Looksslike.com Pop-ups - How to remove

If pop-ups from Looksslike.com have started to bug you, that website has hijacked your browser. In most cases, this small problem can be fixed easily, but sometimes,   the cause is a virus infection which requires a bit more effort.

The type of threat that Looksslike.com is is not uncommon — the web is filled with dangerous domains waiting to pounce on unsuspecting visitors. They obtain permission to push unwanted notifications by using social engineering and manipulation and abuse it to continuously push pop-up ads. On top of that, these sites forward visitors to various promoted sites, some of which are dangerous. These things can be very distracting and make your browsing experience miserable. Luckily, the problem of Looksslike.com pop-ups can be fixed relatively easily. Hopefully, this experience helps you avoid online adware in the future.

The cause of the pop-ups

Adware and malvertising are the main causes of people ending up on Looksslike.com. They certainly don’t discover this site on their own — there is nothing to discover, no content except for a fake loading video. All that Looksslike.com is is a link which connects the unwilling visitor and a promoted webpage.

So, malicious ads online or an adware program open Looksslike.com and you see a video loading, and these instructions:

“Press Allow to watch the video”

Clicking “Allow” does not play a video. Instead, it redirects you to some page that the developers of Looksslike.com were paid to promote. Next time Looksslike.com is opened on your browser, it will immediately redirect to a promoted site, you might not even notice it in the address bar.

These “Click Allow” websites are many and very similar to each other, using a short phrase to try to convince you to click the “Allow’ button to accept the pop-ups. Blogsfeed.info, Drecentreshu.info, Wasterestinfor.info barely look different from each other, but they’re all distinct. Some of them receive millions of visits (Looksslike.com certainly does), and it’s possible to be hijacked by multiple adware sites and start seeing a truly overwhelming number of pop-up ads.

How to avoid adware online

Malvertising is one of the main ways to reach Looksslike.com, so avoid going on websites with low-quality ads. That said, even reputable websites can end up publishing malicious ads, so there’s no guaranteed way to avoid malvertising.

Be careful with free software and don’t accept additional offers. Sometimes free programs make some money by promoting other software. They’re often paid for each installation, which is why bundled software is frequently so difficult to notice and refuse: added in hidden screens and skippable options, installed by default. Because bundling makes it so easy to install a program on your computer without you noticing, it’s widely used by malware. Although, sometimes a program simply installs a virus in the background without giving you an option at all to refuse — those are called trojans.

Bundling isn’t the only way to install some adware; it’s often promoted by other adware. The symptoms of an aggressive infection are:

• Intrusive, unexpected ads, even outside the browser.
• New tabs opening in the browser on their own.
• Constant pop-up ads.

Adware can also be stealthy — it’s far more difficult to notice.

• Suspicious URLs and redirecting (like TrackId=sp-006).
• Browser settings changing unexpectedly (Yahoo Redirect Virus).
• Gray software from trusted developers (for example, Avast SafePrice).

Looksslike.com is an effective adware virus. It’s intrusive enough that its ads cannot be ignored; even if you try to close every pop-up, you’ll accidentally open at least a few of them. But it’s also unusual and low profile enough that it can be very difficult to figure out how it works and how to stop it. Worst of all, some people might just deal with the Looksslike.com ads, believing that they’re normal — they’re not, they can (and should) be blocked as soon as possible.

Get rid of Looksslike.com ads

Stop notifications from Looksslike.com by accessing the settings on your browser, or, better yet, block notifications altogether if you don’t use them. Notifications can be useful, but nowadays they’re also hijacked by many of these malicious adware sites, so if you want to be careful, you can simply block notifications.

If you think that being forwarded to Looksslike.com was the fault of a virus on your computer, check your installed programs. Doing it manually is a bit tedious, you can also use an antivirus tool, such as Spyhunter.

If you found Looksslike.com thanks to malvertising online, try to find safer alternatives to the dangerous websites. Be especially careful of various pirating sites — often they’re full of unsafe ads that are impossible to avoid.

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