Check-you-robot.online Pop-ups - How to remove

Check-you-robot.online is another malicious site tricking people into subscribing to its advertising spam. It appears as a page asking you to confirm your age or pass a captcha, but really, it only exists to get people to allow its notifications. It then shows notifications in your browser, full of ads ranging from random online games to cryptocurrency investment scams. Check-you-robot.online pop-ups attack personal computers, phones, and tablets on any operating system.

Info on Check-you-robot.online in short:

Classification	Adware, browser hijacker.
How Check-you-robot.online spreads	Advertised on unsafe sites, tells visitors that they have to allow notifications.
Problems with the site	Shows too many unwanted notifications, links in the notifications sometimes open dangerous sites.
How to stop Check-you-robot.online pop-ups	Disable notifications from unwelcome addresses, use anti-malware tools to remove malware (Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, etc.), secure your browsing (anti-malware, ad-blocker, etc.).

How Check-you-robot.online tricks people

The Check-you-robot.online site does two things:

• send out notifications with links to advertiser sites,
• trick people into subscribing to its notifications.

Check-you-robot.online has a few pages that solely exist to tell people to click the Allow button. These include:

• “Press Allow to verify, that you are not a robot”,
• “If you are 18+ click Allow”,
• “Please click the Allow button to watch the video”,
• “Click Allow to download the file”.

Check-you-robot.online is very similar to Flvto, Vimlo.pro, Download-alert.com, and many others.

Check-you-robot.online pop-ups open in your browser not because you wanted them to, but because the site that you were on decided to open them. The pages try to trick you into thinking that you’re still on the old site. If you were on a video streaming site, Check-you-robot.online will pretend to be trying to play a video. If you were on a filesharing site, Check-you-robot.online will say that it’s downloading a file. Check-you-robot.online will say anything to get people to click on that Allow button.

As for the websites that open Check-you-robot.online in your browser, they do this for the ad money. Check-you-robot.online’s owners pay to be advertised on pirating websites. It’s rare to see an ad for a Check-you-robot.online (or a similar site) on a reputable website that has any standards for the ads that they show.

It’s also possible that Check-you-robot.online appeared in your browser thanks to adware infection. Adware viruses cause low-quality ads to appear in your browser on any website.

Dangerous ads

Normal ad-networks have rules against malware, scams, and other dangerous content. The advertisers who don’t fit in these rules then go to sites like Check-you-robot.online. This makes Check-you-robot.online potentially dangerous, as it will show ads for:

• potentially unwanted programs similar to System Assistant and Onesafe,
• get-rich-quick schemes that scam people out of hundreds or even thousands of dollars,
• phishing sites and fake giveaways, like Congratulations device user and Annual Visitor Survey,
• ads for suspicious health supplements, miracle cures, and free energy machines.

Your browser getting infected with Check-you-robot.online does not mean that your data is stolen or your computer – infected. But it does potentially expose you to more low-quality ads. The longer it goes on, the more likely it is that something bad will happen. So, it’s important to stop Check-you-robot.online as quickly as possible from sending you pop-up ads.

How to stop Check-you-robot.online pop-ups

To block notifications from Check-you-robot.online, open your browser and find the relevant 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 will see a list of all the sites allowed to send you notifications. Next to each address, there’s a button that opens a choice. Click it and choose the Block/Deny option. Do this for all the sites that you are not familiar with and that you don’t want to see any pop-ups from.

Check your computer for adware by scanning it with an anti-malware program, such as Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, or other apps that you trust. If there’s malware, whether it’s a program on your computer or a browser extension, you should remove it.

It might be a good idea to use an ad-blocker or an anti-malware program to block dangerous websites from showing in your browser. That will help you protect your computer from various infections.

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