Majormedialink Ads Removal Guide — Fix Push Notification

Majormedialink pop-up advertisements appear when you do not expect, bothering and annoying you. However, they are way more than annoying pop-ups – their nature is clearly malignant, and they may install other malware to your device. In this article, I will show you how to remove Majormedialink push notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any interaction with Majormedialink pop-ups will be useless at best. In worst case scenario, the websites it can show you may introduce malware to your system. These pop-up advertisements can also promote 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 Majormedialink 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 Majormedialink notifications is the malignant origins of the latter. Normal pop-up advertisements are offered for you to enable on different sites with a straightforward purpose – keep you aware about the fresh posts, discounts and so on. It is a useful tool to help your site to keep visitor’s attention and help the interested users to have the best price.

Brief summary of the Majormedialink.com pop-ups:

Majormedialink push notifications, in contrast, are related to untrustworthy sites. You will generally witness the offer to enable them following the redirection from another page. Redirects are OK unless they throw you to such a questionable place. At that point, enabling pop-up notifications is served under the guise of the anti-bot check-up. In other cases, the websites can refuse to show you the content unless you enable these pop-up notifications. These demands should be the red flag, as websites commonly feature a different 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 get to the web page – the only page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up advertisements.

Majormedialink push notification.

How does this work?

The vast majority of browsers support enabling pop-ups from websites. Sites, on the other hand, may send out notifications with the content of their choice. It can be an advertisement of the product posted on this particular 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 site Y – because a referral link to that website was embedded.

Crooks rely on this ability in their approach to gain money using illegal advertising. They trick users into turning on pop-ups, and then just spread numerous ads of other crooks they contract with. As you may suppose, no legit organisations will have a deal with fraudsters. All the Majormedialink push ads you can see lead to other untrustworthy sites. In some cases, the same user can get into a trap of multiple pop-up spamming sites, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.

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

Are Majormedialink pop-up ads dangerous?

Yes, they are. At the surface, they can 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-ups. Majormedialink.com website is ruled by fraudsters, who intentionally show hundreds of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any common sense and can make sporadic pop-up notifications into a hurricane of promotions. For weak computers, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But problems are not over at this point.

As any other thing that touches illegal ads, Majormedialink pop-up ads do not contain any legit offers. Even when hackers make the ads similar to ones from Walmart or Amazon, the site 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 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, Majormedialink pop-ups are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Majormedialink pop-ups?

Fortunately, Majormedialink push notifications removal is not very complicated. They sit in the web browser and can’t conceal themselves in the system. However, as I stated before, some pop-up advertisements can introduce malicious software to your system. It is hard to show all cases, and manual attempts to remove malware 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 push notifications, but they still appeared. That may point at adware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both recovery and malware checkup purposes, thanks to its system recovery functionality and multi-component detection system.

First of all, you should reset your browser settings. You can do that in both manual and automatic manner. 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 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 Majormedialink 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 Majormedialink Pop-ups?

Name: Majormedialink

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