vexacion.com Ads - How to remove

vexacion.com is adware that redirects to various promoted sites. Some of the promoted products are legitimate, some — malicious. In addition to the redirects, vexacion.com pushes endless pop-up ads. If you are seeing the pop-up ads, they can be blocked in the browser settings, but it’s important to find out what lead to vexacion.com in the first place. It might have been an adware program which, if not removed, can cause problems in the future.

Explanations for vexacion.com ads

How the ads start

vexacion.com is associated with sites like Searchfort.online and special-news.online. In fact, I saw vexacion.com frequently redirect me to special-news.online. So, if you are seeing pop-ups from special-news.online, your problem might be caused by vexacion.com.

When you are visiting vexacion.com or another of these sites for the first time, you see some sort of page crafted to trick a person to click on the “Allow” button of the notification alert. If you just click “Allow” on that alert, vexacion.com will then be able to push endless pop-up ads to you.

vexacion.com might try to tell you to click “Allow” in a few different ways:

• “Please click ALLOW to close this window”
• “Click Allow to close this window”
• “Click Allow to prove you are not a robot”
• “Click ALLOW to confirm that you are not a robot!”

There are other strategies, too, like telling people that if they click “Allow”, their video can start streaming (like studynerdz.com), a file can start downloading, the content fo the website can finally be shown (like Paymentnotifyfriends.info). These are all deceptions, as vexacion.com will do anything to get you to permit notifications.

How people find vexacion.com

Malicious ads on shady websites, like ones that convert videos or host pirated films and TV shows, sometimes lead to vexacion.com. Those shady sites can open vexacion.com for people just clicking on the search bar or the home link. Ads on those sites can be triggered seemingly randomly, and if they lead to vexacion.com, it can then redirect to various promoted pages.

If you don’t believe that you found vexacion.com by visiting suspicious websites, it’s also possible that an adware program is installed on your machine. Adware can force your browser to open tabs that lead to websites that the developers of that program are paid to promote. Adware could have been installed because it pretended to be a useful software tool, or it could have snuck in by being included as an “optional” addition to another free program — software bundles are constantly used to spread unwanted software.

What vexacion.com is used for

The marketers who choose to work with vexacion.com don’t want to play by the rules that professional advertising networks set. vexacion.com doesn’t seem to have any restrictions for advertising problematic content, like gambling. It doesn’t seem to require ads to be honest about their destination, so the pop-up thumbnails have nothing to do with what’s actually being advertised. vexacion.com is also willing to advertise malware — like adware and potentially unwanted programs. All of this ought to make vexacion.com a great platform for some very aggressive marketers. The people at the receiving end of the ads, though, are overwhelmed and have their productivity negatively affected by vexacion.com’s ads.

Gambling and betting pages that vexacion.com promotes would normally be restricted because minors are considered to be vulnerable to this sort of content. But vexacion.com never even asks you if you’re an adult before it opens online betting websites.

vexacion.com also promotes a large number of browser hijackers. Hijackers are browser extensions which, once installed, make excessive modifications to the browser in order to show ads to their users. Like vexacion.com, a lot of browser hijackers are adware, just far less dangerous.

vexacion.com can also lead people to phishing sites — pages specifically designed to look like a login page of another website. These are especially dangerous because they can trick people to give away their usernames and passwords. This information can later be used to hack online accounts. If the hacked account is a social media account, it can be used to spread more malware, or impersonate the owner and borrow money from their friends. If the hacked account has a credit card associated with it, it can be used to made unauthorized purchases. So, vexacion.com and sites like it threaten your wallet.

Scams — vexacion.com promotes sites describing fake success stories to advertising some pyramid schemes. The sites were even spoofing legitimate websites to seem more convincing. Other types of scams include fake security warnings, fake lotteries, even extortion.

How to stop vexacion.com ads

If you suspect that you have adware on your computer, it’s best to scan it with a trusted antivirus program, for example, try Spyhunter.

The pop-ups that are pushed by vexacion.com technically count as notifications. Notifications can be blocked from specific websites in the settings of your browser.

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