Celeb-trends-blog push notifications appear out of the blue, disturbing and annoying you. Nonetheless, they are much more than simple pop-ups – their origins is cleanly malicious, and they can bring other malicious stuff to your computer. In this article, I will guide you on how to remove Celeb-trends-blog pop-up notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any interaction with Celeb-trends-blog pop-up advertisements will be ineffective at best. At worst, the web pages it can open may introduce malware to your system. These push notifications can also advertise fake shopping sites which will take your money and payment info. The latter generally ends up with losing all the money you have on the exposed card.
What are Celeb-trends-blog pop-up notifications?
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 Celeb-trends-blog notifications is the malicious origins of the latter. Normal push notifications are offered for you to enable with a understandable purpose – keep you aware about the latest publications, discounts and so on. It is a useful thing to help your website to retain visitors and help the interested users to have the best price.
Brief description of the Celeb-trends-blog.com pop-ups:
| Name | Celeb-trends-blog.com |
| Hosting | AS60781 LeaseWeb Netherlands B.V. Netherlands, Amsterdam |
| IP Address | 37.48.80.112 |
| Malware type | Adware1 |
| Effect | Unwanted pop-up advertisements |
| Hazard level | Medium |
| Malware source | Apps from third-party websites, ads on dubious websites |
| Similar behavior | Desirepurplestock, Wgtechexpress, Ttdomen |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
Celeb-trends-blog pop-up ads, in contrast, are related to less legit sites. You will commonly witness the proposition to turn them on after a redirection from another website. Redirects are OK unless they throw you to such a dubious place. In this case, turning on pop-up ads is offered as the anti-bot check-up. In other cases, the websites can refuse to show you the contents unless you turn on these pop-up notifications. These requirements should be the red flag, as sites usually feature a different anti-bot mechanism. Witnessing this requirement is a reason to skip the site doubtlessly. In some cases, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not get to the site – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up notifications.
Celeb-trends-blog push notification.
How does it work?
The vast majority of web browsers support enabling push notifications from websites. Sites, on the other hand, can send out notifications with the content they like. It can be an advertisement of the product published on this site, or an ad of the page of their partner. As a result, you may see the push notification from site X, but opening it will redirect you to website Y – because a link to the latter was built in.
Crooks bear on this ability in their attempt to earn money through advertising. They trick victims into allowing them to show the banners, and after that just spread numerous promotions of anyone they contract with. As you can suppose, no legit companies will contract with fraudsters. All the Celeb-trends-blog notifications you can see lead to other untrustworthy sites. At some point, the same user may get into a trap of several pop-up spamming web pages, and its web browser will turn into a complete mess.
The promotions these crooks show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It usually provides a negligible pay for one person, but when you can send ads to a huge number of victims and make it hundreds of times each day – that is a way bigger sum. Despite most of these banners giving no result at all, it can still bring all the parties a lot of money.
Are Celeb-trends-blog pop-up ads dangerous?
Yes, they are. Initially, they may look safe – just a blinking window that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the contents of this window differ drastically from what you used to see in pop-up ads. Celeb-trends-blog.com site is controlled by fraudsters, who intendedly spread tons of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any manners of advertising and can launch sporadic pop-up advertisements into a storm of banners. For weak computers, that may be enough to make the system slower. But problems are not over at this point.
As with any other thing that touches illegal ads, Celeb-trends-blog pop-ups lack legit deals to offer. Even though hackers make the banners 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 advertisements 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, Celeb-trends-blog pop-ups are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.
How to remove Celeb-trends-blog pop-ups?
Fortunately, Celeb-trends-blog pop-up ads removal is not very complicated. They parasite in the browser and can’t hide themselves in the system. Nevertheless, as I pointed out before, some pop-up advertisements can promote malicious programs to your computer. It is nearly impossible to show all cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is inconvenient. Therefore, after disabling the push notifications it is recommended to use anti-malware software. I would especially recommend that in the case when you have never clicked “Allow” to pop-ups, and they still appeared. That can point at malicious software activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both recovery and malware scanning purposes, thanks to its system recovery functionality and advanced detection system.
First of all, 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:
- Open “Settings and more” tab in upper right corner, then find here “Settings” button. In the appeared menu, choose “Reset settings” option:
- 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:
- Open Menu tab (three strips in upper right corner) and click the “Help” button. In the appeared menu choose “troubleshooting information”:
- In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option:
After choosing this option, you will see the next message:
If you use Google Chrome
- Open Settings tab, find the “Advanced” button. In the extended tab choose the “Reset and clean up” button:
- In the appeared list, click on the “Restore settings to their original defaults”:
- 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
- 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:
- 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:
# 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 Celeb-trends-blog 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 Celeb-trends-blog Pop-ups?
Name: Celeb-trends-blog
Description: Celeb-trends-blog - 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 Celeb-trends-blog.com push notifications?” or “why do Celeb-trends-blog.com pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with Celeb-trends-blog 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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( votes)References
- More about this malware type on GridinSoft Encyclopedia.
- Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.
