How to remove unwanted popups from browser | Adware, Spyware, etc...
Summary
Your notifications center in the lower right corner of your screen next to the system clock keeps showing unwanted popups. You can turn off the notifications, but it could prevent you from seeing legitimate popups or you can find the program that is causing it. Most annoyance popups are from Adware programs that can resemble a legitimate program but land you on a malicious site. These nuisance popups are normally harmless unless you click on them. In the example below, we see two signs that make this notification Adware. The first sign is the company doesn't use McAfee. We use Webroot. The second sign is the website that it's trying to lure the user to. It's not a McAfee website.
You might question yourself how did I get it? It could have been as simple as visiting a website. Sometimes installing a program will do it too.
Instructions
These instructions should help you turn off the notifications or delete the Adware causing the popup. Keep in mind that each browser has its own settings, but should be similar. Scroll down further for Chrome instructions.
Microsoft Edge Browser
- Click the menu button (three dots) on the right upper corner of the Edge window and select "Settings"
- Navigate to the "Settings" (three lines) upper left corner of window
- Click on "Cookies and site permissions" in the toolbar on the left hand side of the screen and select "Notifications"
- Click three dots on the right hand side of each suspicious URL under "Allow" section and click "Block" or "Remove" (if you click "Remove" and visit the malicious site once more, it will ask to enable notifications again)
Google Chrome Browser
- Click on the Menu button (three dots) on the right upper corner of the screen and tap "Settings"
- Click on menu button (three lines) upper right corner of screen and select "Privacy and Security"
- In the opened window, click on "Site Settings"
- Scroll down to "Notifications" then click
- In this window, navigate to "Allowed to send notifications". Click on the three dots and select remove the website that is suspected of causing the notifications.
