Likemyrole.info Pop-up Ads - How to remove

Likemyrole.info is a notification-spamming website and an example of why we should be very careful when following random instructions online. Dozens of subdomains to Likemyrole.info try to get you to subscribe to their pop-up ads and then spam you with endless, annoying advertisements. Online adware like Likemyrole.info is set up for profit, as the advertisers pay to be seen by as many people as possible.

Adware can really hurt your browsing experience and productivity. Computers with older hardware might even see reduced PC performance thanks to some full-screen ads hijacking your computing resources. Adware isn’t going away and, over the years that it’s been plaguing innocent users, has innovated and found new ways to spread and distribute. Most of the time, pages like Likemyrole.info can’t be stopped by traditional antivirus programs, so we have to employ common sense to avoid having pages like it — Clickworker.me, Rithardimired.info, Substand.pro — hijack the browser.

How is Likemyrole.info dangerous

A big problem with adware is that it doesn’t just show ads; some of the ads that are displayed are dangerous or unsuitable for some demographics. Many of these ads wouldn’t be accepted by legitimate advertising networks. Sites like Likemyrole.info partner with these reject advertisers and, without exaggeration, this might put the people affected by Likemyrole.info in some danger. I say that because Likemyrole.info promotes some scams and other dubious content.

Types of pages that Likemyrole.info links to:

• Get-rich-quick schemes,
• Fake giveaways,
• Fake subscription signups,
• Unregulated medical products,
• Adware applications.

And here are the types of harm that the ads might cause:

• Interrupted browsing, distractions, lost productivity,
• Stolen or leaked private information, including payment information,
• Money lost to scams and fake products.

Likemyrole.info and similar sites also make use of online tracking of your activity to decide what types of ads to show you, but there is no clear way to opt-out of this tracking.

How adware sites begin sending ads

When you visit Likemyrole.info for the first time, it might look like a video that’s about to load, or maybe a download button for a file that you wanted to get. Likemyrole.info usually includes some text telling you to Click the “Allow” button to proceed.

When in a rush, some of us are so distracted that we would follow such instructions without thinking twice. That’s a mistake, though: clicking on the button would simply allow Likemyrole.info to push notifications to your browser. The more such sites you subscribe to, the more pop-up ads you’ll get.

It’s possible that you don’t remember clicking on any “Allow” buttons at all; some adware pages are dormant for weeks or even months before they start pushing notifications again. It’s possible that an address was sitting in your list of sites, unnoticed.

Likemyrole.info and other adware pages are used by some websites to deliver ads to their visitors: you click on an ad on some adult, piracy, converter, or just a regular infected website, and Likemyrole.info is opened. Then it immediately redirects you to a promoted page, usually some type of a financial scam or a dubious health supplement. You might have visited Likemyrole.info dozens of times and not even noticed.

How to block ads from Likemyrole.info

Unless you want to stop visiting your usual websites where you first encountered the page, It can difficult to avoid ads by Likemyrole.info. However, you can make sure that your risk is as small as possible. Other adware promotes Likemyrole.info, too. If you have any, whether it’s other adware pages, or a program infecting your computer, you should probably remove it. Desktop infections can be caught with the help of automatic scans using trusted anti-malware software, such as Spyhunter, or (Mac (yes, Macs are targeted by malware, too)).

But the way to block the pop-ups that are tormenting you right now is to access the settings of your browser and find all of Likemyrole.info’s subdomains on the list of websites that are allowed to update you. They are called something like “ms-23.likemyrole.info”, but the numbers can be any, like 6, 73, or 11. Find all these addresses and other ones which are unfamiliar to you and ones that you do not wish to be updated by. Keep in mind that not all notifications are used for delivering ads; some really are just for updating you on things like a new email or message — these can be very useful. Check out this article for why and how you can block notifications.

If you use the Chrome web browser, simply go to your Menu, Settings, Settings again, then Advanced. There, you’ll see a list of options at the bottom of which is Content Settings, which takes you to another list with Notifications.

Alternatively, type chrome://settings/content/notifications in the omnibox.

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How to remove Likemyrole.info Pop-up Ads using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Likemyrole.info 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 Likemyrole.info Pop-up Ads . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Likemyrole.info 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.