Remove Torclomil Pop-up Ads — How to Fix Gude

Written by Wilbur Woodham
Torclomil push notifications appear out of the blue, detracting and irritating you. Still, that is much more than annoying pop-ups – their origins is surely malicious, and they may introduce other malware to your system. In this article, I will guide you on how to remove Torclomil push notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any interaction with Torclomil pop-up notifications will be useless at best. At worst, the web pages it can show you may introduce malware to your system. These pop-up notifications can also promote fake online shopping sites 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 Torclomil 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-ups and Torclomil notifications is the malignant origins of the latter. Common pop-up notifications are offered for you to enable with a understandable purpose – notify you about the latest articles, goods for sale and so on. It is a useful thing to help your site to retain visitors and help the interested ones to have the best deal.

Brief description of the Torclomil.com pop-up ads:
Name Torclomil.com
Hosting AS16509 Amazon.com, Inc.
India, Mumbai
IP Address 3.109.88.188
Malware type Adware1
Effect Unwanted pop-up advertisements
Hazard level Medium
Malware source Apps from third-party websites, ads on dubious websites
Similar behavior Redlabelsky, Buyhomestudi, Bioxu
Removal method
To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC

Torclomil push notifications, on the other hand, are related to unlegit sites. You will commonly observe the offer to enable them after a redirection from another site. There’s nothing bad in redirecting unless it throws you to such a dubious place. At that point, turning on pop-up ads is served under the guise of the anti-bot check-up. In other cases, the web pages may refuse to show you the contents unless you apply these push notifications. These theses should raise suspicion, as websites commonly have a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Witnessing such an demand should be the reason to leave the page right away. In some cases, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not get to the site – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up ads.

Torclomil push notification

Torclomil push notification.

How does it work?

The vast majority of web browsers support turning on pop-ups from sites. Sites, on the other hand, may send notifications with the content of their choice. It may be an advertisement of the product or a page listed for sale on this website, or an ad 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 website Y – because a link to that website was built in.

Scoundrels bear on this ability in their attempt to gain money using illegal 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 organisations will contract with fraudsters. All the Torclomil push ads you may see lead to other untrustworthy sites. At some point, the same victim may get into a trap of multiple pop-up spamming web pages, and its web browser will turn into a complete mess.

The ads these crooks show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It generally provides a miserable payment for one person, but when you have hundreds of victims and make it hundreds of times each day – that is a way bigger sum. Despite the majority of these ads giving no result at all, it can still give all the parties a lot of money.

Are Torclomil pop-up notifications dangerous?

Yes, they are. At the surface, they may look non-threatening – just a colourful pop-up that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the contents of this window differ drastically from what you generally see in pop-ups. Torclomil.com website is controlled by crooks, who deliberately spread hundreds of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any manners of advertising and can launch sporadic pop-up advertisements into a storm of promotions. For weak computers, that may be enough to make the system slower. But troubles are not over at this point.

Why people dislike popups

As with any other thing related to illegal ads, Torclomil push notifications don’t have legit deals to offer. Even when hackers make the banners similar to ones from Walmart or Amazon, the web page 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 pop-up 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, Torclomil pop-ups are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Torclomil pop-ups?

Fortunately, Torclomil push notifications removal is not very complicated. They parasite in the browser and can’t hide themselves on a disk. Nonetheless, as I stated above, some pop-up advertisements may introduce malicious software to your computer. It is nearly impossible to show all of the cases, and manual malware removal is a poor idea. Thus, after disabling the pop-up advertisements it is recommended to use anti-malware software. This step is especially recommended if you have never allowed pop-up ads, and they still appeared. This situation can point at malware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both system recovery and malware scanning purposes, because of its system recovery functionality and multi-layer 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.

Tools tab in GridinSoft Anti-Malware

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.

Reset Browser Settings tab in GridinSoft Anti-Malware

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. Reseting the Edge browser

  3. 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. The first step to revert Mozilla Firefox

  3. In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option:
  4. The second step of Firefox restoration
    After choosing this option, you will see the next message:
    The last step for Firefox
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 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

After removing the Torclomil 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.

GridinSoft Anti-Malware during the scan 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).

GridinSoft scan finished

How to Remove Torclomil Pop-ups?

Name: Torclomil

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

  1. More about this malware type on GridinSoft Encyclopedia.
  2. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.

About the author

Wilbur Woodham

I was a technical writer from early in my career, and consider IT Security one of my foundational skills. I’m sharing my experience here, and I hope you find it useful.

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