Aroundably.website is one of many identical websites that try to trick users into agreeing to be spammed with ads. You will see a notification that says “Aroundably.website wants to show notifications” when you get redirected to the site. If you click “Allow”, you will see ads on your desktop.
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Greatested.website is a fake video game news website that tries to trick users into allowing advertisements on their desktops. It does so by misusing a legitimate browser feature that allows websites to show users notifications on their desktops. But instead of useful content, sites like Greatested.website simply spam desktops with advertisements.
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Wholerable.website is a fake news website that tries to trick you into agreeing to see ads on your desktop. It does that by misusing a legitimate browser feature that allows sites with permission to show users notifications that appear on the desktop. If you are shown a notification that says “Wholerable.website wants to show notifications”, do not press “Allow” because…
If Mountainbrowse.com loads every time you open your browser, your computer is likely infected with a browser hijacker. The infections will make unwanted changes to your browser, try to redirect you to sponsored websites to generate traffic and revenue, and collect information related to your browsing. It’s not a harmful infection but you still need to remove Mountainbrowse.com sooner rather than later.
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A report by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has revealed that in a span of 8 months, people have lost over $80 million to cryptocurrency investment scams. Compared to last year, the reported losses have increased nearly 1000%. The numbers, while extremely worrying, are not particularly surprising. The cryptocurrency buzz over the last couple of years has attracted a lot…
Salewedding1.xyz is one of many scam websites that push a social engineering scam to trick users into agreeing to see ads on their desktop. Such sites misuse a legitimate browser feature that allows sites to show users notifications but instead of useful content, they show advertisements. When you get redirected to the site, you’ll get a browser notification that says…
Epicsearches.com is a site that will be set as your homepage if your computer is infected with a specific browser hijacker. It’s not a dangerous infection but it can be very annoying because it changes your browser’s settings without permission and tries to redirect you to sponsored websites. Redirecting you to those sites is its main goal so the hijacker…
Smoothmicro1.xyz is a very typical scam website that tries to trick users into allowing advertisements on their desktops. If you get redirected to it, the site will show either a movie playing or a game, and then display an alert saying “Smoothmicro1.xyz wants to show notifications”. If you click “Allow”, you will start getting ads on your desktop.
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