Enzav.xyz Pop-up Ads Removal — How to Fix Your Browser?

Enzav.xyz pop-up notifications appear when you do not expect, distracting and irritating you. Still, that is way more than just notifications – their origins is surely malignant, and they may introduce other malicious stuff to your system. In this article, I will guide you on how to remove Enzav.xyz pop-ups and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any time you interact with Enzav.xyz pop-ups will be ineffective at best. In worst case scenario, the websites it can show you can introduce malware to your system. These pop-up notifications can also promote 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 Enzav.xyz 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-ups and Enzav.xyz pop-ups is the malignant origins of the latter. Common pop-ups are offered for you to enable on different sites with a benevolent purpose – keep you aware about the latest articles, discounts and so on. It is a useful thing to help your website to keep visitor’s attention and help the interested users to have the best price.

Brief summary of the Enzav.xyz pop-ups:

Enzav.xyz pop-up advertisements, as opposed, have a deal with unlegit web pages. You will generally witness the offer to enable them after a redirection from another website. It’s OK to see redirects unless they throw you to such a dubious place. At that point, turning on pop-up ads is served under the guise of the anti-bot filtering. In other cases, the web pages may refuse to show you the contents unless you apply these pop-up notifications. These theses should already raise suspicion, as sites usually have a different anti-bot mechanism. Seeing such an requirement is a reason to skip the page doubtlessly. Sometimes, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not see the site – the sole page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the push notifications.

Enzav.xyz push notification.

How does it work?

The vast majority of web browsers support turning on pop-ups from websites. Websites, on the other hand, can send out notifications with the content they want. It may be an advertisement of the product posted on this particular website, as well as an ad of the page of their partner. As a result, you may see the push notification from site X, but opening it will direct you to site Y – because a link to that website was embedded.

Cyber burglars rely on this feature in their approach to gain money through advertising. They trick users into allowing them to show the banners, and then just spread hundreds of promotions of anyone they contract with. As you may suppose, no benevolent companies will contract with fraudsters. All the Enzav.xyz popups you can see lead to other fraudulent sites. In some cases, the same user may get into a trap of 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 person, but when you can send ads to hundreds of users and make it hundreds of times every day – that is a way bigger sum. Even though the majority of these ads are ineffective, it can still give all the parties a lot of money.

Are Enzav.xyz pop-up ads dangerous?

Yes, they are. Initially, they may look non-threatening – 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 notifications. Enzav.xyz site is controlled by crooks, who deliberately show tons of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any common sense and can launch sporadic pop-up notifications into a hurricane of promotions. For weak systems, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But that is not all troubles these pop-ups carry.

As any other thing that touches illegal advertising, Enzav.xyz pop-up ads do not contain any legit offers. Even though crooks make the banners looking similar to ones from Amazon, Walmart or Ebay, the site these ads 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-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, Enzav.xyz push notifications are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Enzav.xyz pop-ups?

Fortunately, Enzav.xyz push notifications removal is not very complicated. They parasite in the web browser and cannot hide themselves among system files. However, as I pointed out above, some pop-ups may introduce malware to your system. It is hard to show all cases, and manual malware removal is a bad idea. Thus, after disabling the pop-ups the best option is to use anti-malware software. That is especially recommended if you have never allowed pop-up notifications, but they still appeared. This situation may point at adware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both system recovery and malware checkup purposes, thanks to its system recovery functionality and multi-component detection system.

First of all, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to do in manual or automated way. 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 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 site 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 Enzav.xyz 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 Enzav.xyz Pop-ups?

Name: Enzav.xyz

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