tontorcaltedron.info Ads - How to remove

tontorcaltedron.info is a malicious site that delivers advertisements for those marketers who want their ads to be intrusive beyond the point of ethical behavior. The subjects of the ads include restricted content, scams, and malware.

The tontorcaltedron.info URL is most likely to be familiar to you from their constant pop-up ads, but they also redirect people from their website to promoted sites, so if you ever experience being redirected to random websites, it’s possible that tontorcaltedron.info is being opened every time, but it’s just redirecting to a different site every time. tontorcaltedron.info is a part of an advertising scheme that doesn’t have to play by the rules of normal advertising networks.

How tontorcaltedron.info is dangerous

First of all, all the pop-up ads that tontorcaltedron.info pushes are distracting and bad for productivity New tabs opening and playing animations, effects, even sounds, restricted content being displayed can make your computer frustrating to use. Some computers with modest hardware can be affected more strongly by the ads taking up resources and making everything else run slowly.

Being a site whose whole point is to redirect to other sites, tontorcaltedron.info is connected with quite a few websites with a bad reputation: deloplen.com, ouo.io, PopAds, PopCash, Adcash, install.notifyservice.com, Apple.com-fasting.live are just a few of tontorcaltedron.info’s partners. They include sites that promote suspicious software (optimizers), scams (like fake security warnings), suspicious subscription services that really want to know your credit card info, gambling sites, investing sites (pyramid schemes), even sites that steal passwords and automatically download files. And sure, there are normal and legitimate sites using tontorcaltedron.info as a service, too. But so much of the promoted content is risky that it’s easy to declare tontorcaltedron.info to be malicious and to be avoided at all costs.

To add more detail, the various suspicious sites can and do cost people real money. Tech support scams, for example, like the ones that show fake warnings about virus infections, are trying to get people to buy fake antivirus services from scammers. These cost hundreds of dollars. Losing your password could result in a criminal hacking your account and using your credit card to make unauthorized purchases. Even a leaked email address could be then included in a list for spam emails, some of which spread dangerous viruses like ransomware.

How tontorcaltedron.info spreads

tontorcaltedron.info has a few different designs which show a loading bar with the text “Please tap the Allow button to continue”. This design is meant to trick visitors into believing that they must click “Allow” to enable tontorcaltedron.info to show content. In reality, tontorcaltedron.info doesn’t have any content to show. The “Allow” button was for the notifications alert.

Notifications can be useful when it’s about a new email in your inbox or a new post in your favorite blog. But in the case of tontorcaltedron.info, it’s about being able to take the notification medium and turn it into ads. Pop-up ads from tontorcaltedron.info show up regularly, and they all lead to sponsored sites. Some of those want to show notifications, too, and also abuse them like tontorcaltedron.info does.

But people don’t find a page like tontorcaltedron.info on their own, so how is it promoted?

People are linked to tontorcaltedron.info from sites that show low-quality ads, like various online video converters and free streaming services. The ads aren’t honest about what their destination is, so it’s easy to end up on tontorcaltedron.info accidentally. It’s even possible to be redirected to tontorcaltedron.info when going to a website for the first time.

Another way for tontorcaltedron.info to be promoted is through adware. Software that shows excessive advertisements to earn revenue or promote products, but is disguised as a PDF manager or some other useful and unsuspicious tool. If you have adware — whether it came as an addition in a freeware bundle or as a Trojan — it will keep showing excessive ads until it is removed. Like tontorcaltedron.info, some of the ads are harmless, some are potentially devastating.

How to remove tontorcaltedron.info

tontorcaltedron.info’s pop-up ads can be removed by blocking notifications from it and any other sites that are showing the ads. This is browser-specific, so check all the browsers that you use.

If this doesn’t stop the pop-ups, or if adware is responsible for you being directed to tontorcaltedron.info, it should be uninstalled. If you are not sure which application that is, check the list of your programs and research all the ones that you aren’t sure about. Alternatively, you can use Spyhunter, or Combo-Cleaner to scan your computer and find all the suspicious applications.

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