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What is Mportantly.online ads?

Mportantly.online – a website with fake promises you shouldn't trust

Mportantly.online ads might include links to malicious websites

Every time you enter a web address into the URL bar, you are taken to a predetermined website of your destination. However, while browsing the web and clicking on links, the outcome might be something completely different than you expected. Mportantly.online is one of the websites that you might come across accidentally, and it will try manipulating you into subscribing to notifications immediately.

If you were to access the site by entering its address directly, you would be shown something that looks like a sports news website. However, this is not the version that most users encounter after being redirected. Instead, they are shown two major components of the scam, which include:

• Pop-up prompt which asks to allow notifications to be shown
• Background picture or a message which encourages to press the “Allow” button for one reason or another, which is always fake.

With the help of a few social engineering^[1] tricks, website authors manage to convince users to allow these notifications, which results in rather disruptive behavior that comes via the browser, although the notifications are shown on the system level.

Mportantly.online pop-ups are by no means useful in any way. Not only do they fail to provide “The Latest Sports Updates From Around The World,” but instead insert links to potentially dangerous websites. These ads can show up at any time and be very disruptive. Even accidental links, under certain circumstances, might result in an automatic malware installation. Some of the content can be relatively harmless, although there is no guarantee it actually is, as the website is rogue.

Scam techniques explained

The push notifications feature is something that some users are barely aware of. They have definitely encountered them before, although they do not quite understand how they work. To elaborate, the feature was introduced over a decade ago – it allows apps and website developers to show pop-ups at predetermined or random timeframes.

Any apps that show pop-up ads should be eradicated immediately, and the chances are that, if you have SpyHunter 5Combo Cleaner, Malwarebytes, or similar security software installed, they did not manage to reach your system. However, notifications coming from websites are something completely different – they would not be recognized by anti-malware tools. This is merely an API^[2] that allows a website to transfer information to you, and it can include any type of content.

As soon as crooks realized that they could use push notifications to transmit links, they knew they hit the jackpot, as ad revenue can be huge from these scams. The only thing they need to do is convince users to press that “Allow” button.

To do that, they use fraud. The main goal of scammers is to convince visitors that the notification prompt doesn't do what it actually does. For example, you might encounter one of the following messages in the page's background:

Click Allow to continue

Press Allow to verify, that you are not a robot

Click Allow to watch the video

If you are 18+ tap Allow

Websites might trick users into subscribing to notifications

These messages somehow promise users that there is more content to be explored, although this could not be further from the truth. Instead, whether “Allow” or “Block” is pressed, people are likely to be redirected to another scam website that will ask for the same thing. At this point, however, if the former option was used, the permission to show pop-ups has already been provided.

Get rid of Mportantly.online pop-ups on Google Chrome and other browsers

There are thousands of websites that specialize in push notification scams – Allactualstories.com, Jecromaha.info, or News-tabiva.cc are just a few examples. While a significant portion of these fraudulent sites are shut down relatively quickly, crooks can quickly recreate them under different names.

If you have been scammed and subscribed to Mportantly.online ads, you should not panic, as this can easily be reverted by accessing the settings section of your browser.

Google Chrome (desktop):

1. Open Google Chrome browser and go to Menu > Settings.
2. Scroll down and click on Advanced.
3. Locate Privacy and security section and pick Site Settings > Notifications.
4. Look at the Allow section and look for a suspicious URL.
5. Click the three vertical dots next to it and pick Block. This should remove unwanted notifications from Google Chrome.

Google Chrome (Android):

• Open Google Chrome and tap on Settings (three vertical dots).
• Select Notifications.
• Scroll down to Sites section.
• Locate the unwanted URL and toggle the button to the left (Off setting).

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Open Mozilla Firefox and go to Menu > Options.
2. Click on Privacy & Security section.
3. Under Permissions, you should be able to see Notifications. Click Settings button next to it.
4. In the Settings – Notification Permissions window, click on the drop-down menu by the URL in question.
5. Select Block and then click on Save Changes. This should remove unwanted notifications from Mozilla Firefox.

Safari:

1. Click on Safari > Preferences…
2. Go to Websites tab and, under General, select Notifications.
3. Select the web address in question, click the drop-down menu and select Deny.

MS Edge (Chromium):

1. Open Microsoft Edge, and go to Settings.
2. Select Site permissions.
3. Go to Notifications on the right.
4. Under Allow, you will find the unwanted entry.
5. Click on More actions and select Block.

Don't forget to check for adware

Everyone who starts seeing questionable Mportantly.online pop-up ads out of nowhere might start believing that there is some type of a virus installed on the system. While we already explained that this is not the case in the previous paragraphs, it does not automatically mean that your system is clean.

Whenever you see suspicious activity on your system, it should be a cause of concern – be it unexpected system crashes or pop-up ads. One might signal that malware managed to corrupt system files, while the other might suggest that adware is sneakily producing ads and causing browser redirects.

The latter is especially true if you commonly encounter websites of dubious content (tech support scams, phishing, spoofing, and similar malicious sites, etc.). In this case, not only you should find the root cause of the issue and eliminate it but also make sure that your browsers are fully cleaned.

While you can remove adware manually, it might sometimes be difficult to determine which program is responsible for the issues. It might be an app installed on the system level, or it could be a browser extension. Besides, some programs might go rogue suddenly, and apps that were completely safe before might start behaving badly.

Therefore, we recommend you not dig through your computer folders to find all the bits of unwanted software or malware but instead employ a powerful anti-malware tool such as SpyHunter 5Combo Cleaner, Malwarebytes. It can do the job for you and ensure that no malicious processes are running in the background.

In order to clean your browsers quickly, you can employ FortectIntego maintenance software. It can delete cookies and cache for you, as well as other junk files from the system. Besides, it can fix malware-caused damage automatically, resolving BSODs,^[3] errors, crashes, and other system failures that might be present due to a malware attack or other unrelated reasons.

Alternatively, you can always clean browsers yourself. Below you will find all the information needed for the most commonly used browsers.