Ckk.ai Pop-up Ads - How to remove

Ckk.ai is a site used by a URL shortener to monetize users. If you get constant alerts and pop-ups from Ckk.ai in your phone or desktop browser, it’s that site sending them to you. Ckk.ai’s ads are deceptive, low-quality, and many promote browser hijackers, investment scams, and suspicious medical products.

Ckk.ai shares a lot of similarities with Adf.ly and Dz4link.com redirects – both sites are monetized URL shorteners. They force people who follow the links to look at ads before the destination link is loaded. This way of monetizing traffic is commonly used and many services exist out there, but it’s frowned upon by mainstream sites and ad-networks. There are some security problems with shortened URLs:

• You don’t always know what site they lead to. Malicious actors use shorteners as one of the ways to spread malicious links in social media.
• Ads by URL shorteners tend to be of very low quality, sometimes even dangerous.

Some people use Ckk.ai to monetize their traffic. They’re not necessarily malicious, just trying to make money. However, the negative effect on users is undeniable.

Ckk.ai is a website that allows dangerous ads and hijacks browsers to push those ads:

Type of threat	Browser hijacker Adware
How Ckk.ai pop-up ads start	Malware, adware hijacks the browser Links shortened by Ckk.ai are shared in forums and downloads sites Allowing notifications from Ckk.ai allows the ads to start showing
Dangers of low-quality ads	Malware is advertised Scams are promoted Dangerous products are sold
Ckk.ai pop-up ad removal	Block notifications from Ckk.ai Delete malware if there is any (Combo Cleaner for Macs, SpyHunter for PC)

How Ckk.ai pop-up ads start

Ckk.ai is used in forums and filesharing sites and can easily trick users to click on ads when they try to download a file. It could be used to share links to free software, mods, free files. Some ads also use Ckk.ai and on some websites, clicking on any space on the site opens Ckk.ai.

There’s also adware and malicious browser extensions that might try to inject links to Ckk.ai in your browser. Unwanted and dangerous programs like that often get downloaded and installed from various download sites along with freeware that serves as the front of the package. This way, your browser would be under the control of some adware that promotes Ckk.ai by opening new tabs and showing links that use Ckk.ai.

When you’re on the Ckk.ai website, the whole page is filled with various ads and you can’t click somewhere and not have a new tab opened with some commercial content. And the site tries to get you to subscribe to its notifications – shows a blue arrow pointing to the notification alert’s “Allow” button. If you agree and press the “Allow” button, that’s when Ckk.ai gets permission to send tons of pop-ups right into your browser. Whatever website you’re in, you’ll get unwanted pop-ups.

Dangers of Ckk.ai pop-up ads

Some Ckk.ai ads are fine and not dangerous at all. They’re still annoying, but not necessarily destructive. Others, though, are so dangerous that those who believe them can end up losing a lot of money or even harming their health.

Websites promoted by Ckk.ai:

• PUPs – various fake optimizers, browser hijackers, streaming sites and services that are liked to by Ckk.ai. They’re presented like they’re the best thing in the world, but end up only wasting your money and time. They might also show unwanted ads and expose you to even more malware.
• Get-rich-quick schemes, pyramid schemes, various investment scams. They ask people to invest and promise big returns, but that never materializes. And the ads shown by Ckk.ai can look very attractive: they spoof respected news sites and present fake testimonies by experts and ordinary people.
• Health supplements and medical products from unofficial and shady sources. A lot of research is needed if you want to make sure that a product you’re buying is safe and Ckk.ai’s ads tend to have a lot of disinformation.

How to block Ckk.ai ads

The first thing to do to stop getting pop-up ads from Ckk.ai is to go to your browser settings, find notifications there, and block Ckk.ai from sending you any.

• If you’re on Chrome, type “chrome://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
• Users of Safari should go to the Safari menu, choose Preferences, Websites, Notifications.
• In Firefox, type “about:preferences#content” in the address bar, find the Notifications section.
• Those who use Edge can open Settings, Advanced settings, Notifications, Manage.

You should see a list of websites that can send you notifications. Find Ckk.ai and block it. Or you can stop notifications altogether.

Another important thing to do is to scan your device with an antivirus program, like SpyHunter for Windows or Combo Cleaner for MacOS. They should find out if you downloaded any shady PUPs while using Ckk.ai. And if the Ckk.ai ads are caused by adware in your computer, an anti-malware program would be able to get rid of it.

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How to remove Ckk.ai Pop-up Ads using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Ckk.ai Pop-up Ads install some of their components as regular Windows programs as well as additional software. This part of malware can be uninstalled from the Control Panel. To access it, do the following.

• Start→Control Panel (older Windows) or press Windows Key→Search and enter Control Panel and then press Enter (Windows 8, Windows 10).
• Choose Uninstall Program (if you don't see it, click in the upper right next to "View by" and select Category).
• Go through the list of programs and select entries related to Ckk.ai Pop-up Ads . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Ckk.ai Pop-up Ads easier to find.
• Click the Uninstall button. If you're asked if you really want to remove the program, click Yes.
• In many cases anti-malware programs are better at detecting related parasites, thus I recommend installing Spyhunter to identify other programs that might be a part of this infection.

How to remove Ckk.ai Pop-up Ads from macOS

Delete Ckk.ai Pop-up Ads from your applications.

1. Open Finder.
2. In the menu bar, click Go.
3. Select Applications from the dropdown.
4. Find the Ckk.ai Pop-up Ads app.
5. Select it and right-click it (or hold the Ctrl and click the left mouse button).
6. In the dropdown, click Move to Bin/Trash. You might be asked to provide your login password.

TopHow To remove Ckk.ai Pop-up Ads from Google Chrome:

• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select More Tools→Extensions
  
• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.
  
• Click on the 3 horizontal lines icon on a browser toolbar and Select Settings
  
• Select Manage Search engines
  
• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list
  
• Go back to settings. On Startup choose Open blank page (you can remove undesired pages from the set pages link too).
• If your homepage was changed, click on Chrome menu on the top right corner, select Settings. Select Open a specific page or set of pages and click on Set pages.
  
• Delete malicious search websites at a new Startup pages window by clicking “X” next to them.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Ckk.ai Pop-up Ads, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on a Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on theReset browser settings button.
  
• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How To remove Ckk.ai Pop-up Ads from Firefox:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla window and select the “Add-ons” icon (Or press Ctrl+Shift+A on your keyboard).
  
• Go through Extensions and Addons list, remove everything Ckk.ai Pop-up Ads related and items you do not recognise. If you do not know the extension and it is not made by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or Adobe then you probably do not need it.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on the Firefox menu in the top right corner, select Options → General. Enter a preferable URL to the homepage field and click Restore to Default.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Ckk.ai Pop-up Ads, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla Firefox window. Click on the Help button.
  
• ChooseTroubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on theReset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program to identify malicious entries.

How to remove Ckk.ai Pop-up Ads from Microsoft Edge:Top

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Microsoft Edge window. Select “Extensions”.

• Select all malicious extensions and delete them.

• Click on the three-dot menu on the browser toolbar and Select Settings

• Select Privacy and Services and scroll down. Press on Address bar.

• Choose Manage search engines.

• Remove unnecessary search engines from the list: open the three-dot menu and choose Remove.

• Go back to Settings. Open On start-up.
• Delete malicious search websites at Open specific page or pages by opening the three-dot menu and clicking Delete.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Ckk.ai Pop-up Ads, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings

• Click on Edge's menu button and select Settings. Click on the Reset Settings button on the left.
• Press the Restore settings to their default values option.

• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

How to remove Ckk.ai Pop-up Ads from Safari:Top

Remove malicious extensions

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences.
  
• Select Extensions and uninstall Ckk.ai Pop-up Ads and other suspicious extensions.
  
• If your homepage was changed, click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Preferences and choose General tab. Enter preferable URL to the homepage field.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings(older versions) If you are still experiencing any issues related to Ckk.ai Pop-up Ads, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Reset Safari…
  
• Select which options you want to reset (usually all of them come preselected) and click on the Reset button.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.