According to IT security professionals, Ouo.io is a website which uses the browser notification feature to force you and other computer users into subscribing to push notifications. It will display the ‘Allow Notifications’ message, asking you to subscribe to notifications.
Ouo.io displays the ‘Allow Notifications’ message, asking you to subscribe to its push notifications.
Once you click on the ‘Allow’ button, the Ouo.io web-page starts sending tons of browser notification spam on your the desktop. You will see the pop-up adverts even when you are not using the web browser. The developers of Ouo.io use these push notifications to bypass protection against pop-ups in the web browser and therefore show a huge number of unwanted advertisements. These ads are used to promote suspicious web-browser extensions, giveaway scams, adware bundles, and ‘free’ online games.
In order to unsubscribe from Ouo.io browser notification spam open your browser’s settings, search for Notifications, locate Ouo.io and click the ‘Block’ (‘Remove’) button or follow the Ouo.io removal tutorial below. Once you delete Ouo.io subscription, the browser notification spam will no longer show on the desktop.
These Ouo.io popups are caused by advertisements on the web pages you visit or adware. Adware is a form of malware. When adware software hijacks your machine, it might carry out various malicious tasks. Some of the more common acts on computers include: adware software can show numerous popup deals and/or annoying deals;adware software can redirect your internet browser to unsafe web sites; adware can slow down your PC system; adware software can modify internet browser settings.
Does adware software steal your data? Adware can analyze the location and which Internet web-sites you visit, and then display advertisements to the types of content, goods or services featured there. Adware creators can gather and sell your browsing information and behavior to third parties.
Adware software may be spread with the help of trojan horses and other forms of malicious software, but most often, adware is bundled with certain free programs. Many authors of free software include bundled applications in their setup file. Sometimes it’s possible to avoid the installation of any adware: carefully read the Terms of Use and the Software license, choose only Manual, Custom or Advanced installation method, uncheck all checkboxes before clicking Install or Next button while installing new free programs.
Threat Summary
| Name | Ouo.io, Ouo.io popups, Ouo.io ‘virus’ |
| Type | push notifications, browser notifications spam, adware, pop ups, pop-up ads, pop up virus |
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| Removal | Ouo.io pop-ups removal guide |
The guide below explaining steps to remove Ouo.io popups problem. Feel free to use it for removal of the adware that may attack Firefox, Google Chrome, MS Edge and IE and other popular web-browsers. The steps will allow you get rid of adware and thereby clean your browser from all intrusive advertisements.
How to remove Ouo.io pop-ups, ads, notifications (Removal guidance)
Fortunately, we’ve an effective method that will help you manually or/and automatically get rid of Ouo.io from your web browser and bring your web browser settings, including newtab, search engine and startpage, back to normal. Below you will find a removal instructions with all the steps you may need to successfully get rid of adware and its components. Read this manual carefully, bookmark or print it, because you may need to shut down your browser or reboot your computer.
To remove Ouo.io pop ups, complete the following steps:
How to manually remove Ouo.io
The useful removal instructions for the Ouo.io ads. The detailed procedure can be followed by anyone as it really does take you step-by-step. If you follow this process to remove Ouo.io pop ups let us know how you managed by sending us your comments please.
Uninstall adware software through the Windows Control Panel
Some of PUPs, adware and hijackers can be uninstalled using the Add/Remove programs tool which is located in the Microsoft Windows Control Panel. So, if you’re using any version of Windows and you have noticed an unwanted application, then first try to remove it through Add/Remove programs.
Windows 8, 8.1, 10
First, press Windows button
, then click Search 
. Type ‘Control panel’and press Enter as shown in the following example.
Once the ‘Control Panel’ opens, press the ‘Uninstall a program’ link under Programs category as shown on the image below.
You will see the ‘Uninstall a program’ panel as on the image below.
Very carefully look around the entire list of apps installed on your PC system. If you’ve many apps installed, you can help simplify the search of harmful programs by sort the list by date of installation. Once you have found a suspicious, unwanted or unused program, right click to it, after that click ‘Uninstall’.
Windows XP, Vista, 7
First, click ‘Start’ button and select ‘Control Panel’ at right panel as displayed on the screen below.
When the Windows ‘Control Panel’ opens, you need to press ‘Uninstall a program’ under ‘Programs’ as shown in the following example.
You will see a list of software installed on your PC. We recommend to sort the list by date of installation to quickly find the programs that were installed last. If you are in doubt, you can always check the program by doing a search for her name in Google, Yahoo or Bing. After the application which you need to delete is found, simply press on its name, and then press ‘Uninstall’ as displayed in the following example.
Delete Ouo.io pop-up ads from IE
In order to restore all browser settings you need to reset the Microsoft Internet Explorer to the state, that was when the Windows was installed on your machine.
First, launch the Microsoft Internet Explorer, then press ‘gear’ icon 
. It will open the Tools drop-down menu on the right part of the web browser, then press the “Internet Options” as shown in the figure below.
In the “Internet Options” screen, select the “Advanced” tab, then press the “Reset” button. The Microsoft Internet Explorer will open the “Reset Internet Explorer settings” dialog box. Further, click the “Delete personal settings” check box to select it. Next, click the “Reset” button as shown on the image below.
Once the procedure is done, click “Close” button. Close the Internet Explorer and reboot your computer for the changes to take effect. This step will help you to restore your web-browser’s home page, default search engine and new tab to default state.
Delete Ouo.io from Mozilla Firefox by resetting web-browser settings
If the Mozilla Firefox settings have been modified by the adware, then resetting it to the default state can help. However, your saved bookmarks and passwords will not be lost. This will not affect your history, passwords, bookmarks, and other saved data.
Launch the Mozilla Firefox and click the menu button (it looks like three stacked lines) at the top right of the web browser screen. Next, click the question-mark icon at the bottom of the drop-down menu. It will display the slide-out menu.
Select the “Troubleshooting information”. If you’re 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 displayed in the figure 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 start a process to fix your problems that caused by adware. When, it is complete, click the “Finish” button.
Remove Ouo.io pop up ads from Google Chrome
If you are getting Ouo.io popup advertisements, then you can try to remove it by resetting Google Chrome to its original settings. It will also clear cookies, content and site data, temporary and cached data. However, your saved passwords and bookmarks will not be changed, deleted or cleared.
- First start the Chrome and click Menu button (small button in the form of three dots).
- It will display the Chrome main menu. Select More Tools, then press Extensions.
- You will see the list of installed addons. If the list has the addon labeled with “Installed by enterprise policy” or “Installed by your administrator”, then complete the following instructions: Remove Chrome extensions installed by enterprise policy.
- Now open the Google Chrome menu once again, click the “Settings” menu.
- You will see the Google Chrome’s settings page. Scroll down and click “Advanced” link.
- Scroll down again and click the “Reset” button.
- The Google Chrome will open the reset profile settings page as on the image above.
- Next press the “Reset” button.
- Once this procedure is complete, your browser’s start page, search engine by default and newtab will be restored to their original defaults.
- To learn more, read the blog post How to reset Chrome settings to default.
How to automatically remove adware
Many antivirus companies have developed programs that allow detect adware and thereby delete unwanted ads from the Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, MS Edge and Internet Explorer web-browsers. Below is a a few of the free programs you may want to use. Your PC can have a lot of potentially unwanted applications, adware and browser hijackers installed at the same time, so we recommend, if any unwanted or malicious application returns after restarting the computer, then launch your PC into Safe Mode and use the anti malware utility once again.
How to automatically remove unwanted pop-up advertisements with Zemana Free
Zemana Anti Malware is an amazing tool to delete adware from the Internet Explorer, Chrome, Edge and Firefox. It also removes malware and adware software from your PC system. It improves your system’s performance by deleting PUPs.
Please go to the link below to download Zemana Anti Malware. Save it directly to your MS Windows Desktop.
164032 downloads
Author: Zemana Ltd
Category: Security tools
Update: July 16, 2019
Once downloading is complete, close all software and windows on your machine. Double-click the install file named Zemana.AntiMalware.Setup. If the “User Account Control” prompt pops up as on the image below, click the “Yes” button.
It will open the “Setup wizard” which will help you install Zemana Anti Malware (ZAM) on your computer. Follow the prompts and do not make any changes to default settings.
Once setup is finished successfully, Zemana Anti Malware (ZAM) will automatically start and you can see its main screen as shown below.
Now click the “Scan” button to perform a system scan for the adware which cause pop-ups. This procedure may take some time, so please be patient. When a threat is found, the count of the security threats will change accordingly. Wait until the the checking is complete.
When the scan is finished, Zemana Free will create a list of undesired programs adware. Make sure all items have ‘checkmark’ and click “Next” button. The Zemana Anti Malware will get rid of adware and move items to the program’s quarantine. When that process is finished, you may be prompted to restart the PC.
How to stop unwanted ads
To put it simply, you need to use an ad-blocker tool (AdGuard, for example). It will block and protect you from all unwanted websites, advertisements and popups. To be able to do that, the ad-blocking program uses a list of filters. Each filter is a rule that describes a malicious web-page, an advertising content, a banner and others. The ad-blocking application automatically uses these filters, depending on the web pages you are visiting.
AdGuard can be downloaded from the following link. Save it to your Desktop so that you can access the file easily.
26627 downloads
Version: 6.4
Author: © Adguard
Category: Security tools
Update: November 15, 2018
After downloading it, double-click the downloaded file to start it. The “Setup Wizard” window will show up on the computer screen as displayed in the figure 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 click “Get Started” to see an quick tutorial which will allow you get to know AdGuard better.
Each time, when you start your system, AdGuard will start automatically and stop unwanted advertisements, block malicious or misleading webpages. For an overview of all the features of the program, or to change its settings you can simply double-click on the AdGuard icon, which can be found on your desktop.
To sum up
Now your computer should be clean of unwanted Ouo.io popup ads. We suggest that you keep Zemana Free (to periodically scan your computer for new adwares and other malware) and AdGuard (to help you block undesired pop-up ads and malicious websites). Moreover, to prevent any adware, please stay clear of unknown and third party programs, make sure that your antivirus program, turn on the option to look for PUPs.
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