Kagos.xyz Pop-up Ads Removal — How to Fix Your Browser?

Kagos.xyz push notifications appear out of the blue, bothering and irritating you. Still, that is much more than annoying notifications – their essence is purely malignant, and they may bring other malicious stuff to your system. In this article, I will show you how to remove Kagos.xyz pop-ups and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any time you interact with Kagos.xyz pop-up notifications will be ineffective at best. At worst, the websites it can throw you to can introduce malware to your system. These push notifications may also advertise fake 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 Kagos.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-up advertisements and Kagos.xyz notifications is the malignant origins of the latter. Normal pop-up ads are offered for you to enable with a legitimate purpose – keep you aware about the latest publications, goods for sale and so on. It is a useful thing to help your website to keep visitors and help the interested users to have the best deal.

Brief description of the Kagos.xyz pop-up ads:

Kagos.xyz pop-ups, as opposed, have a deal with less legit web pages. You will generally witness the offer to turn them on following the redirection from another page. Redirects are OK unless it throws you to such a dubious place. In this case, turning on pop-up ads is served as the anti-bot filtering. Alternatively, the sites may deny showing you the content unless you enable these pop-up advertisements. These demands should raise suspicion, as sites generally feature a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Spectating this demand should be the reason to close the page right away. In some cases, even when you click “Allow”, you will not see the web page – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up ads.

Kagos.xyz push notification.

How does it work?

The majority of browsers support turning on push notifications from websites. Websites, on the other hand, can send notifications with the content they like. It may be a promotion of the page posted on this particular website, as well as an ad of their partner page. As a result, you may see the push notification from site X, but clicking it will throw you to site Y – because a referral link to that website was embedded.

Cyber burglars rely on this feature in their approach to gain money through advertising. They trick victims into allowing the pop-ups, and after that just spread hundreds of ads of other crooks they have a deal with. As you can suppose, no legit organisations will have a deal with fraudsters. All the Kagos.xyz popups you may see lead to other fraudulent sites. At some point, the same user may get into a trap of 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 miserable pay for one view, but when you can send ads to hundreds of victims and show them hundreds of ads every day – that is a much bigger sum. Even though the majority of these banners are ineffective, it can still give all the participants a lot of profit.

Are Kagos.xyz pop-up ads dangerous?

Yes, they are. Initially, they can look harmless – just a blinking pop-up that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the things this window promotes differ sharply from what you used to see in pop-up notifications. Kagos.xyz web page is controlled by crooks, who deliberately show tons of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any common sense and can make sporadic pop-up advertisements into a storm of promotions. For weak computers, that may be enough to make the system slower. But problems are not over at this point.

As any other thing related to illegal advertising, Kagos.xyz pop-up advertisements do not contain any legit offers. Even when crooks make the banners similar to ones from Amazon, Walmart or Ebay, the website these ads will throw you to are completely different. And these pages can 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, Kagos.xyz pop-up advertisements are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Kagos.xyz pop-ups?

Fortunately, Kagos.xyz pop-ups removal is not very complicated. They reside in the browser and cannot hide themselves on a disk. However, as I pointed out before, some pop-up advertisements may promote malicious software to your system. It is nearly impossible to describe all cases, and manual malware removal is a poor idea. Therefore, after disabling the pop-ups the best option is to use anti-malware software. That is especially recommended in the case when you have never clicked “Allow” to push notifications, and they still appeared. This situation may be a sign of adware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both system recovery and malware scanning and removal purposes, thanks to its system recovery functionality and advanced detection system.

Initially, 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 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 Kagos.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 Kagos.xyz Pop-ups?

Name: Kagos.xyz

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