Stormhammer.top Notification Removal — How to Fix Your Browser

Stormhammer.top pop-up advertisements appear out of the blue, detracting and irritating you. Nonetheless, they are much more than simple pop-up ads – their essence is cleanly malicious, and they can install other malware to your system. In this post, I will show you the guide how to remove Stormhammer.top pop-up notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any interaction with Stormhammer.top push notifications will be ineffective at best. At worst, the websites it can open can introduce malware to your system. These pop-up advertisements may also advertise 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 Stormhammer.top pop-ups?

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-ups and Stormhammer.top notifications is the malicious origins of the latter. Normal pop-up notifications are offered for you to enable with a legitimate purpose – keep you aware about the latest articles, discounts and so on. It is a useful thing to help your site to keep visitors and help the interested visitors to have the best price.

Brief summary of the Stormhammer.top pop-ups:

Stormhammer.top pop-up advertisements, as opposed, are related to less legit websites. You will commonly witness the proposition to enable them following the redirection from another page. It’s OK to see redirects unless they throw you into such a dubious place. At that point, turning on pop-up advertisements is offered as the anti-bot check-up. Alternatively, the sites may deny showing you the contents unless you apply these pop-up ads. These theses should be the red flag, as sites generally have a less obscure anti-bot mechanism. Witnessing such an demand is a reason to close the website right away. Sometimes, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not get to the site – the sole page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up ads.

Stormhammer.top push notification.

How does this work?

The majority of browsers support turning on pop-ups from sites. Websites, on the other hand, can send out notifications with the content they want. It may be a promotion of the product or a page published on this site, or a promotion of the page of their partner. As a result, you may see the pop-up from site X, but opening it will redirect you to site Y – because a link to that website was built in.

Scoundrels bear on this ability in their attempt to earn money through advertising. They trick victims into turning on pop-ups, and then just spread hundreds of promotions of anyone they have a deal with. As you can suppose, no image-caring organisations will contract with fraudsters. All the Stormhammer.top push ads you can see lead to other untrustworthy 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 ads these crooks show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It commonly provides a negligible commission for one person, but when you have hundreds of users and make it hundreds of times every day – that is a way bigger sum. Even though the majority of these banners are ineffective, it may still give all the participants a lot of profit.

Are Stormhammer.top pop-up ads dangerous?

Yes, they are. Initially, they may look non-threatening – just a blinking window that appears from time to time. However, the contents of this window differ sharply from what you used to see in pop-up ads. Stormhammer.top site is ruled by crooks, who intentionally throw hundreds of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any manners of advertising and can launch sporadic pop-up ads into a hurricane of banners. For weak computers, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But troubles are not over at this point.

As with any other thing that touches illegal advertising, Stormhammer.top pop-up ads lack legit deals to offer. Even though crooks make the banners similar to ones from well-known retailers, the site 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-ups 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, Stormhammer.top 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 Stormhammer.top pop-ups?

Fortunately, Stormhammer.top pop-up ads removal is pretty easy. They sit in the browser and cannot conceal themselves in the system. Nevertheless, as I stated before, some pop-up ads can introduce malware to your computer. It is hard to predict all of the cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is a poor idea. For that reason, after disabling the push notifications the best option is to use anti-malware software. I would especially recommend that if you have never clicked “Allow” to pop-ups, and they still appeared. This situation can be a sign of malicious software activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both recovery and malware scanning purposes, thanks to its system recovery functionality 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.

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 Stormhammer.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).

How to Remove Stormhammer.top Pop-ups?

Name: Stormhammer.top

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