What is Adultfriendfinder pop up virus

Adultfriendfinder (https://adultfriendfinder.com/) seems to be a legal social network. Developers claim, that their site is the World’s Largest Adult Dating and Hookup Site but some resources reports, that’s not quite true. This site had problems related to users personal data: in May 2015, Adult FriendFinder was hacked, and personal information about four million users had stolen. Moreover, site owners had used malware to generate explicit pop-up ads on computers without user consent. So, if you have pop-ups or another advertisement, related to Adultfriendfinder (cookies), read our helpful article below, and learn how to remove Adultfriendfinder pop-ups (or notifications) from web-browser.

What is Adultfriendfinder pop up virus

Adultfriendfinder comes to the PC without the user’s consent as a pop-up or as notifications in Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and IE. If you noticed that your browser starts to show you different popups, message boxes or another advertisement, then you most likely become a victim of this harmful virus. First of all, Adultfriendfinder makes changes to the settings of browsers installed on your computer, after which it constantly redirects the user to affiliate sites and opens new tabs containing a lot of commercial offers. As we previously admitted, it displays ads banners, pop-ups and much more. Moreover, it can collect personal user information and transfer it to commercial partners. We strongly recommend that you remove Adultfriendfinder pop-up virus immediately.

How Adultfriendfinder pop up virus gets on your PC?

In most cases, Adultfriendfinder pop up virus comes bundled with free software that the user downloads from the Internet. It comes bundled with archives, audio players, utilities and so on, through special downloaders or web clients containing malware as an additional element. Kodi Player is a new media player, video hosting and provider can be a source of malicious apps, related to Adultfriendfinder. You need to decline all offers about notifications from unknown sites, closely monitor the installation process and choose its advanced type to refuse installation of the elements of the installation package that do not inspire confidence in you. If this has already penetrated your PC, then use our recommendations to remove it right now.

How to remove Adultfriendfinder pop up virus from your computer?

The most easy and modern way of removing pop-ups, trojans, ransomware or other viruses is to use automatic removal tools. See our Anti-malware tools below for further instructions.

Recommended Anti-malware tools:

Also, you can try to remove Adultfriendfinder pop up virus manually. For uninstalling Adultfriendfinder pop up virus remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and registry keys.

Step 1: Remove Adultfriendfinder pop up virus from Control Panel

Windows XP:

1. Click Start.
2. Control Panel.
3. Then click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Find Adultfriendfinder pop up virus.
5. Click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows XP.

Windows 7/Windows Vista:

1. Click Start.
2. Then Control Panel.
3. Click Uninstall a Program.
4. Find Adultfriendfinder and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 7.

Windows 8/Windows 8.1:

1. Open the Menu.
2. Click Search.
3. After that click Apps.
4. Then Control Panel.
5. Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
6. Find Adultfriendfinder, select it and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 8 (8.1).

Windows 10:

1. Click on the Start button (or press the Windows key) to open the Start menu, click on the Settings at the top.
2. Click on App & features on the left menu.
3. On the right side, locate Adultfriendfinder and click it, then click on the Uninstall button.
4. Click on Uninstall to confirm.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 10

Note: If you can’t find required program, sort programs by date in Control panel and search for last installed programs.

After that remove Adultfriendfinder from your browser.

Step 2: Remove Adultfriendfinder from browsers

Google Chrome:

1. Open Google Chrome
2. Push Alt + F.
3. Click Tools.
4. Choose Extensions.
5. Find Adultfriendfinder.
6. Click the trash can icon to remove it.

Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Open Firefox.
2. Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
3. Choose Adultfriendfinder.
4. Click Disable or Remove button.

Learn more about removing extensions from Firefox.

Microsoft Edge:

1. Press Settings and more button
2. Choose and Click on Extensions
3. Find Adultfriendfinder extension and click settings
4. Press Uninstall button
5. Start Edge again

Learn more about removing extensions from Edge.

Internet Explorer:

1. Open IE.
2. Push Alt + T.
3. Click Manage Add-ons.
4. Select Toolbars and Extensions.
5. Click Disable Adultfriendfinder.
6. Click More information link in the left-bottom corner.
7. Click Remove button.
8. If this button is grayed out – perform alternative steps.

Learn more about removing extensions from IE.

Step 3: Remove Adultfriendfinder from Android:

Alternative solution for Android phone/tablet:

Google Chrome:

1. open the Chrome app.
2. To the right of the address bar, tap More.
3. Choose and open Settings
4. Tap Site settings and then find Adultfriendfinder Pop-ups.
5. Turn of Adultfriendfinder Pop-ups from Allowed to Block.

Written by Tim Kas