How to remove apps designed to open allactualstories.com?

What is allactualstories[.]com?

Allactualstories[.]com is designed to trick visitors into agreeing to receive notifications from it. Also, this page can open other untrustworthy websites. Allactualstories[.]com is similar to typiccor[.]com, tik-ttok[.]net, financesurvey365[.]org, and more. Users do not visit them on intentionally.

Allactualstories[.]com in detail

Allactualstories[.]com displays a message encouraging visitors to click the "Allow" button to continue watching a video. This site uses a clickbait technique to trick visitors into allowing it to show notifications. If allowed, allactualstories[.]com shows notifications that promote various scams.

At the time of the research, a notification from allactualstories[.]com promoted a scam similar to "Your ANTIVIRUS Subscription Has Expired". Other notifications from this site might be promoting download websites for adware, browser hijackers, and other potentially unwanted applications (PUAs).

Also, allactualstories[.]com opens questionable websites. One of the pages that allactualstories[.]com opens is a scam page recommending users to increase computer speed with some extension. That extension could be malicious, or designed to display annoying ads, collect information, promote shady websites, etc.

Users rarely visit websites like allactualstories[.]com on purpose. These pages get opened through untrustworthy advertisements, other unreliable websites or installed potentially unwanted applications. Typically, users download and install PUAs accidentally.

Threat Summary:

Name	Ads by allactualstories.com
Threat Type	Push notifications ads, Unwanted ads, Pop-up ads
Detection Names	Fortinet (Malware), Full List Of Detections (VirusTotal)
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 in general

Allactualstories[.]com is designed to trick visitors into agreeing to receive its notifications and promote other dubious pages. Websites opened through allactualstories[.]com may be malicious or used to extract sensitive information (for example, credit card details, usernames, passwords). It is strongly recommended not to trust allactualstories[.]com.

How did adware install on my computer?

Most potentially unwanted applications are distributed through downloaders and installers for other programs (mainly freeware). Users download and install PUAs when they do not change "Custom", "Advanced", "Manual" or other options before finishing downloads or installations of those free programs.

In other cases, unwanted applications are distributed through deceptive advertisements by designing those ads to run certain scripts and fake installers. As a rule, fake installers are designed to look like legitimate installers for legitimate programs.

How to avoid installation of potentially unwanted applications?

Third-party downloaders, installers, Peer-to-Peer networks like torrent clients, eMule, unofficial pages, and so on should not be used to download or install any programs. Apps (and files) should be downloaded from official websites and via direct links.

Downloaders and installers that have "Custom", "Advanced", "Manual", or other settings, or checkboxes should be checked for offers to download or install PUAs. Advertisements displayed on untrustworthy pages should not be clicked (those ads can open untrustworthy, potentially malicious pages or cause unwanted downloads, installations).

Any suspicious, unwanted, or unknown extensions, plug-ins, and add-ons that a browser has installed on it should be removed. As well as programs of this kind installed on the operating system. 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 allactualstories[.]com website (GIF):

Notification from allactualstories[.]com:

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Quick menu:

• What is Ads by allactualstories.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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