Oceanicu Ads Removal Guide — Fix Push Notification

Oceanicu pop-up advertisements appear when you do not expect, disturbing and annoying you. Still, they are much more than simple pop-ups – their essence is clearly malignant, and they can install other malware to your PC. In this article, I will guide you on how to remove Oceanicu pop-ups and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any time you interact with Oceanicu push notifications will be useless at best. At worst, the pages it can throw you to can introduce malware to your system. These pop-up advertisements may 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 Oceanicu 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 Oceanicu pop-ups is the malignant origins of the latter. Common pop-up advertisements are offered for you to enable on different sites with a understandable purpose – notify you about the new articles, 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 deal.

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

Oceanicu pop-up notifications, in contrast, are related to less legit web pages. You will generally observe the offer to turn them on following the redirection from another website. It’s OK to see redirects unless they throw you into such a dubious place. At that point, enabling pop-ups is offered under the guise of the anti-DDoS filtering. In other cases, the sites may deny showing you the content unless you apply these pop-up ads. These demands should already raise suspicion, as sites generally have a different anti-bot mechanism. Seeing such an offer is a reason to skip the page doubtlessly. In some cases, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not see the web page – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up advertisements.

Oceanicu push notification.

How does it work?

Most of browsers support enabling push notifications from websites. Sites, on the other hand, can send notifications with the content they like. It can be a promotion of the product or a page published on this particular site, 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 site Y – because a link to that website was added.

Crooks bear on this ability in their approach to gain money using illegal advertising. They trick victims into allowing them to show the banners, and then just spread hundreds of promotions of other crooks they have a deal with. As you may suppose, no legit companies will have a deal with fraudsters. All the Oceanicu notifications you may see lead to other fraudulent sites. In some cases, the same user can get into a trap of multiple pop-up spamming sites, and its web browser will turn into a complete mess.

The banners these crooks show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It generally provides a negligible pay for one viewer, but when you can send ads to a huge number of victims and show them hundreds of ads every day – that is a much more significant sum. Despite most of these banners are ineffective, it can still give all the parties a lot of profit.

Are Oceanicu pop-up advertisements dangerous?

Yes, they are. At the surface, they may look safe – just a colourful window that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the contents of this window differ drastically from what you used to see in pop-up notifications. Oceanicu.com website is ruled by crooks, who deliberately throw hundreds of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any manners of advertising and can make sporadic pop-up advertisements into a storm of promotions. For weak systems, that may be enough to make the system slower. But that is not all troubles these pop-up notifications carry.

As with any other thing that touches illegal advertising, Oceanicu pop-up ads do not contain any legit deals to offer. Even when hackers make the ads looking similar to ones from well-known retailers, the website 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, Oceanicu pop-up ads are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Oceanicu pop-ups?

Fortunately, Oceanicu pop-ups removal is not very complicated. They parasite in the browser and can’t conceal themselves among system files. However, as I told before, some pop-ups can deliver malware to your computer. It is nearly impossible to predict all cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is a poor idea. Thus, after removing the source of the pop-up advertisements it is recommended to use anti-malware software. That is especially recommended if you have never clicked “Allow” to pop-up advertisements, and they still appeared. That can be a sign of malicious software activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both system recovery and malware scanning and removal purposes, because of its system recovery functionality and superb detection system.

Initially, 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 Oceanicu 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 Oceanicu Pop-ups?

Name: Oceanicu

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