If you have ever been using a browser and suddenly received a pop-up such as this one:
Close the tab instead of clicking ‘Allow’ or ‘Block’
If you press “Allow”, you not only add a setting to your browser that you won’t like, but you’ll start to get inundated with notifications (FakeAlerts) such as these:
Some of these show up in your browser, and some will appear in the bottom-right corner of your screen
It’s important to note that these are fake alerts designed to scare you into clicking “Install antivirus”, “Proceed..” etc. Essentially, they want you to visit a website of their choosing. Usually they receive some sort of payment for sending you there
It’s important to be aware of what you click.
If you need help with removing this type of problem, check out DoesNotBelong as it supports many browsers, except Gecko based browsers (FireFox, WaterFox, Floorp, etc…)
If you’d like to do this yourself, open your browser (Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, etc..) and type one of these into the address bar and then press ENTER:
- edge://settings/content/notifications
- chrome://settings/content/notifications
- brave://settings/content/notifications
- about:preferences#privacy <–Firefox users
From this page, you should be able to immediately find the offending entry:
Once you click Remove, the offending pop-ups should immediately disappear if they were active on your screen.
Afterwards, consider using an adblocker and updating your hosts file. Here is mine if you are interested: Hosts_Adultxxx
-Furtivex
