Stop browsers from opening costsimpleplay.com

What is costsimpleplay[.]com?

costsimpleplay[.]com operates like sauwoaptain[.]com, routgveriprt[.]com, notification-centar[.]com, and many other rogue websites. It redirects visitors to various other untrustworthy websites or displays dubious content.

In most cases, websites such as costsimpleplay[.]com are opened by potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) installed on browsers and/or operating systems. Typically, people download and install PUAs unintentionally. Furthermore, most of these apps collect information relating to users' browsing activity and deploy advertisements.

When costsimpleplay[.]com is visited, it displays dubious content or opens about two or three rogue, potentially malicious websites. These actions depend on the visitor's geolocation. Neither costsimpleplay[.]com nor pages opened through it can be trusted.

Furthermore, costsimpleplay[.]com asks visitors to prove that they are not robots by clicking the "Allow" button in a pop-up window. This is just one of many 'clickbait' techniques used to trick people into allowing rogue web pages to show their notifications.

If allowed, they start to display advertisements that usually lead to untrustworthy websites. Furthermore, PUAs that are responsible for opening pages like costsimpleplay[.]com are often designed to gather details such as addresses of visited websites, entered search queries, geolocations, IP addresses, etc.

In some cases, they can record personal information. People behind these apps tend to share the data with third parties who might be cyber criminals. Both parties misuse the details to generate revenue, and thus people who have PUAs installed on their browsers and/or computers might become victims of identity theft, experience problems relating to browsing safety, privacy, etc.

Moreover, apps of this type often serve advertisements that, if clicked, lead to rogue websites or cause unwanted downloads and/or installations by running certain scripts. Some examples of ads displayed by PUAs include coupons, banners, pop-ups, surveys, etc.

These are the main reasons why any PUAs should be removed from browsers and/or computers as soon as possible.

Threat Summary:

Name	costsimpleplay.com pop-up
Threat Type	Push notifications ads, Unwanted ads, Pop-up ads.
Detection Names	Full List Of Detections (VirusTotal)
Serving IP Address	134.209.199.15
Observed Domains	0.costsimpleplay.com, 1.costsimpleplay.com, 2.costsimpleplay.com, 3.costsimpleplay.com, 4.costsimpleplay.com, 5.costsimpleplay.com, 6.costsimpleplay.com, 7.costsimpleplay.com, 8.costsimpleplay.com, 9.costsimpleplay.com.
Symptoms	Seeing advertisements not originating from the sites you are browsing. Intrusive pop-up ads. Decreased Internet browsing speed.
Distribution Methods	Deceptive pop-up ads, potentially unwanted applications (adware).
Damage	Decreased computer performance, browser tracking - privacy issues, possible additional malware infections.
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Most PUAs help developers to generate revenue by displaying advertisements, collecting information, and causing redirects to dubious web pages. Unfortunately, they provide no real value, even when they are advertised by their developers as legitimate, useful programs.

How did adware install on my computer?

In most cases, PUAs are installed through intrusive ads, which people intentionally (or accidentally) click, or when developers distribute them using a deceptive marketing method called "bundling". They use this method to trick people into downloading and/or installing potentially unwanted applications together with other programs by including them into the set-ups.

Typically, offers to download additional software can be found in "Custom", "Advanced", "Manual" or other similar parts of the download, installation set-ups. Unfortunately, many people download and install software without checking these settings, thus granting PUAs permission to be downloaded and installed by default.

How to avoid installation of potentially unwanted applications

To avoid unwanted downloads and installations, download your software from official, trustworthy websites and using direct download links (especially if the software is free). Third party downloaders, installers, Peer-to-Peer networks such as torrent clients, eMule, unofficial websites and other similar channels/tools should not be used.

Check settings such as "Advanced", "Custom" of any download or installation setup and opt-out of offers to download or install any unwanted apps. If a website contains intrusive ads, do not click them. Typically, these redirect people to untrustworthy websites or even lead to unwanted downloads and installations.

If unwanted redirects occur regularly and/or various ads appear on each visited website, it is very likely that a PUA is already installed on the browser and/or computer. In such cases, uninstall all unwanted, suspicious extensions, plug-ins, and add-ons from the browser and remove software of this kind from the operating system.

If your computer is already infected with rogue applications, we recommend running a scan with Combo Cleaner Antivirus for Windows to automatically eliminate them.

Appearance of costsimpleplay[.]com website (GIF):

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Quick menu:

• What is costsimpleplay.com pop-up?
• STEP 1. Remove spam notifications from Google Chrome
• STEP 2. Remove spam notifications from Google Chrome (Android)
• STEP 3. Remove spam notifications from Mozilla Firefox
• STEP 4. Remove spam notifications from Microsoft Edge
• STEP 5. Remove spam notifications from Safari (macOS)

Disable unwanted browser notifications:

Video showing how to disable web browser notifications:

Remove spam notifications from Google Chrome:

Click the Menu button (three dots) on the right upper corner of the screen and select "Settings". In the opened window select "Privacy and security", then click on "Site Settings" and choose "Notifications".

In the "Allowed to send notifications" list search for websites that you want to stop receiving notifications from. Click on the three dots icon near the website URL and click "Block" or "Remove" (if you click "Remove" and visit the malicious site once more, it will ask to enable notifications again).

Remove spam notifications from Google Chrome (Android):

Tap the Menu button (three dots) on the right upper corner of the screen and select "Settings". Scroll down, tap on "Site settings" and then "Notifications".

In the opened window, locate all suspicious URLs and tap on them one-by-one. Once the pop-up shows up, select either "Block" or "Remove" (if you tap "Remove" and visit the malicious site once more, it will ask to enable notifications again).

Remove spam notifications from Mozilla Firefox:

Click the Menu button (three bars) on the right upper corner of the screen. Select "Settings" and click on "Privacy & Security" in the toolbar on the left hand side of the screen. Scroll down to the "Permissions" section and click the "Settings" button next to "Notifications".

In the opened window, locate all suspicious URLs and block them using the drop-down menu or either remove them by clicking "Remove Website" at the bottom of the window (if you click "Remove Website" and visit the malicious site once more, it will ask to enable notifications again).

Remove spam notifications from Microsoft Edge:

Click the menu button (three dots) on the right upper corner of the Edge window and select "Settings". Click on "Cookies and site permissions" in the toolbar on the left hand side of the screen and select "Notifications".

Click three dots on the right hand side of each suspicious URL under "Allow" section and click "Block" or "Remove" (if you click "Remove" and visit the malicious site once more, it will ask to enable notifications again).

Remove spam notifications from Safari (macOS):

Click "Safari" button on the left upper corner of the screen and select "Preferences...". Select the "Websites" tab and then select "Notifications" section on the left pane.

Check for suspicious URLs and apply the "Deny" option using the drop-down menu or either remove them by clicking "Remove" at the bottom of the window (if you click "Remove" and visit the malicious site once more, it will ask to enable notifications again)

How to avoid browser notification spam?

Internet users should be very skeptical when being asked to allow notifications. While this is a useful feature that allows you to receive timely news from websites you like, deceptive marketers frequently abuse it.

Only allow notifications from websites that you fully trust. For added security - use an anti-malware application with a real-time web browsing monitor to block shady websites that tries to trick you into allowing spam notifications. We recommend using Combo Cleaner Antivirus for Windows.

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