Get.thenewsnotifications.com Pop-up Ads - How to remove

Get.thenewsnotifications.com is a webpage that, annoyingly, sends people a pop-up ad every few minutes. If you try to figure it out and visit get.thenewsnotifications.com, you’re forwarded to some random site offering you to install some extension. The constant ads can be annoying. Luckily, stopping them is simple, you don’t need to just deal with the ads. To know what’s going on and how this all started and how to stop it

Sites like get.thenewsnotifications.com are nearly impossible to avoid, especially if you frequent the types of pages that advertise it. There are many of them, too: check-out-this.site, studynerdz.com, vexacion.com are just a few. To be safe from them, it’s important to know how to fix the problem once it’s already happened. Luckily, get.thenewsnotifications.com pop-up ads is a simple problem to fix. Harder is to find the cause.

How are people infected?

To start seeing the pop-up ads, one needs to first allow notifications to be sent to their browser by the malicious site. But, when get.thenewsnotifications.com doesn’t even have any content, how does anyone find it? The answer is redirects and ads.

One way to end up on get.thenewsnotifications.com is to be redirected from sites like 123movies and other putlockers. In general, sites that host or stream pirated content are risky to use because of poor oversight, but really, nearly any site can be compromised. You might see get.thenewsnotifications.com opened when you click on a link in the results page of your search engine, or when you click the home button while on the infected website. It’s unpredictable and unavoidable if you frequent those sites.

Get.thenewsnotifications.com is also Advertised by PopAds, PopCash, and other ad-networks. The websites that these ads show up on are so varied that it’s difficult to find anything in common. A lot of people go to get.thenewsnotifications.com by ads. They might not even realize it, though,  because get.thenewsnotifications.com redirects visitors who have already invited notifications.

Malicious ads and redirects might not be the problem of the website that publishes the ad — it might also be a problem on your end. If you have an adware problem, you might have already been experiencing pop-up ads, ads in sites where they shouldn’t be, and other anomalies.

When you’re in get.thenewsnotifications.com, the site offers to send notifications, and some people accept it. Then the pop-ups start. Why do people allow them in the first place? It’s easy to misclick, especially when we’re in a rush, or to follow the instructions that get.thenewsnotifications.com provides without thinking about it:

Please tap the Allow button to continue

It’s very likely that people don’t read the text on the notification alert and just click the Allow button, accidentally subscribing to the pop-ups.

Dangers of get.thenewsnotifications.com

Besides the extremely annoying ads, why is it a big deal that get.thenewsnotifications.com infects a browser? Mostly, it’s the malware and scams that get.thenewsnotifications.com promotes.

Get.thenewsnotifications.com tries to get people to install hijackers like Ao0c.club or Search Genie which can spy on your browsing and force you to use an unwanted search engine. Some of these malicious extensions are good at being stealthy, so they’re difficult to spot and uninstall.

Other malware-hosting pages also rely on websites like get.thenewsnotifications.com to get customers (victims). Various fake driver updating utilities, registry cleaners, other stuff. These usually work like scareware, trying to sell people software they don’t need. Similar to scareware, tech support scams are also still a threat and cause some people to not just buy fake protection, but give access to their files to a criminal without even realizing it.

Finally, get.thenewsnotifications.com leads to spoof sites promoting scams, diet fills, pyramid schemes, adult sites (including gambling and porn). The pyramid schemes especially can result in painful financial losses for the victim of the scam.

How to remove Get.thenewsnotifications.com

Get.thenewsnotifications.com might not be the only website sending you unwanted ads. Luckily, the process of blocking pop-up ads is the same for any website. You only need to access your browser settings and find all the URLs that are unfamiliar or unwanted. Blocking notifications will end the pop-ups because technically, the ads were notifications.

Chrome	Type chrome://settings/content/notifications into the address bar. Find get.thenewsnotifications.com, click on the menu on the right. Choose “Block”.
Safari	In the menu, click on Safari, then Preferences. In the new window, choose Websites, then Notifications. Find get.thenewsnotifications.com and press Deny.
Edge	In the menu, choose Settings, then Advanced settings. Find Notifications, click Manage. Find get.thenewsnotifications.com and turn it off.
Firefox	Type about:preferences#content in the address bar. Look under Notifications. Find get.thenewsnotifications.com and block notifications from it.

 

If you suspect that you first visited get.thenewsnotifications.com by being sent there by some adware, you might want to scan your machine with Spyhunter, or another powerful antivirus. Even if you remove the virus manually, it’s still good to scan your device afterward. This is to make sure that, if there is a virus on your computer, it’s removed and stops causing problems. Some adware viruses are milder than others but they’re still all dangerous in the long term.

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How to remove Get.thenewsnotifications.com Pop-up Ads using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like thenewsnotifications install some of their components as regular Windows programs as well as additional software. This part of malware can be uninstalled from the Control Panel. To access it, do the following.

• Start→Control Panel (older Windows) or press Windows Key→Search and enter Control Panel and then press Enter (Windows 8, Windows 10).
• Choose Uninstall Program (if you don't see it, click in the upper right next to "View by" and select Category).
• Go through the list of programs and select entries related to Get.thenewsnotifications.com Pop-up Ads . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make thenewsnotifications easier to find.
• Click the Uninstall button. If you're asked if you really want to remove the program, click Yes.
• In many cases anti-malware programs are better at detecting related parasites, thus I recommend installing Spyhunter to identify other programs that might be a part of this infection.