Scadsmoney Pop-up Virus — How to Remove Unwanted Ads?

Scadsmoney pop-up advertisements appear when you do not expect, distracting and irritating you. However, they are slightly more than annoying pop-ups – their essence is surely malignant, and they may install other malware to your device. In this post, I will guide you on how to remove Scadsmoney pop-up notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any time you interact with Scadsmoney pop-up advertisements will be useless at best. At worst, the websites it can throw you to may introduce malware to your system. These pop-up notifications can also advertise fake shopping sites 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 Scadsmoney pop-up 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 push notifications and Scadsmoney pop-ups is the malicious origins of the latter. Normal pop-up ads are offered for you to enable with a understandable purpose – notify you about the latest articles, discounts and so on. It is a useful thing to help your website to retain visitors and help the interested users to have the best deal.

Short summary of the Scadsmoney.com pop-ups:

Scadsmoney pop-up advertisements, as opposed, are related to untrustworthy websites. You will commonly see the proposition to turn them on following the redirection from another page. Redirects are OK unless it throws you to such a questionable place. At that point, enabling pop-up advertisements is served as the anti-bot check-up. In other cases, the sites may refuse to show you the contents unless you apply these pop-up notifications. These demands should already be the red flag, as sites commonly have a less obscure anti-bot mechanism. Spectating such an demand should be the reason to leave the page right away. Sometimes, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not get to the web page – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the push notifications.

Scadsmoney push notification.

How does it work?

The majority of web browsers support enabling push notifications from websites. Websites, on the other hand, can send out notifications with the content they like. It can be an advertisement of the product listed on this particular site, or a promotion of the page of their partner. As a result, you can see the pop-up from site X, but clicking it will throw you to website Y – because a referral link to the latter was embedded.

Cyber burglars bear on this feature in their attempt to gain money through advertising. They trick victims into turning on pop-ups, and after that just spread hundreds of ads of anyone they have a deal with. As you can suppose, no normal organisations will have a business with fraudsters. All the Scadsmoney popups you can see lead to other fraudulent sites. In some cases, the same victim may 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 pay for one person, but when you have a huge number of victims and show them hundreds of ads every day – that is a much more significant sum. Even though most of these ads are ineffective, it may still give all the parties a lot of profit.

Are Scadsmoney pop-up notifications dangerous?

Yes, they are. Initially, they may look harmless – just a blinking window that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the contents of this window differ drastically from what you generally see in push notifications. Scadsmoney.com site is controlled by fraudsters, who intentionally spread hundreds and thousands of malicious 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 problems these pop-up advertisements carry.

As any other thing related to illegal ads, Scadsmoney pop-up ads do not contain any legit offers. Even though hackers make the banners similar to ones from Amazon, Walmart or Ebay, the site 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, Scadsmoney 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 Scadsmoney pop-ups?

Fortunately, Scadsmoney pop-ups removal is not very complicated. They parasite in the browser and can’t conceal themselves in the system. Nevertheless, as I told before, some pop-up notifications can deliver malicious software to your system. It is nearly impossible to show all of the cases, and manual malware removal is a bad idea. For that reason, after disabling the pop-up ads the best option is to use anti-malware software. That is especially recommended if you have never allowed push notifications, but they still appeared. This situation may point at malware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both recovery and malware scanning purposes, because of its abilities of system recovery and multi-component detection system.

First and foremost, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to accomplish in both manual and automatic manner. The former, obviously, requires more time to complete and may 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 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 Scadsmoney 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 Scadsmoney Pop-ups?

Name: Scadsmoney

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