news-gexico.com is a very generic scam website that tries to trick users into allowing ads on their desktops. When you get redirected to the site, you will immediately get a browser alert saying “news-gexico.com wants to show notifications”. If you click “Allow”, you will permit the site to spam ads on your desktop.
news-gexico.com is mostly empty of content. The only thing it shows is a fake video player and a message saying you need to click “Allow” to watch the video. It’s implied that to continue, you need to click “Allow” on the “news-gexico.com wants to show notifications” alert. However, if you click “Allow”, the site will be authorized to spam ads directly to your desktop. While legitimate sites would show legitimate notifications, news-gexico.com just spams ads. Interacting with those ads is not recommended because you could be exposed to harmful content, such as scams and malware.
While it’s often misused, the “show notifications” feature is completely legitimate. You can give safe sites permission to show notifications if you trust them to show you legitimate content. You may even find the feature to be useful in some cases. For example, if you frequent a particular website and want to see its content without having to visit the site, you can give it permission.
You can easily revoke a site’s permission to show notifications if you know how to navigate your browser’s settings. If you need help to navigate them, you can use the instructions provided at the end of the report.
What triggers redirects to sites like news-gexico.com
In most cases, users are redirected to sites like news-gexico.com when they browse high-risk websites without an adblocker program. Some websites expose users to large amounts of advertisement content, which means they spam ads and trigger redirects no matter what users click on. Sites that have pornographic or pirated content are particularly guilty of this, as they trigger redirects nonstop. Fortunately, these redirects can be easily blocked with a decent adblocker program.
Redirects might also be a symptom of an adware infection. Adware infections are not dangerous but the ads they expose you to are very annoying. Adware and similar infections get installed via the free software bundling method. The way this method works is adware can be attached to free programs as an extra offer and permitted to be installed without explicit permission. The method is considered to be controversial, and it’s not uncommon for programs that use it to be detected as potentially unwanted by anti-virus programs.
All added offers are optional and it’s not difficult to prevent their installations, as long as you know how. When installing a program, use Advanced (Custom) settings when given the option. The installation window recommends using Default settings but if you follow this advice, all of the added offers will be installed automatically. Advanced settings, on the other hand, will make the offers visible and give you the option to deselect all of them. You simply need to uncheck the boxes.
We don’t recommend allowing extra offers to be installed, even if you think they could seem useful. If you allow these unwanted installations, you will fill your computer with useless junk that can be tricky to get rid of. It’s significantly easier to just uncheck a couple of boxes when installing free programs.
How to stop news-gexico.com redirects
It’s strongly recommended to scan your computer with an anti-virus program just in case an adware infection is why you are redirected to news-gexico.com and similar sites regularly. Adware can install without you noticing, so redirects may be caused by it. We recommend using anti-virus software because these types of infections can be tricky to get rid of manually. You also need to install an adblocker program.
If news-gexico.com has permission to show you notifications, you can easily evoke it. It’s not difficult to do if you can navigate your browser’s settings. If you need help to remove news-gexico.com from the list of sites that have permission, we have provided directions below.
- Mozilla Firefox: Open the menu (the three bars at the top-right corner), click Options, then Privacy & Security. Scroll down to Permissions, press Settings next to Notifications, and remove news-gexico.com and any other questionable websites from the list. It’s possible to permanently turn off push notification requests by checking the “Block new requests asking to allow notifications” box in the same Notifications settings.
- Google Chrome: Open the menu (the three dots top-right corner), then Settings, then Privacy and security, then Site Settings. Click on Notifications under Permissions, and remove news-gexico.com and any other questionable websites from the list. It’s possible to permanently turn off push notification requests by toggling off “Sites can ask to send notifications”.
- Microsoft Edge: Open the menu (the three dots top-right corner), then Settings, then Cookies and site permissions, then Notifications. Review which sites have permission and remove news-gexico.com and any other questionable websites from the list. It’s possible to permanently turn off push notification requests by toggling off “Ask before sending”.
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