How to remove Great Captcha Now Top Ads? — Fix Guide

Great Captcha Now Top pop-ups appear out of the blue, bothering and irritating you. However, they are much more than simple pop-up ads – their essence is cleanly malignant, and they can bring other malware to your computer. In this article, I will guide you on how to remove Great Captcha Now Top pop-up notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any time you interact with Great Captcha Now Top pop-ups will be useless at best. At worst, the web pages it can open can introduce malware to your system. These push notifications may also advertise fake online 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 Great Captcha Now Top 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-up notifications and Great Captcha Now Top notifications is the malicious origins of the latter. Normal push notifications are offered for you to enable with a benevolent purpose – keep you aware about the latest articles, discounts and so on. It is a useful thing to help your site to retain visitors and help the interested ones to have the best deal.

Brief description of the Greatcaptchanow.top pop-ups:

Great Captcha Now Top pop-ups, on the other hand, have a deal with untrustworthy sites. You will commonly witness the proposition to enable them following the redirection from another page. It’s OK to see redirects unless it throws you to such a dubious place. In this case, turning on push notifications is offered as the anti-bot check-up. In other cases, the websites can deny showing you the content unless you apply these pop-ups. These demands should already raise suspicion, as websites commonly have a less obscure anti-bot mechanism. Spectating such an offer should be the reason to skip the website right away. In some cases, 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-ups.

Great Captcha Now Top push notification.

How does this work?

Most of web browsers support enabling push notifications from sites. Websites, on the other hand, may send notifications with the content they like. It may be an advertisement of the product or a page posted on this particular site, or an ad of their partner page. As a result, you may see the push notification from site X, but opening it will redirect you to site Y – because a link to the latter was embedded.

Crooks bear on this ability in their approach to earn money through advertising. They trick victims into turning on pop-ups, and after that just spread hundreds of banners of anyone they contract with. As you can suppose, no legit organisations will have a business with fraudsters. All the Great Captcha Now Top push ads you can see lead to other untrustworthy sites. In some cases, the same victim can be trapped by several pop-up spamming sites, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.

The banners these criminals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It commonly provides a negligible payment for one viewer, but when you have hundreds of users and make it hundreds of times every day – that is a much more significant sum. Despite most of such banners are ineffective, it may still bring all the parties a lot of money.

Are Great Captcha Now Top pop-ups dangerous?

Yes, they are. At the surface, they can look harmless – just a colourful pop-up that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the things this window promotes differ sharply from what you generally see in pop-up ads. Greatcaptchanow.top website is controlled by crooks, who intendedly spread tons of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any manners of advertising and can launch sporadic pop-up notifications into a hurricane of promotions. For weak systems, that may be enough to make the system slower. But troubles are not over at this point.

As with any other thing that touches illegal ads, Great Captcha Now Top pop-up advertisements lack legit deals to offer. Even though crooks make the ads looking similar to ones from Amazon, Walmart or Ebay, the website 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-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, Great Captcha Now Top pop-ups are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Great Captcha Now Top pop-ups?

Fortunately, Great Captcha Now Top pop-up ads removal is not very complicated. They sit in the browser and can’t conceal themselves in the system. However, as I told above, some pop-ups can deliver malicious software to your computer. It is hard to predict all of the cases, and manual malware removal is a poor idea. Thus, after disabling the push notifications the best option is to use anti-malware software. This step is especially recommended if you have never clicked “Allow” to push notifications, and they still appeared. That may point at malware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both recovery and malware scanning and removal purposes, thanks to its system recovery functionality and multi-layer detection system.

First of all, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to do in both manual and automatic manner. 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.

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 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:

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 Great Captcha Now 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).

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