How to remove Notificationsacademy.com pop-ups (Virus removal guide)

What is Notificationsacademy.com?

There are many scam websites on the Internet and Notificationsacademy.com is one of them. It is a scam website which attempts to lure you and other unsuspecting users into allowing push notifications from malicious (ad) push servers. Although push notifications cannot harm you directly, scammers use them to display intrusive ads, promote suspicious programs, and encourage you to visit shady web pages.

Notificationsacademy.com is a deceptive site that asks you to click on the ‘Allow’ button in order to access the content of the web-site, watch a video, download a file, enable Flash Player, connect to the Internet, and so on. If you press the ‘Allow’ button, then your web browser will be configured to show popup adverts in the lower right hand corner of the desktop.

Threat Summary

Name	Notificationsacademy.com popup
Type	spam push notifications, browser notification spam, pop-up virus
Distribution	social engineering attack, PUPs, dubious pop-up advertisements, adware software
Symptoms	intrusive ads on desktop unwanted changes in your internet browser advertising banners appear on web-pages that you are visiting low ping but slow Internet
Removal	Notificationsacademy.com removal guide

Where the Notificationsacademy.com pop-ups comes from

Some research has shown that users can be redirected to Notificationsacademy.com from malicious ads or by PUPs and adware. Adware is something which developed in order to show third-party advertisements to the user without asking permission. Adware software takes control of browsers and redirects them to scam web pages like Notificationsacademy.com every time you browse the World Wide Web.

Adware can end up on computers in various ways. Most commonly is when users download freeware and forget to uncheck the box for the optional programs installation. Most often, a user have a chance to disable all bundled internet browser plugins, but certain installers are developed to confuse the average users, in order to trick them into installing PUPs and adware. Anyway, easier to prevent adware rather than clean up your computer after one. So, keep your internet browser updated (turn on automatic updates), use good antivirus applications, double check free applications before you launch it (do a google search, scan a downloaded file with VirusTotal), avoid suspicious and unknown web sites.

Remove Notificationsacademy.com notifications from web-browsers

If you’ve allowed the Notificationsacademy.com notifications by clicking the Allow button, then after a short time you will notice that these notifications are very intrusive. Here’s how to delete Notificationsacademy.com push notifications from your browser.

Google Chrome	Android
In the right upper corner, click on ‘three vertical dots’, and this will open up the main menu on Google Chrome. Select ‘Settings’, scroll down to the bottom and click ‘Advanced’. In the ‘Privacy and Security’ section, click on ‘Site settings’. Go to Notifications settings. Locate the Notificationsacademy.com URL and click the three vertical dots button next to it, then click on ‘Remove’.	Open Chrome. In the top-right corner, find and tap the Chrome menu (three dots). In the menu tap ‘Settings’, scroll down to ‘Advanced’. Tap on ‘Site settings’ and then ‘Notifications’. In the opened window, find the Notificationsacademy.com URL, other questionable sites and tap on them one-by-one. Tap the ‘Clean & Reset’ button and confirm.
Mozilla Firefox	Edge
Click the Menu button (three horizontal stripes) on the top-right corner of the browser. Select ‘Options’ and click on ‘Privacy & Security’ on the left hand side of the browser window. Scroll down to the ‘Permissions’ section and click the ‘Settings’ button next to ‘Notifications’. Find sites you down’t want to see notifications from (for example, Notificationsacademy.com), click on drop-down menu next to each and select ‘Block’. Click ‘Save Changes’ button.	Click the More button (it looks like three dots) in the right upper corner of the browser. Click ‘Settings’. Click ‘Advanced’ on the left side of the window. Click ‘Manage permissions’ button below ‘Website permissions’. Click the switch below the Notificationsacademy.com and each suspicious site.
Internet Explorer	Safari
In the top right corner of the window, click on the gear icon (menu button). Go to ‘Internet Options’ in the menu. Click on the ‘Privacy’ tab and select ‘Settings’ in the pop-up blockers section. Locate the Notificationsacademy.com and click the ‘Remove’ button to remove the domain.	On the top menu select ‘Safari’, then ‘Preferences’. Select the ‘Websites’ tab and then select ‘Notifications’ section on the left panel. Check for Notificationsacademy.com domain, other dubious sites and apply the ‘Deny’ option for each.

How to remove Notificationsacademy.com pop-up ads (removal instructions)

In the step-by-step guidance below, we’ll try to cover the Google Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer and MS Edge and provide general help to remove Notificationsacademy.com popup ads. You may find some minor differences in your Windows install. No matter, you should be okay if you follow the steps outlined below: uninstall all suspicious and unknown software, reset browsers settings, fix internet browsers shortcuts, remove harmful scheduled tasks, run free malicious software removal utilities. Read this manual carefully, bookmark it or open this page on your smartphone, because you may need to exit your web browser or reboot your PC.

To remove Notificationsacademy.com pop ups, use the steps below:

1. Remove Notificationsacademy.com notifications from web-browsers
2. Manual Notificationsacademy.com pop up advertisements removal
   • Uninstall unwanted or recently added applications
   • Delete Notificationsacademy.com pop up ads from Mozilla Firefox
   • Get rid of Notificationsacademy.com popup advertisements from Internet Explorer
   • Remove Notificationsacademy.com advertisements from Google Chrome
3. Automatic Removal of Notificationsacademy.com ads
4. Stop Notificationsacademy.com ads

Manual Notificationsacademy.com pop up advertisements removal

In most cases, it is possible to manually remove Notificationsacademy.com popups. This solution does not involve the use of any tricks or removal tools. You just need to restore the normal settings of the PC system and web-browser. This can be done by following a few simple steps below. If you want to quickly get rid of Notificationsacademy.com pop up ads, as well as perform a full scan of your computer, we recommend that you use adware removal utilities, which are listed below.

Uninstall unwanted or recently added applications

It’s of primary importance to first identify and remove all PUPs, adware software and hijackers through ‘Add/Remove Programs’ (Windows XP) or ‘Uninstall a program’ (Windows 10, 8, 7) section of your Windows Control Panel.

Carefully browse through the list of installed applications and get rid of all suspicious and unknown applications. We advise to click ‘Installed programs’ and even sorts all installed applications by date. Once you have found anything dubious that may be the adware software that causes Notificationsacademy.com popups in your web-browser or other potentially unwanted program (PUP), then select this program and click ‘Uninstall’ in the upper part of the window. If the suspicious application blocked from removal, then run Revo Uninstaller Freeware to fully remove it from your PC system.

Delete Notificationsacademy.com pop up ads from Mozilla Firefox

This step will allow you remove Notificationsacademy.com pop-up advertisements, third-party toolbars, disable harmful add-ons and restore your default startpage, newtab and search provider settings.

Launch the Mozilla Firefox and press the menu button (it looks like three stacked lines) at the top right of the web-browser screen. Next, click the question-mark icon at the bottom of the drop-down menu. It will open the slide-out menu.

Select the “Troubleshooting information”. If you are unable to access the Help menu, then type “about:support” in your address bar and press Enter. It bring up the “Troubleshooting Information” page as displayed in the following example.

Click the “Refresh Firefox” button at the top right of the Troubleshooting Information page. Select “Refresh Firefox” in the confirmation dialog box. The Firefox will begin a process to fix your problems that caused by the Notificationsacademy.com adware software. Once, it is complete, click the “Finish” button.

Get rid of Notificationsacademy.com popup advertisements from Internet Explorer

In order to recover all browser startpage, new tab and search engine you need to reset the Microsoft Internet Explorer to the state, that was when the MS Windows was installed on your computer.

First, start the IE. Next, click the button in the form of gear (). It will show the Tools drop-down menu, click the “Internet Options” as displayed on the image below.

In the “Internet Options” window click on the Advanced tab, then click the Reset button. The Internet Explorer will open the “Reset Internet Explorer settings” window as displayed on the screen below. Select the “Delete personal settings” check box, then click “Reset” button.

You will now need to reboot your PC system for the changes to take effect.

Remove Notificationsacademy.com advertisements from Google Chrome

Another way to remove Notificationsacademy.com popup ads from Google Chrome is Reset Chrome settings. This will disable malicious extensions and reset Chrome settings to default values. Your saved bookmarks, form auto-fill information and passwords won’t be cleared or changed.

First launch the Chrome. Next, click the button in the form of three horizontal dots ().

It will show the Chrome menu. Choose More Tools, then click Extensions. Carefully browse through the list of installed add-ons. If the list has the add-on signed with “Installed by enterprise policy” or “Installed by your administrator”, then complete the following tutorial: Remove Google Chrome extensions installed by enterprise policy.

Open the Chrome menu once again. Further, click the option called “Settings”.

The web browser will open the settings screen. Another way to show the Chrome’s settings – type chrome://settings in the internet browser adress bar and press Enter

Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the “Advanced” link. Now scroll down until the “Reset” section is visible, as shown on the image below and click the “Reset settings to their original defaults” button.

The Google Chrome will display the confirmation prompt as displayed on the screen below.

You need to confirm your action, press the “Reset” button. The web-browser will start the process of cleaning. After it is finished, the web browser’s settings including default search engine, newtab and start page back to the values which have been when the Chrome was first installed on your device.

Automatic Removal of Notificationsacademy.com ads

Malware removal tools are pretty useful when you think your computer is hijacked by adware software. Below we will discover best utilities that can remove adware and Notificationsacademy.com pop up advertisements from your PC system and web browser.

Run Zemana to delete Notificationsacademy.com ads

If you need a free tool that can easily remove Notificationsacademy.com advertisements, then use Zemana Anti-Malware. This is a very handy program, which is primarily created to quickly scan for and delete adware software and malware infecting web-browsers and changing their settings.

Click the link below to download Zemana. Save it to your Desktop so that you can access the file easily.

Once the download is done, close all apps and windows on your computer. Double-click the install file called Zemana.AntiMalware.Setup. If the “User Account Control” prompt pops up as displayed below, click the “Yes” button.

It will open the “Setup wizard” that will help you install Zemana Anti-Malware on your device. Follow the prompts and do not make any changes to default settings.

Once installation is done successfully, Zemana Anti-Malware will automatically start and you can see its main screen as on the image below.

Now press the “Scan” button to perform a system scan with this tool for the adware related to the Notificationsacademy.com ads. A scan can take anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes, depending on the count of files on your computer and the speed of your PC system. While the Zemana is checking, you may see number of objects it has identified either as being malicious software.

After finished, Zemana Anti-Malware will show a scan report. Review the results once the tool has finished the system scan. If you think an entry should not be quarantined, then uncheck it. Otherwise, simply click “Next” button. The Zemana AntiMalware will remove adware that causes Notificationsacademy.com popup ads in your web-browser and move the selected threats to the Quarantine. Once the task is complete, you may be prompted to restart the device.

Remove Notificationsacademy.com pop ups and malicious extensions with Hitman Pro

If Zemana AntiMalware cannot delete this adware software, then we suggests to run the HitmanPro. HitmanPro is a free removal tool for hijackers, potentially unwanted apps, toolbars and adware that causes multiple unwanted pop ups. It’s specially developed to work as a second scanner for your computer.

Download Hitman Pro on your PC from the following link.

Download and use HitmanPro on your computer. Once started, click “Next” button to start checking your PC for the adware software that causes the annoying Notificationsacademy.com advertisements. This task can take some time, so please be patient. While the Hitman Pro program is scanning, you can see how many objects it has identified as threat..

When HitmanPro is finished scanning your personal computer, Hitman Pro will display a scan report.

Once you have selected what you want to remove from your computer click Next button.

It will open a prompt, click the “Activate free license” button to begin the free 30 days trial to remove all malware found.

Get rid of Notificationsacademy.com advertisements with MalwareBytes AntiMalware

Manual Notificationsacademy.com ads removal requires some computer skills. Some files and registry entries that created by the adware software can be not fully removed. We recommend that use the MalwareBytes that are completely clean your PC of adware software. Moreover, the free application will help you to remove malware, potentially unwanted apps, hijackers and toolbars that your computer can be infected too.

First, please go to the following link, then press the ‘Download’ button in order to download the latest version of MalwareBytes Anti-Malware.

When downloading is done, close all windows on your device. Further, launch the file named MBSetup. If the “User Account Control” prompt pops up as displayed in the following example, click the “Yes” button.

It will open the Setup wizard which will help you install MalwareBytes AntiMalware on the personal computer. Follow the prompts and do not make any changes to default settings.

Once installation is finished successfully, press “Get Started” button. Then MalwareBytes Anti-Malware will automatically run and you can see its main window as displayed on the screen below.

Next, click the “Scan” button to perform a system scan with this tool for the adware software that causes multiple intrusive pop-ups. This task can take some time, so please be patient.

When MalwareBytes is done scanning your PC, it will display the Scan Results. In order to delete all items, simply click “Quarantine” button.

The MalwareBytes will start to remove adware that causes Notificationsacademy.com popup ads. After disinfection is complete, you can be prompted to restart your PC system. We advise you look at the following video, which completely explains the procedure of using the MalwareBytes AntiMalware to remove browser hijackers, adware and other malicious software.

Stop Notificationsacademy.com ads

It’s important to run adblocker applications like AdGuard to protect your PC system from malicious web-pages. Most security experts says that it is okay to stop ads. You should do so just to stay safe! And, of course, the AdGuard can to block Notificationsacademy.com and other intrusive web pages.

Please go to the following link to download the latest version of AdGuard for Microsoft Windows. Save it to your Desktop.

When the download is finished, run the downloaded file. You will see the “Setup Wizard” screen as displayed in the figure below.

Follow the prompts. Once the install is finished, you will see a window as on the image below.

You can click “Skip” to close the setup application and use the default settings, or click “Get Started” button to see an quick tutorial that will help you get to know AdGuard better.

In most cases, the default settings are enough and you don’t need to change anything. Each time, when you run your PC system, AdGuard will launch automatically and stop undesired ads, block Notificationsacademy.com, as well as other malicious or misleading web sites. For an overview of all the features of the program, or to change its settings you can simply double-click on the AdGuard icon, which is located on your desktop.

Finish words

We suggest that you keep AdGuard (to help you stop unwanted pop up ads and intrusive harmful web-sites) and Zemana Anti-Malware (to periodically scan your computer for new malware, browser hijackers and adware software). Make sure that you have all the Critical Updates recommended for Windows OS. Without regular updates you WILL NOT be protected when new browser hijackers, harmful software and adware are released.

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