Chainthorn.com Redirects - How to remove

The chainthorn.com website is part of online malvertising. While it looks like nothing more than a blank page, it’s a link in a chain of redirects and can actually be very harmful. This website uses notification permissions to hijack your browser and redirect you to promoted content, some of which is unsafe.

Sites like chainthorn.com are common, for example, Dredrewlaha.info, Substand.pro, Pertonthati.info. There is no shortage of malicious websites online and they’re in a constant struggle against ad blockers, browsers, and legitimate ad publishers and networks.

How to remove chainthorn.com

Chainthorn.com ads can be stopped by simply blocking notifications from the site. Whether that will stop the redirect depends on the developers of chainthorn.com, but they can’t send you pop-ups all the time if you block notifications. If you look at your list of allowed notifications, you might find other suspicious websites. Block them, too, so that they can’t push ads to you, either.

Block notifications from chainthorn.com:

Chrome	Go to chrome://settings/content/notifications Find chainthorn.com, click on the menu to its right Click “Block”
Safari	In the menu, go to Safari, then Preferences In the new window, choose Websites and then Notifications Find chainthorn.com and click Deny
Edge	In the menu, choose Settings and then Advanced settings Find Notifications and click Manage Find chainthorn.com and turn it off
Firefox	Go to about:preferences#content Look under Notifications Find chainthorn.com and block notifications

 

There is a risk that, with chainthorn.com being promoted by malware, there could be adware installed on your computer. If you even suspect that adware could be lurking on your computer, take some time to scan it with an antivirus program (Spyhunter). Adware viruses can hijack your browser and force it to open whatever website it wants, as well as inject ads straight into the websites as you see them. Considering that we use our browsers for online banking, shopping, and other private activities, it’s very important that no malicious actors have access to it.

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What’s so dangerous about chainthorn.com?

When visiting chainthorn.com, people are prompted to allow notifications from the site. No doubt, some people allow them either by accident, or because they’re too trusting. Notifications are a legitimate way for a website to update its fans about new posts and urgent events, but what could chainthorn.com, a site with seemingly no content, be updating people about?

The problem is that notifications can be turned into annoying and unwelcome pop-up ads. Malicious actors can abuse the permission to keep sending people notifications with links to various promoted content. Inviting notifications from chainthorn.com is like signing up for spam, but much harder to ignore. If a person doesn’t know how to stop the ads, they would have to switch browsers to get a respite.

Besides being very intrusive, chainthorn.com promotes problematic content like “PC optimizers”, which are more like scareware that severely overstate every single “problem” that they find to scare people into buying their product. It also distributes various browser hijackers — extensions that limit which search engine you can use to one that they get money for promoting. Fake online updates and security warnings, errors, and scans also occasionally make an appearance thanks to chainthorn.com, and end with some people scammed out of their money by online criminals.

While normal ad-networks have rules and standards in order to make the people who are exposed to their ads safe, the expelled and shunned malware peddlers look for another way to reach people, which end up being chainthorn.com or similar online adware.

How to avoid hijackers and redirects

Chainthorn.com is associated with very similar adware sites and adware programs, which means that one infection will increase your risk of more malware.

Chainthorn.com-like sites are likely to pop up if you visit some sites that are already overflowing with ads. Sometimes you just click on anywhere in the site and get redirected to some random website. If you frequent sites like that — illegal video streaming sites, adult pages, video converter apps — then you might be exposing yourself to a lot of malicious ads, which means that you need to take more precautions. Recently, a dangerous virus called Seon locker — which included file-locking ransomware, a miner, and a trojan — was being distributed by exposing the visitors of a video converter to infected ads; being cautious online is not wasted effort.

Update your software as soon as possible, especially your antivirus program. Your browser and your operating system also need their updates to be able to protect you from newly found security flaws being exploited. People who don’t install new security patches put themselves at unnecessary risk. Finally, make sure that you have backups of your files — that’s good insurance against ransomware and other viruses.