Z-videos.fun Ad Spam - How to remove

Z-videos.fun is a website that sends unwanted ads to infected web browsers. It tricks people into subscribing to its ads and it promotes other malicious sites similar to itself. If it hijacks your browser, it can really negatively affect your web browsing experience.

Luckily, you can stop Z-videos.fun from showing unwanted ads by changing your browser settings.

Z-videos.fun in short:

Classification	Adware.
How Z-videos.fun hijacks browsers	It’s promoted online in a misleading way, it tricks visitors into subscribing to its notifications.
Hijacking symptoms	Pop-up ads appear on screen unexpectedly, the ads lead to unfamiliar, sometimes deceptive or dangerous sites, the ads are labeled with “Z-videos.fun”.
How to stop Z-videos.fun ad spam	Block notifications from Z-videos.fun and other sites that abuse them, remove malware and potentially unwanted programs with antivirus apps like Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, and others.

What is Z-videos.fun?

It hijacks browsers

You might have noticed some pop-up ads coming from Z-videos.fun. These ads might show up at the top of your screen or in the lower right corner, or new tabs might open in your browser.

Z-videos.fun is a website that, at first glance, appears to have no content. It shows a looping animation of a loading video that looks a lot like the Youtube player. It presents a message where it asks you to allow it to show notifications and, if you do what it wants, it tells you to close the window:

You have successfully passed the verification!
Now you can close the window.

It seems like Z-videos.fun does two things:

• Ask people to subscribe to its notifications.
• Deliver advertisements as notifications.

Besides that, Z-videos.fun also promotes other notification hijackers, like Timoer.pro, Red-video.fun, and Zvideo-live.com. These sites also work the same way – they deliver ads. Video-call.live and Pushails.com are also very similar.

It might seem strange that we could be tricked into subscribing to notifications from an unknown website. But people don’t usually subscribe on purpose. They’re tricked by the site’s deceptive presentation.

Z-videos.fun gets advertised on torrenting sites, file download sites, or free movie streaming websites. People on those sites might just be trying to download some movies or TV shows, so when a Z-videos.fun page is opened with a loading bar, a video player, and a download button in the corner, it doesn’t look out of place. And it’s not strange if some users follow Z-videos.fun’s instructions and accidentally get their browser hijacked by an annoying ad spammer.

It delivers unwanted ads

Once Z-videos.fun gets access to your browser, no matter if it’s on desktop or mobile, it sends you advertisements. These ads tend to be of lower quality than those you see on mainstream websites. It’s not surprising to see ads that promote scams or malware:

• Ads that look like notifications from social media sites, missed calls and messages, and other deceptively designed ads. They lead to unexpected websites and that’s a problem on its own.
• Get-rich-quick schemes, usually fake articles that use made-up celebrity interviews to promote cryptocurrency trading scams (Which.co.uk).
• Fake virus and update alerts. On mobile devices, they’re usually used to convince you to install some random app. On desktops, they tend to lead to tech support scams.

Indeed, it’s not recommended to click on any ads labeled with Z-videos.fun’s address. Especially since this site does absolutely nothing useful in return for its advertisements.

How to stop Z-videos.fun ad spam

To stop unwanted ads, you could use ad blockers. They can improve your online security and privacy, as well as improve your online browsing experience.

However, Z-videos.fun’s ads are most likely caused by hijacked notifications. And you can block notifications from and other sites in your browser settings:

• Chrome – open Settings, scroll down to Site settings (under Privacy and security), click on Notifications.
• Edge (Chromium) – open Settings, click Site Permissions, Notifications.
• Safari – in the Safari menu, choose Preferences, Websites, Notifications.
• Firefox – open Settings, Privacy & Security, scroll down to Permissions, and click on Settings next to Notifications.

It might be a good idea to disable notification prompts completely. You’ll still be able to subscribe to site notifications by adding addresses manually, just not through pop-ups.

Besides blocking notifications, it’s important to check your device for adware and other malware. You can use anti-malware apps like Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, Malwarebytes, and others.

Sites like Z-videos.fun are advertised online, but they’re also displayed by adware viruses. For instance, the Barcode Scanner Android app that was transformed by an update into malware, opening malicious websites in the browsers of its victims.

In addition, sites like Z-videos.fun promote with their ads malicious and potentially unwanted programs, among other problematic content.

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