‘Please Support This Site By Watching This Video’ Pop-Up

The 'Please Support this Site by Watching this Video' pop-up is an advertisement that may be used legitimately, but also sometimes is found in the antics of adware and browser hijackers, which may redirect you to the 'Please Support this Site by Watching this Video' pop-up repetitively. Current analyses of the 'Please Support this Site by Watching this Video' pop-up haven't turned up any cases of its being used to load unsafe content that could damage your PC, but malware researchers tend to encourage the removal of unwanted programs that could cause the 'Please Support this Site by Watching this Video' pop-up problems. Persistent and non-consensual exposure to these pop-ups advertisements may cause security concerns even when the responsible program is no worse than simple adware.

Being Forced to 'Support' a Site... No Matter Which Site You Visit

In a recent case of normal advertising going more than a bit out of control, the 'Please Support this Site by Watching this Video' pop-up is an otherwise ordinary video advertisement that has acquired a recent history of being involved in the usually unwanted functions of adware programs. Which browsers being affected by these issues still is a matter that's under analysis, although all popular browsers such as Mac and Windows have seen a variety of adware programs involved in similar advertisement campaigns. These 'hard sell' style pop-up advertisements appear regardless of which site you have loaded into your browser, due to some modifications to your browser's internal settings.

The adware programs responsible for this new spree of the 'Please Support this Site by Watching this Video' pop-up issues don't appear to correlate directly to individual toolbar products that can be identified easily by their brand names and visible browser changes (in addition to the pop-ups). Trojans are, theoretically, capable of causing the 'Please Support this Site by Watching this Video' pop-ups as one of their many possible functions. However, malware experts haven't related the 'Please Support this Site by Watching this Video' pop-up problems to other attacks against the affected PCs. For now, you can feel free to consider any undesirable program that launches the 'Please Support this Site by Watching this Video' pop-ups a Potentially Unwanted Program, rather than a high-level threat to your PC, but even PUPs should be taken seriously as infringements on your sovereignty over your Web browser.

How to Opt out of the Site Support You're Uninterested in Doing

The 'Please Support this Site by Watching this Video' pop-up may cause performance problems due to its use of unavoidable streaming media content, but, most importantly, may be an indirect sign of a security problem. Adware programs that load a 'Please Support this Site by Watching this Video' pop-up also may load any number of other advertisements, which, in some cases, include content that may install threatening software or steal personal information. Malware researchers always would suggest deleting the source of the 'Please Support this Site by Watching this Video' pop-up with a suitable PC security product, but this particularly applies for cases where the adware wasn't installed automatically.

In the latter scenario, you also should beware of the possibility of the 'Please Support this Site by Watching this Video' pop-up-causing adware being installed by other threats. Although not the most common method for distributing adware (which remains that of the free software bundle), a threat does, upon occasion, install adware and other PUPs. However, any comprehensive anti-malware program that can remove the 'Please Support this Site by Watching this Video' pop-up-causing adware also should be able to detect and remove these related PC threats.