Remove Sarcley Virus — How to Fix Guide

Sarcley pop-up notifications appear when you do not expect, disturbing and irritating you. Still, they are slightly more than annoying pop-ups – their essence is clearly malicious, and they may install other malicious stuff to your system. In this article, I will guide you on how to remove Sarcley pop-up advertisements and explain how to avoid them in the future.

What are Sarcley 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 advertisements and Sarcley pop-ups is the malicious origins of the latter. Common pop-up ads are offered for you to enable on different sites with a understandable purpose – keep you aware about the latest posts, discounts 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 description of the Sarcley.com pop-up ads:

Sarcley pop-ups, as opposed, are related to untrustworthy sites. You will generally witness the offer to turn them on following the redirection from another website. It’s OK to see redirects unless they throw you into such a dubious place. At that point, turning on pop-up notifications is served under the guise of the anti-bot filtering. In other cases, the websites can refuse to show you the content unless you turn on these pop-up advertisements. These theses should raise suspicion, as websites commonly feature a different anti-bot mechanism. Witnessing such an requirement is a reason to leave the site right away. In some cases, even when you click “Allow”, you will not see the site – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up ads.

How does this work?

The vast majority of browsers support turning on pop-ups from sites. Websites, on the other hand, can send notifications with the content they like. It can be a promotion of the product listed on this site, as well as a promotion of the page of their partner. As a result, you can see the pop-up from site X, but interacting with it will direct you to site Y – because a referral link to that website was embedded.

Cyber burglars rely on this ability in their approach to earn money using illegal advertising. They trick victims into allowing them to show the banners, and then just spread hundreds of ads of anyone they have a deal with. As you can suppose, no normal companies will have a deal with fraudsters. All the Sarcley popups you may see lead to other untrustworthy sites. In some cases, the same victim may get into a trap of several pop-up spamming websites, and its web browser will turn into a complete mess.

The ads these criminals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It usually provides a negligible payment for one view, but when you have a huge number of victims and show them hundreds of ads every day – that is a way bigger sum. Even though the majority of these ads giving no result at all, it may still give all the parties a lot of profit.

Are Sarcley pop-up ads 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 contents of this window differ sharply from what you used to see in pop-ups. Sarcley.com web page is ruled by crooks, who intendedly spread tons of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any common sense and can launch sporadic pop-up advertisements into a storm of banners. For weak computers, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But that is not all troubles these pop-ups carry.

As with any other thing that touches illegal advertising, Sarcley push notifications lack legit deals to offer. Even though crooks make the banners similar to ones from Walmart or Amazon, the web page these banners 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, Sarcley 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 Sarcley pop-ups?

First and foremost, you should reset your browser settings. You can do that in both manual and automatic manner. 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 manually

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

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. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.