Recently, I saw a great deal of posts like “my internet browser demonstrates me unwanted Stay-notified.cc pop-up advertisements, is it a computer virus?” or “these Stay-notified.cc pop-up ads in my Chrome making me crazy, how to manage them?”. Due to the stats for last months, computer virus suppliers started a large adware delivery campaign. Let me demonstrate you, how you can delete the pc virus from your personal computer, and also forget about the irritating Stay-notified.cc pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Stay-notified.cc) show you pop-up ads. The message can contain something like “do you want to get notifications about the current information?” or “enable notifications to be reported about latest price cuts?”. Normally, such messages are safe, and may just distract you with its sudden visual appeal. Plus it can be easily turned off, in case alerts from this online resource are no longer needed.
Pop-up notices are quite an reliable advertising and marketing mechanism. If you have an interest in products of some kind, you can allow pop-ups from the web site where you can buy this things, and also as soon as these items are in stock again, or if you can have a price cut – you will obtain the notification concerning this. The counterparty – online stores, car lending companies, etc – will remain in profit, too – buyer will undoubtedly obtain a suggestion concerning the product he/she intended to buy. And such an advertising and marketing technique is almost free – this element is very vital for firms.
| Site | Stay-notified.cc |
| IP Address | 167.99.249.47 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Install.searchconverterpro.com, Install.pdfsearchweb.com, Managersh.biz |
Stay-notified.cc Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But in some cases pop-up ads can appear without your confirmation, and with an information which is totally various from your present interests or search questions. And, besides unwanted Stay-notified.cc pop-ups from the unknown source, you can at the same time see a great deal of promotions, including ones on the pages which at first have no promotions whatsoever. Such a scenario can be the indicator of adware existence.
Adware is the kind of computer virus which infiltrates into your computer, then starts demonstrating to you various advertisements. Their content , in most cases, has no correlation with your normal search questions. Besides banner ads, your web browser can additionally demonstrate to you a substantial quantity of various Stay-notified.cc pop-up ads, which appear in the lower right area.
The model of adware usage is really sly. The big pack of adware is distributed through trojan viruses, which are injected in your computer previously. Ads, which are suggested to you by malware, are paid by their creators. In several weeks, all anti-malware programs began to stop these adware, hence, trojan loses in earnings. And to terminate the user’s computer, virus distributors start ransomware distribution with these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your PC may still be affected by adware virus. A significant number of advertisements along with Stay-notified.cc pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your common work will be difficult to carry out in normal manner.
How Can I Deal With Stay-notified.cc Pop-Ups?
Thinking the paragraphs above: your desktop, along with your information, is in a major danger. To quit this virus, you require to make use of anti-malware software. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to take care of Stay-notified.cc pop-ups malware. However, it can not revert the browser changes which were put into effect by malicious program. An additional drawback of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its certain vulnerability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender through the Group Policies after being infiltrated to your PC.
To be 100% sure that your PC is clean of any viruses now, and will be clean in future, I can advice you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and eliminate all malicious applications on your computer, including Stay-notified.cc pop-ups virus, with GridinSoft Anti-Malware, it’s better to use Standard or Full scan. Quick Scan is not able to find all the malicious apps, because it scans only the most popular registry entries and directories.
You can see the detected malware sorted by their possible hazard till the scan process. But to perform any actions against malicious programs, you need to wait until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for each spotted malicious or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malicious program. By default, all malware will be removed to quarantine.
Reverting browser settings to original ones
To revert your browser settings, you are required to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action is not able to be counteracted by Stay-notified.cc virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This option can be found in the Tools tab.
After choosing the Reset Browser Settings button, the menu will be shown, where you can choose, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without utilizing third-party software
Besides using antivirus programs for browser recovery, you may choose the “Reset browser settings” function, which is usually embedded in all popular web browsers.
Reset Microsoft Edge ⚙ Settings
- Open "Settings and more" tab in upper right corner, then find here "Settings" button. In the appeared menu, choose "Reset settings" option:
- After picking the Reset Settings option, you will see the following menu, stating about the settings which will be reverted to original:
Reset Mozilla Firefox ⚙ Settings
- Open Menu tab (three strips in upper right corner) and click the "Help" button. In the appeared menu choose "troubleshooting information":
- In the next screen, find the "Refresh Firefox" option:
- Open Settings menu by pressing the gear icon in the toolbar (left side of the browser window), then click "Advanced" option, and choose "Browser" button in the drop-down list. Scroll down, to the bottom of the settings menu. Find there "Restore settings to their original defaults" option:
- After clicking the "Restore settings..." button, you will see the window, where all settings, which will be reset, are shown:
- Open Settings tab, find the "Advanced" button. In the extended tab choose the "Reset and clean up" button:
- In the appeared list, click on the "Restore settings to their original defaults":
- Finally, you will see the window, where you can see all the settings which will be reset to default:
After choosing this option, you will see the next message:
Reset Opera ⚙ Settings
Reset Google Chrome ⚙ Settings
As an afterword, I want to say that the time plays against you and your PC. The activity of browser hijacker Stay-notified.cc must be stopped as soon as possible, because of possibility of other malware injection. This malware can be downloaded autonomously, or offered for you to download in one of the windows with advertisements, which are shown to you by the hijacker. You need to act as fast as you can.
