How to get rid of apps used to promote reverscaptcha.com?

What is reverscaptcha[.]com?

Reverscaptcha[.]com is quite similar to 1video-online[.]me, lootynews[.]com, romanticdating-day[.]com and a great number of other websites designed to promote a variety of untrustworthy pages and load deceptive content. Typically, pages like reverscaptcha[.]com are promoted through potentially unwanted applications (PUAs), shady advertisements, and other untrustworthy pages.

Reverscaptcha[.]com in detail

Usually, pages like reverscaptcha[.]com are designed to promote questionable pages. It is common that they open sites asking to provide personal information (e.g., names, surnames, credit card details, passwords), encouraging to download or install adware, browser hijackers (or other potentially unwanted applications), and so on.

A couple of examples of pages that sites like reverscaptcha[.]com usually promote are "Access To This Pc Has Been Blocked For Security Reasons", "SPIN FOR REWARD", "Google Membership Rewards".

It is known that reverscaptcha[.]com asks for permission to show its notifications. It is important to mention that websites of this type usually use some clickbait technique to trick visitors into allowing them to show notifications (into clicking the "Allow" button). This page displays a fake CATPCHA test encouraging to click the "Allow" button to prove that visitors are not robots.

It is recommended not to agree to receive notifications from reverscaptcha[.]com or any other similar website. The main reason why their notifications cannot be trusted is that they contain links to potentially malicious pages, questionable advertisements, etc.

As mentioned in the introduction paragraph, one of the ways to promote sites like reverscaptcha[.]com is to trick users into downloading and installing potentially unwanted applications. Apps of this kind can be designed to collect various data and generate advertisements.

Most PUAs target IP addresses, geolocations, entered search queries, visited pages, and other browsing-related data. There are PUAs that can read personal (sensitive) information as well.

Another issue is that collected details could be used for marketing purposes, steal identities, sell to third parties (potentially cybercriminals), or monetized in other ways.

Examples of advertisements that PUAs can generate are coupons, banners, surveys, pop-up ads. It is common for those ads to be designed to open questionable pages or execute certain scripts and then download or even install unwanted apps.

Threat Summary:

Name	Ads by reverscaptcha.com
Threat Type	Push notifications ads, Unwanted ads, Pop-up ads
Serving IP Address	5.8.34.33
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.
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Potentially unwanted applications and pages like reverscaptcha[.]com in general

In conclusion, users rarely visit pages like reverscaptcha[.]com or download and install PUAs on purpose. It is worth mentioning that PUAs often are advertised as legitimate applications.

However, most PUAs or websites promoted through them are trustworthy, legitimate, useful, etc. Usually, their main purpose is to promote other questionable pages, display shady ads or generate revenue for their developers in other ways.

How did adware install on my computer?

Pretty often, potentially unwanted applications can be found in downloaders, installers for other programs as additional, optional offers. This distribution method is known as "bundling".

Usually, those downloaders, installers have ticked checkboxes or "Manual", "Advanced", "Custom" (or other) settings, options. Users can use their settings to deselect unwanted applications/decline unwanted offers.

When users download or install programs without changing the aforementioned settings, they agree to download or install offered applications as well. It is worth mentioning that PUAs are offered in downloaders, installers for free programs.

How to avoid installation of potentially unwanted applications?

It is advisable to use official and trustworthy websites (and direct links) to download applications, files. Other sources like third-party downloaders (and installers), unofficial websites, Peer-to-Peer networks (for example, torrent clients, eMule), can be used to distribute potentially unwanted or even malicious applications.

Downloaders and installers that have optional offers should be inspected. Usually, they have "Advanced", "Custom" or other settings, or some checkboxes that can be used to decline unwanted offers.

Additionally, it is recommended not to trust advertisements that appear on questionable websites. Pretty often, those ads are used to advertise untrustworthy websites or distribute unwanted applications.

Any unwanted, suspicious extensions, plug-ins, or add-ons installed on a browser or programs 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.

Appearance of reverscaptcha[.]com website (GIF):

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Quick menu:

• What is Ads by reverscaptcha.com?
• 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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