Recently, I saw a huge amount of posts like “my internet browser displays me undesirable Stay-notified.com pop-up advertisements, is it a virus?” or “these Stay-notified.com pop-up advertisements in my Chrome making me crazy, how to manage them?”. According to the statistics for last months, computer virus creators began a wide adware delivery campaign. Let me show you, how you can erase the viruses from your personal computer, and forget about the frustrating Stay-notified.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Stay-notified.com) show you pop-up advertisements. The message can have something like “do you want to receive alerts regarding the most up to date information?” or “allow notifications to be reported regarding latest discounts?”. Normally, such messages are riskless, and may only distract you with its sudden appearing. Also it can be quite easily turned off, in case notices from this online resource are no longer needed.
Pop-up alerts are quite an effective marketing mechanism. If you have an interest in products of some sort, you can enable pop-ups from the internet site where you can buy this things, and also as quickly as these things are in inventory again, or if you can have a price cut – you will obtain the alert concerning this. The counterparty – online sellers, auto lending companies, etc – will be in profit, too – buyer will definitely get a pointer concerning the item he/she meant to buy. And such an advertising method is almost free of charge – this factor is extremely crucial for companies.
| Site | Stay-notified.com |
| IP Address | 104.248.27.113 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Newkino.pro, Nevalued.online, Goodluckweb.xyz |
Stay-notified.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However in some cases pop-up ads can come out without your permission, and also with a content which is completely various from your current interests or search queries. And also, besides unwanted Stay-notified.com pop-ups from the unknown website, you can at the same time see a lot of ads, including ones on the pages which at first have no advertisements at all. Such a situation can be the proof of adware appearance.
Adware is the kind of computer virus which infiltrates into your computer, after that starts displaying you different promotions. Their subject often has no connection with your ordinary search queries. Besides banner ads, your browser can also display you a huge number of various Stay-notified.com pop-up ads, which come into view in the bottom right area.
The model of adware usage is extremely sly. The huge pack of adware is distributed with trojan viruses, which are injected in your personal computer previously. Promotions, which are suggested to you by virus, are paid by their creators. In a few weeks, all antivirus programs began to block these adware, thus, trojan sheds in earnings. And to terminate the user’s computer system, virus distributors start ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer system might still be impacted by adware virus. A huge quantity of advertisements in addition to Stay-notified.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your regular jobs will certainly be difficult to carry out in common manner.
How Can I Deal With Stay-notified.com Pop-Ups?
Thinking the text above: your computer, as well as your information, is in a serious danger. To stop this virus, you need to utilize antivirus program. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to take care of Stay-notified.com pop-ups malware. Nevertheless, it can’t return the browser changes which were implemented by harmful program. One more disadvantage of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its specific vulnerability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender through the Group Policies after being implanted to your computer system.
To be 100% sure that your computer is clean of any viruses now, and will be clean in future, I can advice you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and delete all malicious programs on your personal computer, including Stay-notified.com 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 programs, because it checks only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can see the detected malware sorted by their possible hazard simultaneously with the scan process. But to choose any actions against malicious programs, you need to wait until the scan is over, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for each spotted virus or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected virus. By default, all the viruses will be removed to quarantine.
Reset browser settings to original ones
To revert your browser settings, you need to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action is not able to be counteracted by Stay-notified.com virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be located in the Tools tab.
After pressing the Reset Browser Settings option, the menu will be displayed, where you can specify, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without making use of third-party programs
Besides using anti-malware software for browser restoration, you may choose the “Reset browser settings” option, which is usually embedded in all popular 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.com 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.
