Nxgone Ads Removal Guide — Fix Push Notification

Nxgone push notifications appear out of the blue, bothering and irritating you. However, that is much more than annoying notifications – their nature is cleanly malignant, and they can introduce other malware to your computer. In this post, I will guide you on how to remove Nxgone pop-ups and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any interaction with Nxgone pop-up notifications will be useless at best. At worst, the websites it can show you can introduce malware to your system. These pop-up advertisements can also advertise fake online 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 Nxgone 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-ups and Nxgone pop-ups is the malicious origins of the latter. Normal pop-up advertisements are offered for you to enable with a straightforward purpose – notify you about the fresh articles, goods for sale and so on. It is an effective approach to help your website to keep visitor’s attention and help the interested visitors to have the best deal.

Brief description of the Nxgone.com pop-up ads:

Nxgone pop-ups, as opposed, are related to untrustworthy websites. You will commonly see the proposition to turn them on following the redirection from another website. There’s nothing bad in redirecting unless it throws you into such a dubious place. At that point, enabling pop-up advertisements is offered 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 requirements should already be the red flag, as websites commonly have a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Witnessing this requirement is a reason to leave the site doubtlessly. In some cases, even when you click “Allow”, you will not see the website – the sole page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up notifications.

Nxgone push notification.

How does this work?

Most of browsers support enabling push notifications from sites. Sites, on the other hand, can send out notifications with the content of their choice. It can be a promotion of the page listed for sale on this particular website, as well as a promotion of their partner page. As a result, you can see the push notification from site X, but clicking it will redirect you to website Y – because a link to the latter was embedded.

Scoundrels rely on this ability in their attempt to gain money using illegal advertising. They trick users into turning on pop-ups, and after that just spread numerous promotions of other crooks they have a deal with. As you can suppose, no legit organisations will have a business with fraudsters. All the Nxgone popups you may see lead to other untrustworthy sites. At some point, the same victim may be trapped by several pop-up spamming web pages, and its web browser will turn into a complete mess.

The promotions these criminals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It usually provides a negligible commission for one person, but when you have hundreds of users and show them hundreds of ads every day – that is a way bigger sum. Despite the majority of these ads giving no result at all, it can still give all the parties a lot of profit.

Are Nxgone pop-ups dangerous?

Yes, they are. At the surface, they may look safe – just a colourful pop-up that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the contents of this window differ drastically from what you generally see in push notifications. Nxgone.com website is ruled by crooks, who deliberately spread hundreds of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any manners of advertising and can make sporadic push notifications into a storm of banners. For weak systems, that may be enough to make the system slower. But problems are not over at this point.

As with any other thing that touches illegal ads, Nxgone pop-up advertisements do not contain any legit offers. Even when hackers make the ads 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 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, Nxgone pop-ups are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Nxgone pop-ups?

Fortunately, Nxgone pop-up advertisements removal is pretty easy. They parasite in the browser and can’t conceal themselves among system files. Nevertheless, as I pointed out before, some push notifications may introduce malicious software to your computer. It is nearly impossible to predict all cases, and manual malware removal is a poor idea. Therefore, after removing the source of the pop-up ads it is recommended to use anti-malware software. That is especially recommended in the case when you have never clicked “Allow” to push notifications, but they still appeared. This situation may be a sign of malicious software activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will perfectly fit both recovery and malware removal purposes, thanks to its abilities of system recovery and superb detection system.

First of all, 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 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 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 Nxgone 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 Nxgone Pop-ups?

Name: Nxgone

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