Fake Ads - Click "Allow" to Update Your Browser - How to remove

“Click Allow to update your browser” is a phrase used by malicious websites – notification hijackers. These sites lie unabashedly to get people to subscribe to their notifications. In this case, they claim that your web browser will install an update if you click the “Allow” button.

If you see such a page on your screen, close it – don’t follow its instructions. All that’ll happen if you click the “Allow” button is that the malicious site will start spamming your browser with pop-up ads.

“Click Allow to update your browser” scam in short:

Type of threat	Adware.
What causes “Click Allow to update your browser” pop-ups	Ads and redirects online, adware infections, ads on untrustworthy websites.
Problems caused by the malicious sites	Fake notifications flooding your screen, links to malicious websites.
How to stop unwanted pop-up ads	Block notifications from unwanted sites, remove malware with antivirus programs (Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, others), disable notification prompts.

What is behind the “Click Allow to update your browser” message?

While browsing the web, I was confronted with this message:

Your browser is outdated. Click “Allow” to update your browser and proceed

But wait, if I type “about:help” into my browser’s address bar, it says that the browser is up to date. It also says that automatic updates are turned on. What’s going on here?

This is a fake Google Chrome browser update message. Sites like Goodmode.biz, Holanews.biz, Newmode.biz, Redmdeia.biz, Vviewpoint.biz, etc. show a message like this. There’s a loading bar that stops at 68% and an instruction to click the “Allow” button to update my browser.

And at the top is the notification prompt. Clicking “Allow” gives the site permission to send direct messages (notifications) to the browser and have it display them. Clicking “Block” prevents the site from doing that or from ever asking again.

So, the website showing the “Click Allow to update your browser” message wants to get permission to show notifications in your browser. Nothing to do with updates and everything to do with advertising spam.

What happens if you click “Allow”?

The “Click Allow to update your browser” scam leads to pop-ups of unsafe, scammy, low-quality ads.

Once a malicious ite can send notifications to your browser, it will use them to show ads. It’s how the people behind these sites make money.

But it’s not just the usual ads that you might see on the sites that you normally visit; it’s scams, fake articles, restricted products, malware, gambling sites, and other potentially unsafe content.

One example of ads lately promoted by notification spammers is a fake virus alert: a notification saying that viruses and trojans have been found on your computer or phone. If you click on this pop-up, you end up on a site advertising scareware apps or a tech support scam.

The marketers who use “Click Allow to update your browser” sites often disguise their ads as system alerts and notifications from reputable websites. They hope to get more people to click on them that way.

How to stop unwanted notifications

The good news is that it’s simple enough to revoke notification permissions:

• Chrome – open Settings, scroll down to Site settings (under Privacy and security), click on Notifications.
• Edge – open Settings, click Site Permissions, Notifications.
• Safari – in the Safari menu, choose Preferences, Websites, Notifications.
• Firefox – open Settings, Privacy & Security, scroll down to Permissions, and click on Settings next to Notifications.

On this page, choose “Block” for all unfamiliar sites. You can always change these permissions at any time.

And you might want to disable notification prompts for the future. If you want to get notifications from a website, do it on your own terms.

Since the “Click Allow to update your browser” use a fake update alert, it’s good to know that your browser downloads and installs updates automatically. Many programs do, or they show update prompts themselves.

In fact, don’t trust any update alert that you ever see online. Any webpage that claims that something on your computer is outdated is very likely to be a scam. Fake Windows updates, fake adblock updates, fake VPN updates – scammers have them all.

In case you downloaded any programs or apps from any of notifications by the “Click Allow to update your browser” site, we recommend that you remove that software. You can use antivirus apps like Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, and others.

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