How to remove SultrySpotDating pop-ups? — Fix Guide

SultrySpotDating pop-up notifications appear when you do not expect them, detracting and annoying you. However, that is much more than annoying pop-ups – their origins is cleanly malicious, and they can bring other malware to your computer. In this post, I will show you how to remove SultrySpotDating pop-ups and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any interaction with SultrySpotDating push notifications will be ineffective at best. In the worst-case scenario, the sites it can open can introduce malware to your system. These pop-up notifications can also promote fake shopping sites that take your money and payment info. The latter generally loses all the money you have on the exposed card.

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What are SultrySpotDating pop-up advertisements?

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 push notifications and SultrySpotDating notifications is the malignant origins of the latter. Common push notifications are offered for you to enable on different sites with an understandable purpose – notify you about new posts, discounts, and so on. It is a useful tool to help your site to keep visitors and help interested users to have the best deal.

Brief summary of the Sultryspotdating.top pop-up ads:

SultrySpotDating pop-up advertisements, on the other hand, have a deal with less legit sites. You will generally see the offer to turn them on following the redirection from another site. Redirects are OK unless it throws you into such a questionable place. In this case, turning on pop-ups is served as the anti-DDoS check-up. Alternatively, the websites can refuse to show you the content unless you turn on these pop-up notifications. These requirements should raise suspicion, as sites usually have a less obscure anti-bot mechanism. Seeing 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 web page – the only page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up advertisements.

SultrySpotDating push notification.

How does it work?

Most of browsers support turning on push notifications from websites. Websites, on the other hand, may send out notifications with the content of their choice. It may be a promotion of the page published on this particular website, or a promotion of the page of their partner. As a result, you can see the pop-up from site X, but clicking it will direct you to site Y – because a link to the latter was embedded.

Cyber burglars bear on this ability in their approach to earn money through advertising. They trick victims into allowing them to show the banners, and then just spread numerous banners of anyone they contract with. As you may suppose, no image-caring companies will have a business with fraudsters. All the SultrySpotDating push ads you may see lead to other fraudulent sites. At some point, the same victim may get into a trap of several pop-up spamming web pages, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.

The banners these crooks show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It usually provides a negligible payment for one viewer, but when you have a huge number of victims and make it hundreds of times each day – that is a much bigger sum. Even though most of these ads giving no result at all, it may still bring all the parties a lot of money.

Are SultrySpotDating pop-ups dangerous?

Yes, they are. Initially, they can look harmless – just a blinking window that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the contents of this window differ drastically from what you generally see in pop-up advertisements. Sultryspotdating.top web page is controlled by crooks, who deliberately show hundreds and thousands of irrelevant 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 cause performance issues. But that is not all problems these pop-up notifications carry.

As with any other thing that touches illegal ads, SultrySpotDating pop-up notifications do not contain any legit offers. Even though crooks make the ads similar to ones from well-known retailers, the website 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-up advertisements 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, SultrySpotDating 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 SultrySpotDating pop-ups?

Fortunately, SultrySpotDating push notifications removal is not very complicated. They parasite in the web browser and can’t conceal themselves on a disk. However, as I told before, some pop-ups may promote malicious software to your system. It is hard to predict all of the cases, and manual malware removal is a poor idea. Thus, after removing the source of the pop-up ads the best option is to use anti-malware software. That is especially recommended in the case when you have never allowed pop-up ads, and they still appeared. That may be a sign of adware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both recovery and malware scanning purposes, because of its system recovery functionality and superb detection system.

First of all, you should reset your browser settings. You can do that in both manual and automatic manner. The former, obviously, requires more time to complete and can 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 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:

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 SultrySpotDating 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.