Coolestmedia.net Pop-up Virus - How to remove

Coolestmedia.net is a malicious site that is used to deliver annoying pop-up ads, redirect people to unwanted and even dangerous pages, and as a link in a chain of malicious sites meant to make them harder to block. If you’re seeing pop-ups by Coolestmedia.net, they must be very frustrating. Luckily, you can stop them from showing by just editing your browser settings.

How are the ads dangerous?

The ads are intrusive, distracting, poor-quality, can make web browsing feel miserable and even dangerous. The pages that Coolestmedia.net advertises range from dishonest to harmful.

Supplements, adult content, gambling, and pyramid schemes are examples of pages that are not outright dangerous but can cause problems if they’re not ignored. This content is using Coolestmedia.net to advertise because normal ad networks avoid subjects like this due to a history of fraud. Ad networks don’t want to introduce their users to harmful and dangerous pages which could cause financial harm, health problems, or are just full of false information.

Coolestmedia.net can also lead to outright malware. It can lead to pages that promote more adware programs or fake programs that hide viruses inside them. Viruses like file-locking ransomware that breaks most of the files on your computer and demands hundreds of dollars for restoring them and spyware that logs your activity and sends it to criminals, among others. There are also scams and spoof sites that try to lure people’s login credentials out of them. Professional advertising networks refuse to show ads that link such sites (though sometimes malicious ads do slip through the review process), but Coolestmedia.net seems to have no problems with it.

How do the ads start?

First, let’s find out how you found Coolestmedia.net.

Maybe by clicking on ads online? Sites don’t usually choose the specific ads that they show, so it’s not possible to say which ones advertise Coolestmedia.net — that’s constantly changing. Coolestmedia.net is advertised by a few ad networks known for intrusive ads and for being attractive for unethical advertisers. Just be careful online, don’t click on obviously fake ads, and don’t trust pop-ups.

Or was it adware? Adware viruses are programs which cause unwanted ads, often by automatically opening new browser windows or injecting content into sites as shown by your browser. They can result in applications being installed without you knowing, too. Adware viruses promote various malicious products, so they can be very dangerous and should be uninstalled as soon as possible.

Either way, when a person lands on Coolestmedia.net, they’re greeted with a false message:

NO INTERNET CONNECTION!
Please click “Allow” to fix your internet connection

Then Coolestmedia.net shows an alert box with an “Allow” button. Someone who believes the message, is tired, distracted, whatever other reasons — might click on the Allow button. The problem is that the alert box was for web push notifications, which Coolestmedia.net uses to show pop-up ads. After it receives permission to show notifications, Coolestmedia.net forwards you to another adware site, including Freshaudio.net, Uniquecaptcha.com, other sites that all want to send you pop-up ads (often the same ads simultaneously).

The safest thing to do after landing on Coolestmedia.net or a similar page is to ignore it. No normal site needs notifications to be enabled to show content. That’s something that dishonest websites choose to do.

How to stop ads by Coolestmedia.net

The pop-up problem should go away if you just disable notifications from Coolestmedia.net and the other adware sites. If they can’t push notifications, they can’t show you ads. Check this guide, or access notification management in your browser:

• Chrome: paste chrome://settings/content/notifications in the address bar.
• Safari: go Safari -> Preferences -> Websites -> Notifications.
• Firefox: paste about:preferences#content in the address bar.

If you suspect that you have an adware infection, you might need to scan your device with a strong antivirus program, like Spyhunter, o another one that you trust.

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