Softronline.click Ads Removal Guide — Fix Push Notification

Softronline.click pop-ups appear out of the blue, disturbing and annoying you. However, they are way more than simple pop-up ads – their nature is purely malicious, and they can install other malicious stuff to your PC. In this post, I will show you the guide how to remove Softronline.click push notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any interaction with Softronline.click pop-up notifications will be useless at best. In worst case scenario, the sites it can throw you to may introduce malware to your system. These pop-ups may also promote fake 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 Softronline.click 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 Softronline.click notifications is the malignant origins of the latter. Common pop-ups are offered for you to enable on different sites with a legitimate purpose – keep you aware about the latest posts, 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 Softronline.click pop-ups:

Softronline.click pop-ups, as opposed, are related to unlegit web pages. You will commonly see the offer to turn them on after a redirection from another site. There’s nothing bad in redirecting unless it throws you to such a dubious place. In this case, enabling pop-up ads is served under the guise of the anti-bot filtering. Alternatively, the websites may deny showing you the contents unless you enable these pop-up notifications. These demands should be the red flag, as websites commonly feature a different anti-bot mechanism. Spectating this requirement should be the reason to close the website right away. In some cases, even when you click “Allow”, you will not get to the website – the sole page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up notifications.

Softronline.click push notification.

How does this work?

The majority of web browsers support enabling push notifications from websites. Sites, on the other hand, may send notifications with the content they like. It may be an advertisement of the product posted on this site, or a promotion of the page of their partner. 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 built in.

Cybercriminals bear on this feature in their attempt to gain money using illegal advertising. They trick users into allowing the pop-ups, and then just spread hundreds of promotions of other crooks they have a deal with. As you can suppose, no normal organisations will have a deal with fraudsters. All the Softronline.click push ads you can see lead to other fraudulent sites. In some cases, the same victim may get into a trap of multiple pop-up spamming web pages, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.

The promotions these criminals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It commonly provides a miserable pay for one viewer, but when you have hundreds of users and make it hundreds of times each day – that is a much bigger sum. Even though the majority of these banners giving no result at all, it may still bring all the participants a lot of profit.

Are Softronline.click pop-up advertisements dangerous?

Yes, they are. At the surface, they may look non-threatening – just a blinking window that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the things this window promotes differ drastically from what you generally see in pop-up notifications. Softronline.click web page is ruled by crooks, who intentionally show hundreds of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any common sense and can launch sporadic pop-up advertisements into a storm of promotions. For weak computers, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But troubles are not over at this point.

As any other thing that touches illegal advertising, Softronline.click pop-ups don’t have legit offers. Even though hackers make the banners similar to ones from Amazon, Walmart or Ebay, the website these banners 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, Softronline.click 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 Softronline.click pop-ups?

Fortunately, Softronline.click pop-ups removal is not very complicated. They parasite in the web browser and can’t conceal themselves among system files. Nevertheless, as I stated before, some pop-up advertisements may introduce malicious software to your system. It is hard to predict all of the cases, and manual malware removal is a bad idea. Thus, after disabling the push notifications the best option is to use anti-malware software. I would especially recommend that in the case when you have never clicked “Allow” to pop-up notifications, and they still appeared. That may point at adware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both recovery and malware checkup purposes, thanks to 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 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.

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 Softronline.click 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 Softronline.click Pop-ups?

Name: Softronline.click

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