How to remove Tonbaks.com pop-up ads

What is Tonbaks.com

Tonbaks.com is a dubious website known for exploiting browser notifications to bombard users with unwanted ads and potentially harmful content. It typically initiates this by employing deceptive tactics, such as displaying misleading pop-ups that prompt users to click “Allow” to verify age or access content. Once permissions are granted, the site can deliver a continuous stream of intrusive notifications that often lead to phishing scams, fraudulent pages, or malware-laden websites. This behavior is not limited to a single browser or device; it affects a range of browsers, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, and Safari, across both desktop and mobile platforms. Users may unknowingly encounter Tonbaks.com by visiting torrent sites, illegal streaming services, or through rogue ads on legitimate sites. Its notifications can severely disrupt browsing experiences by slowing down internet performance and compromising user privacy. To mitigate these risks, it’s essential to revoke any granted notification permissions and run a comprehensive scan with reliable antivirus software. Staying vigilant and cautious about granting notification permissions is crucial to preventing such exploitative tactics from compromising your device’s security.

How Tonbaks.com infects devices

Tonbaks.com primarily infects computers through a deceptive method known as notification spam, where users inadvertently grant permission for the site to send push notifications. This often occurs when users encounter misleading prompts while browsing, such as pop-ups asking them to confirm their age or to solve CAPTCHAs. Once permission is granted, Tonbaks.com can bombard users with intrusive ads that may redirect them to malicious websites, leading to potential malware infections or phishing attempts. These notifications can also promote scams, tech support fraud, or other deceptive content designed to trick users into revealing sensitive information. The site typically attracts visitors through rogue advertising networks, often linked to torrent sites or illegal streaming platforms, further increasing the risk of exposure to harmful software. To protect against such infections, users should be vigilant about the permissions they grant and utilize reputable antivirus solutions for proactive defense.

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

Remove Tonbaks.com manually for free

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

Disable push notifications from Tonbaks.com in browsers

Remove Tonbaks.com 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. On the left side choose Privacy and security menu.
3. Under opened Privacy and security tab, choose Site Settings.
4. Scroll down to Permissions section and click on Notifications (with the bell icon).
5. Go to the bottom list of sites named Allowed to send notifications.
6. Find Tonbaks.com in the list and click 3-dots icon near it. Click Remove button to delete the website permission.

Remove Tonbaks.com 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 Settings.
2. On the left panel choose Privacy & Security menu.
3. Scroll down to Permissions section.
4. Near Notifications click Settings… button.
5. Find Tonbaks.com in the list and click Remove Website to remove it.
6. Click Save Changes button to confirm the action.

Remove Tonbaks.com 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 Tonbaks.com in the list and click Remove button.

Remove Tonbaks.com 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.
3. In the menu click Cookies and site permissions section, and scroll down to All permissions section.
4. Click on Notifications.
5. Find Tonbaks.com in the list under Allow, click on 3-dots icon and choose Remove.

Remove Tonbaks.com 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 Tonbaks.com, 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 Tonbaks.com from websites, allowed to show push-notifications in iOS (Safari)

1. Find and tap the Settings app icon on your home screen.
2. Swipe up or down and select Safari from the list.
3. In Safari settings, find and tap on Websites near the bottom.
4. Find Notifications in the list and tap on it.
5. You’ll see a list of websites. Tap on Tonbaks.com to allow or deny notifications.

Remove Tonbaks.com from Control Panel or Applications

To start removing Tonbaks.com you should uninstall it using Control Panel. It can be present by different names – “Tonbaks.com”. It should uninstall correctly, however, we recommend you to use IObit Uninstaller or CleanMyMac to clean leftover items after uninstalling. Here are instructions for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11 and Mac.

Remove Tonbaks.com 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 Tonbaks.com 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 Tonbaks.com from Windows 10:

There are 2 ways to uninstall Tonbaks.com 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.

Remove Tonbaks.com from Windows 11:

1. Right-click on the Start button.
2. In opened menu choose Settings.
3. Click on the Apps tab on the left side.
4. Click Apps & features and locate recently installed suspicious program in the list.
5. Click on 3-dots icon near it and then click Uninstall button near it.
6. Depending on the type of application (Windows Store app or classic Win32 app) it will be removed immediately or you will need to confirm the action and go through standard uninstall procedure.

Remove Tonbaks.com from Mac:

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

Cannot uninstall Tonbaks.com in Windows

In some cases, program related to Tonbaks.com won’t uninstall and gives you a message that “You do not have sufficient access to uninstall Tonbaks.com. Please, contact your system administrator” when you try to remove it from Control Panel or “Access denied” error when removing the Tonbaks.com 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 AntiMalware or uninstall Tonbaks.com 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

Cannot uninstall Tonbaks.com in MacOS

If you can’t uninstall apps related to Tonbaks.com from MacOS using instructions above, or it keeps coming back, you can use free AppCleaner for Mac to remove all residual data and libraries of Tonbaks.com. Follow instructions below:

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

Remove malicious add-ons from your browsers

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

Google Chrome:

1. Start Google Chrome browser
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) chrome://extensions.
3. Find Tonbaks.com related extension.
4. Click the Remove button 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. Find Tonbaks.com related extension.
4. Click three-dots icon near it and choose Remove in the menu.
5. In opened dialog window click Remove button to confirm the action.
6. Remove all suspicious extensions from the list.

Safari:

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

Microsoft Edge:

1. Start Microsoft Edge browser.
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) edge://extensions.
3. Find Tonbaks.com related extension.
4. Click Remove link under the name of extension.
5. In opened dialog window click Remove button to confirm the action.
6. 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 Tonbaks.com from Internet Explorer, please, perform instructions for uninstalling program from Control Panel. To disable Tonbaks.com, 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 Tonbaks.com related extension.
6. Also disable other suspicious extensions from the list.

Opera Browser:

Generally, Tonbaks.com does not install in Opera browser however you can always double check. Do the following:

1. Start Opera browser and click on Opera icon in the top-left corner.
2. Choose Extensions > Extensions.
3. Find Tonbaks.com related extension.
4. Click Details button and scroll down to the bottom.
5. Click Remove extension link and confirm the action by clicking Remove button on opened dialog window.
6. Also remove other suspicious extensions from the list.

Reset browsers settings (homepage, default search)

Tonbaks.com may install 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.

Google Chrome:

1. Start Google Chrome browser
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) chrome://settings.
3. On the left panel expand Advanced options.
4. Choose Reset and clean up.
5. Click on Restore settings to their original defaults link and confirm by clicking Reset button.

Mozilla Firefox:

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

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.

Microsoft Edge:

1. Start Microsoft Edge browser
2. Click on 3-dots icon in the top-right corner and choose Settings.
3. On the left panel find and click Reset settings option.
4. Click on Restore settings to their default values link and confirm by clicking Reset button.

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. Start Opera browser and click on Opera icon in the top-left corner.
2. Choose Settings and click Advanced on the left side and choose Browser.
3. Scroll down to the very bottom and click on Restore settings to their original defaults link.
4. Confirm by clicking Reset button.

How to block ads and pop-ups from Tonbaks.com

Tonbaks.com push-notifications, in most cases, are caused by a program installed on your PC or an 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 “Tonbaks.com” 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:

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Final tips

Be careful surfing the internet and downloading software, as programs, like Tonbaks.com, 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 Tonbaks.com.