How to remove Notifydirect.net pop-ups? — Fix Guide

Notifydirect.net pop-up notices may appear out of the blue, covering the content of the website you went to or opening your browser when you do not wish it to be opened.

Clicking on the Notifydirect.net promotion can cause the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this post, you will see the guideline of Notifydirect.net popups removal in a couple of manners, as well as inspecting your personal computer for extra malware existence.

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What are Notifydirect.net pop-ups?

Notifydirect.net popups are an effect of adware activity. Adware is a type of malware that shows you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click promotions, which produces a massive volume of income for adware suppliers. These ads may include explicit information, or have a web link to harmful content/website, because adware maintainers have no reason to inspect the goodness of the material they are going to show – their single target is cash.

Notifydirect.net push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is a very good, affordable and very efficient marketing solution¹. It permits the vendor to link the buyers’ attention to their website, as well as the buyers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to purchase. When the person will get a pop-up notification that the TV set he likes to purchase is available at the online store he/she checked out earlier with a 15% price cut, one will certainly use this opportunity and get it. Considering the exceptionally small cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising instrument is a much-loved thing amidst the marketing departments of big online retailers.

Nonetheless, such a rewarding strategy could not be missed by virus developers. Potential to demonstrate the popup ads forcibly to the victims of malware attack is a great basis for malevolent adjustments with the popup advertisements. And Notifydirect.net ads is one of hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a short details for the Notifydirect.net

How have I got the Notifydirect.net virus?

There are a number of ways of getting contaminated by the adware that cause the Notifydirect.net popups tornado. A lion’s part of this malware instances is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Freeware can additionally be downloaded from the official website, and the adware is presented as a legit bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A lot of users frequently use the uncertain programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, a wide range of apps that are free of cost, or even hacked programs. Every one of these sorts of applications are dangerous, due to the fact that it is extremely simple to integrate a Notifydirect.net malware under the cover of part of the license hacking script, or as a part of the self-made algoritm within the Windows optimization tool.

Notifydirect.net popup virus may additionally be concealed in the ad somewhere on the odd site. Such sites are generally loaded with bright and blinking ads, and their proprietors generally approve any kind of promos to be published on their page. Thus, clicking such banners is a risky thing: only the advertisement contractor realizes what will happen when you press this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you can also receive something much more hazardous, like ransomware or coin miner; the large share of coin miners distribution is exactly after the malicious advertisements.

The statistic shows that people dislike popup advertising more than other types of promotions

Potentially unwanted programs, like Notifydirect.net popup virus can cause a variety of different troubles on your computer. Distracting is not the only problem – pop-ups may show you the promotions, where you are offered to get another strange program, or “a perfect anti-malware tool”. Scareware is often spread with the last slogun. Potentially undesirable applications, in turn, can have spyware functionality. And it is pretty hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a good one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the potentially unwanted programs and dubious antiviruses, popup-related ads are also exploited as a spreading way by various trojan viruses, for example – coin miners. The consequences of activity of such viruses is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you several hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not tapping these promotions, they may be clicked by whoever who also uses your personal computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things may become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve it without information loss. It is recommended to wipe out the viruses with antivirus applications as soon as possible.

How can I get rid of Notifydirect.net pop-up advertisements?

The tutorial of Notifydirect.net adware elimination includes 2 sections. Initially, we need to get rid of the malware, and then repair the results of its action. The removal procedure is really simple, since it can be done even with the use of Microsoft Defender – anti-malware software that is available on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nevertheless, because of its substantial resources usage, as well as some bugs that can be pivotal for some categories of individuals, Defender is oftentimes turned off by the users, so its utilization is most likely impossible. Moreover, different trojan viruses are capable to shut off the embedded antivirus. It is far better to make use of the separated program that will not have such vulnerabilities.

I would certainly advise you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven antivirus tool that will surely remove the malware from your computer and create an impenetrable cover with a Proactive protection feature. However, let’s deal with Notifydirect.net adware initially.

Removing Notifydirect.net popup virus with GridinSoft Anti-Malware

• Download and install GridinSoft Anti-Malware. After the installation, you will be offered to perform the Standard Scan. Approve this action.

• Standard scan checks the logical disk where the system files are stored, together with the files of programs you have already installed. The scan lasts up to 6 minutes.

• When the scan is over, you may choose the action for each detected virus. For all files of Notifydirect.net malware the default option is “Delete”. Press “Apply” to finish the malware removal.

Now, when the computer is clean of viruses, we can proceed to the browser reset. You can do this step manually, as well as with the use of GridinSoft Anti-Malware.

Reset browser settings to default

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 make sure that your web browser will be connected the appropriate DNS while connecting to the web page you want. Make a text file titled “hosts” on your desktop, then open it and fill it with the following content³:

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.

Nonetheless, there is one trouble that makes the things a lot harder to fix, particularly without the anti-malware software. A lot of adware versions that are used to show you the Notifydirect.net pop-up advertisements are modifying the deep browser setups, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to fix your browser settings after your system was infected by pop-up-related malware, your browser will crash soon. Sometimes, you will see no crash, but significant lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 seconds, and then it will be back to the normal, up until you try to open settings one more time.

Reset your browser settings 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 the options for each browser. By default, they are set up in the manner which 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 last is also able to reset the HOSTS file without any additional commands.

1. More about pop-up ads on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware overview and the reasons why I advise it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.