Allow-space.com Pop-up Ads - How to remove

Allow-space.com is a malicious adware site. It abuses browser notifications to spam ads at anyone who has mistakenly clicked the Allow button on the site. Allow-space.com’s pop-up ads are pure spam, so if it attached itself to your browser, you probably want to get rid of it. That’s easy enough to do by blocking web push notifications from Allow-space.com and any other unwanted sites. All that’s left is to secure your browsing to avoid any future hijacks.

In short about Allow-space.com pop-ups:

Classification	Adware, browser hijacker.
How Allow-space.com hijacks browsers	Advertises on popular sites that have low ad security, appears in full-page ads and redirects, shows the notifications pop-up and convinces people to click on its “Allow” button.
Effects of the hijacking	Pop-up ads in your browser, regardless of what site you’re on.
How to stop Allow-space.com pop-ups	Block notifications in your browser, scan your device for malware (Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, etc) and remove it if any is found, block malicious websites.

How the Allow-space.com Pop-ups Start

Ads for Allow-space.com can be found on various websites:

• torrenting sites,
• online video and audio converter tools,
• file-sharing sites,
• adult video sites,
• gaming/gambling sites.

You may also encounter Allow-space.com when you click on a link in internet search results.

The thing is, ads for Allow-space.com are these unexpected, disorienting full-screen pop-ups that completely take over your browser. Unlike normal ads that open a new tab when you purposely click on them, Allow-space.com can appear without you clicking on anything resembling an ad. Allow-space.com appears when you least expect it to.

Depending on which site it appears on, Allow-space.com shows different pages: “Confirm that you are 18+”, “Press Allow to continue”, “Press Allow to verify that you are not a robot”, etc. All these pages are meant to look like serious warnings. But they’re nothing more than lies meant to get as many people as possible to unwittingly subscribe to Allow-space.com’s notifications by clicking the Allow button when the notification pop-up appears.

Web notifications are little messages sent by websites and shown in your browser. These can be useful updates on a new email in your inbox or a new post in your favorite blog. They can also be annoying, unwanted ad spam. The latter case is true for Allow-space.com.

Unwanted, Dangerous Ads

Allow-space.com lies and tricks people into allowing it to send ads to their browsers. That’s the first issue. It’s not like the sites that opened Allow-space.com require you to click that Allow button – they don’t.

It’s important to understand that whenever a site requires or demands that you do something, whether it’s downloading a file, installing an extension, or allowing notifications – you should be very skeptical. As an example, the Shalyer trojan became quite widespread thanks to fake software update warnings.

Advertising via notifications is common enough and can be done ethically (at least, in theory). But, of course, it can easily go wrong when an unethical advertising network is involved

Allow-space.com is part of the same family as Speakwithjohns.com, Check-you-robot.online, Allowandgo.com, and others. All these sites have reputations for promoting malware, browser hijackers, gambling and free-to-play games, scams, get-rich-quick schemes, and adware viruses. This means that, as long as Allow-space.com is sending you pop-up ads, you might get exposed to dangerous websites created by scammers and cybercriminals.

Sites like Allow-space.com are attractive to advertisers who are rejected by other, more mainstream ad-networks when their ads fail to meet quality or security standards. Thus, Allow-space.com has a high concentration of harmful and malicious content. Thus, it’s dangerous.

How to Stop Allow-space.com Pop-up Ads

Allow-space.com needs to be removed from your list of addresses that are allowed to send you notifications. This list can be found in your browser settings:

• Chrome – type “chrome://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
• Safari – in the Safari menu, choose Preferences, Websites, Notifications.
• New Edge – type “edge://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
• Firefox – open Settings, Preferences, Privacy & Security, scroll down to Permissions, and click on Settings next to Notifications.

You might see more than one version of Allow-space.com: 0.allow-space.com, 5.allow-space.com, 8.allow-space.com, etc. To the right of each address, there should be a button or a menu that you can click. Clicking it should bring up an option to Block or Deny Allow-space.com. Blocking Allow-space.com will stop new notifications from the site, but you still need to dismiss all the accumulated messages that have already been sent.

Keep in mind that Allow-space.com itself is not blocked in your browser. And remember that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of other malicious adware sites. Use an ad-blocker or a good anti-malware program to block malicious addresses. Also, scan your computer with an antivirus application, like Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, or another. Review your scan results and if there are any adware infections found on your computer, make sure to remove them.

Automatic Malware removal tools