Nongloths pop-ups appear out of the blue, distracting and irritating you. Nonetheless, that is slightly more than annoying notifications – their origins is surely malicious, and they may bring other malicious stuff to your device. In this post, I will show you the guide how to remove Nongloths pop-up advertisements and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any time you interact with Nongloths pop-up notifications will be useless at best. At worst, the pages it can throw you to may introduce malware to your system. These pop-up 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.
What are Nongloths 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 Nongloths pop-ups is the malignant origins of the latter. Normal pop-ups are offered for you to enable on different sites with a legitimate purpose – notify you about the latest posts, discounts and so on. It is a useful thing to help your website to keep visitors and help the interested visitors to have the best deal.
Short summary of the Nongloths.com pop-ups:
Name | Nongloths.com |
Hosting | AS14618 Amazon.com, Inc. United States, Ashburn |
IP Address | 34.196.16.114 |
Malware type | Adware1 |
Effect | Unwanted pop-up advertisements |
Hazard level | Medium |
Malware source | Apps from third-party websites, ads on dubious websites |
Similar behavior | Fast, Ntaspectsofcukorp, Mograppid |
Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
Nongloths pop-up advertisements, as opposed, are related to untrustworthy sites. You will generally witness the proposition to turn them on after a redirection from another website. Redirects are OK unless they throw you to such a dubious place. At that point, turning on pop-up notifications is served under the guise of the anti-DDoS check. In other cases, the web pages can refuse to show you the contents unless you turn on these pop-up advertisements. These requirements should already be the red flag, as websites commonly feature a different anti-bot mechanism. Witnessing such an requirement should be the reason to skip the site doubtlessly. Sometimes, even when you click “Allow”, you will not see the site – the only page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up ads.
How does it work?
The majority of browsers support turning on push notifications from sites. Sites, on the other hand, can send out notifications with the content they want. It may be a promotion of the page listed for sale on this site, or a promotion of the page of their partner. As a result, you may see the push notification from site X, but opening it will direct you to site Y – because a referral link to the latter was added.
Scoundrels rely on this ability in their attempt to earn money using illegal advertising. They trick victims into allowing them to show the banners, and then just spread hundreds of banners of anyone they contract with. As you can suppose, no image-caring companies will have a deal with fraudsters. All the Nongloths push ads you may see lead to other fraudulent sites. In some cases, the same victim can get into a trap of several pop-up spamming web pages, and its web browser will turn into a complete mess.
The promotions these crooks show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It generally provides a negligible payment for one view, but when you have hundreds of users and make it hundreds of times each day – that is a much bigger sum. Despite the majority of such banners are ineffective, it may still bring all the parties a lot of profit.
Are Nongloths pop-ups dangerous?
Yes, they are. Initially, they can look non-threatening – just a colourful window that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the things this window promotes differ drastically from what you generally see in push notifications. Nongloths.com web page is ruled by crooks, who intentionally show tons of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any common sense and can launch sporadic pop-ups into a hurricane of ads. For weak systems, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But that is not all problems these pop-ups carry.
As with any other thing related to illegal ads, Nongloths push notifications don’t have legit offers. Even though crooks make the banners similar to ones from well-known retailers, 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 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, Nongloths push notifications are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.
How to remove Nongloths pop-ups?
Fortunately, Nongloths push notifications removal is not very complicated. They reside in the web browser and cannot hide themselves among system files. Nonetheless, as I pointed out above, some pop-up notifications can introduce malware to your computer. It is hard to predict all cases, and manual malware removal is inconvenient. For that reason, after getting rid of the pop-up notifications it is recommended to use anti-malware software. I’d especially recommend that if you have never clicked “Allow” to pop-up ads, but they still appeared. That can point at malware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both system recovery and malware scanning and removal purposes, thanks to its system recovery functionality and superb detection system.
First and foremost, you should reset your browser settings. You can do that in manual or automated way. The former, obviously, takes 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:
- Open “Settings and more” tab in upper right corner, then find here “Settings” button. In the appeared menu, choose “Reset settings” option:
- 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:
- Open Menu tab (three strips in upper right corner) and click the “Help” button. In the appeared menu choose “troubleshooting information”:
- In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option:
After choosing this option, you will see the next message:
If you use Google Chrome
- Open Settings tab, find the “Advanced” button. In the extended tab choose the “Reset and clean up” button:
- In the appeared list, click on the “Restore settings to their original defaults”:
- 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
- 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:
- 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:
# Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
# localhost name resolution is handle within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost
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 Nongloths 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 Nongloths Pop-ups?
Name: Nongloths
Description: Nongloths - 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 Nongloths.com push notifications?” or “why do Nongloths.com pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with Nongloths 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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( votes)References
- More about this malware type on GridinSoft Encyclopedia.
- Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.