Substand.pro Adware - How to remove

Substand.pro is a website that causes repeated pop-up windows in many browsers into which it got injected. According to the analysis performed by several cybersecurity companies, substand.pro attacks Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers primarily. What substand.pro does is referred to as browser hijacking through forcing people into enabling its web push notifications.

Several advertising companies stand behind substand.pro distribution on the web. It is quite unlikely that users will make their personal decision to visit this particular website and to make its notifications active. So, the adware distributors refer to the help of several adware programs that may be installed illegally into your system. Sooner or later, the adware starts redirecting you to substand.pro or some other similar pages.

What good to expect of substand.pro

Frankly speaking, there is hardly any valuable function that substand.pro could provide you with. The service of web push notifications is part of many legitimate websites. For example, you may look for a certain product on Walmart, AliExpress or some other online store. They may suggest you enable their legitimate push notifications by clicking on the “Allow” button. Thanks to this feature active, you will be notified when some newer items are in stock.

Regretfully, substand.pro acts in a totally different manner. Instead of helping you browse the web and find what you look for, substand.pro keeps essentially distracting you from things that are really important. Furthermore, substand.pro does not bring your attention to itself, but rather to many third-party websites, whereas many of them may be considered as extremely dangerous.

Examples of substand.pro redirections

Once the substand.pro pop-up comes up in your browser initially it does not yet cause any damage. However, your browser will become exposed to cyber threats when you start interacting with it. You will be forced by the alert to click on its “Allow” button supposedly to verify your age, prove that you are not a robot, or as some important action to fix your Internet connection. Substand.pro uses a lot of deceptive techniques to make you interact with it. Once its push notifications are enabled, this is what you may expect to happen:

• uncontrolled redirections to random websites;
• unsolicited ads displayed on your screen, even when the browser is not in use;
• installation of suspicious software without your control or consent;
• system slowdown and possible crashes.

Substand.pro works as a browser hijacker when it tries to switch your browser into the full-screen mode to make you click on its “Allow” button. So, you will not be able to properly use your browser to find the information about the alert and how safe it is. Some users were easily misled by these faulty statements and thus enabled the aforesaid uncontrolled push notifications.

How to remove substand.pro

Substand.pro is similar to seplumming.pro, andalbrighth.pro, and neatdude.cool. The problems they cause are also basically the same. Even though it is not a complex undertaking to disable the substand.pro push notifications manually, the root of the problem may still remain and cause similar issues. We mentioned about the probability of substand.pro to be brought by certain adware in your computer. It is important that you check the list of available programs in your system, identify the ones that look suspicious and uninstall them just as you get rid of other unwanted programs in a common manner.

Scanning your computer with the decent anti-malware tool is another important step. Your existing anti-virus probably failed to protect your system from the substand.pro attack. Then it did not keep its direct function of defending your system as initially advertised. We recommend you to refer to the help of either Spyhunter that will find other security issues and will fix them in a proper way.

How to remove Substand.pro Adware using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Substand.pro Adware install some of their components as regular Windows programs as well as additional software. This part of malware can be uninstalled from the Control Panel. To access it, do the following.

• Start→Control Panel (older Windows) or press Windows Key→Search and enter Control Panel and then press Enter (Windows 8, Windows 10).
• Choose Uninstall Program (if you don't see it, click in the upper right next to "View by" and select Category).
• Go through the list of programs and select entries related to Substand.pro Adware . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Substand.pro Adware easier to find.
• Click the Uninstall button. If you're asked if you really want to remove the program, click Yes.
• In many cases anti-malware programs are better at detecting related parasites, thus I recommend installing Spyhunter to identify other programs that might be a part of this infection.

How to remove Substand.pro Adware from macOS

Delete Substand.pro Adware from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Substand.pro Adware app.
5. Select it and right-click it (or hold the Ctrl and click the left mouse button).
6. In the dropdown, click Move to Bin/Trash. You might be asked to provide your login password.

TopRemove malicious extensions from Internet Explorer

• Press on the Gear icon→Manage Add-ons.
  
• Go through Toolbars and extensions. Remove everything related to Substand.pro Adware and items you do not know that are made not by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle or Adobe.
  
• Close the Options.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Substand.pro Adware, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Press on the Gear icon->Internet Options.
  
• Choose the Advanced tab and click on the Reset button.
  
• Select a “Delete personal settings” checkbox and click on the Reset button.
  
• Click on the Close button on the confirmation box, then close your browser.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

TopRemoving Substand.pro Adware from Chrome

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Google Chrome window. Select “Settings”.
  
• Click “Extensions” on the left menu bar.
• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Substand.pro Adware. Click on the trash bin icon next to Substand.pro Adware or other add-ons you want to remove.
  
• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.
  
• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.
  
• Restart Chrome.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Substand.pro Adware, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
  
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on the Reset settings button.
  
• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

TopRemoving Substand.pro Adware from Firefox

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla window and select the “Add-ons” icon (or press Ctrl+Shift+A on your keyboard).
  
• Go through Extensions and Addons list, remove everything Substand.pro Adware related and items you do not recognise. If you do not know the extension and it is not made by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or Adobe then you probably do not need it.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Substand.pro Adware, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla Firefox window. Click on the Help button.
  
• Choose Troubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove Substand.pro Adware from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Substand.pro Adware. Click on the "Remove" icon next to Substand.pro Adware or other add-ons you want to remove.

• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.

• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.

• Restart Microsoft Edge.

TopRemoving Substand.pro Adware from Safari (Mac OS X)

• Click on the Safari menu.
• Choose Preferences.
  
• Click on the Extensions Tab.
• Click on the Uninstall button near the Substand.pro Adware. Remove all other unknown or suspicious entries too. If you are not sure whether you need the extension or not, you can simply uncheck the Enable check-box to disable the extension temporarily.
  
• Restart Safari.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Substand.pro Adware, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Reset Safari.
  
• Select which options you want to reset (usually all of them come preselected) and click on the Reset button.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.