Spammed with virus notifications

sdowney717 · Feb 25, 2023

.I deleted 5 extensions having to do with tab management and suddenly crap virus alerts pop up on screen, Closing them just opens like 5 more of them, and they are on top and cover the windows forms buttons on top right. I managed to open firefox and drag it to the left to even use a browser to post here. Maybe they are notifications but they keep loading more when closed. Will a reboot fix this?
Here is what I see, notice chrome in background under the alert messages, edge does same thing.

4goTTen21 · Feb 25, 2023

Go to browser settings and search for website notification permissions. Disable permission for "salvebron.com"

sdowney717 · Feb 25, 2023

I think I solved this, It also had popped up after starting chrome.
I just went to lowest alert and kept closing them as fast as possible , then they stopped and then I saw the last tab open was this website, and chrome said it was infected.

[dodgy site live link removed by admin]
not found 404 now, here is the plain text

Code:

//buginerten.com/click.php?key=uavjzf7h81vvl7qvw9pi&%D1%81ampaignId=6996&creativeId=71234&days=5&subscriptionId=22523541&feedId=3699

z3r010 · Feb 25, 2023

It looks like you are using Chrome, paste the following URL into your browser and look at the sites that are allowed to send you push notifications, block any you don't know or think could be the culprit chrome://settings/content/notifications

Porthos · Feb 25, 2023

It sounds like an issue with the push notifications feature in Chromium based browsers (which includes MS Edge). Please see if the instructions in this Malwarebytes Labs article help or not.

sdowney717 · Feb 25, 2023

4goTTen21 said:
Go to browser settings and search for website notification permissions. Disable permission for "salvebron.com"

I went and saw all permissions for the site were on, no asking permission, so I reset to defaults and it disappeared from the settings list.

How can I just block that site?

Porthos · Feb 25, 2023

sdowney717 said:
How can I just block that site?

I disable all notifications on all of the clients I serve.

kelper · Feb 25, 2023

Run an antivirus scan as a precaution

ShamrockRig · Feb 25, 2023

Jeez the security section of these forums have went downhill since SevenForums when jacee was around to whip everything into shape!
Id run adwcleaner and Malwarebytes just to be on the safe side. Any issues with those/after you've ran those let us know

BruceR · Feb 25, 2023

kelper said:
Run an antivirus scan as a precaution

There's no hint of an infection.

sdowney717 said:
I went and saw all permissions for the site were on, no asking permission, so I reset to defaults and it disappeared from the settings list.

How can I just block that site?

Add it to "Blocked" (Edge) and "Not allowed to send notifications" (Chrome).

BruceR · Feb 25, 2023

ShamrockRig said:
Jeez the security section of these forums have went downhill since SevenForums when jacee was around to whip everything into shape!
Id run adwcleaner and Malwarebytes just to be on the safe side. Any issues with those/after you've ran those let us know

There's no evidence of any malware in this thread.

ShamrockRig · Feb 25, 2023

BruceR said:
There's no evidence of any malware in this thread.

Jesus wept :ROFLMAO:

It takes about 3 minutes, Its good practice, Should be something a user does every now and then anyway so yeah.

Theres no evidence about loads of things, Doesn't mean it can't be true lol

flashh4 · Feb 25, 2023

ShamrockRig, best advice that everyone should get use to doing, that way the bad guys will get the clue they are not wanted !

It takes about 3 minutes, Its good practice, Should be something a user does every now and then anyway so yeah.
Theres no evidence about loads of things, Doesn't mean it can't be true lol

sdowney717 · Feb 25, 2023

I do run malwarebytes, and there is no infection

Bastet · Feb 26, 2023

Possible reset the browser to default.
Clear the cookies, cache & history.

Futurdreamz · Mar 6, 2023

4goTTen21 said:
Go to browser settings and search for website notification permissions. Disable permission for "salvebron.com"

I detest this feature. i recognize and support the push for universal web apps, but so many websites give unsolicited requests to push notifications to me even if there's obviously no reason why i'd want to for that website. I can see it being too easy to accidently agree to accept notifications to a site who then uses that permission to spam you.

if you click on the "..." option menu on the popups, does it give you the option to disable notifications from that website?

BruceR · Mar 6, 2023

Futurdreamz said:
if you click on the "..." option menu on the popups, does it give you the option to disable notifications from that website?

Yes, good point.

"..." on the notification would give you "Turn off all notifications for salverbron.com" (or whatever.com)

(as well as "Go to notification settings").