Remove Bybygn Pop-up Ads — How to Fix Gude

Written by Wilbur Woodham
Bybygn pop-ups appear when you do not expect, bothering and irritating you. Nonetheless, they are slightly more than annoying pop-ups – their essence is surely malignant, and they can bring other malware to your computer. In this post, I will show you how to remove Bybygn pop-up advertisements and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any time you interact with Bybygn push notifications will be useless at best. At worst, the sites it can show you 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 Bybygn pop-up advertisements?

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-ups and Bybygn notifications is the malignant origins of the latter. Common pop-up notifications are offered for you to enable with a legitimate purpose – notify you about the fresh publications, discounts and so on. It is a useful tool to help your site to retain visitors and help the interested users to have the best deal.

Brief summary of the Bybygnom.com pop-up ads:
NameBybygnom.com
HostingAS39572 DataWeb Global Group B.V.
Netherlands, Amsterdam
IP Address185.177.94.27
Malware typeAdware1
EffectUnwanted pop-up advertisements
Hazard levelMedium
Malware sourceApps from third-party websites, ads on dubious websites
Similar behaviorNews, Buymaxfield, Besplatka
Removal method
To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC

Bybygn pop-up ads, in contrast, are related to unlegit sites. You will generally witness the offer to turn them on following the redirection from another site. Redirects are OK unless they throw you into such a questionable place. At that point, enabling pop-up notifications is served under the guise of the anti-DDoS check. Alternatively, the web pages can refuse to show you the contents unless you turn on these pop-up ads. These demands should raise suspicion, as websites generally have a different anti-bot mechanism. Seeing this demand should be the reason to skip the page right away. Sometimes, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not see the web page – the only page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the push notifications.

Bybygn push notification

Bybygn push notification.

How does this work?

The majority of web browsers support enabling push notifications from websites. Websites, on the other hand, can send out notifications with the content they like. It can be an advertisement of the page listed for sale on this website, as well as an ad of the page of their partner. As a result, you may see the pop-up from site X, but clicking it will throw you to site Y – because a link to that website was built in.

Cybercriminals bear on this ability in their approach to gain money using illegal advertising. They trick victims into turning on pop-ups, and after that just spread numerous promotions of other crooks they contract with. As you can suppose, no legit companies will have a business with fraudsters. All the Bybygn push ads you can see lead to other untrustworthy sites. At some point, the same victim can be trapped by several pop-up spamming web pages, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.

The ads these crooks show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It generally provides a miserable payment for one person, but when you have a huge number of victims and make it hundreds of times each day – that is a way bigger sum. Despite most of such ads giving no result at all, it can still bring all the participants a lot of money.

Are Bybygn push notifications dangerous?

Yes, they are. At the surface, they can look non-threatening – just a blinking window that appears from time to time. However, the things this window promotes differ drastically from what you used to see in push notifications. Bybygnom.com website is controlled by crooks, who deliberately show hundreds and thousands of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any manners of advertising and can launch sporadic pop-up notifications into a storm of promotions. For weak computers, that may be enough to make the system slower. But troubles are not over at this point.

Why people dislike popups

As any other thing related to illegal ads, Bybygn push notifications do not contain any legit offers. Even though crooks make the banners looking similar to ones from well-known retailers, the web page these banners 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-ups 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, Bybygn 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 Bybygn pop-ups?

Fortunately, Bybygn pop-up notifications removal is pretty easy. They sit in the web browser and cannot conceal themselves on a disk. Nevertheless, as I stated before, some pop-up advertisements may promote malicious programs to your system. It is nearly impossible to describe all cases, and manual malware removal is a poor idea. Therefore, after disabling the push notifications the best option is to use anti-malware software. I would especially recommend that in the case when you have never allowed pop-up advertisements, but they still appeared. That may be a sign of malicious software activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both recovery and malware scanning and removal purposes, thanks to its system recovery functionality and multi-component detection system.

Initially, you should reset your browser settings. You can do that in manual or automated way. The former, obviously, requires more time to complete and can 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.

Tools tab in GridinSoft Anti-Malware

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.

Reset Browser Settings tab in GridinSoft Anti-Malware

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. Reseting the Edge browser

  3. 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. The first step to revert Mozilla Firefox

  3. In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option:
  4. The second step of Firefox restoration
    After choosing this option, you will see the next message:
    The last step for Firefox
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 site you need. Create a text file titled “hosts” on your pc’s desktop, then open it and fill it with the following lines2:


# Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
# localhost name resolution is handle within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost

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 Bybygn 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.

GridinSoft Anti-Malware during the scan 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).

GridinSoft scan finished

How to Remove Bybygn Pop-ups?

Name: Bybygn

Description: Bybygn - 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 Bybygnom.com push notifications?” or “why do Bybygnom.com pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with Bybygn 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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References

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

About the author

Wilbur Woodham

I was a technical writer from early in my career, and consider IT Security one of my foundational skills. I’m sharing my experience here, and I hope you find it useful.

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