How to remove permissions granted for legivenestatery.com

What kind of page is legivenestatery[.]com?

We have examined legivenestatery[.]com and learned that the purpose of this site is to lure visitors into agreeing to receive notifications. We discovered legivenestatery[.]com while inspecting pages that use shady advertising networks. Users do not visit pages legivenestatery[.]com on purpose.

Legivenestatery[.]com in detail

Legivenestatery[.]com uses a clickbait technique to trick visitors into allowing it to display notifications. It shows a deceptive message instructing visitors to click the "Allow" button to prove that they are not robots (to pass a fake CAPTCHA).

If allowed, legivenestatery[.]com site shows notifications claiming that the operating system is at risk, a Gmail account has been hacked, and other deceptive notifications. These notifications can lead to phishing pages, technical support scam sites, promote untrustworthy apps and even open malicious websites.

A couple examples of pages that notifications from pages like legivenestatery[.]com can open are "TESCO Loyalty Program", "McAfee - Your Card Payment Has Failed!", and "Avira - Your System Was Corrupted". Also, these notifications can promote adware, browser hijackers, and other potentially malicious apps.

Threat Summary:

Name	Ads by legivenestatery.com
Threat Type	Push notifications ads, Unwanted ads, Pop-up ads
Detection Names	N/A (VirusTotal)
Serving IP Address	104.21.38.58
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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More about websites of this type

A big part of pages similar to legivenestatery[.]com uses clickbait techniques to trick visitors into allowing them to send notifications. Sometimes, sites like legivenestatery[.]com (their notifications) can lead to malicious pages.

Users open pages like legivenestatery[.]com via illegal movie streaming, torrent, and other pages of this kind or untrustworthy advertisements. Advertising-supported apps can also open such pages. Examples of similar pages are globaldispadvertising[.]com, cvgdownthe[.]xyz, and yournicejournal[.]com.

How did legivenestatery[.]com gain permission to deliver spam notifications?

Websites cannot show notifications without the visitor's consent. They start showing notifications after visitors click the "Allow", "Allow Notifications", or a similar button displayed by a browser. Thus, legivenestatery[.]com displays notifications because it has been allowed to do so while visiting it.

How to prevent deceptive sites from delivering spam notifications?

Click the "Block", "Block Notifications", or a similar button (depending on the web browser) to decline requests to show notifications or close untrustworthy. Do not click the "Allow" button while visiting them.

Note that trustworthy websites do not request to click the "Allow" button to prove that they are not robots, download a file, play a video, etc. If you are receiving unwanted notifications, we recommend running a scan with Combo Cleaner Antivirus for Windows to automatically eliminate them.

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

Notifications from legivenestatery[.]com:

Video showing how to eliminate ads delivered by legivenestatery[.]com using Combo Cleaner:

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Quick menu:

• What is Ads by legivenestatery.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.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

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

To receive browser notifications from a website, the user must grant permission. This implies that you may have already visited legivenestatery[.]com and permitted it to show notifications.

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

Clicking on a notification alone does not cause harm. Nevertheless, the websites that these notifications may open can be malicious.

Is legivenestatery[.]com a virus?

Websites like legivenestatery[.]com are not viruses. Usually, their purpose is to promote various scams, shady websites, and (or) potentially malicious apps.

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

Yes, Combo Cleaner will scan the operating system and remove all permissions granted for legivenestatery[.]com. It will also block further access to legivenestatery[.]com. No additional steps will be required.

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