How to uninstall apps designed to promote turboflash.me?

What is turboflash[.]me?

Turboflash[.]me is designed to trick visitors into agreeing to receive notifications from it and promote various questionable pages (it does one or the other after checking the visitor's IP address). Therefore, this website should not be trusted/visited.

There is a great number of pages like turboflash[.]me on the Internet, a couple of examples are chultoux[.]com, deshaici[.]net, red-video[.]fun. It is not common for websites of this type to be opened intentionally.

Usually, they get opened via clicked shady ads, visited unreliable pages or installed potentially unwanted applications (PUAs).

As mentioned in the previous paragraph, turboflash[.]me is designed to deceive visitors into receiving notifications from it. Like most websites of this type, turboflash[.]me uses a clickbait technique for that.

More precisely, it displays a fake CAPTCHA test suggesting that users cannot continue loading the page without proving that they are not robots by clicking the "Allow" button. It is strongly recommended not to allow pages like turboflash[.]me to show their notifications.

In most cases, their notifications advertise potentially malicious pages, applications, and so on. A couple of examples of notifications that turboflash[.]me displays are provided below.

Another common problem with websites like this one is that they are used to promote websites designed to trick visitors into downloading and installing unwanted applications (browser hijackers, adware-type apps, etc.), paying money for fake, unnecessary, or another kind of software, providing sensitive details (e.g., names, surnames, passwords, credit card details), and other untrustworthy web pages.

A couple of examples of websites that sites like turboflash[.]me can be used to promote are "Important Defender Update Available", "Chance To Win The Brand New Playstation 5", and "Microsoft Security Essentials Alert". It is also possible that pages like turboflash[.]me could be designed to open malicious websites designed to trick users into installing malware on their computers.

It is common that apps designed to promote pages like turboflash[.]me are designed to collect data and serve advertisements. It is known that most PUAs target IP addresses, entered search queries, geolocations, addresses of visited pages, or other browsing data.

Although, apps of this kind can be designed to access sensitive information (e.g., saved passwords, credit card details). Moreover, information collected by PUAs can be sold to third parties (potentially cybercriminals), used to steal identities, online accounts, used for marketing purposes, etc.

Additionally, PUAs can be designed to generate coupons, banners, surveys, pop-up ads, and other advertisements. More often than not, those ads advertise various untrustworthy pages. In some cases, those ads can cause downloads, installations of unwanted, potentially malicious applications.

Threat Summary:

Name	Ads by turboflash.me
Threat Type	Push notifications ads, Unwanted ads, Pop-up ads
Serving IP Address	34.204.249.13
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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To summarize, most PUAs are designed to open questionable websites, gather browsing data or other information, and generate advertisements. In other words, apps of this kind do not improve the browsing experience, have any features, or are useful in any other ways.

Moreover, apps of this kind can be the reason behind problems related to online privacy, browsing safety. For these reasons, it is strongly recommended not to download and install PUAs on browsers or computers.

How did adware install on my computer?

One of the popular ways to distribute potentially unwanted applications to use a method called "bundling". When apps of this kind are distributed using that method, they can be found in downloaders and installers for other programs as extra offers.

Usually, unwanted offers can be declined via "Manual", "Advanced", "Custom" or similar settings, or by unticking ticked checkboxes that downloaders, installers containing PUAs have. When users download or install programs without changing those settings, they download or install offered applications as well.

Another way to trick users into downloading or installing PUAs is to design advertisements to execute certain scripts. Users cause unexpected downloads, installations by clicking those ads.

How to avoid installation of potentially unwanted applications?

It is advisable to download files and applications from official and trustworthy websites (and via direct links). By downloading or installing programs via third-party downloaders (or installers), Peer-to-Peer networks (e.g., torrent clients, eMule), unofficial websites, and other sources, users risk to download or install unwanted, or even malicious software.

Another important detail is to check downloaders and installers for bundled applications and decline unwanted offers before finishing downloads and installations. As a rule, those offers can be declined using "Manual", "Custom", "Advanced" or other settings, or by unticking ticked checkboxes.

Additionally, it is recommended not to trust ads that appear on unofficial, questionable pages - those ads may be used to promote untrustworthy websites or distribute PUAs. Also, there should not be any unwanted, suspicious extensions, plug-ins, or add-ons installed on a browser or programs of this kind installed on 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 turboflash[.]me website (GIF):

Notifications from turboflash[.]me:

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Quick menu:

• What is Ads by turboflash.me?
• 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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