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Witmayhav.fun: Step-by-step Uninstall Guide

Witmayhav.fun is a push notification virus that spreads if users press the Allow button when visiting this dubious website. It can use many devious tactics to deceive visitors into allowing its push notifications. People might be forced into it, to enter the website, continue to the portal, download a file, watch a video, confirm that you’re over 18 years old, prove that they not robots, etc., depending on their geolocations. If you didn’t enter this web address in your URL bar, but you are still redirected to it, that might mean that you have an adware or other potentially unwanted program (PUP) infection.

Witmayhav.fun Ads Trigger Redirects To Questionable Sites:

The worse thing about the Witmayhav.fun adware is that they will obstruct your system performance by popping up out of nowhere and display misleading advertisements. They can cause redirects to other shady or even dangerous websites. That’s why you should scan your PC with a reliable anti-malware tool as early as possible. As stated before, you might get rerouted to this perilous site due an adware infection. These potentially unwanted programs can display an excessive amount of ads, such as pop-ups, banners, surveys, in-text hyperlinks, or sometimes even cover the whole browser window.

Ads delivered by Witmayhav.fun might annoy and frustrate you and disrupt your entire online sessions badly. Also, if they’re clicked, they can cause redirects to sponsored pages that might pose a lot of dangers. PUP operators only care about generating revenues; they have nothing to do with the safety of their users, so the promoted sites might be explicit, dangerous, or even malicious, including:

• fake updates,
• porn,
• gambling,
• malware,
• scams, etc.

Similar portals could be shown up if you clicked on Witmayhav.fun ads. They’re designed to bait users into clicking them by showing multiple too good to be true software/hardware deals, imaginary news, and so on. But the sites you will end up on typically have no relation with the ads themselves. Moreover, those pop-ups can cause redirects to any of the sponsored pages on-demand, meaning you can be forced into visiting them unwillingly. Thus, you should never click on any ads on dubious portals or notifications appearing after you accepted alerts from them. In addition, you must perform Witmayhav.fun removal from the computer immediately.

How Does This PUP Intrude Your System?

It may be bundled with third-party software. When people decide to install any freeware, they often select the Quick or Recommended configuration settings after downloading the app from free file-hosting site like soft32.com, softonic.com, cnet.com, download.com etc. Nonetheless, this leads to the stealthily installation of the potentially unwanted programs as they are disguised under the Recommended modes. So, by choosing these options, you allow all the bundled components to get installed together with the carrier software without even your knowledge.

So to prevent this from happening, you should always select the Advanced or Custom installation option and cautiously check if it has additional objects or not. If you find an unfamiliar add-on, toolbar, extension, etc., make sure that you opt-out of it without any consideration. This way, you can prevent adware and other PUPs from entering your work-station. In case your device is already contaminated with this adware, you must remove Witmayhav.fun from the computer as soon as possible.

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 Witmayhav.fun:

Remove the related items of Witmayhav.fun 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 Witmayhav.fun 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 (Witmayhav.fun) 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 Witmayhav.fun 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 Witmayhav.fun 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 Witmayhav.fun 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 Witmayhav.fun 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 Witmayhav.fun (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.