Statusklic.info Notification Removal — How to Fix Your Browser

Statusklic.info pop-ups that appear while browsing the Web are the outcome of a malicious software infection that resides within your browser. Such pop-ups emerge in ample quantities, diverting and annoying you.

Most of the pop-ups from Statusklic.info site are irrelevant to your choices, as it displays any promotional elements it gets a contract for. Given that numerous services promoted in this fashion are not legitimate, it is clear to anticipate them to feature malicious content. In particular, they can throw you into various types of web deceptions.

What are Statusklic.info pop-up advertisements?

By some of the properties, Statusklic.info pop-ups are similar to normal pop-ups you may encounter on legit websites. However, all the difference – and harmfulness – stems from this exact website. Pages like Statusklic.info are often created with only one purpose – to present unsuspecting people to allow pop-ups and then start spamming them.

Short summary of the Statusklic.info pop-up ads:

Name	Statusklic.info
Hosting	AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc. United States, San Francisco
IP Address	188.114.97.3
Malware type	Adware¹
Effect	Unwanted pop-up advertisements
Hazard level	Medium
Malware source	Apps from third-party websites, ads on dubious websites
Similar behavior	News, Openmostswiftinfo, Speedydeal
Removal method	To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC

Ads by the Statusklic.info site are not legit either. At best, those will be totally irrelevant promotions, that will still be bothersome considering the frequency. Nevertheless, more frequent cases encompass advertisements of obscure deals with 90% discount, adult web pages ads or deception attempts. Here are some of the traditional patterns for pop-ups spam:

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 95% discount coupon.
Sign in on this new crypto exchange website and receive a substantial crypto bonus.
Discover 5 (10, 20, or even 50) women near you who are eager to chat.
Speed up your computer with an incredibly effective system cleaner.

Due to the illegal advertising model of Statusklic.info, no authentic corporations will actually employ their promotion services. Instead, the whole array of matters I’ve outlined above is handled by the same scammy actors as those who stand behind Statusklic.info. Sometimes, upon clicking to the pop-up promotion, you might be redirected to another page that offers activating pop-up advertisements. The activity of numerous origins of pop-ups can transform your browser into an avenue of a pop-up surge.

Statusklic.info push notification.

Where did Statusklic.info pop-ups come from?

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

An extra plausible cause of pop-up advertisements is adware, currently active inside of your system. It modifies browser settings in a way so it starts displaying Statusklic.info pop-ups without your consent. However, this circumstance is relatively rare, as such malware employs its own, more efficient technique to showcasing advertisements.

Are Statusklic.info pop-up advertisements dangerous?

Yes, they are. At the surface, they may look harmless – just a blinking pop-up that appears from time to time. However, the things this window promotes differ drastically from what you used to see in pop-up advertisements. Statusklic.info web page 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 ads. For weak computers, that may be enough to make the system slower. But troubles are not over at this point.

As with any other thing that touches illegal advertising, Statusklic.info pop-up advertisements don’t have legit offers. Even though crooks make the banners similar to ones from well-known retailers, the web page 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, Statusklic.info pop-ups are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Statusklic.info 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 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

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.