Browser-app.co Pop-up Virus — How to Remove Unwanted Ads?

Browser-app.co pop-up notifications appear when you do not expect, bothering and annoying you. Still, that is much more than annoying notifications – their nature is surely malicious, and they may bring other malware to your PC. In this post, I will guide you on how to remove Browser-app.co pop-up advertisements and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any interaction with Browser-app.co pop-up notifications will be useless at best. In worst case scenario, the websites it can open may introduce malware to your system. These pop-up advertisements can also advertise fake online shopping websites which will take your money and payment info. The latter generally ends up with losing all the money you have on the exposed card.

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What are Browser-app.co pop-ups?

As the pop-up definition goes, these are short and small advertisements that attract your attention to a product they promote. But the difference between regular pop-up notifications and Browser-app.co pop-ups is the malicious origins of the latter. Common pop-up ads are offered for you to enable with a understandable purpose – keep you aware about the fresh publications, discounts and so on. It is a useful thing to help your site to keep visitor’s attention and help the interested ones to have the best price.

Brief description of the Browser-app.co pop-up ads:

Browser-app.co pop-up advertisements, in contrast, are related to unlegit sites. You will commonly witness the offer to enable them following the redirection from another site. There’s nothing bad in redirecting unless it throws you into such a dubious place. At that point, turning on pop-up advertisements is served as the anti-bot check-up. Alternatively, the websites may deny showing you the contents unless you enable these pop-up notifications. These requirements should already raise suspicion, as websites commonly feature a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Seeing this demand should be the reason to close the website doubtlessly. Sometimes, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not get to the website – the sole page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up notifications.

Browser-app.co push notification.

How does this work?

The vast majority of browsers support enabling push notifications from websites. Websites, on the other hand, can send out notifications with the content they want. It may be a promotion of the page listed on this particular site, or a promotion of the page of their partner. As a result, you may see the pop-up from site X, but clicking it will direct you to site Y – because a link to that website was embedded.

Cyber burglars rely on this ability in their approach to earn money through advertising. They trick victims into allowing the pop-ups, and then just spread numerous banners of anyone they contract with. As you can suppose, no benevolent companies will have a deal with fraudsters. All the Browser-app.co notifications you can see lead to other untrustworthy sites. At some point, the same user may be trapped by several pop-up spamming websites, and its web browser will turn into a complete mess.

The ads these criminals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It usually provides a miserable pay for one person, but when you can send ads to a huge number of users and make it hundreds of times every day – that is a much more significant sum. Despite the majority of such ads giving no result at all, it may still bring all the parties a lot of money.

Are Browser-app.co push notifications dangerous?

Yes, they are. Initially, they may look harmless – just a blinking pop-up that appears from time to time. However, the contents of this window differ drastically from what you generally see in push notifications. Browser-app.co site is ruled by fraudsters, who intendedly throw hundreds of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any common sense and can make sporadic push notifications into a storm of banners. For weak systems, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But that is not all problems these pop-ups carry.

As any other thing related to illegal advertising, Browser-app.co pop-up advertisements don’t have legit offers. Even though hackers make the banners looking similar to ones from Walmart or Amazon, the site these ads will throw you to are completely different. And these pages may offer you to turn on other pop-ups, install a “useful” program, or pay for a thing at a big discount and never receive it. Let’s leave aside the cases when pop-up ads promote phishing pages or straightforward malware. There’s no way these pages will bring you any good, thus interacting with them is a very bad idea. For the same reason, Browser-app.co pop-up notifications are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Browser-app.co pop-ups?

Fortunately, Browser-app.co pop-ups removal is pretty easy. They parasite in the browser and cannot conceal themselves on a disk. However, as I stated above, some pop-up ads can deliver malicious programs to your computer. It is nearly impossible to describe all of the cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is a bad idea. For that reason, after removing the source of the pop-up notifications it is recommended to use anti-malware software. That is especially recommended in the case when you have never allowed pop-up advertisements, and they still appeared. This situation may be a sign of malware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both recovery and malware removal purposes, thanks to its system recovery functionality and advanced detection system.

Initially, you should reset your browser settings. You can do that in manual or automated way. The former, obviously, takes more time to complete and may be somewhat complicated if you have never done that. Automated supposes the use of anti-malware programs that can reset all browser settings at once.

Reset your browsers with GridinSoft Anti-Malware

To reset your browser with GridinSoft Anti-Malware, open the Tools tab, and click the “Reset browser settings” button.

You can see the list of options for each browser. By default, they are set up in a manner that fits the majority of users. Press the “Reset” button (lower right corner). In a minute your browser will be as good as new.

The browser reset is recommended to perform through the antivirus tool by GridinSoft, because the latter is also able to reset the HOSTS file without any additional commands.

Reset your browsers manually

Manual method of browser reset

To reset Edge, do the following steps:

1. Open “Settings and more” tab in upper right corner, then find here “Settings” button. In the appeared menu, choose “Reset settings” option:

2. After picking the Reset Settings option, you will see the following menu, stating about the settings which will be reverted to original:

For Mozilla Firefox, do the next actions:

1. Open Menu tab (three strips in upper right corner) and click the “Help” button. In the appeared menu choose “troubleshooting information”:

2. In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option:

After choosing this option, you will see the next message:

If you use Google Chrome

1. Open Settings tab, find the “Advanced” button. In the extended tab choose the “Reset and clean up” button:

2. In the appeared list, click on the “Restore settings to their original defaults”:

3. Finally, you will see the window, where you can see all the settings which will be reset to default:

Opera can be reset in the next way

1. Open Settings menu by pressing the gear icon in the toolbar (left side of the browser window), then click “Advanced” option, and choose “Browser” button in the drop-down list. Scroll down, to the bottom of the settings menu. Find there “Restore settings to their original defaults” option:


2. After clicking the “Restore settings…” button, you will see the window, where all settings, which will be reset, are shown:

When the browsers are reset, you need to ensure that your browser will connect the right DNS while connecting to the web page you need. Create a text file titled “hosts” on your pc’s desktop, then open it and fill it with the following lines²:

Find the hosts.txt file in C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc directory. Rename this file to “hosts.old.txt” (to distinguish it from the new one), and then move the file you created on the desktop to this folder. Remove the hosts.old from this folder. Now you have your hosts file as good as new.

Scan your system for possible viruses

After removing the Browser-app.co push notifications, it’s time to see if these pop-ups brought any threat to your system. Launch GridinSoft Anti-Malware, and then click on Standard scan. It will be enough in most cases to find and remove malware. The scan will last 5-10 minutes; you are free to use your system during that process.

Once the scan is complete, you will see the detections or a notification about a clean system. Proceed with pressing the Clean Up button (or OK when nothing is detected).

How to Remove Browser-app.co Pop-ups?

Name: Browser-app.co

Description: Browser-app.co - a lot of users became a target for the pop-up advertisements. I have a lot of friends who literally bombed me with the questions like “how to remove Browser-app.co push notifications?” or “why do Browser-app.co pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with Browser-app.co pop-ups, which may corrupt your browser’s correct performance, and create a lot of troubles while you are working.

Operating System: Windows

Application Category: Adware

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1. More about this malware type on GridinSoft Encyclopedia.
2. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.