally see the proposition to enable them after a redirection from another website. It’s OK to see redirects unless they throw you into such a questionable place. In this case, enabling pop-up ads is offered as the anti-DDoS filtering. Alternatively, the web pages can deny showing you the content unless you enable these pop-up advertisements. These demands should raise suspicion, as sites generally have a different anti-bot mechanism. Spectating such an demand is a reason to skip the website right away. In some cases, even when you click “Allow”, you will not see the website – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up ads.

Runicmaster.top push notification.

How does it work?

The majority of web browsers support turning on pop-ups from sites. Sites, on the other hand, may send out notifications with the content they like. It may be an advertisement of the product or a page posted on this particular site, as well as an ad of their partner page. As a result, you can see the push notification from site X, but clicking it will direct you to website Y – because a referral link to the latter was embedded.

Scoundrels bear on this feature in their attempt to gain money using illegal advertising. They trick victims into turning on pop-ups, and after that just spread hundreds of ads of other crooks they have a deal with. As you may suppose, no legit companies will have a deal with fraudsters. All the Runicmaster.top push ads you can see lead to other untrustworthy sites. At some point, the same user may get into a trap of multiple pop-up spamming web pages, and its 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 viewer, but when you have hundreds of users and show them hundreds of ads each day – that is a way bigger sum. Even though most of such banners giving no result at all, it may still bring all the participants a lot of profit.

Are Runicmaster.top pop-up notifications dangerous?

Yes, they are. Initially, they may look non-threatening – just a colourful window that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the contents of this window differ drastically from what you used to see in pop-up notifications. Runicmaster.top web page is ruled by fraudsters, who deliberately spread hundreds of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any manners of advertising and can make sporadic pop-up advertisements into a storm of banners. For weak systems, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But troubles are not over at this point.

As any other thing related to illegal ads, Runicmaster.top pop-ups do not contain any legit deals to offer. Even though crooks make the banners similar to ones from Walmart or Amazon, the website 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-ups 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, Runicmaster.top pop-up advertisements are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Runicmaster.top pop-ups?

Fortunately, Runicmaster.top pop-up notifications removal is not very complicated. They sit in the browser and can’t hide themselves in the system. Nevertheless, as I told before, some pop-up ads can promote malicious software to your system. It is nearly impossible to show all of the cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is a bad idea. For that reason, after getting rid of the pop-ups it is recommended to use anti-malware software. I would especially recommend that if you have never allowed push notifications, and they still appeared. That may be a sign of malicious software activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will perfectly fit both recovery and malware scanning purposes, thanks to its system recovery functionality and superb detection system.

First of all, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to do 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 can 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 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

After removing the Runicmaster.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 Runicmaster.top Pop-ups?

Name: Runicmaster.top

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