How to Remove y2meta.com? y2meta.com advertisements are push notifications from your browser, and you have accepted the push notifications from video converter websites such as y2meta.com.
Push notifications are alerts that are shown through your web browser settings. Malicious websites similar to y2meta.com try to persuade into a click on the allow button in your browser.
y2meta.com website displays announcements such as “click allow to continue,” “click to verify if you are not a robot” or “click allow to download the file.” The alert is a social engineering trick and is only abused to trick you.
If you have accepted the notifications, advertisements are shown that will try to make you click on the ad again. If you click on the announcement, the browser will open and redirect you to a dangerous website. These ads are associated with adware.
Adware is software specifically designed to steal browser data from your computer.
This web browsing data is eventually sold by cybercriminals to make money from it.
If you see the y2meta.com pop-ups in your browser, I recommend that you remove the notifications by y2meta.com to prevent further malware infections.
Remove y2meta.com pop-up ads
Remove y2meta.com from Google Chrome
Open the Google Chrome browser, in the address bar type: chrome://settings/content/notifications
or follow the steps below.
- Open Google Chrome.
- In the top-right corner, expand the Chrome menu.
- In the Google Chrome menu, open Settings.
- At the Privacy and Security section, click Site settings.
- Open the Notifications settings.
- Remove y2meta.com by clicking the three dots on the right next to the y2meta.com URL and click Remove.
Remove y2meta.com from Android
- Open Google Chrome
- In the top-right corner, find the Chrome menu.
- In the menu tap Settings, scroll down to Advanced.
- In the Site Settings section, tap the Notifications settings, find the y2meta.com domain, and tap on it.
- Tap the Clean & Reset button and confirm.
Remove y2meta.com from Firefox
- Open Firefox
- In the top-right corner, click the Firefox menu (three horizontal stripes).
- In the menu go to Options, in the list on the left go to Privacy & Security.
- Scroll down to Permissions and then to Settings next to Notifications.
- Select the y2meta.com URL from the list, and change the status to Block, save Firefox changes.
Remove y2meta.com from Edge
- Open Microsoft Edge.
- In the top right corner, click on the three dots to expand the Edge menu.
- Scroll down to Settings.
- In the left menu click on Site permissions.
- Click on Notifications.
- Click on the three dots on the right of the y2meta.com domain and Remove.
Remove y2meta.com from Safari on Mac
- Open Safari. In the top left corner, click on Safari.
- Go to Preferences in the Safari menu, now open the Websites tab.
- In the left menu click on Notifications
- Find the y2meta.com domain and select it, click the Deny button.
Continue to the next step.
Remove y2meta.com adware
You need to remove the y2meta.com adware from your computer.
Malwarebytes is comprehensive adware – malware removal tool and Malwarebytes is free to use.
Websites such as y2meta.com redirect you to dangerous advertisements that advise adware applications, the y2meta.com website also redirects the browser to other malware such as crypto miners and various exploits. Make sure to completely clean your computer from malware with Malwarebytes.
- Install Malwarebytes, follow on-screen instructions.
- Click Scan to start a malware-scan.
- Wait for the Malwarebytes scan to finish.
- Once completed, review the adware detections.
- Click Quarantine to continue.
- Reboot Windows after all the detections are moved to quarantine.
You have now successfully removed adware and other malware from your computer.