TotalFreshWords.com Ads Removal (Total Fresh Words)

TotalFreshWords.com pop-up advertisements appear when you do not expect them, disturbing and annoying you. Nonetheless, that is slightly more than just notifications – their essence is clearly malicious, and they may install other malicious stuff on your PC. In this article, I will guide you on how to remove Totalfreshwords pop-up notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any interaction with Totalfreshwords push notifications will be ineffective at best. In a worst-case scenario, the web pages it can open may introduce malware to your system. These pop-ups may also advertise 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 Total Fresh Words ads 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 push notifications and Totalfreshwords notifications is the malicious origins of the latter. Normal pop-ups are offered for you to enable with an understandable purpose – keep you aware of the latest articles, goods for sale and so on. It is an effective approach to help your website to keep visitors and help interested users to have the best deal.

Brief description of the Totalfreshwords.com pop-ups:

Total Fresh Words pop-ups, in contrast, have a deal with less legit websites. You will commonly see the offer to turn them on following the redirection from another site. It’s OK to see redirects unless it throws you into such a dubious place. In this case, enabling push notifications is served under the guise of the anti-DDoS check. In other cases, the sites can refuse to show you the content unless you turn on these pop-ups. These theses should already be the red flag, as websites usually feature a less obscure anti-bot mechanism. Witnessing such an requirement is a reason to skip the page right away. Sometimes, even when you click “Allow”, you will not see the website – the sole page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the push notifications.

Totalfreshwords push notification.

How does it work?

The vast majority of browsers support turning on push notifications from websites. Sites, on the other hand, may send out notifications with the content they want. It can be a promotion of the product or a page published on this website, 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 direct you to website Y – because a referral link to the latter was added.

Crooks bear on this feature in their attempt to gain money through advertising. They trick victims into allowing the pop-ups, and then just spread hundreds of promotions of other crooks they contract with. As you may suppose, no benevolent companies will have a business with fraudsters. All the Totalfreshwords popups you can see lead to other fraudulent sites. At some point, the same user may be trapped by multiple pop-up spamming websites, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.

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

Are Totalfreshwords pop-up notifications dangerous?

Yes, they are. Initially, they can look safe – 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 push notifications. Totalfreshwords.com website is controlled by fraudsters, who intentionally throw hundreds and thousands of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any manners of advertising and can make sporadic pop-up notifications into a hurricane of promotions. For weak systems, that may be enough to make the system slower. But troubles are not over at this point.

As any other thing that touches illegal ads, Totalfreshwords pop-up ads lack legit offers. Even when hackers make the banners similar to ones from Amazon, Walmart or Ebay, 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 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, Totalfreshwords 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 Totalfreshwords pop-ups?

Fortunately, Totalfreshwords push notifications removal is not very complicated. They parasite in the web browser and cannot conceal themselves on a disk. Nevertheless, as I told above, some push notifications can introduce malicious programs to your computer. It is nearly impossible to describe all of the cases, and manual malware removal is inconvenient. Thus, after removing the source of the pop-up ads the best option is to use anti-malware software. I’d especially recommend that if you have never clicked “Allow” to pop-up advertisements, and they still appeared. That may be a sign of adware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both system recovery and malware removal purposes, thanks to its abilities of system recovery and advanced detection system.

First of all, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to accomplish in both manual and automatic manner. The former, obviously, takes 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 website 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 Totalfreshwords 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.