Starlife.click Pop-up Ads Removal — How to Fix Your Browser?

Starlife.click pop-ups that appear while surfing the Web are the outcome of a malicious software activity that resides in your web browser. Such pop-ups emerge in excessive quantities, diverting and annoying you.

The most of the pop-ups from Starlife.click site are irrelevant to your choices, as it shows any promotional elements it gets a contract for. Given that many pages promoted in this way are not legit, it is obvious to expect them to contain dangerous content. In particular, they can throw you into diverse types of online scams.

What are Starlife.click push notifications?

By some of the properties, Starlife.click pop-ups are to standard pop-ups you may encounter on different websites. However, all the distinction – and malignancy – originates from this exact website. Pages like Starlife.click are often formed with only one objective – to propose unsuspecting people to allow pop-ups and then begin spamming them.

Brief description of the Starlife.click pop-ups:

Name	Starlife.click
Hosting	AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc. United States, San Francisco
IP Address	104.21.64.164
Malware type	Adware¹
Effect	Unwanted pop-up advertisements
Hazard level	Medium
Malware source	Apps from third-party websites, ads on dubious websites
Similar behavior	Primepcprotocol, Pickrtyads, News
Removal method	To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC

Ads by the Starlife.click site are not trustworthy either. At best, those will be totally unrelated promotions, that will still be irritating taking into account the frequency. However, more typical cases include advertisements of enigmatic deals with 90% reduction, adult sites ads or scam attempts. Presented here are some of the standard patterns for push ads spam:

Discover 5, 10, 20, or even 50 women near you who are eager to chat.
Sign in on this new crypto exchange website and receive a substantial crypto bonus.
Your system is infected with 15 viruses. Contact our tech support or perform an immediate scan.
You’ve received a new message on Facebook, Twitter, or WhatsApp. Beware of phishing links.
Visit this new, totally legitimate shopping site and claim your discount coupon.
up your computer with an incredibly effective system cleaner.

Due to the illicit promotional model of Starlife.click, no legitimate companies will really use their promotion services. Instead, the whole array of topics I’ve delineated above is managed by the same fraudulent actors as those who are responsible for Starlife.click. Occasionally, upon interaction with the pop-up notification, you might be thrown to another page that proposes activating pop-up advertisements. The activity of several sources of pop-ups can transform your browser into an pathway of a pop-up surge.

Starlife.click push notification.

Where did Starlife.click pop-ups come from?

The primary and most prevalent method to access the pop-up spamming site is to explore content on warez sites, pages containing pirated content, and the like. The people responsible for such questionable venues aim to offset expenses via redirects, often as a promotion tactic. This type of redirection is commonly known as an “anti-bot verification”.

An extra plausible source of pop-up advertisements is adware, currently active inside your system. It alters browser settings in a manner so it begins displaying Starlife.click pop-ups without your knowledge. However, this scenario is relatively uncommon, as such malware employs its own, more productive method to showcasing advertisements.

Are Starlife.click pop-up advertisements 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. Starlife.click site is ruled by fraudsters, who intentionally show tons of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any common sense and can launch sporadic pop-up ads into a storm of promotions. For weak systems, that may be enough to make the system slower. But that is not all troubles these push notifications carry.

As with any other thing related to illegal advertising, Starlife.click pop-up ads do not contain any legit deals to offer. Even though hackers make the ads 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, Starlife.click 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 Starlife.click pop-ups?

Reset your browsers manually

To reset Edge, do the following steps:

Open “Settings and more” tab in upper right corner, then find here “Settings” button. In the appeared menu, choose “Reset settings” option:

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:

Open Menu tab (three strips in upper right corner) and click the “Help” button. In the appeared menu choose “troubleshooting information”:

The first step to revert Mozilla Firefox

In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option:

If you use Google Chrome

Open Settings tab, find the “Advanced” button. In the extended tab choose the “Reset and clean up” button:

In the appeared list, click on the “Restore settings to their original defaults”:

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

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:

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:



# 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

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).

References

Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.