Onemessages.com Pop-Up Ads - How to remove

Onemessages.com shows some potentially dangerous ads that could lead to scams and malware infections. It is an adware site that pushes people to allow its notifications, then uses them to send ad spam to those people’s browsers. Luckily, Onemessages.com will stop sending any more ads after its notifications are blocked in browser settings.

Onemessages.com in short:

Type of threat	Adware.
How Onemessages.com pop-ups begin	Onemessages.com is advertised on video streaming sites, it tells visitors that they must allow its notifications to continue using the streaming sites.
The kinds of ads shown	Phishing, tech support, get-rich-quick scams, ads for malware and adware, normal ads.
How to stop Onemessages.com ads	Block notifications in browser settings from Onemessages.com and other sites, check for malware with antivirus programs (like Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, and others).

How Onemessages.com works

How it gets access to notifications

Onemessages.com is a site (or a set of sites) that hijacks browser notifications and uses them to display ads to people – without offering any content on functionality in return. It’s like email spam, only much more effective because it can’t be easily ignored.

Mostly, Onemessages.com gets advertised on movie streaming (pirating) sites, such as Akwam.net. Ads for Onemessages.com pop up unexpectedly and open in a new browser tab.

Ads for Onemessages.com look like warnings. They say that, in order to watch your video, you need to subscribe to notifications. That’s not true – Onemessages.com is just saying that to get more users to allow its notifications. It’s not related to the streaming sites at all.

Clicking on it expands Onemessages.com to full screen. If you close its notification pop-up, it just loads another subdomain and asks you again to allow its notifications. Onemessages.com has a bunch of subdomains, so it just keeps loading them endlessly. It can be a little scary when it looks as if your screen was taken over by this Onemessages.com site.

Also, Onemessages.com shows its message in a variety of languages, which makes it look more legitimate.

So, people who were trying to watch a TV show for free get redirected to Onemessages.com which takes over their screen and keeps demanding that they click the allow button, lying that it’s required to keep watching the videos. Even those who know that Onemessages.com is just an advertising spammer might not know how to get out of this situation without giving Onemessages.com access to their browsers.

How it shows the pop-up ads

Like I said, Onemessages.com has a lot of subdomains: Notice.onemessages.com, Now.onemessages.com, Update.onemessages.com, and others. Each of these subdomains sends its own notification pop-ups. Each needs to be blocked separately.

The pop-ups from Onemessages.com look like boxes in the corner of the screen (unless you’re on mobile, then they appear at the top). They vary a lot:

• Some are simple get-rich-quick ads talking about effortlessly making thousands of dollars.
• Warnings that your computer has a virus – tech-support scams.
• Normal ads for online stores.
• Ads disguised as updates from Facebook, Instagram, and other social media sites.
• Notifications claiming that you won something and that lead to a phishing scam.
• Shady, unregulated health products.

It’s not that Onemessages.com exclusively shows bad ads. Rather, it shows ads that other advertising companies might be unwilling to show. So, there’s a higher concentration than usual of malicious ads on Onemessages.com. It’s true for other adware, sites, too: Worldbestposts.com, Allconverterssearch.com, Topflownews.com, and many others.

Browser developers know that notifications can be annoying and are sometimes abused. They started hiding the prompts to subscribe, although that doesn’t always work by default. You can disable the prompts in browser settings.

How to block ads by Onemessages.com

Onemessages.com is a website and does not necessarily have any presence on your computer other than a setting in the browser. Luckily, the setting is easily fixable. Open your browser:

• Chrome – type “chrome://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
• Safari – in the Safari menu, choose Preferences, Websites, Notifications.
• Edge (Chromium) – type “edge://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
• Firefox – open Settings, Privacy & Security, scroll down to Permissions, and click on Settings next to Notifications.

Now, there’s a list of sites that your browser allows to send notifications. Onemessages.com and its subdomains should be there. You can click the menu button to the right of each address and then select the Block option (or Deny if you’re on Safari).

Don’t just stop with Onemessages.com – block other sites that are allowed to show pop-ups but that you don’t want to allow.

You might also benefit from an antivirus scan of your computer. In case links by Onemessages.com did result in some malicious downloads (for example, many tech support scam sites automatically download the fake alert as a file). You can use Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, or another program that you’re comfortable with.

If you want to avoid ads by sites like Onemessages.com, consider using a good anti-malware program with real-time web protection. Onemessages.com is detected as suspicious by some applications, so they could block it and other malicious sites from displaying on your screen. Ad-blockers can help, too.

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