Harbis.xyz Notification Removal — How to Fix Your Browser

Harbis.xyz pop-ups appear out of the blue, detracting and irritating you. Nonetheless, they are slightly more than just notifications – their origins is surely malicious, and they may install other malicious stuff to your device. In this article, I will show you the guide how to remove Harbis.xyz pop-up notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any interaction with Harbis.xyz pop-ups will be useless at best. At worst, the pages it can open may 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 Harbis.xyz push 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 Harbis.xyz pop-ups is the malignant origins of the latter. Normal pop-up ads are offered for you to enable on different sites with a benevolent purpose – keep you aware about the new articles, discounts and so on. It is a useful thing to help your website to keep visitors and help the interested visitors to have the best deal.

Brief summary of the Harbis.xyz pop-ups:

Harbis.xyz pop-up advertisements, on the other hand, are related to unlegit websites. You will generally see the proposition to turn them on following the redirection from another site. There’s nothing bad in redirecting unless they throw you into such a questionable place. At that point, enabling push notifications is served as the anti-bot check. Alternatively, the websites may refuse to show you the contents unless you apply these pop-up notifications. These theses should already raise suspicion, as sites usually feature a less obscure anti-bot mechanism. Spectating such an requirement is a reason to close the website right away. In some cases, even when you click “Allow”, you will not get to the website – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up notifications.

Harbis.xyz push notification.

How does it work?

The majority of web browsers support turning on pop-ups from sites. Sites, on the other hand, may send out notifications with the content they want. It can be a promotion of the page listed for sale on this particular site, or a promotion of their partner page. As a result, you can see the pop-up from site X, but opening it will throw you to site Y – because a link to that website was built in.

Scoundrels bear on this feature in their attempt to gain money through advertising. They trick victims into allowing them to show the banners, and after that just spread hundreds of banners of other crooks they have a deal with. As you may suppose, no benevolent companies will have a business with fraudsters. All the Harbis.xyz push ads you can see lead to other fraudulent sites. In some cases, the same user may be trapped by several pop-up spamming websites, and its web 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 payment for one viewer, but when you have hundreds of users and show them hundreds of ads every day – that is a way bigger sum. Despite the majority of such banners giving no result at all, it can still bring all the parties a lot of profit.

Are Harbis.xyz push notifications 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 generally see in pop-up advertisements. Harbis.xyz web page is ruled by crooks, who deliberately show hundreds and thousands of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any common sense and can make sporadic pop-up ads into a storm of banners. For weak computers, that may be enough to make the system slower. But problems are not over at this point.

As any other thing that touches illegal advertising, Harbis.xyz pop-up notifications do not contain any legit deals to offer. Even though crooks make the banners similar to ones from well-known retailers, 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-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, Harbis.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 Harbis.xyz pop-ups?

Fortunately, Harbis.xyz push notifications removal is not very complicated. They reside in the web browser and cannot hide themselves in the system. Nonetheless, as I pointed out before, some pop-up notifications may introduce malicious programs to your computer. It is nearly impossible to describe all of the cases, and manual malware removal is a bad idea. For that reason, after disabling the pop-up notifications it is recommended to use anti-malware software. That is especially recommended if you have never clicked “Allow” to pop-up notifications, but they still appeared. That may be a sign of malware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both recovery and malware removal purposes, because of its system recovery functionality and multi-layer 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 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 Harbis.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 Harbis.xyz Pop-ups?

Name: Harbis.xyz

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