Updateflash.club Scam - How to remove

Updateflash.club is a scam site that uses Adobe Flash Player’s name to steal money and to spread UpdateChecker. It’s characterized by showing a fake installation setup process that ends by asking you to pay by sending an SMS. To see this scam, especially more than once, is a sign that adware may have infected your browser or your computer. Although it is not especially dangerous, it is still harmful because the malware that it downloads could cause problems later on.

About Updateflash.club:

Type of threat	Scam, trojan.
Problems with Updateflash.club	Asks for a payment to install Flash Player, a free program, bundles UpdateChecker, known malware.
How the site spreads	Ads on search engine sites and other sites, ads injected by adware.
How to remove Updateflash.club	Close the page, avoid sites that show ads for Updateflash.club, scan your computer for malware (with Spyhunter, Malwarebytes, or other programs) and remove malware if any is found, uninstall UpdateChecker and other malware manually.

How Updateflash.club is dangerous

Updateflash.club is a malicious website that offers visitors to install Flash Player for a fee. It’s not related to the developers of Flash Player or any other big software company. Rather, it’s trying to trick people to part with their money.

Adobe Flash Player, despite being nearly retired, is a very famous piece of software that has influenced the internet’s development. Because Flash is so famous, there are a lot of various scams that use its name. Usually, the scams look like fake warnings aimed at macOS users, at Windows users, and many different variations. Like all these scams, Updateflash.club steals the name and image of Adobe Flash Player to spread malware. However, there are some differences that make Updateflash.club’s approach somewhat unique.

Most scams install a trojan, usually adware, and that’s it. Updateflash.club, on the other hand, gets people to send it short messages and pay around 7 euros before it downloads its malware. Not very many scams ask people to send money via SMS.

Updateflash.club may cost money and cause people to lose money:

• It asks for money to install Flash Player even though this software is free to use.
• It installs UpdateChecker, which is known malware.

The company behind Updateflash.club, MOBILE APPS SERVICES, S.A., has created a few different scam pages, too, including one for a fake Internet Explorer update.

How the scam spreads

Even now, UpdateChecker is being advertised in the search result ads on certain alternative search engines like Fastquicksearch.com. But that’s not the only way for malicious sites to spread:

• Adware infections may cause your browser to open malicious sites. Adware can exist as a desktop application, a browser extension, or a notification spammer.
• Infected websites can redirect you to suspicious sites like Updateflash.club. Even clicking a link that leads to an infected site can be dangerous.
• Some sites show aggressive and misleading ads, some of which lead to fake warnings, fake updates, and other misleading ads.

Despite being unrelated to Adobe, Updateflash.club tries to look like an official Flash Player site. It includes the word “Flash” in the site address and describes Flash Player as an essential add-on for viewing online content:

Adobe Flash Player, An essential complement to your computer.

In reality, Flash Player has almost entirely been replaced by HTML5 and other technologies.

How to remove Updateflash.club ads

If you encounter the Updateflash.club site, do not send an SMS to it and don’t try to download the file it offers. Just close the page and go on with your day.

Updateflash.club shows what looks like an installation process on it when you try to download software. But these images are completely fake. Even if you clicked through that “AdobeFlashPlayer Setup” process, rest easy – it wasn’t a real installation.

If you see Updateflash.club ads regularly, then your computer might have been infected by adware. Check your installed programs, browser extensions, and notification settings. Scan your computer with antivirus programs (such as Spyhunter, Malwarebytes, and others) for malware and if any suspicious files are found, remove them.

If you did download files from Updateflash.club, then delete them and uninstall UpdateChecker from your apps and programs. Scan your computer with an antivirus program to find and remove it and possibly other malware.

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How to remove Updateflash.club Scam using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Updateflash.club Scam 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 Updateflash.club Scam . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Updateflash.club Scam 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.