How to remove apps used to promote goalmedia pages?
Written by Tomas Meskauskas on (updated)
What is goalmedia?
Goalmedia websites (goalmedia[.]club, goalmedia[.]bar, and a couple of other pages) are very similar to nipwaghue[.]com, ntformetog[.]fun, allyimporta[.]fun, and many other websites. These pages are designed to promote other dubious pages and load deceptive content.
Therefore, it is strongly recommended not to trust them. It is important to mention that it is uncommon for such pages to be visited intentionally.
Typically, they get opened through questionable advertisements, websites, or by installed potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) that users download and install on browsers, computers unintentionally.
Goalmedia websites are likely to be designed to promote various scams like "You Are Our Winner Today!", "Your System Detected Some Unusual Activity", download pages for adware-type applications, browser hijackers and other PUAs, or even malicious pages. Typically, such pages check visitor's IP address and then open about two or three untrustworthy pages or their load their content.
As mentioned in the first paragraph, it is common that pages of this type load deceptive content. At the time of the research, one of the goalmedia pages (goalmedia[.]club) loaded a fake CAPTCHA test to trick visitors into clicking the "Allow" button and allowing it to show notifications.
It is very common for such pages to use some clickbait technique to deceive visitors into agreeing to receive their notifications. In this case, goalmedia[.]club loaded a message saying that visitors need to click the "Allow" button to prove that they are not robots.
In most cases, websites of this type show notifications that contain untrustworthy advertisements, potentially malicious website links, and so on. In conclusion, it is strongly recommended not to trust goalmedia pages, the pages that they promote, and not to allow them to show notifications.
It is likely that goalmedia pages are promoted through various potentially unwanted applications. Apps of this kind can be designed to gather Internet Protocol addresses, entered search queries, geolocations, addresses of visited websites, and other browsing-related data.
It is known that there are PUAs that can access personal, sensitive data. The problem with it is that collected data could be sold to third parties (potentially cybercriminals), used for marketing (or other) purposes, etc.
Additionally, PUAs can be designed to generate unwanted ads, for example, coupons, pop-up ads, surveys, banners. It is common that those ads are used to promote potentially malicious pages.
Sometimes, those ads are designed to execute certain scripts and download or even install unwanted software. Therefore, it is strongly advisable not to have any PUAs installed.
| Name | Ads by goalmedia |
| Threat Type | Push notifications ads, Unwanted ads, Pop-up ads |
| Related Domains | goalmedia[.]club, goalmedia[.]bar, goalmedia[.]monster, goalmedia[.]cam |
| Serving IP Address (All Related Domains) | 178.62.225.201 |
| Symptoms | Seeing advertisements not originating from the sites you are browsing. Intrusive pop-up ads. Decreased Internet browsing speed. |
| Distribution Methods | Deceptive pop-up ads, potentially unwanted applications (adware) |
| Damage | Decreased computer performance, browser tracking - privacy issues, possible additional malware infections. |
| Malware Removal (Windows) | To eliminate possible malware infections, scan your computer with legitimate antivirus software. Our security researchers recommend using Combo Cleaner. |
To summarize, goalmedia pages (and other similar pages) are not trustworthy, and browsers that open them automatically are likely to have one or another PUA installed on them. It is noteworthy that most PUAs are useless to their users and can cause them various issues.
Usually, apps of this kind are designed only to generate revenue for their developers (by promoting various web pages, gathering information and generating advertisements). As mentioned in the introduction, most PUAs get downloaded and installed unintentionally.
How did adware install on my computer?
In some cases, users download or install potentially unwanted applications through deceptive advertisements - by clicking shady ads that are designed to execute certain scripts. However, most of the times users cause it when PUAs are distributed by using a method called "bundling" - when apps of this kind are included in downloaders, installers for other programs as extra offers.
Typically, users can decline unwanted offers (opt out bundled apps) via "Custom", "Advanced", and other similar settings or by unticking ticked checkboxes that those downloaders, installers have. Users agree to download or install offered apps when they leave those settings unchanged or checkboxes ticked.
How to avoid installation of potentially unwanted applications?
It is advisable to download software only from trustworthy, official websites and through direct links. Files, programs downloaded via third-party downloaders, Peer-to-Peer networks (e.g., torrent clients, eMule), unofficial websites, and other channels, sources of this kind can be designed to install unwanted apps.
Third-party installers can cause unwanted installations too. Furthermore, downloads, installations should not be finished without checking downloaders, installers for "Manual", "Custom", "Advanced" (or other settings), or ticked checkboxes.
It is common that those downloaders, installers are bundled with PUAs. Ads on questionable pages should not be trusted (clicked) as well.
Quite often, those ads open untrustworthy websites. Sometimes they download, install unwanted software by running certain scripts.
Any unwanted, unknown apps (extensions, add-ons or plug-ins) installed on a web browser and software of this kind installed on the operating system should be removed. If your computer is already infected with rogue applications, we recommend running a scan with Combo Cleaner Antivirus for Windows to automatically eliminate them.
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Quick menu:
- What is Ads by goalmedia?
- STEP 1. Remove spam notifications from Google Chrome
- STEP 2. Remove spam notifications from Google Chrome (Android)
- STEP 3. Remove spam notifications from Mozilla Firefox
- STEP 4. Remove spam notifications from Microsoft Edge
- STEP 5. Remove spam notifications from Safari (macOS)
Disable unwanted browser notifications:
Video showing how to disable web browser notifications:
Remove spam notifications from Google Chrome:
Click the Menu button (three dots) on the right upper corner of the screen and select "Settings". In the opened window select "Privacy and security", then click on "Site Settings" and choose "Notifications".
In the "Allowed to send notifications" list search for websites that you want to stop receiving notifications from. Click on the three dots icon near the website URL and click "Block" or "Remove" (if you click "Remove" and visit the malicious site once more, it will ask to enable notifications again).
Remove spam notifications from Google Chrome (Android):
Tap the Menu button (three dots) on the right upper corner of the screen and select "Settings". Scroll down, tap on "Site settings" and then "Notifications".
In the opened window, locate all suspicious URLs and tap on them one-by-one. Once the pop-up shows up, select either "Block" or "Remove" (if you tap "Remove" and visit the malicious site once more, it will ask to enable notifications again).
Remove spam notifications from Mozilla Firefox:
Click the Menu button (three bars) on the right upper corner of the screen. Select "Settings" and click on "Privacy & Security" in the toolbar on the left hand side of the screen. Scroll down to the "Permissions" section and click the "Settings" button next to "Notifications".
In the opened window, locate all suspicious URLs and block them using the drop-down menu or either remove them by clicking "Remove Website" at the bottom of the window (if you click "Remove Website" and visit the malicious site once more, it will ask to enable notifications again).
Remove spam notifications from Microsoft Edge:
Click the menu button (three dots) on the right upper corner of the Edge window and select "Settings". Click on "Cookies and site permissions" in the toolbar on the left hand side of the screen and select "Notifications".
Click three dots on the right hand side of each suspicious URL under "Allow" section and click "Block" or "Remove" (if you click "Remove" and visit the malicious site once more, it will ask to enable notifications again).
Remove spam notifications from Safari (macOS):
Click "Safari" button on the left upper corner of the screen and select "Preferences...". Select the "Websites" tab and then select "Notifications" section on the left pane.
Check for suspicious URLs and apply the "Deny" option using the drop-down menu or either remove them by clicking "Remove" at the bottom of the window (if you click "Remove" and visit the malicious site once more, it will ask to enable notifications again)
How to avoid browser notification spam?
Internet users should be very skeptical when being asked to allow notifications. While this is a useful feature that allows you to receive timely news from websites you like, deceptive marketers frequently abuse it.
Only allow notifications from websites that you fully trust. For added security - use an anti-malware application with a real-time web browsing monitor to block shady websites that tries to trick you into allowing spam notifications. We recommend using Combo Cleaner Antivirus for Windows.
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