Metovid.com Ads - How to remove

Metovid.com is a scam site that is used by fraudsters to show ads to users – without any content to go along with the ads. Unlike a normal site that uses advertising, Metovid.com will simply send ads right to your browser, wasting your time and exposing you to potentially dangerous content. The site’s malicious behavior shouldn’t be tolerated – as soon as you see its pop-up ads, go to your browser settings and block them. You might also want to scan your computer with an anti-malware program.

Metovid.com’s problems and solutions:

Type of threat	Adware Browser hijacker
Dangerous content that Metovid.com promotes	Distracting pop-ups interfere with your work Scam sites that cost money and push malware Adult content is promoted freely
How the pop-up ads start	Deceptive sites obtain permission to send notifications Adware viruses open Metovid.com
Remove Metovid.com ads	Block notifications from adware sites Use real-time web protection Delete malware (Combo Cleaner for Mac, SpyHunter fro PC)

How Metovid.com’s ads are harmful

Seeing a few pop-up ads in your browser is a waste of your time and your bandwidth. It’s terribly annoying when an ad starts blaring loud music or hijacks your screen, making it cumbersome to close it. Metovid.com’s ads waste a lot of your time and distract you from work or entertainment. The ads that appear need to be dismissed if you want to have any free space on your device screen. And you’re bound to accidentally click on some of them.

That’s not good. Metovid.com’s ads include scams, malware, and content unsuitable for children. Tech support scammers have websites where they promote fake security software by showing fake virus alerts. Various get-rich-quick schemes are advertised with fake stories. And fake reward sites are used to steal your private information and your money. Adware viruses are pushed by fake Adobe Flash update prompts online (they seem to be rising in popularity despite Flash barely being used anymore).

Even if the scams are obvious to you, there are people who fall for them and lose a lot of money to criminals. If someone in your family uses the infected computer and encounters one such malicious ad, they could do a lot of damage to themselves.

Besides scams, Metovid.com promotes some adult content and gambling sites. Generally, such sites should not be easily viewed by children and ad-networks have all sorts of regulations on them. Metovid.com just opens them.

All the while, Metovid.com’s links and redirects take you through various trackers and other adware sites. Metovid.com will eventually be shut down, but the fraudsters behind it will continue working through other sites.

How to remove Metovid.com ads

You can disable notifications from Metovid.com to stop the pop-up ads in your browser. Generally, notifications are useful – for example, they let you know about a new email or social media message. But sites like Metovid.com abuse them in a really annoying way.

Open your browser and go to its settings to find the list of the sites that send you notifications:

• Chrome – type “chrome://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
• Safari – in the Safari menu, choose Preferences, Websites, Notifications.
• Edge – open Settings, Advanced settings, Notifications, Manage.
• Firefox – type “about:preferences#content” in the address bar, find the Notifications section.

Block Metovid.com and all the addresses from which you don’t want to see pop-ups. Don’t be shy to block sites. You can always reverse that, and notifications are extremely optional in most cases. You will still be able to access the websites. One way to avoid notification-spamming adware like Metovid.com is to turn off notifications altogether.

Sites like Metovid.com show ads for various online sites, usually ones that have to do with online piracy (streaming sites, filesharing sites, etc.). Sites like Metovid.com are responsible for the unexpected ads that appear when you click on random site elements. You can’t really do anything about that besides blocking the site with an anti-malware or ad-blocking program.

Metovid.com might lock your screen. If that happens and you can’t use your mouse anymore, don’t be scared – there are a couple of solutions. First, you can close the current window. For Mac users, close the current browser tab by pressing the Cmd and W buttons together – just not on this article! PC (Windows) users can do the same by pressing the Alt and F4 buttons. You can also call up a window that will allow you to quit your browser (if it’s an online ad) or another program. Mac users can use the Cmd+Shift+Esc keyboard combination, PC users – Ctrl+Shift+Esc.

And if you think some of the scam sites might have downloaded some malware (drive-by downloads are a thing), just scan your computer with any competent anti-malware program (for example, Combo Cleaner for Mac, SpyHunter for PC). Metovid.com and similar sites are sometimes set in your browser by a malicious adware program, so if there are any of those on your computer, they also need to be removed.

How to avoid adware websites

There are so many adware sites just like Metovid.com: Checking-your-browser.com, Trynotify.com, Finding-love-is-easy.com are just a few. So, it’s a good idea to set up a few security measures to avoid your browser being hijacked by them.

You could block malicious addresses. For that, you can use anti-malware programs, ad-blockers, or do it yourself and use free blocklists. Metovid.com is already detected as malware by some programs, so users of such programs with real-time security would be protected.

Do not agree to allow notifications from shady websites, especially any pages that, like Metovid.com, contain nothing but a request to allow notifications. When you’re asked to press a button, remember to read the text – see what it is that you’re agreeing to. Remember that no website needs to show you notifications to play a video, check if you’re a robot, or really any reason.

Familiarize yourself with adware sites so that when you see one, you know what it is. They all tend to look very similar, almost always asking you to press the “Allow” button. For example, Metovid.com shows a fake video player and says:

Press “Allow” to watch the video

Remember that the internet is full of scammers and you always need to be careful. The web is no safer than a city. The legally-gray sites are especially risky.

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