Stoomoogn.com Pop-Up Ads - How to remove

Stoomoogn.com is an advertising website. It hijacks people’s notification settings so that it can display pop-up ads on their screens. Some of those pop-up ads are relatively normal, others lead to get-rich-quick schemes and malware. Luckily, you can block Stoomoogn.com’s ads in your browser settings.

Stoomoogn.com in short:

Classification	Browser hijacker, adware.
How notifications can be hijacked	Dishonest ads trick people into allowing notifications.
Problems with Stoomoogn.com’s ads	Ads appear unexpectedly, in exchange for nothing, some of the ads are dangerous, promoting scams or malware.
Stopping ads from Stoomoogn.com	Block unwanted notifications, Find and remove all malware (Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, others).

How Stoomoogn.com hijacks browsers

Stoomoogn.com is a website. It uses web push notifications to spam people with pop-up ads.

It’s kind of like an adware infection, except that it doesn’t exist on your computer as anything more than a line in your settings. This is good because it’s easy to get rid of.

But how does this happen? It’s not like our web browsers just randomly accept notifications from any and all sites. Users have to explicitly give permission to each website that wants to send them. We have to click the Allow button on the notification pop-up that appears in the upper left.

And yet, sites like Stoomoogn.com are able to hijack notifications. That process might look something like this:

1. Advertise Stoomoogn.com on sites that allow pop-up ads.
2. Show Stoomoogn.com in a pop-up, have it tell people to click the “Allow” button.
3. Once people do it (or refuse to do it), redirect them to another advertisement.

Let’s say you were trying to watch a movie on a free (infringing) streaming site and got a pop-up from Stoomoogn.com. It might look like you have to click “Allow” to return to watching your movies.

If you were impatient and unfamiliar with web push notifications (many of us just don’t use them), it’s possible to subscribe to Stoomoogn.com’s ads by accident.

Stoomoogn.com has a lot of articles on it, but that’s not original content – the articles are copied from other sites. Same as Thenewstreams.com, Leezeemu.com, and similar sites.

Unwanted ads

Web push notifications are little pop-ups that appear in the lower right corner of your screen (or at the top, if you’re on mobile). They can be the types that fade away with time, or they can require interaction. They are displayed by your browser even when Stoomoogn.com is not open. This can be very annoying.

In addition, ads by Stoomoogn.com can include content that is controversial or even unsafe. Adult content that could be awkward to have other people see on your screen, scams that are genuinely dangerous, and various potentially unwanted products and programs that are a waste of time.

As a result, those whose browsers are hijacked by Stoomoogn.com risk being scammed or having malware downloaded onto their systems.

Stoomoogn.com is like an advertising site, but one with no accountability. It’s free to behave deceitfully and to take money from malicious advertisers.

How to block Stoomoogn.com ads

Stop notifications from Stoomoogn.com and other sites

As Stoomoogn.com uses notifications to deliver unwanted pop-up ads, the way to stop it is to block those notifications. This can be done in your browser:

1. Open your notification settings:
   • Chrome – type “chrome://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
   • Safari – in the Safari menu, choose Preferences, Websites, Notifications.
   • Edge (Chromium) – type “edge://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
   • Firefox – open Settings, Privacy & Security, scroll down to Permissions, and click on Settings next to Notifications.
2. Find Stoomoogn.com and click the button to its right.
3. Select Block (or Deny) from the drop-down.

It can also be done by clicking on the gear icon on a Stoomoogn.com pop-up and then selecting the option “Block all notifications from this site”. For example:

You might want to block websites from suggesting notifications. You would still be able to have individual sites to send you updates by manually adding them to your list of Allowed sites.

Remove malware

Knowing that Stoomoogn.com advertises crapware, is advertised by adware viruses, and is generally associated with malware, it’s important to check your computer for malicious software and remove infections if any are found. From trojans to bad browser extensions, malware should not be allowed to stay.

Review your programs and browser extensions that appeared at around the time that Stoomoogn.com’s pop-up ads started.

Use an anti-malware program, such as Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, and others to check your computer and, if needed, remove malware.

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