Verifyisreal.com Malware - How to remove

Verifyisreal.com is a site that’s sole purpose is to send push notifications that act like pop-up advertisements. This website is malicious, and following the ads that it shows can cause people to expose their private data, install malware, and be taken advantage of by criminals and scammers. Not to mention that the pop-ups by Verifyisreal.com are relentless, distracting, and deceptive.

How Verifyisreal.com ads work

Verifyisreal.com is a traditional adware site, one of those that ask to “verify that you are not a robot” by subscribing to notifications. In this way, it’s similar to Robotcaptcha.info and Checkpost.space.

Systems that check that a user is not a robot are legitimate and are used against DDOS attacks, hacking by brute forcing credentials, and other automated activity. Some of us have a habit of passing a captcha when we encounter one. That’s why it’s so easy to accept notifications from Verifyisreal.com without even thinking about it.

Then Verifyisreal.com forwards you to another adware site, or maybe a promoted website. Any time you return to Verifyisreal.com, most likely sent there by ads on shady websites, it’ll forward you to some promoted page. Verifyisreal.com also starts sending you intrusive, endless pop-up ads.

How you arrived on Verifyisreal.com I’m not sure. People are sent there from other malicious sites, like uniquecaptcha.com. A lot of people are taken there by deceptive ads. These ads are shown on so many different websites, even legitimate ones, that it’s impossible to avoid them by avoiding a few websites. Verifyisreal.com could also have been shown to you by an adware program, though you’d have been experiencing adware symptoms even before Verifyisreal.com.

How the ads are dangerous

Scams, phishing, fraud. You don’t need to follow the Verifyisreal.com rabbit hole very long to encounter dangerous and malicious pages.

A few pages from Verifyisreal.com lead to fake security alerts. Some of these are distributing malware and just try to get people to install unwanted and potentially dangerous software. Other alerts are a part if tech support scams. These usually include a phone number that you’re supposed to call. Both of these can cost a lot of money if believed.

Tech support scams nowadays don’t just try to sell fake support anymore; they also engage in credential phishing. Many new tech support scams include a login page where you’re supposed to type in your username and password, which are then sent to criminals. They succeed sometimes because they impersonate trusted companies, mostly Microsoft. There are some red flags that you can look for to know if the site is real, but if you did type in your info, just make sure to change your passwords as quickly as possible.

Other sites, though not spreading malware, still are dangerous. Unregulated promotion of restricted products, like medicine, can actually harm your health. Pages that advertise unrealistic earnings just end up costing money. Verifyisreal.com freely advertises games involving real money, even to children. Poor reputation subscription services that make you sign up with your credit card details later charge you without authorization. These websites will claim that mainstream ad networks are being unfair, or that some company is censoring them, but it’s impossible to ignore that they’ve partnered with Verifyisreal.com — a malicious site that deceives people to send them ads against their will.

How to stop the Verifyisreal.com pop-up ads

Verifyisreal.com can hijack browsers incredibly easily. Luckily, it’s also easy to get rid of. Block notifications and the pop-ups should cease.

• Chrome: paste chrome://settings/content/notifications in the address bar.
• Safari: go Safari -> Preferences -> Websites -> Notifications.
• Firefox: paste about:preferences#content in the address bar.
• Edge: expand the menu, click Settings->View advanced settings->Manage.

Remember to block the notifications for all the websites that are spamming you. Verifyisreal.com might not be the only malicious site that has the ability to show you ads, so check your list of websites and look up the ones that you aren’t familiar with.

If that doesn’t work, you need to consider that there’s an adware application that’s forcing you to see the additional ads. If you know which program it is, uninstall it before it invites some serious virus on your computer. If you don’t, you can scan your computer with a strong antivirus program, like Spyhunter and it should find the culprit.

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