Distinguish Fake "Adobe Flash Player Update" Pop-up on Your Firefox, Chrome and IE

What is Fake Flash Player Update

From an IE user:
"Yesterday when I tried to browse a news page, a pop-up came and said that my flash player us out of date. I clicked to install it and went on browsing. However today when I open my IE, the same pop-up came again, and I found that my browser works sluggishly."

Careful users can notice that such a reminder is delivered from the browsers, and it will be useless if you click on the X button on the popup. Whether you click the "Later" or the "Download" icon, you will receive a dubious file. By installing the file you will not get any helpful flash player update. On the contrary, malware or at least unwanted program will be taken to your computer.
It is a malicious ad which leads users to download its programs. The programs from it are detected to be quite harmful, if you download and install what it offers, they can reduce your computers' performance badly.
Your browser may get infected with it by visiting malicious sites, or it can be hidden in freeware installations and installed by users mistakenly. The pop-up will come again and again if you don't remove the supporting adware. Read this blog to stop it.

Take a look at the real flash player update reminder:

How to stop the pop-up completely?

Manual Way：Remove it yourself following the steps.

Automatic Way：Automatically remove it with Spyhunter. (Recommended )

Manual steps to remove Fake Flash Player Update 

(1). End the processes of this infected browsers

Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open Windows Task Manager, find out the popping page, end the related browser.

(2) Uninstall unwanted program from Control Panel.

Get unwanted programs by its misleading? Try to uninstall them all:

Start >> Control Panel >> Programs >> Programs and Features >> Find out the associated programs and Uninstall them.

(3) Remove its add-ons or extensions from your web browsers

Take IE as an example: Open the menu and find Manage add-ons option. In Toolbars and Extensions you can view and  Disable the related add-ons

Do the same to other infected browsers

Remove the threats with SpyHunter automatically  

The free version of SpyHunter can be used to detect the computer threats in your PC accurately, you can also use its paid version to remove the threats quickly and safely.

(1) Click here to download SpyhHunter.

(2) install Spyhunter following the guide.

(3) After finishing the installation, you can click to scan your PC.

(4) When you want to remove the malware threats, you need to click the button “Select all”, and then click the button “Remove” on the bottom right corner.

Summary Fake Flash Player Update is malicious, do not be fooled by such an ad. 

Spyhunter is highly recommended to give your PC an all-time protection.