Remove Secret Dating Place Top Ads Virus — How to Remove?

Secret Dating Place Top pop-up advertisements appear out of the blue, bothering and annoying you. Nonetheless, they are way more than just notifications – their nature is purely malignant, and they can introduce other malicious stuff to your device. In this post, I will show you how to remove Secret Dating Place Top push notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any interaction with Secret Dating Place Top pop-up advertisements will be useless at best. In worst case scenario, the sites it can open can 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 Secret Dating Place 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 notifications and Secret Dating Place Top pop-ups is the malignant origins of the latter. Normal pop-up ads are offered for you to enable with a benevolent purpose – notify you about the fresh articles, goods for sale and so on. It is a useful tool to help your site to keep visitors and help the interested users to have the best deal.

Short summary of the Secretdatingplace.top pop-ups:

Secret Dating Place Top pop-up advertisements, on the other hand, have a deal with untrustworthy sites. You will generally see the proposition to turn them on after a redirection from another site. It’s OK to see redirects unless they throw you into such a dubious place. In this case, enabling pop-up ads is served under the guise of the anti-bot check. In other cases, the websites can refuse to show you the content unless you turn on these pop-ups. These demands should already raise suspicion, as sites generally feature a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Spectating such an requirement should be the reason to skip the page right away. In some cases, even when you click “Allow”, you will not see the site – the only page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-ups.

Secret Dating Place Top push notification.

How does this work?

Most of web browsers support enabling pop-ups from sites. Sites, on the other hand, may send out notifications with the content of their choice. It may be an advertisement of the product or a page published on this particular website, or an ad of their partner page. As a result, you may see the push notification from site X, but interacting with it will throw you to site Y – because a link to the latter was embedded.

Scoundrels rely on this ability in their approach to earn money through advertising. They trick victims into turning on pop-ups, and then just spread numerous banners of other crooks they contract with. As you can suppose, no normal organisations will have a deal with fraudsters. All the Secret Dating Place Top push ads you can see lead to other fraudulent sites. At some point, the same user can get into a trap of multiple pop-up spamming sites, and its web browser will turn into a complete mess.

The banners these rascals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It usually provides a negligible pay for one view, but when you can send ads to a huge number of victims and make it hundreds of times each day – that is a way bigger sum. Despite most of these ads are ineffective, it may still bring all the participants a lot of profit.

Are Secret Dating Place Top push notifications dangerous?

Yes, they are. At the surface, they can look harmless – just a colourful window that appears from time to time. However, the contents of this window differ drastically from what you generally see in push notifications. Secretdatingplace.top site is controlled by crooks, who deliberately spread tons of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any manners of advertising and can launch sporadic pop-ups into a hurricane of ads. For weak computers, that may be enough to make the system slower. But problems are not over at this point.

As any other thing related to illegal advertising, Secret Dating Place Top pop-up notifications don’t have legit deals to offer. Even when crooks make the ads looking similar to ones from Walmart or Amazon, 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 pop-up ads 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, Secret Dating Place Top push notifications are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Secret Dating Place Top pop-ups?

Fortunately, Secret Dating Place Top pop-ups removal is pretty easy. They reside in the browser and cannot conceal themselves on a disk. Nevertheless, as I pointed out before, some push notifications may introduce malware to your system. It is nearly impossible to predict all of the cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is inconvenient. Thus, after removing the source of the pop-up advertisements the best option is to use anti-malware software. I would especially recommend that if you have never allowed pop-up ads, and they still appeared. This situation can be a sign of malicious software activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both system recovery and malware removal purposes, because of its abilities of system recovery and multi-component detection system.

Initially, you should reset your browser settings. You can do that in manual or automated way. The former, obviously, takes 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 Secret Dating Place 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).

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