Erase Guce.advertising.com Pop-ups (Adware/PUP)

What is Guce.advertising.com Pop-ups? And how does it work?

Guce.advertising.com Pop-ups is yet another kind of annoying pop-up that displays a pop-up message asking users to click on the Allow button to continue browsing the web and to supposedly get notifications from Guce.advertising.com. It also redirects users to different third party websites. Most users refer to it as Guce.advertising.com Pop-ups virus since this annoying pop-up is not easy to get rid of. So when you get redirected to a site displaying this pop-up, you will have problems in getting rid of it. Because of the redirects it causes, security experts classified it as an adware and a PUP.
You can get redirected to this dubious website when you click on some ads online. On the other hand, if you keep getting redirected to this site each time you browse the web, then this simply means that there is some adware installed in your computer that triggers these redirects to Guce.advertising.com. And if an adware indeed installed in your computer, then this means you will have to endure all ads such as banners, pop-ups, in-text links, etc. displayed by Guce.advertising.com. After these changes, all sorts of ads will began appearing – from pop-ups, in-text links to banners and many more. This will obviously ruin your browsing experience as most ads displayed Guce.advertising.com Pop-ups virus are annoying and won’t just go away no matter how many times you try to close them. Some of the ads displayed can get misleading and could reroute you to suspicious websites that may contain harmful content.
How does Guce.advertising.com Pop-ups spread over the web?
Guce.advertising.com Pop-ups circulate the web using malicious domains and you can get redirected into one if you click on some ads online. It is also possible that an ad-supported program is the one causing redirects to the domain where Guce.advertising.com Pop-ups is displayed. Adware programs are distributed as a part of freeware or shareware packages. If you want to secure your computer from unwanted programs, you have to use the Custom or Advanced setup every time you install any free software packages.
Erase Guce.advertising.com Pop-ups from your browsers and computer as well as the adware program that triggers it with the help of the following removal instructions.
Step 1: Start by opening the Task Manager by simply pressing the Ctrl + Shift + Esc keys.
Step 2: Next, go to Processes and look for dubious processes that could be related to Guce.advertising.com Pop-ups and then right click on each one of them and select End Process or End Task to kill their processes.

Step 3: Close the Task Manager and then open the Program and Features section under Control Panel. To do so, tap the Win + R keys, then type in appwiz.cpl and then click OK or tap Enter.
Step 4: Look for any suspicious program that could be the one that triggers the Guce.advertising.com Pop-ups and then Uninstall it.

Step 5: After that it’s time to edit your Hosts File

Tap the Win + R keys to open then type in %WinDir% and then click OK.
Go to System32/drivers/etc.
Open the hosts file using Notepad.
Delete all the entries containing Guce.advertising.com.
After that, save the changes you’ve made and close the file.

Step 6: Reset all your browsers to default to their default state.
Google Chrome

Launch Google Chrome, press Alt + F, move to More tools, and click Extensions.
Look for Guce.advertising.com Pop-ups or any other unwanted add-ons, click the Recycle Bin button, and choose Remove.
Restart Google Chrome, then tap Alt + F, and select Settings.
Navigate to the On Startup section at the bottom.
Select “Open a specific page or set of pages”.
Click the More actions button next to the hijacker and click Remove.

Mozilla Firefox

Open the browser and tap Ctrl + Shift + A to access the Add-ons Manager.
In the Extensions menu Remove the unwanted extension.
Restart the browser and tap keys Alt + T.
Select Options and then move to the General menu.
Overwrite the URL in the Home Page section and then restart the browser.

Internet Explorer

Launch Internet Explorer.
Tap Alt + T and select Internet options.
Click the General tab and then overwrite the URL under the homepage section.
Click OK to save the changes.

Step 7: Hold down Windows + E keys simultaneously to open File Explorer.
Step 8: Navigate to the following directories and look for suspicious files associated to Guce.advertising.com Pop-ups Ads and delete it/them.

%USERPROFILE%\Downloads
%USERPROFILE%\Desktop
%TEMP%

Step 9: Close the File Explorer.
Step 10: Empty the Recycle Bin.
Step 11: Afterwards, you have to flush the DNS cache. To do that, just, right click on the Start button and click on Command Prompt (administrator). From there, type the “ipconfig /flushdns” command and hit Enter to flush the DNS.
Follow the advanced instructions below to ensure the removal of Guce.advertising.com Pop-ups using [product-name] as well as all the file residues it left behind.
Perform a full system scan using [product-code]. To do so, follow these steps:

Turn on your computer. If it’s already on, you have to reboot it.
After that, the BIOS screen will be displayed, but if Windows pops up instead, reboot your computer and try again. Once you’re on the BIOS screen, repeat pressing F8, by doing so the Advanced Option shows up.

To navigate the Advanced Option use the arrow keys and select Safe Mode with Networking then hit
Windows will now load the Safe Mode with Networking.
Press and hold both R key and Windows key.

If done correctly, the Windows Run Box will show up.
Type in the URL address, [product-url] in the Run dialog box and then tap Enter or click OK.
After that, it will download the program. Wait for the download to finish and then open the launcher to install the program.
Once the installation process is completed, run [product-code] to perform a full system scan.