Harmonypix Notification Removal — How to Fix Your Browser

Harmonypix push notifications appear when you do not expect, disturbing and annoying you. Nonetheless, they are slightly more than annoying notifications – their nature is clearly malignant, and they can bring other malicious stuff to your PC. In this post, I will show you how to remove Harmonypix pop-ups and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any time you interact with Harmonypix push notifications will be useless at best. At worst, the pages it can throw you to can introduce malware to your system. These pop-up advertisements may 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 Harmonypix 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 Harmonypix notifications is the malicious origins of the latter. Common pop-up ads are offered for you to enable with a benevolent purpose – keep you aware about the fresh publications, goods for sale and so on. It is a useful tool to help your website to keep visitors and help the interested users to have the best deal.

Brief summary of the Harmonypix.com pop-up ads:

Harmonypix pop-up ads, as opposed, have a deal with less legit websites. You will commonly witness the offer to enable them following the redirection from another page. It’s OK to see redirects unless they throw you to such a questionable place. In this case, turning on pop-up advertisements is served as the anti-bot check-up. Alternatively, the web pages can deny showing you the contents unless you apply these push notifications. These requirements should be the red flag, as sites commonly feature a less obscure anti-bot mechanism. Witnessing this requirement should be the reason to leave the site right away. In some cases, even when you click “Allow”, you will not get to the website – the only page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up notifications.

Harmonypix push notification.

How does it work?

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

Cybercriminals rely on this feature in their attempt to gain money through advertising. They trick victims into turning on pop-ups, and then just spread hundreds of banners of other crooks they contract with. As you can suppose, no image-caring companies will have a business with fraudsters. All the Harmonypix push ads you may see lead to other untrustworthy sites. At some point, the same victim can be trapped by multiple pop-up spamming web pages, and its web browser will turn into a complete mess.

The banners these criminals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It usually provides a negligible commission for one person, but when you can send ads to hundreds of users and show them hundreds of ads every day – that is a way bigger sum. Despite most of these banners are ineffective, it may still give all the participants a lot of money.

Are Harmonypix pop-up ads dangerous?

Yes, they are. Initially, they can look safe – just a colourful window that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the things this window promotes differ sharply from what you used to see in pop-ups. Harmonypix.com website is ruled by fraudsters, who deliberately throw hundreds of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any common sense and can make sporadic pop-ups into a storm of banners. For weak systems, that may be enough to make the system slower. But problems are not over at this point.

As any other thing related to illegal ads, Harmonypix push notifications do not contain any legit deals to offer. Even when crooks make the banners 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-up advertisements 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, Harmonypix push notifications are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Harmonypix pop-ups?

Fortunately, Harmonypix pop-up ads removal is pretty easy. They reside in the web browser and can’t conceal themselves in the system. Nevertheless, as I stated above, some pop-up notifications can deliver malicious programs to your computer. It is hard to predict all cases, and manual malware removal is inconvenient. Therefore, after disabling the pop-up advertisements the best option is to use anti-malware software. I would especially recommend that if you have never clicked “Allow” to pop-up ads, but they still appeared. This situation may be a sign of adware 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 and foremost, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to accomplish in manual or automated way. The former, obviously, takes 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 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 Harmonypix 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 Harmonypix Pop-ups?

Name: Harmonypix

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