Bot-checker.com Ad Spam - How to remove

Bot-checker.com is a notification spammer that causes pop-up ads to show up in your browser. Bot-checker.com may show ads that are harmful and deceptive, so you should avoid clicking on Bot-checker.com’s pop-ups. You can block them in your browser settings.

About Bot-checker.com:

Type of threat	Adware.
How Bot-checker.com infects notifications	Advertised on video streaming sites, pretends to be a video player site, asks to show notifications.
Issues and problems	Bot-checker.com’s pop-ups are distracting, some of the sites it advertises are potentially dangerous.
How to stop Bot-checker.com’s ads	Block unwanted notifications, check your computer for malware and remove it if any is found (with Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, and others).

How Bot-checker.com spreads

Bot-checker.com, as a website, doesn’t have much content. It often shows an image of a loading video or an empty video player, however, Bot-checker.com doesn’t play videos. Rather, it shows these images to confuse people.

Bot-checker.com spreads on adult video sites, video download sites, pirating sites, free anime, movie, and TV show streaming websites, and similar sites that have to do with watching videos. Trying to watch videos or download files on those sites can trigger a pop-up ad that opens in a new tab in your web browser. Bot-checker.com might be in that pop-up.

The design of Bot-checker.com (the picture of a video player) is meant to make it look like you clicked correctly and are about to watch your video. When in reality, Bot-checker.com is a random website that does not play videos. It only asks people to press “Allow” to accept its notifications.

Even then, Bot-checker.com shows a fake notification pop-up at first. It does this because browser developers have restricted notification prompts. They’ve done that because of the kind of abuse of notifications that Bot-checker.com engages in – notification spam.

Problems with Bot-checker.com

Bot-checker.com gets people to allow its notifications, then spams them with advertisements. It is very annoying.

In addition, Bot-checker.com is an advertising site, but its standards may be lower than you’re used to:

• Free-to-play browser games.
• Commercial VPNs (their ads are often misleading).
• Diet pills and various supplements.
• Gambling sites.
• Dating and adult chat sites.
• Fake surveys and prize draws (like the $1 phone scam).

All that is to say, some of the sites that Bot-checker.com promotes may be dangerous for your privacy and your wallet.

Notification spamming is common, as Bot-checker.com is a lot like Premiumstory.net, Net01.biz, or Convertmysearch.com. These and many more sites ask people to allow notifications and then flood people’s browsers with ads. Often, these sites are short-lived, so they don’t need to worry about keeping a good reputation.

When you and enough others block Bot-checker.com’s ads and maybe even block Bot-checker.com itself with their ad blockers, anti-malware web filters, and other tools, then Bot-checker.com’s creators will replace it with new websites and the notification spamming cycle will continue.

How to stop Bot-checker.com ads

Block notifications from Bot-checker.com to stop its ads from being shown on your screen. You can do this by going into your browser settings, the section for notifications.

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

Find Bot-checker.com, click the button to its right, and select “Block”.

Do this for all thee sites that you don’t recognize or that you don’t want to hear from.

Your browser will remember to never accept notifications from these sites and stop them from asking you to allow their notifications again.

To check your computer for adware, bundlers, bad browser extensions, and other unwanted items, use an anti-malware program like Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, and other apps that detect not just malware, but potentially unwanted programs, too. If any sort of spyware has been found, then reset your passwords after removing it.

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