How to remove permissions granted for champse.click

What kind of page is champse[.]click?

While inspecting champse[.]click, our team discovered that this page runs the "McAfee - Your PC is infected with 5 viruses!" scam and wants to show notifications. It is designed to trick visitors into believing that their computers are infected. We found champse[.]click while examining pages that use rogue advertising networks.

Champse[.]click page in detail

After running a fake antivirus scan, champse[.]click notifies visitors that their computers are infected with five viruses. The fake message displayed by champse[.]click also urges visitors to remove all threats immediately to protect personal data, banking information, and other sensitive information.

Champse[.]click instructs visitors to click the "Start McAfee" button that opens a legitimate McAfee website with an affiliate ID in its URL. Champse[.]click is created by affiliates who aim to earn commissions for promoting McAfee antivirus. McAfee does not use sites like champse[.]click to promote its products.

In addition to using deceptive marketing to promote legitimate software, champse[.]click can show untrustworthy notifications (if allowed). These notifications can open potentially malicious websites requesting for sensitive information, offering to purchase unnecessary software, instructing to contact fake technical support, etc.

Threat Summary:

Name	Ads by champse.click
Threat Type	Push notifications ads, Unwanted ads, Pop-up ads
Detection Names	N/A (VirusTotal)
Serving IP Address	172.67.165.35
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, false claims within visited websites, unwanted applications (adware)
Damage	Decreased computer performance, browser tracking - privacy issues, possible additional malware infections.
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Websites of this type in general

There are many pages similar to champse[.]click, for example, defenderpage[.]xyz, totalwebdefence[.]com, and track-scanner[.]com. They all show deceptive messages (fake warnings/alerts) and ask for permission to show notifications.

Typically, users end up on such pages by clicking shady ads or while visiting torrent sites, illegal movie streaming pages, and similar websites. Sometimes, these pages can be opened by adware. It is important to mention that notifications delivered by pages like champse[.]click can open malicious websites.

How did champse[.]click gain permission to deliver spam notifications?

Web pages get permission to show notifications after visitors click the "Allow" button in a pop-up window displayed by a web browser. They cannot show notifications without permission. It is common for pages like champse[.]click to use deceptive methods (e.g., clickbait techniques) to lure visitors into agreeing to receive notifications from them.

How to prevent deceptive sites from delivering spam notifications?

Do not trust pages stating that it is required to click the "Allow" button to play a video, prove that you are not a robot, download a file, etc. They cannot be trusted. Click the "Block" or "Block Notifications" button when they ask for permission to show notifications and (or) close them.

If you are receiving unwanted notifications, we recommend running a scan with Combo Cleaner Antivirus for Windows to automatically eliminate them.

Appearance of champse[.]click website (GIF):

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Quick menu:

• What is Ads by champse.click?
• 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.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Why am I seeing ads (browser notifications) delivered by champse[.]click in the right lower corner of my desktop?

If this page shows notifications, it means that it was visited earlier and allowed to show them. Permission to deliver notifications is granted by clicking the "Allow" button when a browser notifies that the visited page wants to show notifications.

I have clicked on notification ads, is my computer infected?

Notifications cannot infect computers. However, they can open malicious pages.

Is champse[.]click a virus?

Champse[.]click is not a virus. It claims that the visitor's computer is infected with viruses to promote legitimate antivirus software. However, notifications delivered by this page may open malicious pages.

Will Combo Cleaner remove champse[.]click ads automatically or manual steps are still required?

Yes, Combo Cleaner will scan your computer, eliminate permissions granted for champse[.]click, and block further access to this website. No additional steps will be required.

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