Understanding Virus and Malware Removal at Boxaid
At Boxaid, the technical team often handles the removal of viruses and malware, a process that can range from straightforward to extremely meticulous and manual. Customers occasionally believe they have a malware infection due to excessive pop-ups, reminiscent of older malware tactics. However, these pop-ups are frequently just notifications from low-quality or spam websites they’ve previously visited. Disabling these notifications in a browser like Google Chrome is a simple process that involves adjusting the pop-up settings.
The Utility of Certain Notifications
Enabling notifications for specific websites, such as frequently visited news outlets, can be beneficial. These notifications facilitate easy access to preferred content. Websites often encourage subscriptions to their content and notification feeds as a method to draw visitors back. Yet, many users quickly seek to unsubscribe from these notifications soon after hastily agreeing to them.
Web Push Notifications Explained
Web push notifications are on-screen messages that appear anytime a user’s browser is open, regardless of whether they are actively on the originating website. These notifications can be received on both desktop and mobile web platforms, appearing in a sliding alert style on desktop screens or similarly to app push notifications on mobile devices.
How Chrome Pop-Up Notifications Operate
Chrome is configured to alert users whenever a website, app, or extension requests to send notifications, a setting that users can modify. Chrome will block notifications from sites with intrusive or misleading notifications and suggest maintaining this block. However, notifications are not provided in Incognito mode.
Disabling Notifications in Google Chrome
Users may wish to disable notifications to reduce intrusiveness. This can be done for individual sites or all sites through Chrome’s Settings menu.
Controlling Notification Pop-Ups
- Open Chrome on your computer.
- Click More and then Settings.
- Under “Privacy and security,” select Site settings.
- Click Notifications.
- Choose to block or allow notifications:
- Toggle on or off the option for sites to ask to send notifications.
- To block a site, click Add next to “Block,” enter the site, and click Add.
- To allow a site, click Add next to “Allow,” enter the site, and click Add.
- To enable quieter notification prompts, turn on the option and select Use quieter messaging.
Blocking specific sites or apps from sending notifications is also possible by removing them from the Allow list and adding them to the Block list.
Changing Permission Settings for All Sites
- Open Chrome and access Settings.
- Under “Privacy and security,” go to Site settings.
- Select the permission to update or view permissions and data stored across sites.
Adjusting Settings for a Specific Site
- Open Chrome and visit the website in question.
- Click the icon next to the web address (Lock, Info, or Dangerous).
- Click Site settings and change the permission setting.
- Save your changes automatically or reset permissions if preferred.
Stopping Web Popups in Google Chrome
To cease receiving popup notifications from a specific site, you can follow the above instructions to adjust the settings for that particular site or for all sites in general.