How to remove unwanted apps designed to promote play-new-vids.com?

What is play-new-vids[.]com?

Play-new-vids[.]com is a website designed to display deceptive content and open untrustworthy websites (it depends on the geolocation of its visitors). More examples of websites like play-new-vids[.]com are byluxrayor[.]com, deeepmedia[.]biz, and trking[.]xyz.

Play-new-vids[.]com in detail

As mentioned in the introduction paragraph, play-new-vids[.]com is designed to display deceptive content. It loads a media player image with the message encouraging visitors to click the "Allow" button to watch the video.

Like most websites of this type, play-new-vids[.]com uses a clickbait technique to trick its visitors into allowing it to show notifications. It is highly advisable to avoid agreeing to receive notifications from pages like play-new-vids[.]com because their notifications usually contain links to untrustworthy pages, shady ads, etc.

Also, play-new-vids[.]com can open questionable websites, for example, pages designed to extract personal information, promote adware, browser hijackers, and other unwanted software. Typically, pages like play-new-vids[.]com open about two, three questionable pages.

A couple of examples of pages that play-new-vids[.]com could open are "Access To This Pc Has Been Blocked For Security Reasons", "SPIN FOR REWARD", and "Your Device Might Have Security Issues". Therefore, it is recommended to avoid visiting websites like play-new-vids[.]com and not to have apps (PUAs) designed to promote them installed on browsers or computers.

More about PUAs

It is worth mentioning that PUAs can be designed to generate advertisements (for example, coupons, banners, surveys, etc.). Usually, those advertisements cover website contents and promote questionable websites.

Also, those ads can be designed to download or even install unwanted software by executing certain scripts. Therefore, it is recommended not to click ads generated by PUAs.

Another problem with most PUAs is that they can read various data. For instance, Internet Protocol addresses, URLs of visited websites, entered search queries, geolocations, and other information.

In some cases, PUAs can be designed to collect personal details like credit card details, names, surnames, passwords, etc., and other information that could be used to steal identities, make unauthorized purchases, hijack personal accounts.

Threat Summary:

Name	Ads by play-new-vids.com
Threat Type	Push notifications ads, Unwanted ads, Pop-up ads
Detection Names	Fortinet (Malware), Full List Of Detections (VirusTotal)
Serving IP Address	109.206.187.4
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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PUAs in general

In conclusion, users rarely visit websites like play-new-vids[.]com on purpose. Quite often, browsers open those pages because they have potentially unwanted applications installed on them.

It is common that PUAs are advertised as legitimate apps that are supposed to improve the browsing experience. However, most PUAs are designed only to generate revenue for their developers by displaying ads, promoting pages like play-new-vids[.]com (or other shady sites), collecting various data.

How did adware install on my computer?

One of the most effective ways to distribute potentially unwanted applications is to include them in downloaders, installers for other programs as additional offers. This method is called "bundling".

Usually, offers to download or install PUAs can be found and declined via "Custom", "Advanced", "Manual", or other settings, and (or) checkboxes. When users download or install programs without changing those settings, they agree to download or install optional applications.

In some cases, users cause unexpected downloads or installations through deceptive advertisements - by clicking ads that are designed to run certain scripts. Typically, legitimate websites do not have ads of this type displayed on them.

How to avoid installation of potentially unwanted applications?

Downloaders and installers with settings like "Advanced", "Custom", "Manual", or checkboxes often include offers to download or install potentially unwanted apps. Therefore, downloads and installations should be finished without deselecting optional apps.

Files and apps should be downloaded from official pages and via direct download links. It is not recommended to use Peer-to-Peer networks (e.g., torrent clients, eMule), unofficial pages, free file hosting sites, third-party downloaders, installers, other sources, and tools of this kind to download or install software.

Advertisements on unofficial, shady websites should not be clicked. It is common that by clicking those ads, users open untrustworthy websites or even download or install unwanted apps.

Unwanted, suspicious plug-ins, add-ons, or extensions installed on a browser should be removed. Programs of this kind installed on the operating system should be uninstalled too. 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 play-new-vids[.]com website (GIF):

Notification from play-new-vids[.]com:

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Quick menu:

• What is Ads by play-new-vids.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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