Pushsar Ads Removal Guide — How to Fix It?

Pushsar pop-up advertisements appear when you do not expect, disturbing and irritating you. Still, they are way more than simple pop-ups – their nature is surely malicious, and they can install other malware to your computer. In this article, I will guide you on how to remove Pushsar pop-up notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any interaction with Pushsar pop-ups will be useless at best. At worst, the web pages it can throw you to can introduce malware to your system. These pop-up notifications 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 Pushsar 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 advertisements and Pushsar notifications is the malignant origins of the latter. Common push notifications are offered for you to enable with a understandable purpose – notify you about the new publications, 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 summary of the Pushsar.com pop-up ads:

Pushsar pop-up ads, in contrast, have a deal with untrustworthy websites. You will commonly see the proposition to enable them after a redirection from another site. It’s OK to see redirects unless they throw you to such a questionable place. In this case, enabling pop-up ads is offered under the guise of the anti-DDoS filtering. In other cases, the web pages may deny showing you the content unless you apply these pop-up ads. These demands should raise suspicion, as websites generally have a less obscure anti-bot mechanism. Seeing such an requirement is a reason to skip the page right away. Sometimes, even when you click “Allow”, you will not see the website – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-ups.

Pushsar push notification.

How does it work?

The majority of web browsers support turning on pop-ups from sites. Websites, on the other hand, may send notifications with the content of their choice. It may be a promotion of the product listed for sale on this website, or a promotion of the page of their partner. As a result, you may see the pop-up from site X, but clicking it will redirect you to site Y – because a referral link to that website was embedded.

Scoundrels bear on this feature in their approach to earn money through advertising. They trick victims into turning on pop-ups, and then just spread hundreds of promotions of other crooks they contract with. As you can suppose, no image-caring organisations will have a business with fraudsters. All the Pushsar notifications you may see lead to other fraudulent sites. At some point, the same victim may get into a trap of several pop-up spamming web pages, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.

The banners these rascals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It commonly provides a negligible payment for one viewer, but when you have a huge number of victims and make it hundreds of times every day – that is a way bigger sum. Despite most of these banners are ineffective, it may still bring all the parties a lot of profit.

Are Pushsar pop-ups dangerous?

Yes, they are. At the surface, they can look non-threatening – 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-up advertisements. Pushsar.com website is controlled by fraudsters, who intentionally show hundreds of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any common sense and can launch sporadic pop-up advertisements into a hurricane of ads. For weak computers, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But that is not all troubles these push notifications carry.

As with any other thing related to illegal ads, Pushsar push notifications lack legit deals to offer. Even when hackers make the ads similar to ones from Amazon, Walmart or Ebay, the website these ads will throw you to are completely different. And these pages can 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-ups 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, Pushsar pop-up advertisements are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Pushsar pop-ups?

Fortunately, Pushsar push notifications removal is pretty easy. They parasite in the browser and can’t conceal themselves on a disk. Nonetheless, as I pointed out above, some pop-up advertisements can introduce malicious programs to your computer. It is hard to predict all cases, and manual malware removal is a bad idea. For that reason, after disabling the pop-up advertisements it is recommended to use anti-malware software. That is especially recommended in the case when you have never allowed pop-up advertisements, but they still appeared. That can point at adware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will perfectly fit both recovery and malware scanning purposes, thanks to its system recovery functionality and advanced detection system.

Initially, 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 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:

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 web page 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 Pushsar 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 Pushsar Pop-ups?

Name: Pushsar

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