Check-now.online Pop-up Ads - How to remove

Check-now.online is a website that abuses notifications to show ads. These ads and pop-ups are annoying and even potentially dangerous, leading to scams, adware, and malware. Check-now.online allows shady advertisers to send ads to people’s browsers but it does not provide any value whatsoever in exchange. It’s nothing but an ad spammer.

About Check-now.online:

Type of threat	Adware.
Stopping Check-now.online pop-up ads	Block notifications, check for malware (Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, others).
How the Check-now.online pop-ups start	Advertised on torrenting and pirating sites, shows misleading pages and asks visitors to allow notifications without explaining what they do, shows pop-up ads through notifications.
Problems and issues	Distracting pop-ups that take up screen space, cover up site content, and waste time, low-quality, dangerous, and even malicious ads that lead to scams and malware.

How to stop Check-now.online ads

Block notifications

Check-now.online is a website. If your web browser is showing pop-ups that are labeled with “Check-now.online”, it could be that the only problem is your browser settings. Luckily, this is easy to fix.

• Go to your notification settings:
  • Chrome – type “chrome://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
  • Edge (Chromium) – 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.
• Scroll until you see a list of “Allowed” sites. These are the sites that can send notifications to the browser. Check-now.online should be there.
• Press the button next to each of them and then click “Block”. This prevents any new pop-ups being sent by the sites.

There are many versions of Check-now.online, such as Snoi2.check-now.online, Mox49.check-now.online, etc. Random numbers and letters before Check-now.online. So, if you find multiple entries of Check-now.online in your list of sites whose notifications are allowed, block them all.

Check for malware

It is advisable to scan your computer with anti-malware tools because, well, adware is always associated with other adware. Check-now.online promotes fake and low-quality cleaners like TotalAV, fake Norton expired pop-ups, browser hijackers, scams, and so on. Scan your computer with antivirus apps like Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, and others to check if there are any potentially unwanted programs.

Check-now.online is detected as malicious by a few anti-malware applications (VirusTotal.com). If you don’t yet, you can use an anti-malware program to block malicious websites for you. If pop-ups like Check-now.online’s torment you often, then an anti-malware tool with a real-time web filter can be a good investment.

How Check-now.online affects the browser

Check-now.online is a malicious adware site. It is related to Click-to-watch.live, Check-message.live, Special-promotion.online, Personal-video.live, and other sites. These sites promote each other, as well as other adware. If you encountered one, you are likely to be exposed to others, too.

Here’s the basic workflow of Check-now.online and the other notification spammers:

• They are advertised on torrenting sites, file download sites, and infringing streaming sites. You may be redirected to Check-now.online when you’re on some site and you click the Download button to get a file or when you try to watch a video.
• Check-now.online has multiple templates or visual designs. The one in the illustration of this post asks you to “Click Allow to watch the video” and you might see it advertised on streaming sites. Other versions, such as fake robot checks and fake download buttons, may be promoted on file download sites.
• All that Check-now.online is trying to do here is to get people to click “Allow” on its notifications prompt, the one that says “Check-now.online wants to show notifications”. If you click “Allow” on it, it grants Check-now.online the ability to send direct messages to your browser.
• Check-now.online then loads a random promoted site (like a gambling website or another notification spammer). At some point, it starts showing notification pop-ups on your screen.
• The pop-ups from Check-now.online advertise various websites and products, many of which are potentially unsafe. Check-now.online seems to have low requirements for the ads that it shows. This attracts advertisers whose products are rejected by the more mainstream ad-networks due to all the rules and restrictions.

The concept of allowing Check-now.online to send pop-up ads through your browser is similar to being tricked into giving away your email to a malicious actor who then start sending you spam.

Check-now.online is not dangerous on its own. It is not a virus. It is an obnoxious website that abuses browser settings to make ad money. Unfortunately, Check-now.online can expose you to more dangerous apps and websites, including get-rich-quick scams and tech support scams. Do not trust any of the pop-ups that come from Check-now.online.

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