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Did you find yourself on Botifiles.com unexpectedly? You might have been trying to download a file, watch a video, or hack your account in an online game. You might have been told that you must perform “human verification” to finish that process.

All that Botifiles.com does is display ads, but it’s implied that you have to click on those ads for that “human verification”. The ads include doing surveys and subscribing to services. The truth is that Botifiles.com is part of an advertising scam. If you find end up on Botifiles.com, close the page, as all it does is waste your time.

About Botifiles.com:

Type of threat	Adware, scam.
What causes Botifiles.com ads	Fake hacks and currency generators for various apps.
What makes the ads dangerous	Botifiles.com promotes unwanted subscription services, sites that collect your personal information, unwanted apps and browser add-ons.
How to avoid Botifiles.com ads	Block ads and malicious sites with content blockers and anti-malware apps (Malwarebytes), don’t search for hacks and in-game currency generators.

What causes Botifiles.com pop-ups?

Botifiles.com is an advertising site. Whenever you find yourself on it, just close the page. At best, it’s a waste of your time. At worst, it’ll take you to sites that steal your personal information and sign you up for unwanted subscriptions.

Botifiles.com gets more than 2 hundred thousand visits each month from countries around the world. A lot of the traffic comes from various game pirating sites, including file download sites. Some also come to Botifiles.com from those fake “hack generator” sites that promise to give you free in-game currency.

More specifically, a lot of mobile game currency “generators” promote Botifiles.com. These sites ask for your username and pretend to generate in-game currency for your account, but they always halt at the last step, where they claim that you need to provide “human verification”.

In addition, Botifiles.com has many pages that show fake download links for files and passwords. These pages also tell visitors that they must complete an offer, such as a survey, if they want to download the file.

All of these currency generators and file download links are fake. Don’t bother with them, they’re nothing more than elaborate ads.

Botifiles.com is only one of many similar advertising sites. There’s also Gameinstallfiles.com, Oppfiles.com, Fasterfiles.net, and others.

Is Botifiles.com dangerous?

From Botifiles.com, the “human verification” offers lead to sites that aren’t necessarily malicious, but could cause harm:

• reward sites,
• surveys on clickbait sites,
• deceptively presented subscription signups (Ouisys.com),
• app downloads,
• browser hijackers (ThePDFConverterSearch).

Most of the sites that Botifiles.com links to show you ads (survey sites), ask for your money (subscription sites), and want to collect your information.

One of the sites that Botifiles.com promotes is Rewardsgiantusa.com and other reward sites. Reward sites ask you to complete various tasks, such as doing surveys, downloading programs, and making small purchases. They vaguely promise that eventually, if you keep this up, you’ll get a big prize (for instance, Nationaldigitalsurvey.com offers hundreds of dollars in gift cards). For a lot of people, that prize does not materialize.

Another type of site that Botifiles.com promotes is a mobile service subscription signup. These are sites that sign you up for subscriptions just with your phone number. They cost a few dollars per week, which can add up to a lot, especially if you sign up for more than one. In addition, children who have no access to a credit card can still sign up for these.

How to avoid Botifiles.com

One way to avoid Botifiles.com is to install an ad blocker. That’s not guaranteed to stop Botifiles.com and similar ad redirects, but it might help.

By the way, Botifiles.com might show you a warning about your ad blocker “preventing your page from loading properly”. Yeah, because all that Botifiles.com does is display ads.

Anti-malware apps such as Malwarebytes and malicious site blockers could also help. The site www.botifiles.com is flagged by a couple of antivirus programs on Virustotal.com.

Another way to avoid Botifiles.com is to not search for hacks and cheats. All these hacks and generators that you can find in Google search results are fake, no exception. You’re lucky when they’re only promoting ads and not trying to steal your account credentials.

The good news is that Botifiles.com doesn’t infect your computer with malware. As long as you don’t follow its instructions, it won’t cause any harm.

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