Necktootext.live pop-up notifications appear when you do not expect, detracting and annoying you. However, they are slightly more than simple pop-up ads – their nature is cleanly malicious, and they can install other malware to your computer. In this post, I will show you how to remove Necktootext.live pop-up advertisements and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any interaction with Necktootext.live pop-ups will be useless at best. In worst case scenario, the sites it can show you may introduce malware to your system. These push notifications can also advertise fake shopping sites which will take your money and payment info. The latter generally ends up with losing all the money you have on the exposed card.

What are Necktootext.live pop-up notifications?

As the pop-up definition goes, these are short and small advertisements that attract your attention to a product they promote. But the difference between regular pop-up advertisements and Necktootext.live notifications is the malignant origins of the latter. Common pop-up notifications are offered for you to enable on different sites with a benevolent purpose – keep you aware about the latest publications, discounts and so on. It is an effective approach to help your site to retain visitors and help the interested visitors to have the best deal.

Brief summary of the Necktootext.live pop-ups:

Necktootext.live pop-up advertisements, as opposed, have a deal with unlegit sites. You will commonly observe the proposition to enable them following the redirection from another site. Redirects are OK unless they throw you to such a questionable place. At that point, turning on pop-up ads is offered under the guise of the anti-bot check-up. In other cases, the web pages may deny showing you the contents unless you enable these pop-up advertisements. These theses should already raise suspicion, as websites generally feature a different anti-bot mechanism. Seeing this requirement is a reason to leave the site doubtlessly. In some cases, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not get to the web page – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up advertisements.

How does it work?

The vast majority of web browsers support turning on push notifications from sites. Websites, on the other hand, may send notifications with the content they want. It may be a promotion of the product listed on this site, or a promotion of the page of their partner. As a result, you can see the pop-up from site X, but opening it will throw you to website Y – because a referral link to that website was embedded.

Scoundrels rely on this ability in their attempt to gain money using illegal advertising. They trick users into allowing the pop-ups, and after that just spread numerous banners of anyone they have a deal with. As you can suppose, no benevolent organisations will contract with fraudsters. All the Necktootext.live popups you can see lead to other untrustworthy sites. In some cases, the same victim can get into a trap of several pop-up spamming sites, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.

The promotions these criminals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It generally provides a miserable pay for one view, but when you can send ads to a huge number of users and show them hundreds of ads each day – that is a way bigger sum. Despite most of such banners giving no result at all, it can still give all the parties a lot of profit.

Are Necktootext.live push notifications dangerous?

Yes, they are. At the surface, they can look non-threatening – just a blinking window that appears from time to time. However, the things this window promotes differ sharply from what you generally see in pop-up advertisements. Necktootext.live website is ruled by fraudsters, who intentionally throw hundreds and thousands of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any manners of advertising and can launch sporadic pop-up ads into a storm of banners. For weak computers, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But problems are not over at this point.

As any other thing that touches illegal ads, Necktootext.live pop-up notifications lack legit offers. Even though crooks make the banners looking similar to ones from Walmart or Amazon, the web page these banners will throw you to are completely different. And these pages can offer you to turn on other pop-ups, install a “useful” program, or pay for a thing at a big discount and never receive it. Let’s leave aside the cases when pop-up notifications promote phishing pages or straightforward malware. There’s no way these pages will bring you any good, thus interacting with them is a very bad idea. For the same reason, Necktootext.live push notifications are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Necktootext.live pop-ups?

Fortunately, Necktootext.live pop-ups removal is not very complicated. They reside in the browser and cannot hide themselves on a disk. Nevertheless, as I stated before, some pop-ups can promote malicious programs to your system. It is nearly impossible to show all of the cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is a bad idea. Therefore, after getting rid of the pop-up advertisements it is recommended to use anti-malware software. I’d especially recommend that if you have never clicked “Allow” to pop-up ads, but they still appeared. That may be a sign of adware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will perfectly fit both system recovery and malware removal purposes, because of its abilities of system recovery and superb detection system.

Initially, you should reset your browser settings. You can do that in manual or automated way. The former, obviously, requires more time to complete and may be somewhat complicated if you have never done that. Automated supposes the use of anti-malware programs that can reset all browser settings at once.

Reset your browsers with GridinSoft Anti-Malware

To reset your browser with GridinSoft Anti-Malware, open the Tools tab, and click the “Reset browser settings” button.

You can see the list of options for each browser. By default, they are set up in a manner that fits the majority of users. Press the “Reset” button (lower right corner). In a minute your browser will be as good as new.

The browser reset is recommended to perform through the antivirus tool by GridinSoft, because the latter is also able to reset the HOSTS file without any additional commands.

Reset your browsers manually

Manual method of browser reset

To reset Edge, do the following steps:

1. Open “Settings and more” tab in upper right corner, then find here “Settings” button. In the appeared menu, choose “Reset settings” option:
2. After picking the Reset Settings option, you will see the following menu, stating about the settings which will be reverted to original:

For Mozilla Firefox, do the next actions:

1. Open Menu tab (three strips in upper right corner) and click the “Help” button. In the appeared menu choose “troubleshooting information”:
2. In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option:

After choosing this option, you will see the next message:

If you use Google Chrome

1. Open Settings tab, find the “Advanced” button. In the extended tab choose the “Reset and clean up” button:
2. In the appeared list, click on the “Restore settings to their original defaults”:
3. Finally, you will see the window, where you can see all the settings which will be reset to default:

Opera can be reset in the next way

1. Open Settings menu by pressing the gear icon in the toolbar (left side of the browser window), then click “Advanced” option, and choose “Browser” button in the drop-down list. Scroll down, to the bottom of the settings menu. Find there “Restore settings to their original defaults” option:


2. After clicking the “Restore settings…” button, you will see the window, where all settings, which will be reset, are shown:

When the browsers are reset, you need to ensure that your browser will connect the right DNS while connecting to the website you need. Create a text file titled “hosts” on your pc’s desktop, then open it and fill it with the following linesOfficial Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.' data-wpel-link="internal" target="_self" rel="follow">²:

Find the hosts.txt file in C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc directory. Rename this file to “hosts.old.txt” (to distinguish it from the new one), and then move the file you created on the desktop to this folder. Remove the hosts.old from this folder. Now you have your hosts file as good as new.

Scan your system for possible viruses

After removing the Necktootext.live push notifications, it’s time to see if these pop-ups brought any threat to your system. Launch GridinSoft Anti-Malware, and then click on Standard scan. It will be enough in most cases to find and remove malware. The scan will last 5-10 minutes; you are free to use your system during that process.

Once the scan is complete, you will see the detections or a notification about a clean system. Proceed with pressing the Clean Up button (or OK when nothing is detected).

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