Diamondseeker.top Notification Removal — How to Fix Your Browser

Diamondseeker.top push notifications appear out of the blue, distracting and annoying you. Nonetheless, they are much more than annoying pop-ups – their origins is surely malicious, and they may introduce other malware to your system. In this article, I will show you how to remove Diamondseeker.top pop-up advertisements and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any time you interact with Diamondseeker.top push notifications will be useless at best. In worst case scenario, the pages it can show you may introduce malware to your system. These pop-up notifications may 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.

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What are Diamondseeker.top 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 advertisements and Diamondseeker.top pop-ups is the malignant origins of the latter. Common pop-ups are offered for you to enable with a benevolent purpose – keep you aware about the fresh posts, discounts and so on. It is an effective approach to help your site to keep visitor’s attention and help the interested ones to have the best price.

Short summary of the Diamondseeker.top pop-ups:

Diamondseeker.top pop-up advertisements, on the other hand, have a deal with less legit websites. You will generally see the proposition to enable them following the redirection from another page. Redirects are OK unless it throws you to such a dubious place. In this case, turning on pop-up advertisements is offered as the anti-bot filtering. In other cases, the web pages may deny showing you the contents unless you enable these push notifications. These requirements should raise suspicion, as websites usually feature a different anti-bot mechanism. Witnessing such an offer is a reason to leave the website doubtlessly. In some cases, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not see the web page – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up notifications.

Diamondseeker.top push notification.

How does this work?

The majority of browsers support turning on pop-ups from websites. Sites, on the other hand, may send notifications with the content they want. It can be a promotion of the product posted on this particular site, or a promotion of their partner page. As a result, you may see the push notification from site X, but interacting with it will direct you to website Y – because a link to the latter was built in.

Crooks rely on this ability in their approach to earn money through advertising. They trick victims into allowing them to show the banners, and then just spread numerous banners of anyone they contract with. As you can suppose, no normal organisations will have a business with fraudsters. All the Diamondseeker.top push ads you may see lead to other fraudulent sites. At some point, the same user can be trapped by multiple pop-up spamming websites, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.

The promotions these rascals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It generally provides a miserable pay for one viewer, but when you have a huge number of victims and make it hundreds of times each day – that is a much more significant sum. Even though most of these ads are ineffective, it can still bring all the participants a lot of profit.

Are Diamondseeker.top 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 sharply from what you used to see in pop-up ads. Diamondseeker.top web page is controlled by fraudsters, who intendedly spread tons of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any common sense and can make sporadic push notifications into a hurricane of ads. For weak systems, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But problems are not over at this point.

As any other thing related to illegal advertising, Diamondseeker.top pop-up ads lack legit offers. Even though hackers make the ads looking similar to ones from well-known retailers, the site these banners will throw you to are completely different. And these pages can 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, Diamondseeker.top push notifications are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Diamondseeker.top pop-ups?

Fortunately, Diamondseeker.top pop-up ads removal is not very complicated. They parasite in the browser and cannot conceal themselves in the system. However, as I stated before, some push notifications may deliver malware to your system. It is hard to show all cases, and manual malware removal is inconvenient. For that reason, after getting rid of the pop-up notifications the best option is to use anti-malware software. I would especially recommend that if you have never clicked “Allow” to pop-ups, and they still appeared. This situation can point at malware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both system recovery and malware removal purposes, thanks to its system recovery functionality and advanced detection system.

First and foremost, you should reset your browser settings. You can do that in both manual and automatic manner. The former, obviously, requires 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 may 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 website 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 Diamondseeker.top 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 Diamondseeker.top Pop-ups?

Name: Diamondseeker.top

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