Remove Searchessearches Pop-up Ads — How to Fix Gude

Written by Wilbur Woodham
Searchessearches push notifications appear out of the blue, disturbing and annoying you. Still, they are slightly more than just notifications – their origins is cleanly malignant, and they may bring other malicious stuff to your PC. In this post, I will show you the guide how to remove Searchessearches pop-up notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any interaction with Searchessearches pop-ups will be useless at best. At worst, the pages it can open can introduce malware to your system. These pop-up advertisements 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 Searchessearches 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 pop-up ads and Searchessearches notifications is the malignant origins of the latter. Normal push notifications are offered for you to enable on different sites with a understandable purpose – notify you about the new publications, discounts 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 description of the Searchessearches.com pop-up ads:
Name Searchessearches.com
Hosting AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.
United States, San Francisco
IP Address 104.21.13.247
Malware type Adware1
Effect Unwanted pop-up advertisements
Hazard level Medium
Malware source Apps from third-party websites, ads on dubious websites
Similar behavior Premiumworldapp, News, Siteforyou1d
Removal method
To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC

Searchessearches pop-up ads, in contrast, have a deal with untrustworthy websites. You will commonly see the offer to enable them after a redirection from another website. Redirects are OK unless it throws you to such a dubious place. At that point, enabling pop-ups is served under the guise of the anti-bot filtering. In other cases, the sites may refuse to show you the contents unless you turn on these pop-up ads. These requirements should already be the red flag, as sites usually have a less obscure anti-bot mechanism. Spectating this demand is a reason to skip the website doubtlessly. Sometimes, even when you click “Allow”, you will not get to the web page – the only page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up advertisements.

Searchessearches push notification

Searchessearches push notification.

How does this work?

The majority of browsers support enabling push notifications from sites. Sites, on the other hand, can send notifications with the content they want. It may be an advertisement of the page listed for sale 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 website Y – because a link to the latter was added.

Crooks bear on this feature in their approach to earn money using illegal advertising. They trick victims into allowing them to show the banners, and then just spread numerous ads of anyone they contract with. As you can suppose, no image-caring companies will have a business with fraudsters. All the Searchessearches notifications you can see lead to other fraudulent sites. In some cases, the same user may get into a trap of several pop-up spamming sites, and its web browser will turn into a complete mess.

The promotions these crooks show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It usually provides a negligible commission for one viewer, but when you can send ads to a huge number of users and make it hundreds of times every day – that is a way bigger sum. Despite the majority of these banners giving no result at all, it may still bring all the participants a lot of profit.

Are Searchessearches pop-ups dangerous?

Yes, they are. Initially, they may look safe – just a blinking window that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the contents of this window differ drastically from what you used to see in push notifications. Searchessearches.com web page is ruled by fraudsters, who intentionally throw tons 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 make the system slower. But troubles are not over at this point.

Why people dislike popups

As with any other thing that touches illegal ads, Searchessearches push notifications don’t have legit offers. Even though crooks make the banners similar to ones from well-known retailers, the website 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, Searchessearches pop-up notifications are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Searchessearches pop-ups?

Fortunately, Searchessearches pop-up advertisements removal is pretty easy. They sit in the browser and can’t hide themselves among system files. Nevertheless, as I told before, some pop-up ads may introduce malware to your computer. It is nearly impossible to predict all of the cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is a poor idea. Therefore, after removing the source of the pop-up notifications it is recommended to use anti-malware software. That is especially recommended in the case when you have never clicked “Allow” to pop-ups, and they still appeared. That may point at malware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both recovery and malware checkup purposes, thanks to its abilities of system recovery and advanced detection system.

Initially, you should reset your browser settings. You can do that in manual or automated way. 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.

Tools tab in GridinSoft Anti-Malware

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.

Reset Browser Settings tab in GridinSoft Anti-Malware

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. Reseting the Edge browser

  3. 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. The first step to revert Mozilla Firefox

  3. In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option:
  4. The second step of Firefox restoration
    After choosing this option, you will see the next message:
    The last step for Firefox
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:


# Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
# localhost name resolution is handle within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost

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 Searchessearches 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.

GridinSoft Anti-Malware during the scan 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).

GridinSoft scan finished

How to Remove Searchessearches Pop-ups?

Name: Searchessearches

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

  1. More about this malware type on GridinSoft Encyclopedia.
  2. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.

About the author

Wilbur Woodham

I was a technical writer from early in my career, and consider IT Security one of my foundational skills. I’m sharing my experience here, and I hope you find it useful.

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