Topflownews.com Pop-Up Ads - How to remove

Has Topflownews.com been showing unwanted pop-up ads on your screen? If yes, that is a problem. Topflownews.com is a notification spammer that promotes dangerous content, including scams, malicious browser extensions, and fake giveaways. Luckily, stopping its notifications is as easy as changing a browser setting. But it is important to know how malicious sites like Topflownews.com prey on people and how to avoid them.

Details on Topflownews.com:

Type of threat	Adware.
How to stop the Topflownews.com ads	Block notifications from suspicious websites, use an antivirus program (Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS) to scan your computer, remove malicious apps, programs, and browser extensions.
Problems and issues	Scams, malware, and adware are promoted by Topflownews.com, pop-up ads are distracting and annoying.
How Topflownews.com gets access	Deceptive ads trick people into allowing notifications.

How to stop Topflownews.com’s pop-up ads

Topflownews.com promotes malicious ads and acts as a notification spammer – it uses web push notifications to show advertisements in the internet browsers of all those who have given Topflownews.com permission to do that. Usually, that permission is given unwittingly or mistakenly. Topflownews.com needs explicit permission to be able to send ads to a browser, so it tricks people and lies to them.

To stop the notification from Topflownews.com, go into your browser settings and revoke that permission that’s enabling Topflownews.com to send notifications. At the same time, check what other sites can send updates to your browser. If you don’t want to receive pop-ups from them then block them, too. While legitimate websites make good use of notifications (such as by notifying you about a new email), malicious sites only abuse them to show ads.

Here’s how to find notification settings:

• Chrome – type “chrome://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
• Safari – in the Safari menu, choose Preferences, Websites, Notifications.
• New Edge – type “edge://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
• Firefox – open Settings, Preferences, Privacy & Security, scroll down to Permissions, and click on Settings next to Notifications.

When you open the page with your notification settings (make sure you do this on the browser that is affected by Topflownews.com pop-up ads), you should see all the addresses whose notifications you’ve allowed or blocked. Among those that are allowed should be Topflownews.com. Click the button next to it and in the pop-up menu, choose Block.

To avoid the dangerous ads that appear on Topflownews.com, just avoid going to the site. Consider blocking it with an ad-blocker or an anti-malware application. Think about whether you’ve recently filled out a form with your personal details for a shady site – some malicious ads lead to phishing scams.

Also, check your computer for malware – malicious programs and browser extensions. You can look for them with an antivirus application, such as Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, etc.

Dangers of Topflownews.com ads

Topflownews.com exists as a sort of news site that promotes malicious ads designed to look like real notifications:

• “news” about someone getting rich quickly and easily,
• updates about missed phone calls,
• giveaways and lotteries,
• notifications about attractive women sending friend requests.

These are all fake, of course, and quite dangerous.

The get-rich-quick links open elaborate “articles” about turning tiny investments into mountains of money. These articles talk about horrified banks and about how easy it is for regular people with no experience in cryptocurrency trading to quickly start earning thousands of dollars. They put up photos of people and lots of discussions to sell the whole thing. They promise ridiculously high returns, take down people’s personal details, then lead them on with fake reports about successful investments. When the person decides to withdraw their money, the scammers cut them off. These scams cost some people their life’s savings.

Topflownews.com also promotes some less dangerous sites – subscription scams like Smushgame. They trick people into filling a form with their personal and payment information, sign them up for a subscription, and charge around $50 per month.

As for the notification spam, Topflownews.com promotes various browser hijackers, adware programs, free-to-play games, and legitimate online stores. You might also see promotions for diet pills, more crypto scams, and alarmist ads for VPNs.

How the pop-up ads start

I saw Topflownews.com while I was messing around with an online scam, but mostly, it is advertised on video streaming sites and file download sites. People looking for free entertainment online are most likely to encounter ads for notification scammers like Topflownews.com. In these ads, Topflownews.com implies that you need to subscribe to its push notifications to continue watching your videos:

Click the “Allow” button to subscribe to the push  notifications and continue watching.

Topflownews.com tricks you to allow it to send notifications to your browser by using misleading text and hoping that you’re distracted enough. It claims that you have to allow notifications, but this is not true whatsoever. It’s just a scheme to get you to change your browser settings to allow Topflownews.com access. When you see a site like that, close it.

It’s at least nice that Topflownews.com links to a page with instructions for how to block the notifications. But what good will that do? Without having the precise URL, you can’t return to that page. Meanwhile, Topflownews.com just continues to spew out ad after ad.

Consider blocking ads and malicious websites. Besides Topflownews.com, there are heaps of sites doing the same thing – hijacking people’s notifications: Webout.life, Solk.pro, Searchsio.com, etc. You might also want to be extra careful on pirating sites. Some ads do slip past the ad-blocker filters, so it’s important to keep your defenses up.

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