Next, we are going to see several ways to disable these annoying messages that, generally, tend to be related to the browser. Although some users believe that it is a virus, in 99% of cases, it is not a virus, so it should not surprise us that the antivirus that our team manages has not been able to detect it at any time. This type of virus does not usually camouflage itself excessively, therefore, in this case, both Windows Defender and the antivirus that we use instead will quickly detect its intentions and it will never be downloaded, let alone installed on our PC. .
It is very easy to detect if it is a virus without using an antivirus. If, after closing Chrome completely, in addition to closing all background tasks through Task Manager, it still shows messages, it means that it is a virus. However, if after completely closing Chrome, we stop seeing that happy message, it is a problem with Chrome, well, more of a problem with the notifications that we have activated from a certain website, so the first and only thing we must to do is deactivate them so that they stop being displayed on our equipment.
Stop Chrome from running in the background
Normally these notices belong to Google Chrome. But if we have enabled the option for the browser to run in the background, they will also appear even when the browser is closed. And this can be worrying and confusing for some users.
Therefore, if for some reason we are seeing these messages on our computer, the first thing we should do is prevent Chrome from staying open in the background. Thus, in addition, we will save resources on the PC.
To do this, all we have to do is open the Configuration window and go to the section “System”, or write in the address bar directly:
chrome://settings/system
Once there, we must locate the option “Keep running apps in the background when you close Google Chrome” and uncheck the box. Thus, every time we close the browser, it will close completely, and we will not see messages or notices again while Chrome is closed. In addition, to all this we must add the fact that with this movement that we have just shown you, we also managed to stop the Google program from consuming PC resources while we are not using it. It should be borne in mind that this is also one of the most recurring complaints from Chrome users, its high consumption of RAM and CPU.
Disable web notifications
Although we have stopped seeing virus warnings and messages when the browser is closed, while we have it open, messages and warnings about possible viruses will continue to appear. These can become somewhat annoying, especially if we take into account the enormous number of hours we spend in front of these programs. In addition, on many occasions, more than we would like, these notices are of little use to us, so they do nothing but interrupt us. Therefore, we are going to see how we can stop receiving those annoying notifications from Chrome.
Once the browser is no longer open in the background, the next step will be control the websites that have permission to display notices and notifications in our browser. To do this, we must go to the content configuration section, website notifications. We can get directly to this section by entering the following URL in the address bar:
chrome://settings/content/notifications
Here we will see all the websites or extensions that have permission to display notifications and notices in our browser. This is something that we can of course customize to adapt its behavior to our needs in Chrome.
Surely many are trustworthy. For example, WhatsApp, Wallapop or Google Docs applications. However, it is very likely that we have an unknown website, and this will be responsible for the virus alerts on our PC. Therefore, what we must do is click on the icon of the three points and we will choose the option “Block” either “Remove” so that said website stops showing us notices on the PC.
In the event that the web appears with the icon of a extension, What we have to do is search within the extensions section for all the ones we have installed, locate the one that may be suspicious (or test it by trial and error) and eliminate it to make the false virus warnings disappear from our Google Chrome.
After restarting the browser, so that all the changes take place correctly, we will be able to see how these notices have definitively disappeared. Now we must be careful with the websites we visit to prevent these annoying false virus messages from returning to our browser again.
Of course, we recommend that you scan your computer with a good antivirus, such as Windows Defenderand an antimalware, like Malwarebytes, to rule out that, because of these messages, we have installed some type of unwanted software that is endangering our PC.
To avoid future problems, it is recommended to disable notifications for each and every one of the websites that we visit for the first time. Web notifications are one of the worst inventions of the internet age, as all they do is fill your device with notifications and continually distract users, a particularly problematic distraction for those who work from home and do it through a computer, since the distractions are continuous.
Change permission settings for all sites
Another way to prevent fake virus messages from appearing in Chrome is by changing the permission settings for all sites. To do this we must open the browser and click on the button with three points that we find in the upper right part. This will open a drop-down menu where we click on the Configuration section.
Later we click on the Privacy and security section and click on Site settings, located on the right side. Here, we select the permission that we want to update. To change the permissions and data storage of all the sites we have visited we can click on View permissions and data stored on all sites.
Change settings for a specific site
We can also allow or block permissions for a specific site if we know that this is the one that shows us the pop-up messages. In this way the website will use your particular settings instead of the default settings or clear the data of a site.
To do this we open the browser and go to the website. Next, on the left we click on the Block, Information or Dangerous icon. This will open a small menu where we must click on Site Settings. From here we can change the permissions settings, whose changes will be saved automatically. We just have to take a look at the permissions and click on the Reset permissions button at the top or modify the permissions individually for each element if we prefer.
Avoid certain suspicious web pages
It is true that, as a general rule, current Internet browsers have a series of integrated functions that try, as far as possible, to protect us. All this thanks to the security and privacy functions that they make available to us. For example, the latest versions of these programs already take care of automatically blocking certain downloads. Likewise, the messages about malicious codes that we are talking about in these lines are another important security measures.
However, on certain occasions we can also find that these alert messages become annoying elements. In these lines we are showing the way to avoid the constant arrival of these notifications that do not always have a reason to exist. But with everything and with this we also have the possibility of taking certain measures ourselves, firstly to navigate more safely, and secondly to avoid these messages that we are discussing. We tell you all this because in most cases we should avoid certain Web pages that we already know are suspicious beforehand.
We can find online sites whose downloads are dangerous, or that directly try to load malicious content when accessing them. Therefore, if we want to avoid those annoying messages about viruses, we should avoid visiting these URLs that we ourselves already know are not trustworthy.
Disable Windows notifications
As you have probably already experienced first-hand on more than one occasion, Windows 10 itself has its own notifications section. These appear in screen and they refer to multiple sections of the applications that we have installed on the computer at that time. Therefore, although we previously saw how to disable notifications from Chrome itself, this additional step can also be interesting.
Therefore, to achieve this that we are discussing, what we have to do is access the System Configuration application. This is something we achieve through the key combination Win + I, For example. Next, we click on the section System, and in the new window that appears, on the left side, we see a section called Notifications and actions. Well, a little further down, in the right panel, we will see that there is a list with installed applications for which we can activate, or not, these notifications, including Google Chrome.
It must be taken into account that everything related to notifications in the operating system of those of redmond, It’s very important. That is why, at the same time, in this section that we have just described, we find many other configuration options related to precisely these elements. Let’s not forget that the programs we install on windows they should interact seamlessly with it. Whether they are programs that we download from their official websites, or from the official store of the system. Therefore, an excellent way to unite the use of both elements. We are talking about the operating system, on the one hand, and the programs on the other. Therefore, it is precisely through these notifications that we tell you how Microsoft manages to unite them.
Update the browser and the system
As with most of the software solutions that we have installed on our computer, we must pay attention to their developers. Here we mean that we update the different programs when their creators send us updates of greater or lesser importance. Not only to receive the latest functions that they have created for us, here also very important factors related to the privacy and security.
As you can imagine, this is something that is especially evident in the case of web browsers that we use to move around. Internet. Therefore, if we find ourselves with this annoying error of the false viruses that…
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