Remove Redir9.net Pop-up Ads — How to Fix Gude

Redir9.net pop-up advertisements appear when you do not expect, disturbing and annoying you. However, that is much more than just notifications – their nature is cleanly malicious, and they can bring other malware to your computer. In this article, I will guide you on how to remove Redir9.net push notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any time you interact with Redir9.net push notifications will be useless at best. At worst, the pages it can open can introduce malware to your system. These pop-ups may 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.

What are Redir9.net pop-up advertisements?

Short summary of the Redir9.net pop-up ads:

Redir9.net pop-up ads, as opposed, have a deal with untrustworthy sites. You will commonly observe the proposition to enable them after a redirection from another website. There’s nothing bad in redirecting unless it throws you to such a dubious place. In this case, enabling push notifications is offered under the guise of the anti-DDoS filtering. Alternatively, the web pages may deny showing you the contents unless you turn on these pop-ups. These demands should already be the red flag, as websites commonly have a different anti-bot mechanism. Spectating this offer should be the reason to leave the page right away. In some cases, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not see the website – the only page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up ads.

How does it work?

Most of web browsers support turning on push notifications from sites. Sites, on the other hand, may send out notifications with the content they like. It may be an advertisement of the page posted on this particular website, or an ad of their partner page. As a result, you may see the push notification from site X, but clicking it will throw you to website Y – because a referral link to the latter was built in.

The promotions these criminals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It commonly provides a negligible commission for one view, but when you can send ads to a huge number of users and make it hundreds of times every day – that is a much bigger sum. Despite most of these banners are ineffective, it may still bring all the parties a lot of profit.

Are Redir9.net pop-up notifications dangerous?

Yes, they are. At the surface, they can look non-threatening – just a colourful pop-up that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the things this window promotes differ drastically from what you used to see in pop-ups. Redir9.net web page is controlled by fraudsters, who deliberately show tons of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any manners of advertising and can launch sporadic pop-up ads into a storm of banners. For weak systems, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But that is not all troubles these push notifications carry.

How to remove Redir9.net pop-ups?

Initially, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to accomplish 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 manually

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

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. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.