Remove Fmovies advertisement

How to remove Fmovies.to? Fmovies.to is a website that claims to watch free movies online without intrusive advertisements. Fmovies do display advertisements that try to deceive you or trick you into downloading adware and malware. Fmovies.to also displays push notifications in order to deceive you into clicking on notifications that display fake virus alerts, etc.

Push notifications are alerts that are shown using your web browser settings. Scam websites such as the Fmovies.to site attempt to persuade you into a click on the allow button in your web browser.

Fmovies.to website advertises statements such as “click allow,” “click to verify if you are not a robot”, “click allow to view video” or “click allow to download the file.” The Fmovies.to site is known as a social engineering trick and is only used to deceive you into clicking on the advertisement.

If you have allowed the push notifications from Fmovies.to, advertisements are displayed that will try to make you click on the ads again. If you click on the push notification, the web browser will open and redirect the web browser to an even more potentially dangerous webpage. The Fmovies.to advertisement is associated with malvertising, adware, and potentially unwanted programs.

Adware is software particularly meant to steal web browsing data from your computer, Mac, Android phone, or tablet. The obtained web browsing data is finally sold by cybercriminals to make money from it.

If you see the Fmovies.to advertisement in your web browser, I do recommend that you remove the push notification setting installed by Fmovies.to to prevent further notifications and possible malware infections.

Remove Fmovies.to advertisement

Step 1

Remove Fmovies.to from Google Chrome

Open the Google Chrome browser, in the address bar type: chrome://settings/content/notifications

or follow the steps below.

1. Open Google Chrome.
2. In the top-right corner, expand the Chrome menu.
3. In the Google Chrome menu, open Settings.
4. At the Privacy and Security section, click Site settings.
5. Open the Notifications settings.
6. Remove Fmovies.to by clicking the three dots on the right next to the Fmovies.to URL and click Remove.

Remove Fmovies.to from Android

1. Open Google Chrome
2. In the top-right corner, find the Chrome menu.
3. In the menu tap Settings, scroll down to Advanced.
4. In the Site Settings section, tap the Notifications settings, find the Fmovies.to domain, and tap on it.
5. Tap the Clean & Reset button and confirm.

Remove Fmovies.to from Firefox

1. Open Firefox
2. In the top-right corner, click the Firefox menu (three horizontal stripes).
3. In the menu go to Options, in the list on the left go to Privacy & Security.
4. Scroll down to Permissions and then to Settings next to Notifications.
5. Select the Fmovies.to URL from the list, and change the status to Block, save Firefox changes.

Remove Fmovies.to from Edge

1. Open Microsoft Edge.
2. In the top right corner, click on the three dots to expand the Edge menu.
3. Scroll down to Settings.
4. In the left menu click on Site permissions.
5. Click on Notifications.
6. Click on the three dots on the right of the Fmovies.to domain and Remove.

Remove Fmovies.to from Safari on Mac

1. Open Safari. In the top left corner, click on Safari.
2. Go to Preferences in the Safari menu, now open the Websites tab.
3. In the left menu click on Notifications
4. Find the Fmovies.to domain and select it, click the Deny button.

Continue to the next step.

Step 2

Remove adware with Malwarebytes

You need to remove the Fmovies.to adware from your computer. Malwarebytes is a complete malware removal tool for Windows and Mac. Malwarebytes is free to use.

Websites such as Fmovies.to redirect your web browser to dangerous advertisements that advise adware applications, the Fmovies.to website also redirects the browser to other malware such as crypto miners and various exploits. Make sure to completely clean your computer from adware with Malwarebytes.

Download Malwarebytes

• Install Malwarebytes, follow on-screen instructions.
• Click Scan to start a malware-scan.

• Wait for the Malwarebytes scan to finish.
• Once completed, review the push notification detections.
• Click Quarantine to continue.

• Reboot Windows after all the detections are moved to quarantine.

Step 3

Remove malware with Sophos HitmanPRO

In this second malware removal step, we will start a second scan to make sure there are no malware remnants left on your computer. HitmanPRO is a cloud scanner that scans every active file for malicious activity on your computer and sends it to the Sophos cloud for detection. In the Sophos cloud both Bitdefender antivirus and Kaspersky antivirus scan the file for malicious activities.

Download HitmanPRO

When you have downloaded HitmanPRO install the HitmanPro 32-bit or HitmanPRO x64. Downloads are saved to the Downloads folder on your computer.

Open HitmanPRO to start installation and scan.

Accept the Sophos HitmanPRO license agreement to continue. Read the license agreement, check the box and click on Next.

Click the Next button to continue Sophos HitmanPRO installation. Make sure to create a copy of HitmanPRO for regular scans.

HitmanPRO begins with a scan, wait for the antivirus scan results.

When the scan is done, click Next and activate the free HitmanPRO license. Click on Activate Free license.

Enter your e-mail for a Sophos HitmanPRO free thirty days license. Click on Activate.

The free HitmanPRO license is successfully activated.

You’ll be presented with the malware removal results, click Next to continue.

Malicious software was partially removed from your computer. Restart your computer to complete removal.