Womatonsha.com notifications - How to remove

It is important to mention that, Womatonsha.com notifications themselves cannot be considered as a serious computer malware because they don’t do anything harmful or out of regular web push alerts’ official capability. On the other hand, the distribution, frequency and the content that gets displayed directly on the screen by Womatonsha.com website is definitely something to be careful of and in this article you’ll find out why. It does not matter whether you got infected with Womatonsha.com pop-ups by clicking on some diverting link or they were caused by another threat, you still need to clean your PC/Mac from the irritating and inappropriate alerts or the long term the consequences will be much worse than they are now.

Are Womatonsha.com notifications dangerous

Web push alerts are widely used by millions of internet surfers to have a connection to their favorite pages and receive updates from them even when that site or a browser is closed. This is a useful feature for both – users, who gets the news and information efficiently, and content creators, who bring the traffic back to their site and occasionally advertise to make some revenue. However, Womatonsha.com notifications, and other almost identical pop-ups, for example, Hadmatontrin.com, Babnotherstantold.info, Gatonsenropha.info, are developed to abuse this reputable browser characteristic and make the best out of it, bringing no advantages to anyone else other than themselves and their sponsors. This makes Womatonsha.com pop-ups useless but there’s more than that.

The crooks set Womatonsha.com notifications to continuously show up and display all kinds of advertisements that allow hackers to make money from online marketing means, like Pay-per-click/view/action, affiliate programs, traffic increase and etc. It does not matter for developers what content the alerts are sponsored to post, as long as it is profitable. This is why you can end up with malware such as browser hijackers, adware, potentially unwanted programs in your system because they will be nicely concealed to look like an interesting article link or some sort of offer. An ability to reach the victim directly, puts Womatonsha.com pop-ups in a very favorable spot, attracting all kinds of funding interests.

But in order to even get to a comfortable position, Womatonsha.com pop-up has to trick users into giving their permission to even show notifications. This is achieved with the help of social engineering, placing either a fake video that cannot load fully unless you click allow or another provocative message, so the victim would do it voluntarily. This is also common to Womatonsha.com subdomains, whose purpose is to distribute the traffic better, work based on location and also to show more different ads. These addresses are: pixel.womatonsha.com, mn9z.womatonsha.com, hrfx.womatonsha.com, c6x3.womatonsha.com, miuh.womatonsha.com, qba4.womatonsha.com, fexw.womatonsha.com,pttq.womatonsha.com, ywkp.womatonsha.com

Our researchers noticed that Womatonsha.com notifications redirected either to Your Mac Is Infected With 3 Viruses! scam, Pushedwebnews.com, aliexpress.com, ViewMyPDF, Oleobet.com and etc. Clearly, these alerts are not beneficial and you should get rid of them as soon as possible. If you keep reading, you will find instructions on how to do so.

What causes Womatonsha.com notifications

The only way Womatonsha.com notifications can begin posting anything on your screen outside their website is if you give your permission to do so, so if you don’t click ‘Allow’ button you should be safe from the threat. But the main question is what’s the reason behind the initial Womatonsha.com pop-up that showed up as a new tab/page and asked for your consent in the first place. This is a very important thing to figure out because the elimination processes will depend on the cause. Womatonsha.com pop-ups can be either a result of a redirect or a pre-existing adware/PUP infection. These situations can be figured out pretty easily if you are observant enough.

If you end up on the Womatonsha.com pop-up each time you go online, but also experience other suspicious acts that your browser or computer does, including other pop-ups, an increased amount of ads, strange programs/extensions that you haven’t installed yourself, then most likely the alerts you are receiving are generated by a malicious software, such as MapsFox, Maxi Buy, Video Chimp and etc., which could have bundled it’s way into your system. At the moment, it is unknown what apps exactly could be connected with Womatonsha.com pop-ups.

Another option behind Womatonsha.com page popping up is a simple transfer from some other website. A redirecting link can be placed on the whole page or camouflaged as a banner, ad, hyperlink and etc. Once pressing on the deceitful setup, the user gets instantly rerouted to Womatonsha.com pop-up. This occurs only when you come on certain domains or click on specific elements. Although this distribution method is not cheap, it brings lots of traffic and increases the potential victims’ number. Such untrustworthy sites that take you to Womatonsha.com notifications set up are adult content sites, free video streaming services, darknet links and etc. (What websites tend to spread malware)

How to disable Womatonsha.com pop-ups

Discontinuing Womatonsha.com notifications is a very simple procedure. As we mentioned, this is not a full harmful virus that needs a special removal, but just a misused legitimate feature, which can be modified and handled just like any typical alert. Users who are familiar with this process and have already done it to other domains should proceed as usual, and those who are still new to this can see out guided instructions on How To Stop Notifications, where we explain better how to disable all the unwanted pop-ups on each browser differently.

For example, to get to Chrome’s settings for allowed notifications you need to enter chrome://settings/content/notifications link via URL address bar or by following steps 1 to 4. Then in order to delete Womatonsha.com pop-ups, complete step 5.

1. Open Chrome and click on the ‘ ⋮ ‘ More button at the very top right and select Settings.
2. Once in Settings, scroll all the way down until you will see Advanced button, then click on it.
3. At the bottom of the Advanced Settings click on section Content settings.
4. Find Notifications and enter it by double-click.
5. Search for Womatonsha.com and click ‘ ⋮ ‘ button on its right side, then select the ‘Remove’ option. If the threat is extremely annoying, you can also go with ‘Block’ choice.