WebTeensyBlog pop-up advertisements appear out of the blue, disturbing and irritating you. Nonetheless, that is way more than simple pop-up ads – their nature is cleanly malicious, and they may bring other malicious stuff to your computer. In this post, I will guide you on how to remove WebTeensyBlog pop-up advertisements and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any interaction with WebTeensyBlog pop-up notifications will be useless at best. In worst case scenario, the sites it can throw you to can introduce malware to your system. These pop-ups can 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.
What are WebTeensyBlog 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 pop-ups and WebTeensyBlog pop-ups is the malignant origins of the latter. Normal pop-up ads are offered for you to enable with a straightforward purpose – keep you aware about the fresh posts, discounts and so on. It is an effective approach to help your site to keep visitors and help the interested users to have the best deal.
Brief description of the Webteensyblog.com pop-ups:
Name | Webteensyblog.com |
Hosting | AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc. United States, San Francisco |
IP Address | 188.114.97.3 |
Malware type | Adware1 |
Effect | Unwanted pop-up advertisements |
Hazard level | Medium |
Malware source | Apps from third-party websites, ads on dubious websites |
Similar behavior | News, News, Entoftheusysian |
Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
WebTeensyBlog pop-up ads, in contrast, have a deal with less legit sites. You will generally see the proposition to enable them after a redirection from another website. There’s nothing bad in redirecting unless they throw you to such a dubious place. In this case, turning on pop-up advertisements is served as the anti-DDoS check-up. Alternatively, the sites can deny showing you the content unless you apply these pop-up ads. These demands should already raise suspicion, as sites generally have a different anti-bot mechanism. Witnessing this demand should be the reason to leave the site doubtlessly. Sometimes, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not get to the website – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-ups.
How does this work?
The vast majority of browsers support enabling pop-ups from websites. Websites, on the other hand, may send notifications with the content of their choice. It may be an advertisement of the page published on this site, as well as a promotion of the page of their partner. As a result, you can see the pop-up from site X, but opening it will redirect you to website Y – because a link to that website was embedded.
Crooks bear on this feature in their approach to gain money through advertising. They trick victims into turning on pop-ups, and then just spread hundreds of promotions of other crooks they have a deal with. As you may suppose, no benevolent organisations will have a business with fraudsters. All the WebTeensyBlog popups you can see lead to other untrustworthy sites. In some cases, the same user can get into a trap of multiple pop-up spamming sites, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.
The banners these rascals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It usually provides a miserable commission for one view, but when you have hundreds of victims and show them hundreds of ads every day – that is a much more significant sum. Even though most of these ads giving no result at all, it may still bring all the parties a lot of money.
Are WebTeensyBlog pop-up notifications dangerous?
Yes, they are. Initially, they can look safe – just a blinking pop-up that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the contents of this window differ sharply from what you used to see in pop-ups. Webteensyblog.com site is ruled by fraudsters, who deliberately throw hundreds of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any common sense and can make sporadic pop-up advertisements into a storm of ads. For weak computers, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But problems are not over at this point.
As with any other thing that touches illegal advertising, WebTeensyBlog push notifications lack legit deals to offer. Even though hackers make the banners looking similar to ones from Amazon, Walmart or Ebay, the site 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-ups 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, WebTeensyBlog 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 WebTeensyBlog pop-ups?
Fortunately, WebTeensyBlog pop-up advertisements removal is pretty easy. They reside in the browser and cannot hide themselves in the system. Nevertheless, as I stated before, some pop-up notifications can deliver malware to your system. It is hard to describe all cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is inconvenient. Therefore, after removing the source of the push notifications the best option is to use anti-malware software. I would especially recommend that in the case when you have never clicked “Allow” to pop-ups, but they still appeared. That can be a sign of malware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both recovery and malware scanning and removal purposes, because of its system recovery functionality and superb detection system.
First and foremost, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to do 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 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:
- Open “Settings and more” tab in upper right corner, then find here “Settings” button. In the appeared menu, choose “Reset settings” option:
- 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:
- Open Menu tab (three strips in upper right corner) and click the “Help” button. In the appeared menu choose “troubleshooting information”:
- In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option:
After choosing this option, you will see the next message:
If you use Google Chrome
- Open Settings tab, find the “Advanced” button. In the extended tab choose the “Reset and clean up” button:
- In the appeared list, click on the “Restore settings to their original defaults”:
- 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
- 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:
- 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:
# 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 WebTeensyBlog 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 WebTeensyBlog Pop-ups?
Name: WebTeensyBlog
Description: WebTeensyBlog - 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 Webteensyblog.com push notifications?” or “why do Webteensyblog.com pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with WebTeensyBlog 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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( votes)References
- More about this malware type on GridinSoft Encyclopedia.
- Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.