How to remove TurboFlash pop-ups? — Fix Guide

TurboFlash pop-up notices can show up unexpectedly, covering the subject of the page you explored or opening your web browser when you don’t need it to be opened.

Clicking the TurboFlash ad can result in the injection of various malware or unwanted programs. In this article, you will see the manual of TurboFlash popups removal in multiple manners, as well as inspecting your PC for additional malware presence.

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What are TurboFlash pop-ups?

TurboFlash popups are an effect of adware action. Adware is a kind of malware that suggests you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which generates a substantial volume of income for adware suppliers. These promotions may have sometimes shocking content, or have a link to malicious content/website, since adware maintainers have no reason to inspect the goodness of the material they are going to reveal – their single target is cash.

TurboFlash push notification.

Pop-up promotions itself is a good, low-cost and really productive marketing solution¹. It makes it possible for the seller to link the buyers’ attention to their site, as well as the buyers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they wish to buy. When the person will get a pop-up notification that the TV set he desires to buy is provided at the online shop he/she saw earlier with a 15% discount, one will undoubtedly use this chance and purchase it. Considering the incredibly low price for the popups and their targeting, such a promotion and marketing method is a favorite thing amidst the marketing departments of large online stores.

Nevertheless, such a successful plan could not be missed by malware creators. Potential to show the popup ads by force to the people of malware invasion is an ideal basis for malevolent adjustments with the popup advertisements. And Turboflash.me advertisements is among hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a short details for the TurboFlash

How have I got the TurboFlash virus?

There are a huge amount of ways of getting infected by the adware that trigger the TurboFlash popups tornado. A lion’s part of this malware incidents is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Freeware may also be downloaded from the official website, and the adware is provided as a legal bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A lot of individuals regularly use the unreliable programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, different utilities that are free, or even hacked programs. All of these kinds of applications are risky, because it is quite simple to integrate a TurboFlash malware under the guise of part of the license hacking script, or as a part of the self-made algoritm within the Windows optimization tool.

TurboFlash popup virus may additionally be hidden in the advertisement somewhere on the strange website. Such sites are in most cases filled with colorful and blinking ads, and their owners typically permit any type of promos to be posted on their page. For this reason, clicking such banners is a risky thing: only the advertisement contractor realizes what will occur when you click this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you can additionally receive something far more threatening, like ransomware or coin miner; the large share of coin miners circulation is exactly after the malicious promotions.

The statistic shows that people dislike popup advertising more than other types of promotions

Potentially unwanted programs, like TurboFlash popup virus may provoke a lot of different troubles on your computer. Distracting is not the single problem – pop-ups can show you the banners, where you are offered to get one more strange program, or “a effective anti-malware tool”. Scareware is often spread under the last slogun. Potentially undesirable programs, in turn, can have spyware functionality. And it is pretty hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a good one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the potentially unwanted programs and pseudo antiviruses, popup-related promotions are also chosen as a distribution method by various trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of activity of such viruses is 100% unwanted, and can cost you several hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not clicking these promotions, they can be clicked by someone who also makes use of your computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the situation can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve it without information loss. It is recommended to remove the viruses with antivirus programs as soon as possible.

How can I get rid of TurboFlash pop-up advertisements?

The manual of TurboFlash adware clearing consists of 2 sections. Initially, we need to eliminate the malware, and after that correct the results of its action. The elimination procedure is pretty easy, because it can be done even with making use of Microsoft Defender – anti-malware program that is present on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. Nevertheless, because of its large resources consumption, along with some problems that can be pivotal for some groups of users, Defender is often turned off by the users, so its utilization is probably impossible. What’s more, various trojan viruses have the ability to turn off the embedded antivirus. It is much better to use the separated program that will not have such weakness.

I’d recommend you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven security tool that will certainly wipe out the viruses from your PC and also make an impenetrable cover with a Proactive protection feature. But let’s deal with TurboFlash adware first.

Removing TurboFlash popup virus with GridinSoft Anti-Malware

• Download and install GridinSoft Anti-Malware. After the installation, you will be offered to perform the Standard Scan. Approve this action.

• Standard scan checks the logical disk where the system files are stored, together with the files of programs you have already installed. The scan lasts up to 6 minutes.

• When the scan is over, you may choose the action for each detected virus. For all files of TurboFlash malware the default option is “Delete”. Press “Apply” to finish the malware removal.

Now, when the computer is clean of viruses, we can proceed to the browser reset. You can do this step manually, as well as with the use of GridinSoft Anti-Malware.

Reset browser settings to default

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 web browser will connect the appropriate DNS while connecting to the site you want. Make a text file titled “hosts” on your computer’s desktop, then open it and fill it with the following content³:

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.

Nevertheless, there is one issue that makes things much harder to repair, especially without the anti-malware program. Most of adware variations that are used to show you the TurboFlash pop-up ads are changing the deep browser configurations, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you attempt to fix your browser settings after your system was infected by pop-up-related malware, your browser will crash soon. Sometimes, you will see no crash, but huge lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 seconds, and after that it will be back to the normal, till you try to open settings one more time.

Reset your browser settings 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 the options for each browser. By default, they are set up in the manner which 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 last is also able to reset the HOSTS file without any additional commands.

How to Remove TurboFlash Pop-ups?

Name: TurboFlash

Description: TurboFlash - 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 Turboflash.me push notifications?” or “why do Turboflash.me pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with TurboFlash 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 pop-up ads on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware review and also the reasons why I recommend it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.