Security-alert.avage.net push notifications appear when you do not expect, distracting and irritating you. Still, they are way more than just notifications – their nature is purely malicious, and they can introduce other malicious stuff to your PC. In this article, I will show you the guide how to remove Security-alert.avage.net pop-up notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any interaction with Security-alert.avage.net pop-up notifications will be ineffective at best. At worst, the pages it can open may introduce malware to your system. These push notifications 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 Security-alert.avage.net pop-up advertisements?
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 ads and Security-alert.avage.net notifications is the malicious origins of the latter. Normal pop-up advertisements are offered for you to enable on different sites with a legitimate purpose – keep you aware about the fresh posts, goods for sale and so on. It is an effective approach to help your site to keep visitor’s attention and help the interested ones to have the best deal.
Short summary of the Security-alert.avage.net pop-ups:
| Name | Security-alert.avage.net |
| Hosting | AS49981 WorldStream B.V. Netherlands, Amsterdam |
| IP Address | 190.2.146.101 |
| Malware type | Adware1 |
| Effect | Unwanted pop-up advertisements |
| Hazard level | Medium |
| Malware source | Apps from third-party websites, ads on dubious websites |
| Similar behavior | Buycfr, Allronadforyoushop, Goders |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
Security-alert.avage.net pop-ups, as opposed, are related to less legit web pages. You will generally observe the proposition to enable them following the redirection from another site. Redirects are OK unless they throw you into such a dubious place. In this case, enabling pop-ups is offered as the anti-bot check. Alternatively, the websites may deny showing you the content unless you enable these pop-ups. These requirements should already raise suspicion, as websites generally feature a different anti-bot mechanism. Spectating such an demand is a reason to leave the website doubtlessly. Sometimes, even when you click “Allow”, you will not get to the website – the sole page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up advertisements.
Security-alert.avage.net push notification.
How does it work?
The vast majority of browsers support enabling push notifications from sites. Websites, on the other hand, may send notifications with the content they like. It may be an advertisement of the product or a page listed on this particular site, or a promotion of their partner page. As a result, you may see the pop-up from site X, but clicking it will throw you to website Y – because a link to the latter was added.
Cybercriminals rely on this ability in their approach to gain money using illegal advertising. They trick users into allowing the pop-ups, and after that just spread hundreds of banners of anyone they contract with. As you may suppose, no legit organisations will have a deal with fraudsters. All the Security-alert.avage.net push ads you can see lead to other fraudulent sites. In some cases, the same user can be trapped by several pop-up spamming sites, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.
The promotions these crooks show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It commonly provides a negligible pay for one person, but when you have a huge number of users and make it hundreds of times every day – that is a much bigger sum. Despite the majority of these banners giving no result at all, it can still bring all the participants a lot of profit.
Are Security-alert.avage.net pop-up advertisements dangerous?
Yes, they are. Initially, they may look harmless – just a colourful window that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the contents of this window differ drastically from what you generally see in pop-up advertisements. Security-alert.avage.net website is controlled by crooks, who deliberately throw tons of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any common sense and can make sporadic pop-ups into a hurricane of banners. For weak computers, that may be enough to make the system slower. But that is not all troubles these pop-up ads carry.
As any other thing related to illegal advertising, Security-alert.avage.net push notifications don’t have legit offers. Even when crooks make the ads looking similar to ones from Amazon, Walmart or Ebay, 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 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, Security-alert.avage.net 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 Security-alert.avage.net pop-ups?
Fortunately, Security-alert.avage.net pop-up ads removal is not very complicated. They reside in the browser and cannot hide themselves in the system. Nevertheless, as I told before, some pop-up ads can introduce malicious programs to your system. It is hard to describe all cases, and manual malware removal is a bad idea. Thus, after disabling the pop-up notifications the best option is to use anti-malware software. That is especially recommended in the case when you have never clicked “Allow” to pop-up ads, but they still appeared. This situation can be a sign of adware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will perfectly fit both 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 manual or automated way. 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:
- Open “Settings and more” tab in upper right corner, then find here “Settings” button. In the appeared menu, choose “Reset settings” option:
- 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:
- Open Menu tab (three strips in upper right corner) and click the “Help” button. In the appeared menu choose “troubleshooting information”:
- In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option:
After choosing this option, you will see the next message:
If you use Google Chrome
- Open Settings tab, find the “Advanced” button. In the extended tab choose the “Reset and clean up” button:
- In the appeared list, click on the “Restore settings to their original defaults”:
- 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
- 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:
- 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:
# Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
# localhost name resolution is handle within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost
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 Security-alert.avage.net 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 Security-alert.avage.net Pop-ups?
Name: Security-alert.avage.net
Description: Security-alert.avage.net - 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 Security-alert.avage.net push notifications?” or “why do Security-alert.avage.net pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with Security-alert.avage.net 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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( votes)References
- More about this malware type on GridinSoft Encyclopedia.
- Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.
