Unatonse Pop-up Ads Removal — How to Fix Your Browser?

Written by Wilbur Woodham
Unatonse pop-up notifications appear when you do not expect, bothering and irritating you. However, they are slightly more than simple pop-ups – their origins is surely malignant, and they can introduce other malicious stuff to your system. In this article, I will show you the guide how to remove Unatonse pop-up notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any time you interact with Unatonse pop-ups will be ineffective at best. In worst case scenario, the sites it can open can introduce malware to your system. These pop-up notifications may also advertise fake online 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 Unatonse 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 Unatonse pop-ups is the malicious origins of the latter. Common push notifications are offered for you to enable with a straightforward purpose – keep you aware about the new articles, goods for sale and so on. It is a useful thing to help your website to keep visitors and help the interested visitors to have the best price.

Brief description of the Unatonse.co.in pop-up ads:
NameUnatonse.co.in
HostingAS16509 Amazon.com, Inc.
Sweden, Stockholm
IP Address13.48.36.171
Malware typeAdware1
EffectUnwanted pop-up advertisements
Hazard levelMedium
Malware sourceApps from third-party websites, ads on dubious websites
Similar behaviorGawend, Extrafield, Meeethuhesurvey
Removal method
To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC

Unatonse pop-up advertisements, in contrast, are related to less legit sites. You will generally observe the proposition to turn them on following the redirection from another site. There’s nothing bad in redirecting unless it throws you into such a questionable place. In this case, turning on pop-ups is offered under the guise of the anti-bot check. Alternatively, the sites may deny showing you the contents unless you enable these pop-up notifications. These demands should already raise suspicion, as websites usually have a less obscure anti-bot mechanism. Spectating such an offer is a reason to close the site doubtlessly. Sometimes, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not see the web page – the only page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up notifications.

Unatonse push notification

Unatonse push notification.

How does this work?

The vast majority of web browsers support turning on push notifications from sites. Sites, on the other hand, can send notifications with the content they want. It can be a promotion of the product or a page posted on this particular site, as well as an ad of their partner page. As a result, you can see the push notification from site X, but clicking it will throw you to site Y – because a link to that website was built in.

Cyber burglars bear on this ability in their approach to earn money through advertising. They trick victims into allowing the pop-ups, and after that just spread hundreds of promotions of other crooks they have a deal with. As you may suppose, no image-caring organisations will have a business with fraudsters. All the Unatonse notifications you may see lead to other fraudulent sites. At some point, the same user can be trapped by multiple pop-up spamming websites, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.

The promotions these criminals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It usually provides a miserable payment for one person, but when you have a huge number of users and make it hundreds of times every day – that is a much more significant sum. Despite most of these ads giving no result at all, it may still give all the parties a lot of money.

Are Unatonse pop-ups dangerous?

Yes, they are. Initially, they can look harmless – just a colourful window that appears from time to time. However, the contents of this window differ sharply from what you generally see in pop-up notifications. Unatonse.co.in web page is controlled by fraudsters, who intentionally throw tons of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any common sense and can launch sporadic pop-up ads into a hurricane of ads. For weak systems, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But that is not all troubles these pop-up advertisements carry.

Why people dislike popups

As any other thing that touches illegal ads, Unatonse pop-ups lack legit deals to offer. Even when hackers make the banners similar to ones from well-known retailers, the web page 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 push notifications 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, Unatonse 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 Unatonse pop-ups?

Fortunately, Unatonse pop-ups removal is pretty easy. They sit in the web browser and cannot conceal themselves on a disk. However, as I pointed out above, some pop-up ads can introduce malware to your computer. It is hard to describe all cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is a bad idea. For that reason, after removing the source of the push notifications the best option is to use anti-malware software. I’d especially recommend that in the case when you have never clicked “Allow” to push notifications, and they still appeared. This situation may be a sign of malware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both system recovery and malware scanning purposes, because of its system recovery functionality and superb detection system.

First of all, 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 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.

Tools tab in GridinSoft Anti-Malware

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.

Reset Browser Settings tab in GridinSoft Anti-Malware

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. Reseting the Edge browser

  3. 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. The first step to revert Mozilla Firefox

  3. In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option:
  4. The second step of Firefox restoration
    After choosing this option, you will see the next message:
    The last step for Firefox
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 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 Unatonse 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.

GridinSoft Anti-Malware during the scan 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).

GridinSoft scan finished

How to Remove Unatonse Pop-ups?

Name: Unatonse

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

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

About the author

Wilbur Woodham

I was a technical writer from early in my career, and consider IT Security one of my foundational skills. I’m sharing my experience here, and I hope you find it useful.

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