tractsupport.com is a highly questionable website that promotes a social engineering scam meant to get people to agree to desktop advertisements. As soon as you land on the website, a browser alert saying “tractsupport.com wants to show notifications” will pop up. If you agree to these notifications, the website would fill your desktop with potentially dangerous advertisements. It is not recommended to interact with those advertisements because they could expose you to harmful content, including scams and even malware.

 

Tractsupport.com ads

 

tractsupport.com, like thousands of other websites, takes advantage of a legitimate browser feature that enables websites to display notifications on desktops. The feature is safe to use as long as the site with permission is legitimate and safe. tractsupport.com is far from being a legitimate website so giving it permission to show notifications is not a good idea.

tractsupport.com often displays various scams. At the time we came across the site, it only displayed a message saying “Click Allow if you are not a robot”. A browser alert also popped up saying “tractsupport.com wants to show notifications”. If you click “Allow” on such a notification, you will not access the site further and instead start getting ads on the desktop. Considering that tractsupport.com is a very questionable website, its ads will likely be worse. If you have given it permission, you should avoid clicking on the notifications. Clicking on those notifications could lead you to dangerous sites that conceal malware and/or promote scams. There’s also no reason to click on those notifications because they will offer nothing of use to you.

This “push notifications” feature is valid and occasionally even useful. You can grant permission to a website if it is legitimate and you want to get its notifications. The contents of those notifications will be based on what the website typically posts. For example, if you grant permission to a news website, the notifications would contain important news. You would be led directly to the content if you click on the notification. Therefore, the feature has its benefits.

If you have given tractsupport.com permission to display push notifications, you should revoke it sooner rather than later. Although the process is relatively simple, you can use the instructions provided at the end of this report if you need help. Once you revoke the permission, the notifications will stop.

What triggers redirects to sites like tractsupport.com?

Numerous factors could trigger redirects to websites like tractsupport.com. In most cases, the trigger can be the websites you visit. There are many problematic websites that expose users to many potentially dangerous ads, and they’re usually considered to be high risk. For example, websites that have pornographic or pirated content often trigger redirects. Installing a good adblocker would fix this issue. Adblockers would not only prevent redirects but also other intrusive ads.

If you frequently find yourself being redirected to tractsupport.com and similar websites, your computer may be infected with adware. Nonstop advertisements, even when using trustworthy websites, are the most obvious symptom of adware. Users commonly unknowingly download and install infections like adware when downloading and installing free software. Free programs usually have added offers added to them, and they are permitted to install alongside. Adware and browser hijackers are usually the added offers. The offers are technically optional, but users need to manually deselect them in order to prevent their installation. Although the offers are hidden in the Advanced settings, users normally install programs using Default settings. It’s evidently a pretty controversial installation method, and programs that use it are usually detected as potential threats by anti-virus programs.

If you install programs correctly, you can stop these unwanted installations from happening. Installing programs using Advanced (Custom) settings as opposed to Default settings is what you need to do. If you select Default settings, as recommended by the installation window, all added offers will be hidden and permitted to install automatically. However, if you select Advanced options, all offers will be displayed and you can deselect all of them. We always recommend deselecting all offers because they will only take up space on your computer. Software bundling is a poor installation method, so you shouldn’t let programs that use it install on your computer.

Even if offers first seem useful, allowing them to install will merely fill your computer with useless programs that cause a number of issues. It is much easier to prevent the installation of infections like adware and browser hijackers before they have been fully installed.

tractsupport.com ads removal

Sites like tractsupport.com should not have permission to show notifications because they’re not safe. If you have given permission to tractsupport.com to spam you, you should revoke it right away. It’s not difficult to do via your browser’s settings. If you don’t know what to do, use the below directions.

  • 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 tractsupport.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 tractsupport.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 removetractsupport.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”.

It’s recommended to also scan your computer with anti-virus software to check for an adware infection. If adware is the trigger, removing it with anti-virus software would be easiest. If no adware is detected, install an adblocker program to block the redirects when you’re browsing high-risk websites.

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