Re Captha Version 3 21 Notification Removal — How to Fix Your Browser

Re Captha Version 3 21 push notifications appear out of the blue, detracting and irritating you. However, that is slightly more than just notifications – their origins is surely malicious, and they can bring other malicious stuff to your device. In this article, I will show you how to remove Re Captha Version 3 21 pop-up advertisements and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any interaction with Re Captha Version 3 21 pop-ups will be ineffective at best. In worst case scenario, the sites it can throw you to may introduce malware to your system. These push notifications may also advertise 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 Re Captha Version 3 21 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 Re Captha Version 3 21 pop-ups is the malicious origins of the latter. Common push notifications are offered for you to enable with a legitimate purpose – notify you about the fresh articles, goods for sale and so on. It is an effective approach to help your website to retain visitors and help the interested visitors to have the best price.

Brief description of the Re-captha-version-3-21.top pop-up ads:

Re Captha Version 3 21 pop-up notifications, as opposed, have a deal with less legit web pages. You will generally observe the proposition to turn them on following the redirection from another site. Redirects are OK unless it throws you into such a dubious place. At that point, turning on pop-up advertisements is offered as the anti-bot filtering. In other cases, the sites may refuse to show you the content unless you apply these push notifications. These demands should already raise suspicion, as sites usually feature a less obscure anti-bot mechanism. Spectating this offer should be the reason to close the website right away. In some cases, even when you click “Allow”, you will not get to the web page – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up notifications.

Re Captha Version 3 21 push notification.

How does this work?

Most of browsers support turning on push notifications from websites. Websites, on the other hand, can send out notifications with the content they like. It can be a promotion of the product listed for sale on this website, as well as a promotion of the page of their partner. As a result, you may see the pop-up from site X, but opening it will throw you to website Y – because a link to that website was embedded.

Cyber burglars rely on this ability in their approach to gain money through advertising. They trick victims into turning on pop-ups, and then just spread numerous ads of anyone they have a deal with. As you can suppose, no normal companies will have a deal with fraudsters. All the Re Captha Version 3 21 popups you may see lead to other untrustworthy 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 criminals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It generally provides a negligible payment for one view, but when you can send ads to hundreds of users and make it hundreds of times each day – that is a much bigger sum. Despite most of such ads are ineffective, it may still give all the participants a lot of profit.

Are Re Captha Version 3 21 pop-up notifications dangerous?

Yes, they are. At the surface, they can look safe – just a blinking pop-up that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the contents of this window differ sharply from what you generally see in pop-up advertisements. Re-captha-version-3-21.top site is controlled by fraudsters, who deliberately spread hundreds and thousands of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any manners of advertising and can launch sporadic pop-up advertisements into a storm of ads. For weak computers, that may be enough to make the system slower. But troubles are not over at this point.

As any other thing related to illegal advertising, Re Captha Version 3 21 pop-up ads lack legit offers. Even though crooks 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 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, Re Captha Version 3 21 push notifications are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Re Captha Version 3 21 pop-ups?

Fortunately, Re Captha Version 3 21 pop-up advertisements removal is not very complicated. They parasite in the web browser and cannot conceal themselves on a disk. Nevertheless, as I pointed out before, some pop-ups may introduce malicious programs to your computer. It is hard to predict all cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is a poor idea. Therefore, after removing the source of the pop-up ads the best option is to use anti-malware software. I’d especially recommend that in the case when 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 perfectly fit both system recovery and malware removal purposes, thanks to its system recovery functionality and multi-layer detection system.

First and foremost, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to do in both manual and automatic manner. The former, obviously, takes 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 Re Captha Version 3 21 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).

1. More about this malware type on GridinSoft Encyclopedia.
2. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.