Waitforload Ads Removal Guide — How to Fix It?

Waitforload pop-ups appear out of the blue, disturbing and irritating you. Nonetheless, that is slightly more than simple pop-up ads – their nature is clearly malignant, and they may bring other malware to your system. In this article, I will show you how to remove Waitforload push notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any interaction with Waitforload pop-up advertisements will be ineffective at best. At worst, the sites it can open may 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 Waitforload 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-up ads and Waitforload notifications is the malicious origins of the latter. Normal pop-up notifications are offered for you to enable on different sites with a legitimate purpose – notify you about the new articles, discounts and so on. It is a useful thing to help your website to retain visitors and help the interested users to have the best deal.

Short summary of the Waitforload.com pop-ups:

Waitforload pop-up ads, as opposed, are related to less legit sites. You will commonly witness the proposition to turn them on after a redirection from another page. Redirects are OK unless it throws you to such a questionable place. In this case, turning on pop-ups is offered under the guise of the anti-bot check. Alternatively, the web pages can refuse to show you the content unless you apply these pop-up ads. These theses should already raise suspicion, as websites generally feature a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Seeing this requirement is a reason to close the site doubtlessly. Sometimes, even when you click “Allow”, you will not see the web page – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-ups.

Waitforload push notification.

How does this work?

Most of browsers support turning on push notifications from websites. Websites, on the other hand, may send notifications with the content they like. It may be a promotion of the page listed for sale on this particular website, as well as a promotion of the page of their partner. As a result, you may see the push notification from site X, but clicking it will throw you to website Y – because a link to that website was embedded.

Cyber burglars rely on this ability in their attempt to earn money through advertising. They trick victims into allowing them to show the banners, and then just spread hundreds of ads of anyone they have a deal with. As you can suppose, no image-caring organisations will contract with fraudsters. All the Waitforload popups you can see lead to other fraudulent sites. In some cases, the same user may be trapped by several 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 commonly provides a miserable commission for one person, but when you have hundreds of users and make it hundreds of times every day – that is a much bigger sum. Even though most of these banners are ineffective, it may still bring all the participants a lot of profit.

Are Waitforload pop-ups dangerous?

Yes, they are. Initially, they can look harmless – just a colourful window that appears from time to time. However, the contents of this window differ sharply from what you generally see in pop-up ads. Waitforload.com web page is controlled by crooks, who intentionally throw tons of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any manners of advertising and can make sporadic push notifications into a hurricane of ads. For weak systems, that may be enough to make the system slower. But that is not all troubles these pop-ups carry.

As any other thing related to illegal advertising, Waitforload pop-up notifications lack legit offers. Even though hackers make the ads similar to ones from well-known retailers, the web page these ads 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, Waitforload pop-up advertisements are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Waitforload pop-ups?

Fortunately, Waitforload pop-up ads removal is not very complicated. They sit in the browser and can’t conceal themselves in the system. However, as I stated before, some push notifications can deliver malware to your computer. It is hard to predict all cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is inconvenient. Therefore, after getting rid of 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-up advertisements, but they still appeared. That can point at malware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both recovery and malware checkup purposes, thanks to its abilities of system recovery and superb detection system.

Initially, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to do 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 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 Waitforload 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 Waitforload Pop-ups?

Name: Waitforload

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