Mainchargenews.com Ad Spam - How to remove

Mainchargenews.com is a notification-spamming site that advertises on people’s screens. It shows ads for casinos, adult chatting services, get-rich-quick schemes, and other potentially unwanted content. It’s advertised online in a way that leads people to invite its ads accidentally.

In short about Mainchargenews.com:

Classification	Adware, browser hijacker.
How to block ads by Mainchargenews.com	Block notifications from unwanted sites, remove all malware with antivirus tools (Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac).
Problems with Mainchargenews.com	It shows unwanted ads, it may show ads for problematic content.
Where adware spreads	Advertised online on pirating websites, promoted by adware viruses.

How to stop Mainchargenews.com ads

Delete suspicious items

If Mainchargenews.com was promoted to you by adware, that malware was downloaded as a result of Mainchargenews.com’s ads, and just in case, scan your computer with an antivirus program, such as Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, or another program that you trust. Scan all the files: programs, apps, browser extensions, and files in your Downloads folder.

Remove any items that are detected as malicious or potentially unwanted unless you know that you can trust them.

In the future, use an antivirus program to block malicious websites. Some antivirus vendors already consider Mainchargenews.com to be Malware: Virustotal.com.

Block the pop-up ads

To specifically block ads by Mainchargenews.com, you need to open the relevant settings in your web browser. There, you can choose to hide notification prompts and to block sites from sending notification messages.

1. Open your web browser:
   • Chrome – open Settings, scroll down to Site settings (under Privacy and security), click on Notifications.
   • Edge (Chromium) – open Settings, click Site Permissions, Notifications.
   • Firefox – open Settings, Privacy & Security, scroll down to Permissions, and click on Settings next to Notifications.
2. Find Mainchargenews.com and other addresses that are allowed to send you notifications.
3. Open the drop-down next to each unwanted address and click Block.

You can also click the gear icon on one of the unwanted pop-up ads and block notifications from there.

How the Mainchargenews.com pop-ups work

Ad spammer

Mainchargenews.com is a little site that doesn’t really do much. If you visit it normally, it just looks like a news site. Its content is not original; it’s taken from another website (LA Times) and it lacks the images, links, or styling that was present in the original articles.

The main occupation of Mainchargenews.com seems to e getting people to sign up for its notifications and then using them to send out ads. The people behind Mainchargenews.com make money from the ads.

Web push notifications allow sites that are not open in your browser to send messages to your screen (for instance, about a new email in your inbox). They can be very useful, but some advertising sites abuse them too much.

Dishonest ads

Mainchargenews.com uses notifications to deliver unwanted ads featuring some controversial topics:

• Medicines and supplements. These products may not be properly regulated. They are also often advertised with fake stories, testimonies by made-up people, and aggressive sales tactics, potentially even involving subscription scams.
• Online casinos and sexual content. These sites may be unsuitable for children.
• Tech support scams and low-quality software. These are often promoted by fake warnings about viruses having been detected on your computer.
• Reward sites and low-quality subscription sites. These sites are often advertised with fake giveaways of free phones and cash prizes.

Sometimes, the ads displayed by Mainchargenews.com may be designed to look like missed phone calls and emails in order to trick people into clicking on them.

Mainchargenews.com is advertised online

To get people to subscribe to its notifications, Mainchargenews.com is advertised online. It’s promoted on video streaming sites, like 123Movies, and torrenting sites, like Zooqle. Its ad may say imply that you have to click the “Allow” button on Mainchargenews.com to continue watching your videos.

This can easily result in people subscribing to Mainchargenews.com’s notifications without realizing what they’re doing. When a webpage asks you to click a button or to download or install something, be very skeptical. Most movie streaming sites and file sharing sites do not require anything like that.

Illegal streaming sites do show a lot of low-quality ads, so you should be careful when watching shows and movies for free. Pirating sites tend to allow all kinds of malicious and unsafe ads on their platforms, so stay vigilant.

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