Kubent.xyz Pop-up Virus — How to Remove Unwanted Ads?

Kubent.xyz push notifications appear when you do not expect, disturbing and irritating you. Still, that is much more than simple pop-up ads – their essence is surely malicious, and they may install other malware to your device. In this post, I will guide you on how to remove Kubent.xyz pop-ups and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any time you interact with Kubent.xyz push notifications will be useless at best. At worst, the sites it can throw you to can introduce malware to your system. These push notifications can also advertise fake 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 Kubent.xyz 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-up advertisements and Kubent.xyz pop-ups is the malignant origins of the latter. Normal pop-ups are offered for you to enable on different sites with a straightforward purpose – keep you aware about the fresh posts, goods for sale and so on. It is a useful tool to help your website to retain visitors and help the interested users to have the best price.

Short summary of the Kubent.xyz pop-ups:

Kubent.xyz pop-up ads, on the other hand, are related to unlegit websites. You will commonly witness the proposition to turn them on after a 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-ups is offered as the anti-DDoS check-up. Alternatively, the websites may deny showing you the content unless you enable these pop-up notifications. These demands should be the red flag, as websites generally have a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Witnessing this demand should be the reason to close the page right away. In some cases, even when you click “Allow”, you will not get to the site – the sole page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up notifications.

Kubent.xyz push notification.

How does this work?

The majority of browsers support enabling push notifications from websites. Websites, on the other hand, may send notifications with the content of their choice. It can be an advertisement of the product or a page published on this site, or a promotion of the page of their partner. As a result, you can see the pop-up from site X, but opening it will throw you to website Y – because a link to the latter was built in.

Scoundrels rely on this feature in their attempt to earn money through 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 image-caring organisations will have a business with fraudsters. All the Kubent.xyz push ads you may see lead to other untrustworthy sites. At some point, the same user can get into a trap of several pop-up spamming websites, 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 negligible commission for one person, but when you have hundreds of victims and show them hundreds of ads every day – that is a way bigger sum. Even though the majority of these banners giving no result at all, it can still bring all the parties a lot of profit.

Are Kubent.xyz pop-up notifications dangerous?

Yes, they are. At the surface, they may look safe – just a colourful window that appears from time to time. However, the contents of this window differ drastically from what you generally see in pop-up ads. Kubent.xyz website is controlled by fraudsters, who intentionally throw hundreds of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any common sense and can launch sporadic pop-ups into a storm of banners. For weak computers, that may be enough to make the system slower. But troubles are not over at this point.

As with any other thing related to illegal ads, Kubent.xyz pop-up ads don’t have legit offers. Even when crooks make the banners similar to ones from well-known retailers, the website 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, Kubent.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 Kubent.xyz pop-ups?

Fortunately, Kubent.xyz push notifications removal is not very complicated. They parasite in the web browser and cannot conceal themselves in the system. Nevertheless, as I pointed out before, some pop-up advertisements may deliver malware to your system. It is hard to predict all of the cases, and manual malware removal is a bad idea. Therefore, after removing the source of the pop-up ads the best option is to use anti-malware software. That is especially recommended in the case when you have never clicked “Allow” to pop-up ads, and they still appeared. This situation can be a sign of malicious software activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both system recovery and malware removal purposes, because of its system recovery functionality and multi-layer 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 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 site 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 Kubent.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 Kubent.xyz Pop-ups?

Name: Kubent.xyz

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