How to remove Iupot.com redirect [Chrome, Firefox, IE, Edge]

In addition to that, as was mentioned earlier, some ad-supported software to also change all internet browsers shortcuts that located on your Desktop or Start menu. So, every infected shortcut will try to redirect your browser to annoying ad web-sites such as Iupot.com, some of which might be malicious. It can make the whole PC more vulnerable to hacker attacks.

Thus, it is clear that the presence of adware on your system is not desirable, and you need to clean up your PC as soon as possible. Follow the steps below in order to remove Iupot.com pop up ads.

Remove Iupot.com redirect

The answer is right here on this web page. We have put together simplicity and efficiency. It will help you easily to free your computer of ad-supported software that cause undesired Iupot.com pop up advertisements to appear. Moreover, you can select manual or automatic removal solution. If you are familiar with the machine then use manual removal, otherwise use the free antimalware tool made specifically to get rid of adware. Of course, you may combine both methods. Some of the steps will require you to restart your PC or exit the web-site. So, read this guide carefully, then bookmark or print it for later reference.

Manual Iupot.com redirect removal

The following instructions is a step-by-step guide, which will help you manually remove Iupot.com popup ads from the Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Firefox and Microsoft Edge.

Uninstalling the Iupot.com, check the list of installed applications first

It is of primary importance to first identify and remove all PUPs, ad supported software applications and hijacker infections through ‘Add/Remove Programs’ (Windows XP) or ‘Uninstall a program’ (Windows 10, 8, 7) section of your MS Windows Control Panel.

It will open the Windows Control Panel as shown in the figure below.

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

Fix web-browser shortcuts, modified by adware

The ad supported software may hijack various Windows shortcuts on your desktop (most often, all browsers shortcuts), so in this step you need to check and clean them by removing the argument like http://site.address/.

Right click on the browser’s shortcut, click Properties option. 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 “http://site.address” that has been added here. Remove everything after .exe. An example, for Google Chrome you should remove everything after chrome.exe.

To save changes, click OK . You need to clean all internet browser’s shortcuts. So, repeat this step for the Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and MS Edge.

Remove Iupot.com from Firefox by resetting browser settings

If the Firefox settings like newtab page, start page and search provider by default have been replaced by the ad-supported software, then resetting it to the default state can help.

Start the Mozilla Firefox and press the menu button (it looks like three stacked lines) at the top right of the internet browser screen. Next, press the question-mark icon at the bottom of the drop-down menu. It will open the slide-out menu.

Select the “Troubleshooting information”. If you are unable to access the Help menu, then type “about:support” in your address bar and press Enter. It bring up the “Troubleshooting Information” page as on the image below.

Click the “Refresh Firefox” button at the top right of the Troubleshooting Information page. Select “Refresh Firefox” in the confirmation dialog box. The Firefox will begin a procedure to fix your problems that caused by the adware. After, it is finished, click the “Finish” button.

Remove Iupot.com redirect from Chrome

Reset Google Chrome settings is a simple way to remove the adware, malicious and adware extensions, as well as to restore the internet browser’s newtab, homepage and search engine by default that have been modified by adware which reroutes your internet browser to intrusive Iupot.com web page.

Open the Google Chrome menu by clicking on the button in the form of three horizontal stripes (). It will display the drop-down menu. Next, click to “Settings” option.

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 shown on the screen below and press the “Reset settings” button.

Confirm your action, press the “Reset” button.

Get rid of Iupot.com popup ads from IE

If you find that Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser settings such as new tab page, homepage and search engine by default having been changed by adware which cause intrusive Iupot.com ads to appear, then you may revert back your settings, via the reset web-browser procedure.

First, start the IE, press ) button. Next, click “Internet Options” like below.

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

You will now need to restart your PC system for the changes to take effect. It will remove Iupot.com pop up ads, disable malicious and ad-supported web-browser’s extensions and restore the IE’s settings such as homepage, new tab and default search provider to default state.

Get rid of unwanted Scheduled Tasks

Once installed, the adware can add a task in to the Windows Task Scheduler Library. Due to this, every time when you run your PC system, it will display Iupot.com undesired web site. So, you need to check the Task Scheduler Library and remove all harmful tasks that have been created by adware.

Press Windows and R keys on the keyboard simultaneously. This displays a prompt that titled with Run. In the text field, type “taskschd.msc” (without the quotes) and click OK. Task Scheduler window opens. In the left-hand side, click “Task Scheduler Library”, as shown in the figure below.

In the middle part you will see a list of installed tasks. Please choose the first task, its properties will be display just below automatically. Next, click the Actions tab. Pay attention to that it launches on your personal computer. Found something like “explorer.exe http://site.address” or “chrome.exe http://site.address”, then delete this harmful task. If you are not sure that executes the task, check it through a search engine. If it is a component of the adware, then this task also should be removed.

Having defined the task that you want to remove, then click on it with the right mouse button and choose Delete as on the image below.

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

How to automatically remove Iupot.com advertisements

Many antivirus companies have developed applications that help detect adware and thereby delete Iupot.com from the Google Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and MS Edge web-browsers. Below is a a few of the free programs you may want to run. Your computer can have lots of potentially unwanted applications, adware and hijackers installed at the same time, so we suggest, if any unwanted or harmful program returns after restarting the machine, then start your system into Safe Mode and run the antimalware tool again.

Run Zemana Anti-malware to remove Iupot.com redirect

You can remove Iupot.com pop up advertisements automatically with a help of Zemana Anti-malware. We suggest this malware removal tool because it can easily delete hijacker infections, potentially unwanted applications, ad supported software that redirects your web browser to Iupot.com web page with all their components such as folders, files and registry entries.

Download Zemana Anti Malware on your personal computer by clicking on the link below. Save it on your desktop.

After downloading is finished, close all windows on your PC. Further, start the install file named Zemana.AntiMalware.Setup. If the “User Account Control” dialog box pops up like below, click the “Yes” button.

It will open the “Setup wizard” that will help you install Zemana Anti-Malware on the PC system. Follow the prompts and do not make any changes to default settings.

Once install is complete successfully, Zemana Anti Malware will automatically start and you may see its main window like below.

Next, click the “Scan” button . This will start scanning the whole PC system to find out ad-supported software which redirects your web browser to undesired Iupot.com web-page. A system scan can take anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes, depending on your computer. While the utility is scanning, you can see count of objects and files has already scanned.

After the scan is complete, a list of all threats detected is produced. Make sure all items have ‘checkmark’ and click “Next” button.

The Zemana Anti Malware will delete adware that causes unwanted Iupot.com pop-up advertisements. After finished, you can be prompted to reboot your PC.

Use Malwarebytes to remove Iupot.com popup ads

We recommend using the Malwarebytes Free which are completely clean your system of the ad-supported software. The free utility is an advanced malicious software removal application created by (c) Malwarebytes lab. This program uses the world’s most popular anti malware technology. It’s able to help you delete intrusive Iupot.com redirect from your internet browsers, potentially unwanted programs, malicious software, browser hijacker infections, toolbars, ransomware and other security threats from your computer for free.

1. Please download Malwarebytes to your desktop from the following link.
   
   

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2. At the download page, click on the Download button. Your web-browser will show the “Save as” prompt. Please save it onto your Windows desktop.
3. After downloading is complete, please close all software and open windows on your machine. Double-click on the icon that’s called mb3-setup.
4. This will start the “Setup wizard” of Malwarebytes onto your computer. Follow the prompts and don’t make any changes to default settings.
5. When the Setup wizard has finished installing, the Malwarebytes will run and show the main window.
6. Further, click the “Scan Now” button . This will begin scanning the whole computer to find out adware that causes a ton of unwanted Iupot.com pop-ups. A scan may take anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes, depending on the number of files on your system and the speed of your PC system.
7. Once the scan get completed, it’ll show a screen which contains a list of malicious software that has been found.
8. Review the scan results and then click the “Quarantine Selected” button. When that process is finished, you may be prompted to reboot the PC system.
9. Close the Anti-Malware and continue with the next step.

Video instruction, which reveals in detail the steps above.

Scan and free your computer of adware with AdwCleaner

AdwCleaner is a free removal tool which can scan your system for a wide range of security threats such as malicious software, adwares, potentially unwanted applications as well as adware that cause undesired Iupot.com popups to appear. It will perform a deep scan of your PC including hard drives and Windows registry. After a malware is found, it will allow you to remove all detected threats from your machine with a simple click.

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

Once downloading is complete, open the directory in which you saved it and double-click the AdwCleaner icon. It will run the AdwCleaner utility and you will see a screen as shown on the image below. If the User Account Control prompt will ask you want to show the program, click Yes button to continue.

Next, click “Scan” to begin scanning your PC for the ad supported software that causes annoying Iupot.com popup advertisements. A scan can take anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes, depending on the number of files on your personal computer and the speed of your PC. While the tool is checking, you can see number of objects and files has already scanned.

Once the scanning is finished is finished, it will show a list of detected threats as shown below.

You may move items to Quarantine (all selected by default) by simply press “Clean” button. It will display a prompt. Click “OK” button. The AdwCleaner will remove adware that designed to reroute your browser to various ad sites like Iupot.com and move items to the program’s quarantine. When finished, the tool may ask you to restart your system. After reboot, the AdwCleaner will show the log file.

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

Use AdBlocker to block Iupot.com and stay safe online

By installing an ad-blocking program such as AdbGuard, you’re able to stop Iupot.com, autoplaying video ads and get rid of a ton of distracting and annoying ads on sites.

Installing the AdGuard ad blocker program is simple. First you’ll need to download AdGuard from the following link.

When downloading is complete, double-click the downloaded file to run it. The “Setup Wizard” window will show up on the computer screen as shown on the screen below.

Follow the prompts. AdGuard will then be installed and an icon will be placed on your desktop. A window will show up asking you to confirm that you want to see a quick tutorial as shown below.

Click “Skip” button to close the window and use the default settings, or press “Get Started” to see an quick guidance which will allow you get to know AdGuard better.

Each time, when you start your system, AdGuard will start automatically and stop pop up ads, sites such Iupot.com, as well as other harmful 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 desktop.

How did you get infected with Iupot.com ads

The ‘ad supported’ software actively distributed with free applications, as a part of the setup file of these applications. Therefore, it’s very important, when installing an unknown program even downloaded from known or big hosting page, read the Terms of use and the Software license, as well as to select the Manual, Advanced or Custom installation mode. In this mode, you can disable the install of unneeded modules and programs and protect your computer from the adware which developed to redirect your web browser to various ad web-pages like Iupot.com. Do not repeat the mistakes of most users when installing unknown programs, simply click the Next button, and do not read any information which the free programs show them during its installation. In most cases this leads to one – the web-browser begins displaying a huge number of intrusive advertisements like Iupot.com pop-up advertisements.

To sum up

Now your computer should be clean of the adware that cause annoying Iupot.com pop-up ads to appear. Delete AdwCleaner. We suggest that you keep AdGuard (to help you stop unwanted pop up ads and intrusive harmful pages) and Zemana Anti-malware (to periodically scan your PC for new hijackers, malware and ad-supported software). 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 get rid of Iupot.com ads from the Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and MS Edge, then ask for help in our Spyware/Malware removal forum.