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Home › Adware › How to remove wpost.club pop-ups [Chrome, Firefox, IE, Edge]

How to remove wpost.club pop-ups [Chrome, Firefox, IE, Edge]

Myantispyware team May 18, 2017     No Comment    

The wpost.club is a web site which is loaded into your internet browser with the help of adware (also known as ‘ad-supported’ software). The adware may alter the settings of web browsers such as Google Chrome, Firefox, MS Edge and Microsoft Internet Explorer or install a harmful browser extension, which created to generate lots of annoying popup ads. It’ll lead to the fact that when you open the internet browser or surfing the Web, it will always be forced to display wpost.club advertisements, even when your browser is configured to stop ads or your personal computer has a program that blocks ads. On current date, the adware continues to increase the number of systems that have been infected.

The ad supported software usually affects only the Chrome, FF, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Edge by changing the web-browser’s settings or installing a harmful extensions (addons). Moreover, possible situations, when any other web-browsers will be affected too. The ad-supported software will perform a scan of the computer for web browser shortcuts and modify them without your permission. When it infects the web browser shortcuts, it’ll add the argument such as ‘http://site.address’ into Target property. So, each time you open the web-browser, you will see an annoying wpost.club web-site.

The ad-supported software is the part of the software that is used as an online promotional tool. It is created with the sole purpose to show dozens of pop-up ads, and thus to promote the goods and services in an open internet browser window. So, the wpost.club is just one of the many web-pages of the so-called ‘ad-support’ type. It is designed to fill the internet browser’s constant stream of ads, or reroute the web-browser to not expected and intrusive advertising pages. Moreover, the ad supported software can substitute the legitimate advertisements on misleading or even banners that can offer to visit dangerous sites. The reason is simple, many advertisers agree on any ways to attract users to their web-pages, so the creators of ad supported software, often forcing users to click on an advertising link. For each click on a link, the authors of the ‘ad supported’ software receive income. It is the so-called ‘Pay-Per-Click’ method.

We suggest you to get rid of ad-supported software and clean your computer from wpost.club advertisements as quickly as possible, until the presence of the ad-supported software has not led to even worse consequences. You need to follow the step-by-step guide below that will allow you to completely get rid of the redirect to wpost.club unwanted web-site, using only the built-in Windows features and a few of specialized free tools.

Tips to prevent wpost.club pop-up ads

Just as the beginning of this blog post, if you have ever seen the wpost.club site appear in your web-browser, it means your computer has been infected with the adware. Most often adware is bundled with free programs. So, think back, have you ever download and launch any free applications? Because most users, in the Setup Wizard, simply click the Next button and don’t read any information like ‘Terms of use’ and ‘Software license’. This leads to the fact that the system is infected, the browser’s configured to display a ton of the wpost.club annoying ads. Even removing the free applications that contains this adware, the annoying ads does not disappear. Therefore, you must follow the instructions below to clean your PC from the ‘ad supported’ software and thereby get rid of wpost.club pop-ups.

How to manually remove wpost.club

Without a doubt, the adware is harmful to your PC system. So you need to quickly and completely get rid of this dangerous software. To remove this ad supported software, you can use the manual removal that are given below, or use an anti-malware utility for removing dangerous applications, such as Malwarebytes Anti-malware and AdwCleaner (both are free). I note that we recommend that you use automatic removal, that will help you to get rid of wpost.club pop-ups easily and safely. Manual removal is best used only if you are well versed in machine or in the case where ad supported software is not removed automatically.

  1. Uninstall suspicious and unknown software by using Windows Control Panel
  2. Remove wpost.club pop-ups from Google Chrome
  3. Remove wpost.club ads from FF
  4. Remove wpost.club from IE
  5. Disinfect the browser’s shortcuts to get rid of wpost.club redirect
  6. Remove unwanted Scheduled Tasks




If you are using an Apple computer running Mac OS, then use the following step-by-step instructions How to remove virus, pop-ups, advertisements on Mac

Uninstall suspicious and unknown software by using Windows Control Panel

We recommend that you start the PC system cleaning procedure by checking the list of installed programs and uninstall all unknown or suspicious software. This is a very important step, as mentioned above, very often the malicious applications such as adware and browser hijackers may be bundled with free software. Delete the unwanted applications may remove the unwanted advertisements or internet browser redirect to unknown or annoying web-pages.

Windows 8, 8.1, 10


Press Windows key windows key, then click Search windows search. Type “Control panel”and press Enter.

Windows XP, Vista, 7


First, press “Start” and select “Control Panel”.

It’ll open the Windows Control Panel like below.
windows control panel.jpg

Next, press “Uninstall a program” Uninstall program panel
It will open a list of all applications. Scroll through the all list, and remove any suspicious and unknown software. To quickly find the latest installed software, we recommend sort programs by date of installation in the Control panel.

Remove wpost.club pop-ups from Google Chrome

Open the Chrome menu by clicking on the button in the form of three horizontal stripes (google chrome menu button). It opens the drop-down menu. Next, press the “Settings” option.

chrome drop-down menu

Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the “Show advanced settings” link. Now scroll down until the Reset settings section is visible, as on the image below and click the “Reset settings” button.

chrome advanced settings

Confirm your action, press the “Reset” button.

Remove wpost.club ads from FF

First, launch the Firefox. Next, click the button in the form of three horizontal stripes (Firefox menu button). It will show the drop-down menu. Next, click the “Help” button (Firefox help button).

Mozilla Firefox settings menu

In the Help menu, click the “Troubleshooting Information”. In the upper-right corner of the “Troubleshooting Information” page, press “Refresh Firefox” button.

Mozilla Firefoxx troubleshooting info window

Confirm your action, press the “Refresh Firefox”.

Remove wpost.club from IE

First, run the Internet Explorer, then click IE tools menu icon button. Next, press “Internet Options” as shown on the screen below.

reset Microsoft Internet Explorer tools menu

In the “Internet Options” screen select the Advanced tab. Next, click the “Reset” button. The Internet Explorer will show the “Reset Internet Explorer” settings dialog box. Select the “Delete personal settings” check box and press Reset button.

reset Microsoft Internet Explorer settings

You will now need to restart your PC for the changes to take effect. It will restore the IE’s settings like start page and search provider by default to default state, disable ad-supported web-browser’s extensions and thereby delete the redirect to wpost.club annoying web page.

Disinfect the browser’s shortcuts to get rid of wpost.club redirect

When the adware is started, it can also alter the web browser’s shortcuts, adding an argument like “http://site.address” into the Target field. Due to this, every time you open the web-browser, it will be redirected to an unwanted advertisements.

To clear the internet browser shortcut, right-click to it and select Properties. On the Shortcut tab, locate the Target field. Click inside, you will see a vertical line – arrow pointer, move it (using -> arrow key on your keyboard) to the right as possible. You will see a text which begins with “http://” which has been added here. You need to remove it.

clean a shorcut

When the argument is removed, click the OK button. You need to clean all shortcuts of all your web-browsers, as they may be infected too.

Remove unwanted Scheduled Tasks

Once installed, the ad-supported software can add a task in to the Windows Task Scheduler Library. Due to this, every time when you start your personal computer, it will open wpost.club unwanted web page. So, you need to check the Task Scheduler Library and remove all tasks that have been created by adware.

Press Windows and R keys on your keyboard at the same time. It will show a dialog box which titled with Run. In the text field, type “taskschd.msc” (without the quotes) and press OK. Task Scheduler window opens. In the left-hand side, click “Task Scheduler Library”, as shown on the screen below.

Task scheduler, list of tasks

Task scheduler, list of tasks

In the middle part you will see a list of installed tasks. Select the first task, its properties will be open just below automatically. Next, click the Actions tab. Necessary to look at the text which is written under Details. Found something like “explorer.exe http://site.address” or “chrome.exe http://site.address” or “firefox.exe http://site.address”, then you need remove this task. If you are not sure that executes the task, then google it. If it’s a component of the adware, then this task also should be removed.

Further press on it with the right mouse button and select Delete as shown below.

Task scheduler, delete a task

Task scheduler, delete a task

Repeat this step, if you have found a few tasks that have been created by malicious programs. Once is complete, close the Task Scheduler window.

How to remove wpost.club ads with free malware remover

Remove wpost.club advertisements manually is difficult and often the adware is not completely removed. Therefore, we recommend you to use the Malwarebytes Free that are completely clean your personal computer. Moreover, the free program will help you to remove malware, web-browser hijacker and toolbars that your system may be infected too.

  1. Download Malwarebytes from the link below.
    Malwarebytes Anti-malware
    Malwarebytes Anti-malware
    317663 downloads
    Author: Malwarebytes
    Category: Security tools
    Update: April 15, 2020
  2. Close all programs and windows on your system. Open the directory in which you saved it. Double-click on the icon that’s named mb3-setup.
  3. This will start the installation of Malwarebytes. Next, click Next button and follow the prompts.
  4. When installation is finished, click on the “Scan Now” button to perform a system scan for the ad supported software which redirects your web-browser to the wpost.club unwanted web site. This procedure can take some time, so please be patient.
  5. Once the system scan is done, make sure all entries have “checkmark” and click “Quarantine Selected”. When the disinfection is complete, you may be prompted to restart your personal computer.

These steps above are shown in detail in the following video guide.

Stop wpost.club pop-ups and other unwanted web pages

To increase your security and protect your PC against new annoying ads and malicious pages, you need to use application that stops access to harmful ads and web-sites. Moreover, the program can stop the display of intrusive advertising, which also leads to faster loading of web pages and reduce the consumption of web traffic.

Download AdGuard program by clicking on the following link.

Adguard
Adguard download
25672 downloads
Version: 6.4
Author: © Adguard
Category: Security tools
Update: November 15, 2018

After downloading is finished, start the file named adguardInstaller. You will see the “Setup Wizard” screen as shown in the figure below.

adguard installer

Follow the prompts. When the installation is finished, you will see a window as shown on the screen below.

adguard install is finished

You can press “Skip” to close the installation application and use the default settings, or press “Get Started” button to see an quick tutorial that will help you get to know AdGuard better.

In most cases, the default settings are enough and you do not need to change anything. Each time, when you launch your personal computer, AdGuard will launch automatically and stop pop-up ads, web-pages like wpost.club, as well as other dangerous or misleading web-sites. For an overview of all the features of the program, or to change its settings you can simply double-click on the AdGuard icon, that is located on your Windows desktop.

Scan your computer and remove wpost.club redirect with AdwCleaner.

This removal application is free and easy to use. It can scan and remove adware, browser hijackers, malware and unwanted toolbars in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, MS Edge and IE web-browsers and thereby restore back their default settings (home page, newtab page and search provider by default). AdwCleaner is powerful enough to find and get rid of malicious registry entries and files that are hidden on the PC system.

Download AdwCleaner utility from the link below. Save it to your Desktop so that you can access the file easily.

AdwCleaner
AdwCleaner download
220760 downloads
Version: 8.3.2
Author: Xplode, MalwareBytes
Category: Security tools
Update: April 28, 2022

After the download is complete, open the file location and double-click the AdwCleaner icon. It will start the AdwCleaner tool and you will see a screen as shown in the figure below. If the User Account Control prompt will ask you want to show the program, click Yes button to continue.

adwcleaner uac

Now, press the “Scan” for scanning your PC for the adware which cause a redirect to wpost.club ads.

adwcleaner win10

Once the system scan is finished, it will open a list of all items detected by this utility as shown on the image below.

adwcleaner win10 scan complete

You need to press “Clean” button. It will display a dialog box, click “OK” to begin the cleaning process. When the clean up is finished, the AdwCleaner may ask you to restart your computer. After reboot, the AdwCleaner will display the log file.

All the above steps are shown in detail in the following video guide.

Finish words

Now your machine should be clean of the wpost.club pop-ups. Remove AdwCleaner. We suggest that you keep AdGuard (to help you stop unwanted pop-up ads and annoying malicious pages) and Malwarebytes (to periodically scan your PC for new malware and adware). Probably you are running an older version of Java or Adobe Flash Player. This can be a security risk, so download and install the latest version right now.

If you are still having problems while trying to remove wpost.club from your computer, then ask for help in our Spyware/Malware removal forum.

 

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Author: Myantispyware team

Myantispyware is an information security website created in 2004. Our content is written in collaboration with Cyber Security specialists, IT experts, under the direction of Patrik Holder and Valeri Tchmych, founders of Myantispyware.com.

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