How to remove positive-news.org ads

Complete tips to delete positive-news.org

You may familiar with push notification pop-up windows that usually appear on the corner of the screen on PC. By most, it is used by websites to deliver latest news, updates, informs user about new messages and so on. It can be used for advertising purpose to generate revenue as the same way you see ads on the pages themselves.

positive-news.org abuses this function to fool users to receive those ads. The page authors get paid on every click generated through them. They do not care about the users’ safety and thus those ads can come from various questionable sources. This means, they might be from the individuals who attempt to get traffic to their scams and profits.

People often visit such dubious pages on own. They usually get redirected from a previous website they were browsing and therefore it should not be trusted. People could see ads from the site as adware has installed on their device, doing all such malicious tasks in the background without their consent. In this article, we will guide you how to get rid of the infection and bring back the system to its stable state.

You can’t blame on advertising. It is an essential part of the internet. Because of the ads, a lot of possibilities for small businesses and big companies are opened. Nowadays, you can get any commercial content in whatsoever forms on any websites you visit. People are used to with that and they do not think them as bad.

However, you should not blindly believe on everything you see on the internet. This is because cyber threats have been increasing. Shady individuals are employing social engineering techniques to gain something from such threats. People may get triggered into downloading unwanted apps or malware that sometimes cause a lot of problem depending upon the seriousness of the infection.

Distribution practices

The website positive-news.org displays a fake message that could be the following:

• Click Allow to Confirm your age,
• Click Allow to watch the video,
• Download is ready. Click Allow to download your file,
• Press Allow to verify that you are not a robot.

People who are in rush imitate them as legit captcha verification techniques and proceed with what’s being said. We suggest you not to do that because they are full of sneaky redirects to bogus pages that want to monetize you with ads.

While getting positive-news.org ads is not dangerous in itself, there is thing to be concerned if interact with any of these promotional content in the form of ads and redirects being made. You can turn off the granted permission at anytime through the browser settings. We have instructed how you can do that on your Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, MS Edge, Chrome and Internet Explorer web browser – just below the post.

If this method does not work, you should have to remove the application responsible for this. We have a guide for this tool too – you can scroll down to find that one. After clearing the system, never forget to clear the browser cookies and cache so that all the data from suspicious websites that have been collected will be deleted.

How PUAs get in and how to avoid them

PUAs usually enter through unofficial pages by a deceptive mean of software bundling. When users search for any free version of any applications, the distributors monetize them in different ways. They include additional software with them that the people might not aware that they are downloading to.

By using Custom/Advanced option instead of Automatic one, you can avoid the secret installation of any included apps. The most important part is there to be observing all files that are to be installed and uncheck the boxes to the files that appear suspicious or unrelated to the software.

Antimalware Details And User Guide

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Important Note: This malware asks you to enable the web browser notifications. So, before you go the manual removal process, execute these steps.

Google Chrome (PC)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the Menu button
• Select “Settings”. Scroll the mouse downward to choose “Advanced” option
• Go to “Privacy and Security” section by scrolling downward and then select “Content settings” and then “Notification” option
• Find each suspicious URLs and click on three dots on the right side and choose “Block” or “Remove” option

Google Chrome (Android)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the menu button and then click on “Settings”
• Scroll down further to click on “site settings” and then press on “notifications” option
• In the newly opened window, choose each suspicious URLs one by one
• In the permission section, select “notification” and “Off” the toggle button

Mozilla Firefox

• On the right corner of the screen, you will notice three dots which is the “Menu” button
• Select “Options” and choose “Privacy and Security” in the toolbar present in the left side of the screen
• Slowly scroll down and go to “Permission” section then choose “Settings” option next to “Notifications”
• In the newly opened window, select all the suspicious URLs. Click on the drop-down menu and select “Block”

Internet Explorer

• In the Internet Explorer window, select the Gear button present on the right corner
• Choose “Internet Options”
• Select “Privacy” tab and then “Settings” under the “Pop-up Blocker” section
• Select all the suspicious URLs one by one and click on the “Remove” option

Microsoft Edge

• Open the Microsoft Edge and click on the three dots on the right corner of the screen to open the menu
• Scroll down and select “Settings”
• Scroll down further to choose “view advanced settings”
• In the “Website Permission” option, click on “Manage” option
• Click on switch under every suspicious URL

Safari (Mac):

• On the upper right side corner, click on “Safari” and then select “Preferences”
• Go to “website” tab and then choose “Notification” section on the left pane
• Search for the suspicious URLs and choose “Deny” option for each one of them

Manual Steps to Remove positive-news.org:

Remove the related items of positive-news.org using Control-Panel

Windows 7 Users

Click “Start” (the windows logo at the bottom left corner of the desktop screen), select “Control Panel”. Locate the “Programs” and then followed by clicking on “Uninstall Program”

Windows XP Users

Click “Start” and then choose “Settings” and then click “Control Panel”. Search and click on “Add or Remove Program’ option

Windows 10 and 8 Users:

Go to the lower left corner of the screen and right-click. In the “Quick Access” menu, choose “Control Panel”. In the newly opened window, choose “Program and Features”

Mac OSX Users

Click on “Finder” option. Choose “Application” in the newly opened screen. In the “Application” folder, drag the app to “Trash”. Right click on the Trash icon and then click on “Empty Trash”.

In the uninstall programs window, search for the PUAs. Choose all the unwanted and suspicious entries and click on “Uninstall” or “Remove”.

After you uninstall all the potentially unwanted program causing positive-news.org issues, scan your computer with an anti-malware tool for any remaining PUPs and PUAs or possible malware infection. To scan the PC, use the recommended the anti-malware tool.

How to Remove Adware (positive-news.org) from Internet Browsers

Delete malicious add-ons and extensions from IE

Click on the gear icon at the top right corner of Internet Explorer. Select “Manage Add-ons”. Search for any recently installed plug-ins or add-ons and click on “Remove”.

Additional Option

If you still face issues related to positive-news.org removal, you can reset the Internet Explorer to its default setting.

Windows XP users: Press on “Start” and click “Run”. In the newly opened window, type “inetcpl.cpl” and click on the “Advanced” tab and then press on “Reset”.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 Users: Press the Windows logo, type inetcpl.cpl in the start search box and press enter.  In the newly opened window, click on the “Advanced Tab” followed by “Reset” button.

For Windows 8 Users: Open IE and click on the “gear” icon. Choose “Internet Options”

Select the “Advanced” tab in the newly opened window

Press on “Reset” option

You have to press on the “Reset” button again to confirm that you really want to reset the IE

Remove Doubtful and Harmful Extension from Google Chrome

Go to menu of Google Chrome by pressing on three vertical dots and select on “More tools” and then “Extensions”. You can search for all the recently installed add-ons and remove all of them.

Optional Method

If the problems related to positive-news.org still persists or you face any issue in removing, then it is advised that your reset the Google Chrome browse settings. Go to three dotted points at the top right corner and choose “Settings”. Scroll down bottom and click on “Advanced”.

At the bottom, notice the “Reset” option and click on it.

In the next opened window, confirm that you want to reset the Google Chrome settings by click on the “Reset” button.

Remove positive-news.org plugins (including all other doubtful plug-ins) from Firefox Mozilla

Open the Firefox menu and select “Add-ons”. Click “Extensions”.  Select all the recently installed browser plug-ins.

Optional Method

If you face problems in positive-news.org removal then you have the option to rese the settings of Mozilla Firefox.

Open the browser (Mozilla Firefox) and click on the “menu” and then click on “Help”.

Choose “Troubleshooting Information”

In the newly opened pop-up window, click “Refresh Firefox” button

The next step is to confirm that really want to reset the Mozilla Firefox settings to its default by clicking on “Refresh Firefox” button.

Remove Malicious Extension from Safari

Open the Safari and go to its “Menu” and select “Preferences”.

Click on the “Extension” and select all the recently installed “Extensions” and then click on “Uninstall”.

Optional Method

Open the “Safari” and go menu. In the drop-down menu, choose “Clear History and Website Data”.

In the newly opened window, select “All History” and then press on “Clear History” option.

Delete positive-news.org (malicious add-ons) from Microsoft Edge

Open Microsoft Edge and go to three horizontal dot icons at the top right corner of the browser. Select all the recently installed extensions and right click on the mouse to “uninstall”

Optional Method

Open the browser (Microsoft Edge) and select “Settings”

Next steps is to click on “Choose what to clear” button

Click on “show more” and then select everything and then press on “Clear” button.

Conclusion

In most cases, the PUPs and adware gets inside the marked PC through unsafe freeware downloads. It is advised that you should only choose developers website only while downloading any kind of free applications.  Choose custom or advanced installation process so that you can trace the additional PUPs listed for installation along with the main program.