Ironcarver Ads Removal Guide — Fix Push Notification

Ironcarver pop-up advertisements appear out of the blue, bothering and irritating you. Still, they are slightly more than just notifications – their essence is surely malicious, and they may bring other malware to your PC. In this post, I will show you how to remove Ironcarver pop-up notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any time you interact with Ironcarver push notifications will be ineffective at best. At worst, the sites it can throw you to can introduce malware to your system. These pop-ups 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 Ironcarver 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 notifications and Ironcarver pop-ups is the malignant origins of the latter. Normal pop-up ads are offered for you to enable on different sites with a straightforward purpose – notify you about the latest articles, discounts and so on. It is an effective approach to help your site to keep visitor’s attention and help the interested ones to have the best deal.

Brief description of the Ironcarver.top pop-ups:

Ironcarver pop-ups, on the other hand, have a deal with unlegit web pages. You will commonly observe the offer to turn them on after a redirection from another site. It’s OK to see redirects unless they throw you to such a questionable place. In this case, turning on push notifications is served under the guise of the anti-bot check-up. Alternatively, the sites may deny showing you the contents unless you apply these pop-ups. These demands should already be the red flag, as sites usually feature a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Spectating such an offer should be the reason to close the website right away. Sometimes, even when you click “Allow”, you will not see the website – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up advertisements.

Ironcarver push notification.

How does it work?

The vast majority of web browsers support enabling push notifications from sites. Sites, on the other hand, can send notifications with the content of their choice. It may be an advertisement of the product posted on this particular website, as well as an ad of the page of their partner. As a result, you can see the pop-up from site X, but opening it will direct you to site Y – because a referral link to that website was embedded.

Scoundrels bear on this ability in their attempt to earn money through advertising. They trick victims into turning on pop-ups, and then just spread numerous banners of other crooks they contract with. As you may suppose, no normal organisations will contract with fraudsters. All the Ironcarver popups you may see lead to other fraudulent sites. At some point, the same user may get into a trap of multiple pop-up spamming web pages, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.

The banners these crooks show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It commonly provides a negligible pay for one viewer, but when you can send ads to hundreds of users and make it hundreds of times each day – that is a much bigger sum. Even though most of these banners are ineffective, it may still bring all the parties a lot of money.

Are Ironcarver pop-up advertisements dangerous?

Yes, they are. At the surface, they may look harmless – just a colourful window that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the contents of this window differ drastically from what you generally see in pop-ups. Ironcarver.top site is ruled by fraudsters, who intentionally throw tons of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any common sense and can launch sporadic pop-ups into a storm of promotions. For weak systems, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But problems are not over at this point.

As with any other thing related to illegal ads, Ironcarver pop-up ads do not contain any legit deals to offer. Even when hackers make the ads looking similar to ones from Amazon, Walmart or Ebay, the site these ads 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 push notifications 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, Ironcarver 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 Ironcarver pop-ups?

Fortunately, Ironcarver pop-up notifications removal is not very complicated. They reside in the browser and can’t hide themselves on a disk. Nonetheless, as I pointed out above, some push notifications may introduce malicious software to your system. It is hard to describe all of the cases, and manual malware removal is inconvenient. Thus, after removing the source of the push notifications it is recommended to use anti-malware software. I’d especially recommend that in the case when you have never clicked “Allow” to pop-up notifications, but they still appeared. This situation can be a sign of adware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both system recovery and malware checkup purposes, thanks to its system recovery functionality and advanced detection system.

First of all, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to do in manual or automated way. 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 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 Ironcarver 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 Ironcarver Pop-ups?

Name: Ironcarver

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