Infopicked.com Ads and Redirects - How to remove

Infopicked.com is an advertising site that delivers ads for certain websites. Its name may show up in your address bar while you’re browsing the web. Infopicked.com opens pop-up ads or redirects to advertised websites, try to open an app on your device, or try to get you to download an app or a browser extension.

Infopicked.com is considered malicious by a few antivirus scanners.

Infopicked.com in short:

Classification	Adware.
How Infopicked.com affects the browser	It opens unexpectedly and it tries to redirect to another website or to open an app.
Where you might encounter it	On online video-Mp3 converters, free movie streaming sites, torrenting sites.
How to remove Infopicked.com ads	Block malicious and unwanted sites, find and remove malicious and unwanted programs from your device (Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, others).

Is Infopicked.com dangerous?

Infopicked.com shows ads, some of which are dangerous. Coming across Infopicked.com might cause your browser to show obnoxious pop-ups, to open apps without your consent, or to open the App Store. Indeed, some antivirus scanners consider it to be malicious or suspicious (Virustotal.com).

This is an advertising site that is mostly used by malicious redirects on converters and pirating sites. Especially sites that trigger ads without showing any.

Infopicked.com appears in your address bar and attempts to open another site in your browser. It might redirect so quickly that you won’t even notice it.

There’s nothing wrong with ads online and Infopicked.com does advertise a lot of harmless products, such as online stores, VPN providers, and your local businesses.

However, some of the ads that Infopicked.com shows lead to websites that are considered dangerous:

• Deceptive subscription sites that offer you free HD movies, only to charge you a monthly fee of up to $60.
• Fake virus alerts and update prompts that seek to get you to download an unwanted app.
• Fake giveaways, get-rich-quick scams, and similar deceptive websites.

Overall, it’s best to avoid ads by Infopicked.com. Even if only some of them lead to dangerous sites, it is easy to fall for the scams advertised and that could result in real harm to you.

That said, Infopicked.com itself is not dangerous and it showing up on your screen doesn’t cause any problems. It’s just some of the pages that it redirects to that are problematic.

What causes Infopicked.com redirects

According to web analytics, it is estimated that movie pirating sites like 123Movies, file-sharing sites like Turbobit.net file-sharing sites, video converters like Mp3-youtube.download and Youtubetomp3music.com, and similar sites show ads with Infopicked.com’s help.

There’s a trend here of potentially illegal sites and sites that could be used for pirating. It’s not surprising that these sites show iffy ads – it’s very common for controversial sites to do this.

Often, you don’t even need to click on an ad for these sites to open an advertised page. Instead, pop-ups are opened when you click on a random spot on the page, when you try to watch a video or download a file, or even with no interaction at all. Ads on such sites are very aggressive and difficult to avoid.

How to avoid the Infopicked.com virus

First, you could block Infopicked.com and other unwanted sites with an antivirus tool. Antivirus programs that include a web filter can really help you stay safe online. Some antivirus programs even allow you to blacklist (and whitelist) sites yourself.

You can also use ad blockers to avoid Infopicked.com and other ad serving sites. Just make sure to pick a real ad blocker and be careful of the fakes. Also, remember that some sites don’t allow ad blockers and that some ads can get around them.

If you’re concerned about the ads that Infopicked.com displayed, check your computer for malicious software (with Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, etc.) and if malicious items (files, programs, browser add-ons) are found, remove them.

Disable notification prompts. This way, you can avoid notification hijackers that are so common on the same websites as the Infopicked.com ads.

Avoid sites that consistently show malicious or annoying ads. Pirating sites do that a lot, so be careful on them. Don’t rush, take your time, close unwanted tabs, and be careful of fake download links and made-up warnings. Don’t download items that you’re not sure about and don’t open files that you didn’t mean to download.

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