Guru-Tracking Redirect Removal From Your Browser

Guru-Tracking pop-up advertisements appear out of the blue, disturbing and annoying you. Still, that is slightly more than annoying notifications – their nature is clearly malicious, and they can install other malware to your device. In this post, I will show you the guide how to remove Guru Tracking push notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any interaction with Guru Tracking pop-up advertisements will be useless at best. In worst case scenario, the pages it can throw you to may introduce malware to your system. These pop-ups may also promote 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 Guru Tracking 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 Guru Tracking pop-ups is the malignant origins of the latter. Normal pop-up notifications are offered for you to enable on different sites with a benevolent purpose – notify you about the new articles, discounts and so on. It is a useful thing to help your website to keep visitor’s attention and help the interested visitors to have the best price.

Brief summary of the Guru-tracking.com pop-up ads:

Guru Tracking pop-ups, in contrast, have a deal with unlegit sites. You will commonly observe the offer to turn them on after a redirection from another page. Redirects are OK unless it throws you to such a dubious place. In this case, turning on pop-ups is offered under the guise of the anti-DDoS check-up. Alternatively, the sites can deny showing you the content unless you enable these pop-up notifications. These demands should raise suspicion, as websites commonly feature a less obscure anti-bot mechanism. Seeing such an demand is a reason to close the page right away. Sometimes, even when you click “Allow”, you will not get to the site – the only page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up ads.

Guru Tracking push notification.

How does it work?

The vast majority of web browsers support enabling push notifications from websites. Websites, on the other hand, can send notifications with the content they want. It can be an advertisement of the page posted on this website, or an ad of their partner page. As a result, you may see the pop-up from site X, but clicking it will throw you to site Y – because a referral link to that website was embedded.

Scoundrels rely on this ability in their attempt to earn money using illegal advertising. They trick victims into allowing the pop-ups, and then just spread hundreds of banners of anyone they have a deal with. As you may suppose, no legit companies will have a business with fraudsters. All the Guru Tracking popups you can see lead to other fraudulent sites. At some point, the same user can be trapped by several pop-up spamming sites, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.

The ads these criminals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It generally provides a miserable pay for one person, but when you have hundreds of victims and show them hundreds of ads every day – that is a much more significant sum. Despite most of these banners giving no result at all, it may still give all the parties a lot of profit.

Are Guru Tracking pop-up ads dangerous?

Yes, they are. Initially, they can look harmless – just a colourful pop-up that appears from time to time. However, the things this window promotes differ drastically from what you used to see in push notifications. Guru-tracking.com site is controlled by fraudsters, who deliberately show tons of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any common sense and can make sporadic push notifications into a hurricane of banners. For weak computers, that may be enough to make the system slower. But that is not all problems these pop-up notifications carry.

As any other thing that touches illegal advertising, Guru Tracking pop-ups don’t have legit offers. Even when crooks make the ads looking similar to ones from Amazon, Walmart or Ebay, the web page 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-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, Guru Tracking pop-up notifications are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Guru Tracking pop-ups?

Fortunately, Guru Tracking pop-ups removal is not very complicated. They reside in the web browser and cannot conceal themselves among system files. Nevertheless, as I stated above, some pop-up advertisements can promote malware to your computer. It is nearly impossible to show all cases, and manual malware removal is a bad idea. Therefore, after disabling the pop-ups the best option is to use anti-malware software. I would especially recommend that in the case when you have never allowed pop-up advertisements, and they still appeared. That may point at malicious software activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both recovery and malware removal purposes, thanks to its system recovery functionality and multi-component detection system.

Initially, you should reset your browser settings. You can do that 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 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 Guru Tracking 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.