How to remove Push-news.org

What is Push-news.org

Push-news.org is classified as a malicious website that promotes tenacious ads. The website achieves its goal after users allow fake push notifications. Such action is claimed to be necessary for bypassing Captcha or watching a video. In reality, it is simply meant to deliver a jet of potentially unwanted or even dangerous ads right on your desktop. As a rule, pages like Push-news.org are visited inadvertently after clicking on dubious banners or due to potentially unwanted applications that might be installed on your system to open such pages each time at browser startup. Potentially unwanted programs are very annoying and cunning in terms of their operation. They secretly gather users’ data like passwords, IP addresses, geolocations and sell it on platforms similar to the darknet. Ads promoted by resources like Push-news.org may seem innocent and even useful, however, they usually contain malicious redirects to numerous websites aiming to spread other infections. Thus, there are many obvious reasons why you should get rid of the Push-news.org redirect from your computer. To do this, follow our free guide removal below.

How Push-news.org infected your computer

As we already mentioned, potentially unwanted programs like adware or browser hijackers are crafty enough to be distributed past users’ consent. Usually, most users fall into the claws of cyber criminals whilst downloading suspicious software from the web. The downloaded software is often pirated or cracked and contains bundled programs camouflaged under “Advanced” or “Custom” sections during the set-up. As statistics show, the majority of people tend to skip these sections to complete the installation faster than usual. As a result, these people become victims of adware that alter certain settings to impose unwanted changes. Therefore, such users could have averted the installation of adware if had been more careful and attentive. It is also worth keeping your hands away from clicking on banners or coupons displayed on doubtful websites. This is because they can lead to malicious resources equipped with executable scripts that inject unwanted software in the background. In this article, we will help you get rid of Push-news.org and give some additional tips to protect your system from such attacks in the future.

1. Download Push-news.org Removal Tool
2. Stop Push-news.org notifications in browsers
3. Remove/Uninstall Push-news.org from Control Panel and Applications
4. Remove Push-news.org extensions from browsers
5. Reset browser search and homepage settings
6. Block Push-news.org search redirects
7. How to protect from threats like Push-news.org

Remove Push-news.org manually for free

Here is the manual step-by-step tutorial for full Push-news.org removal from your computer. This works 99% and was checked with the latest versions of the Push-news.org installer on operating systems with the latest updates and browser versions.

Disable push notifications from Push-news.org in browsers

Remove Push-news.org from websites, allowed to show push-notifications in Google Chrome

1. Go to Google Chrome settings, by clicking 3-dots icon in the top-right corner and choosing Settings.
2. Open advanced settings by clicking Advanced in the bottom.
3. Under opened Privacy and security tab, choose Content settings.
4. Click on Notifications menu (with the bell icon).
5. Set up preferred overall settings for push notifications and click Manage exceptions… button.
6. Find Push-news.org in the list and click cross icon to remove it. Click Done button to confirm the action.

Remove Push-news.org from websites, allowed to show push-notifications in Mozilla Firefox

1. Go to Mozilla Firefox options, by clicking 3-bars icon in the top-right corner and choosing Options.
2. Choose Content tab on the left side.
3. Under Notifications, set up preferred overall settings for push-notifications and click Choose… button.
4. Find Push-news.org in the list and click Remove site to remove it.
5. Click Save Changes button to confirm the action.

Remove Push-news.org from websites, allowed to show push-notifications in Safari

1. Open Safari, and in the top menu click Safari, choose Preferences.
2. In the Preferences window, click on Websites tab.
3. On the left side, choose Notifications. You will see the list of websites and their settings for showing notifications.
4. Find Push-news.org in the list and click Remove button.

Remove Push-news.org from websites, allowed to show push-notifications in Android (Chrome)

1. Open Google Chrome app on Android, and tap on three dots to open main menu.
2. In the drop-down menu choose Settings, scroll down and under Advanced section tap on Site Settings.
3. In the Site Settings menu tap on Notifications.
4. In the Allowed list of websites allowed to show notifications find Push-news.org, tap on it and in the bottom of the window tap on Clean & Reset button.
5. Confirm your action by tapping on Clean & Reset again in opened dialog box.

Remove Push-news.org from websites, allowed to show push-notifications in Microsoft Edge

1. Open Microsoft Edge, and click on the three-dots menu, in the top-right corner.
2. In the drop-down menu choose Settings, and in the left part click Advanced.
3. Under Website permissions section, click Manage permissions button.
4. Find Push-news.org in the list and click on the cross sign to remove the setting and disable its notifications.

Remove Push-news.org from Control Panel or Applications

To start removing Push-news.org you should uninstall it using Control Panel. It can be present by different names – “Push-news.org”. It should uninstall correctly, however, we recommend you to use IObit Uninstaller to clean leftover items after uninstalling. Here are instructions for Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 and Mac.

Remove Push-news.org from Mac:

1. In the Finder sidebar, click Applications.
2. Push-news.org might have an Uninstaller.
3. Otherwise, drag Push-news.org from the Applications folder to the Trash (located at the end of the Dock).
4. Then choose Finder > Empty Trash.

Remove Push-news.org from Windows XP:

1. Click on Start button.
2. Choose Control Panel.
3. Click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Find recently installed suspicious program.
5. Click Uninstall.

Remove Push-news.org from Windows 7:

1. Click Start button.
2. Then go to Control Panel.
3. Click Uninstall a Program.
4. Find recently installed suspicious program and click Uninstall.

Remove Push-news.org from Windows 8:

1. Hover mouse pointer to the bottom-right corner to see Menu.
2. Click Search.
3. After that click Apps.
4. Then Control Panel.
5. Click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
6. Find recently installed suspicious program, click Uninstall.

Remove Push-news.org from Windows 10:

There are 2 ways to uninstall Push-news.org from Windows 10

Way one

1. Click on the Start button.
2. In opened menu choose Settings.
3. Click on the System tile.
4. Click Apps & features and locate recently installed suspicious program in the list.
5. Click on it and then click Uninstall button near it.

Way two (classic)

1. Right-click on the Start button.
2. In opened menu choose Programs and Features.
3. Locate recently installed suspicious program in the list.
4. Click on it and then click Uninstall button above.

Cannot uninstall Push-news.org

In some cases, Push-news.org won’t uninstall and gives you a message that “You do not have sufficient access to uninstall Push-news.org. Please, contact your system administrator” when you try to remove it from Control Panel or “Access denied” error when removing the Push-news.org folder and files. This happens because the process or service does not allow you to do it. In this case, I will recommend you to use SpyHunter 5 or Malwarebytes or uninstall Push-news.org in Safe Mode. To boot in Safe Mode do the following:

1. Reboot your computer.
2. While it starts booting type F8 button.
3. This will open Advanced Boot Options menu.
4. Choose Safe Mode and wait until Windows loads.
5. Go to Control Panel > Uninstall a program and remove recently installed suspicious program

>> See detailed instructions and video tutorial on how to boot in Safe Mode

and for Mac:

If you can’t uninstall Push-news.org using instructions above, or it keeps coming back, you can use free AppCleaner for Mac to remove all residual data and libraries of Push-news.org. Follow instructions below:

1. Download free AppCleaner.
2. Drag Push-news.org from Applications folder to AppCleaner window.
3. Choose files and folders you want to remove along with Push-news.org.
4. Click Delete button.

Remove malicious add-ons from your browsers

Uninstalling Push-news.org from Control Panel often does not bring the desired effect. It sometimes has browser extension and it may still be active in Safari, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox. Here are instructions on how to remove Push-news.org related extension from your browsers manually.

Safari:

1. Start Safari on your Mac, click Safari to open drop-down menu and choose Preferences
2. Click Extensions tab.
3. Find Push-news.org extension.
4. Click Uninstall button to remove it.

Google Chrome:

1. Start Google Chrome browser
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) chrome://extensions.
3. Find Push-news.org related extension.
4. Click the trash can icon to remove them.
5. Also remove other suspicious extensions from the list.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Start Mozilla Firefox browser.
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) about:addons.
3. Choose Push-news.org related extension.
4. Click Disable or Remove button.
5. Remove all suspicious extensions from the list.

Internet Explorer (9, 10, 11):

Note: There is no feature to remove browser extensions from browser in latest version of Internet Explorer. To remove Push-news.org from Internet Explorer, please, perform instructions for uninstalling program from Control Panel. To disable Push-news.org, please, do the following:

1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Click on gear/asterisk icon in the top-right corner.
3. In opened menu Manage Add-ons.
4. Select Toolbars and Extensions.
5. Click Disable or Push-news.org related extension.
6. Also disable other suspicious extensions from the list.

Opera Browser:

Generally, Push-news.org does not install in Opera browser however you can always double check. Do the following:

1. Start Opera browser.
2. Go to Tools > Extensions > Manage Extensions.
3. Find Push-news.org extension.
4. Click Uninstall button.
5. Also remove other suspicious extensions from the list.

Reset browsers settings (homepage, default search)

Push-news.org installs a search engine that hijacks your browsers. Here is an instruction to reset your browser’s homepage, new tab and search engine to default values.

Reset Safari:

1. Start Safari on your Mac, click Safari to open drop-down menu and choose Preferences
2. Go to the Privacy section of Safari’s preferences.
3. Click Remove All Website Data button.
4. In opened window click Remove Now button to remove data stored by websites in Safari.
5. Go to the Advanced section of Safari’s preferences.
6. Click the Show Develop menu in menu bar option.
7. In the menu click Develop and select Empty Caches from this menu.
8. Again, go to Safari menu and choose Clear History….
9. Choose to clear all history and click Clear History button.

Google Chrome:

1. Start Google Chrome browser
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) chrome://settings.
3. Scroll down and find Show advanced settings link.
4. Click on it and scroll down to the bottom again.
5. Click Reset browser settings button and click Reset to confirm.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Start Mozilla Firefox browser.
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) about:support.
3. Click Reset Firefox… button.
4. Click Reset Firefox to confirm.

Internet Explorer (9, 10, 11):

1. Start Internet Explorer.
2. Click on gear/asterisk icon in the top-right corner.
3. In opened menu choose Internet options.
4. Click Advanced tab.
5. Click Reset button.
6. Choose Delete personal settings and click Reset.

Opera Browser:

1. Close Opera and open command prompt from the start menu.
2. Type following command del %AppData%\Opera\Opera\operaprefs.ini
3. Start Opera.

How to block ads and pop-ups from Push-news.org

Push-news.org push notifications, in most cases, are caused by a program installed on your PC or add-on installed in browsers. However, sometimes it can appear on a clean computer when visiting a malicious website, using an advertising script. Also, apps that generate “Push-news.org” ads and banners are themselves installed from pop-ups. To protect your PC and browsers from phishing websites, pop-up ads, banners, malicious scripts it is recommended to use AdGuard. Download free trial here:

Download AdGuard for Windows

Download AdGuard for Mac

Final tips

Be careful surfing the internet and downloading software, as programs, like Push-news.org, may become a real headache as they are hard to remove and break your privacy. To keep safe from such threats we recommend you always use antivirus and one of the anti-malware programs available on the market. One of the best anti-spyware and anti-malware programs is SpyHunter 5. It can protect your PC from threats, like Push-news.org.