Gatend.xyz Notification Removal — How to Fix Your Browser

Gatend.xyz pop-up advertisements appear when you do not expect, detracting and annoying you. However, they are slightly more than annoying notifications – their essence is cleanly malignant, and they may introduce other malware to your computer. In this post, I will show you how to remove Gatend.xyz push notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any interaction with Gatend.xyz push notifications will be ineffective at best. In worst case scenario, the websites it can open can 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.

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What are Gatend.xyz 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 ads and Gatend.xyz pop-ups is the malignant origins of the latter. Normal push notifications are offered for you to enable on different sites with a understandable purpose – keep you aware about the new posts, goods for sale and so on. It is a useful tool to help your website to keep visitors and help the interested ones to have the best price.

Short summary of the Gatend.xyz pop-up ads:

Gatend.xyz pop-up ads, on the other hand, have a deal with untrustworthy websites. You will commonly observe the offer to enable them after a redirection from another page. There’s nothing bad in redirecting unless it throws you to such a dubious place. At that point, enabling pop-ups is served as the anti-bot check-up. Alternatively, the websites may deny showing you the contents unless you apply these pop-up advertisements. These theses should be the red flag, as sites commonly have a less obscure anti-bot mechanism. Witnessing this offer is a reason to close the page doubtlessly. Sometimes, even when you click “Allow”, you will not get to the web page – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up ads.

Gatend.xyz push notification.

How does it work?

The vast majority of browsers support enabling push notifications from websites. Sites, on the other hand, may send out notifications with the content of their choice. It can be a promotion of the page posted on this website, as well as a promotion of the page of their partner. As a result, you may see the pop-up from site X, but interacting with it will throw you to website Y – because a link to the latter was added.

Cybercriminals bear on this feature in their approach to gain money through advertising. They trick victims into allowing the pop-ups, and after that just spread numerous ads of other crooks they contract with. As you may suppose, no legit companies will contract with fraudsters. All the Gatend.xyz popups you may see lead to other untrustworthy sites. In some cases, the same victim can get into a trap of several pop-up spamming web pages, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.

The promotions these crooks show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It commonly provides a miserable payment for one view, 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 most of such ads giving no result at all, it can still give all the parties a lot of money.

Are Gatend.xyz pop-up notifications dangerous?

Yes, they are. At the surface, they may look safe – just a colourful pop-up that appears from time to time. However, the things this window promotes differ sharply from what you used to see in pop-ups. Gatend.xyz website is ruled by crooks, who intendedly spread hundreds of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any manners of advertising and can make sporadic pop-up ads into a hurricane of promotions. For weak computers, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But troubles are not over at this point.

As any other thing related to illegal advertising, Gatend.xyz pop-ups don’t have legit deals to offer. Even though crooks make the ads similar to ones from Walmart or Amazon, 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, Gatend.xyz pop-up ads are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Gatend.xyz pop-ups?

Fortunately, Gatend.xyz pop-up ads removal is pretty easy. They parasite in the browser and can’t hide themselves on a disk. Nonetheless, as I stated above, some pop-up notifications may promote malicious software to your system. It is hard to predict all cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is a poor idea. For that reason, after disabling the pop-up advertisements it is recommended to use anti-malware software. That is especially recommended if you have never allowed push notifications, and they still appeared. That can point at adware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will perfectly fit both recovery and malware checkup purposes, because of its system recovery functionality and multi-component detection system.

First and foremost, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to accomplish 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 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 Gatend.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 Gatend.xyz Pop-ups?

Name: Gatend.xyz

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