How to remove Guished.com pop-ups (Virus removal guide)

What is Guished.com?

Guished.com pop ups are a scam that uses social engineering techniques to trick you and other unsuspecting users into accepting push notifications from web sites run by scammers. Scammers use push notifications to bypass pop up blocker and therefore show lots of unwanted adverts. These advertisements are used to promote questionable web-browser plugins, giveaway scams, adware bundles, and adult web-pages.

Guished.com claims that clicking ‘Allow’ is necessary to access the content of the website, enable Flash Player, watch a video, download a file, connect to the Internet, and so on. Once you click on the ‘Allow’ button, this web-site starts sending notifications on your desktop. You will see the pop up adverts even when you are not using the internet browser.

Threat Summary

Name	Guished.com popup
Type	spam push notifications, browser notification spam, pop-up virus
Distribution	adware software, malicious pop up advertisements, PUPs, social engineering attack
Symptoms	popup advertisements in bottom right corner of screen your web browser settings has replaced without your permission ads appear in places they shouldn’t be slow Internet or slow browsing
Removal	Guished.com removal guide

How did you get infected with Guished.com pop-ups

These Guished.com pop-ups are caused by suspicious advertisements on the webpages you visit or adware software. Adware is form of apps developed to insert adverts into your Web surfing or even desktop experience. Adware can be created to change your start page, search provider, search results, or even add toolbars to your web browser. Adware run in the background when browse the World Wide Web, and adware software can slow down your computer and affect its performance.

Adware usually spreads bundled with free programs that downloaded from the Internet. Which means that you need to be proactive and carefully read the Terms of use and the License agreement properly. For the most part, adware and potentially unwanted applications will be clearly described, so take the time to carefully read all the information about the software that you downloaded and want to install on your computer.

Remove Guished.com notifications from internet browsers

If you are in situation where you don’t want to see push notifications from the Guished.com web-page. In this case, you can turn off web notifications for your internet browser in Windows/Mac OS/Android. Find your browser in the list below, follow step-by-step tutorial to remove browser permissions to show browser notifications.

Google Chrome	Android
In the right upper corner of the browser window, click on ‘three vertical dots’, and this will open up the main menu on Chrome. When the drop-down menu appears, click on ‘Settings’. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on ‘Advanced’. When the drop-down menu appears, tap ‘Settings’. Scroll down to ‘Advanced’. Go to Notifications settings. Click ‘three dots’ button on the right hand side of Guished.com URL or other rogue notifications and click ‘Remove’.	Tap ‘Settings’. Tap ‘Notifications’. Find and tap the web browser which displays Guished.com browser notifications ads. Locate Guished.com URL, other rogue notifications and set the toggle button to ‘OFF’ on them one-by-one.
Mozilla Firefox	Edge
Click the Menu button (three horizontal stripes) on the top right hand corner of the browser. Choose ‘Options’ and click on ‘Privacy & Security’ on the left hand side of the Firefox. Scroll down to the ‘Permissions’ section and click the ‘Settings’ button next to ‘Notifications’. Select the Guished.com domain from the list and change the status to ‘Block’. Click ‘Save Changes’ button.	In the top right corner, click the Edge menu button (three dots). Scroll down to ‘Settings’. In the menu on the left go to ‘Advanced’. Click ‘Manage permissions’ button below ‘Website permissions’. Right-click the Guished.com site. Click ‘Delete’.
Internet Explorer	Safari
In the top-right corner, click on the menu button (gear icon). Select ‘Internet options’. Select the ‘Privacy’ tab and click ‘Settings under ‘Pop-up Blocker’ section. Find the Guished.com URL and click the ‘Remove’ button to delete the site.	On the top menu select ‘Safari’, then ‘Preferences’. Open ‘Websites’ tab, then in the left menu click on ‘Notifications’. Locate the Guished.com site and select it, click the ‘Deny’ button.

How to remove Guished.com popups (removal guide)

Even if you have the up-to-date classic antivirus installed, and you’ve checked your PC for malicious software and removed anything found, you need to do the instructions below. The Guished.com pop up ads removal is not simple as installing another antivirus. Classic antivirus programs are not developed to run together and will conflict with each other, or possibly crash Microsoft Windows. Instead we suggest complete the manual steps below after that run Zemana, MalwareBytes AntiMalware (MBAM) or Hitman Pro, which are free software dedicated to locate and remove adware that causes pop ups. Run these utilities to ensure the adware is removed.

To remove Guished.com pop ups, perform the following steps:

1. Remove Guished.com notifications from internet browsers
2. How to manually remove Guished.com
   • Uninstall adware software through the Microsoft Windows Control Panel
   • Get rid of Guished.com pop-up advertisements from Mozilla Firefox
   • Remove Guished.com pop ups from Google Chrome
   • Get rid of Guished.com advertisements from Microsoft Internet Explorer
3. Automatic Removal of Guished.com advertisements
4. Stop Guished.com pop ups

How to manually remove Guished.com

The step-by-step tutorial designed by our team will help you manually remove Guished.com popups from a web-browser. If you have little experience in using computers, we suggest that you use the free tools listed below.

Uninstall adware software through the Microsoft Windows Control Panel

In order to remove PUPs such as this adware software, open the MS Windows Control Panel and click on “Uninstall a program”. Check the list of installed programs. For the ones you do not know, run an Internet search to see if they are adware, hijacker or potentially unwanted programs. If yes, remove them off. Even if they are just a apps that you do not use, then deleting them off will increase your PC start up time and speed dramatically.

Windows 7	Windows 8
Click ‘Start’. In the Start menu select ‘Control Panel’. Find and select ‘Programs and Features’ or ‘Uninstall a program’. Select the program. Click ‘Uninstall’.	Press and hold Windows key and hit X key. Select ‘Programs and Features’ from the menu. Select the program. Click ‘Uninstall’.
Windows 10	Mac OS
Press and hold Windows key and hit X key. Select ‘Programs and Features’ from the menu. Select the program. Click ‘Uninstall’.	On the top menu select ‘Go’, then ‘Applications’. Drag an unwanted application to the Trash bin. Right-click on the ‘Trash’ and select ‘Empty Trash’.

Get rid of Guished.com pop-up advertisements from Mozilla Firefox

If the Firefox internet browser is re-directed to Guished.com and you want to restore the Mozilla Firefox settings back to their default values, then you should follow the few simple steps below. It will save your personal information like saved passwords, bookmarks, auto-fill data and open tabs.

First, run the Mozilla Firefox and press button. It will show the drop-down menu on the right-part of the web-browser. Further, click the Help button () as displayed on the image below.

In the Help menu, select the “Troubleshooting Information” option. Another way to open the “Troubleshooting Information” screen – type “about:support” in the browser adress bar and press Enter. It will show the “Troubleshooting Information” page as displayed in the figure below. In the upper-right corner of this screen, click the “Refresh Firefox” button.

It will open the confirmation dialog box. Further, press the “Refresh Firefox” button. The Firefox will begin a process to fix your problems that caused by the Guished.com adware software. After, it is finished, click the “Finish” button.

Remove Guished.com pop ups from Google Chrome

If you have adware, Guished.com popup advertisements problems or Google Chrome is running slow, then reset Google Chrome can help you. In this instructions we’ll show you the method to reset your Google Chrome settings and data to original state without reinstall.

1. First start the Google Chrome and click Menu button (small button in the form of three dots).
2. It will show the Chrome main menu. Choose More Tools, then click Extensions.
3. You will see the list of installed plugins. If the list has the extension labeled with “Installed by enterprise policy” or “Installed by your administrator”, then complete the following guidance: Remove Chrome extensions installed by enterprise policy.
4. Now open the Chrome menu once again, click the “Settings” menu.
5. You will see the Chrome’s settings page. Scroll down and click “Advanced” link.
6. Scroll down again and click the “Reset” button.
7. The Google Chrome will display the reset profile settings page as on the image above.
8. Next click the “Reset” button.
9. Once this process is complete, your browser’s search engine, newtab and home page will be restored to their original defaults.
10. To learn more, read the blog post How to reset Chrome settings to default.

Get rid of Guished.com advertisements from Microsoft Internet Explorer

If you find that Microsoft Internet Explorer browser settings such as search engine by default, new tab and home page had been changed by adware responsible for Guished.com popup advertisements, then you may return your settings, via the reset web browser procedure.

First, launch the IE, then click ‘gear’ icon . It will display the Tools drop-down menu on the right part of the internet browser, then click the “Internet Options” as shown in the following example.

In the “Internet Options” screen, select the “Advanced” tab, then click the “Reset” button. The Internet Explorer will show the “Reset Internet Explorer settings” dialog box. Further, click the “Delete personal settings” check box to select it. Next, click the “Reset” button as on the image below.

When the process is done, click “Close” button. Close the Microsoft Internet Explorer and reboot your computer for the changes to take effect. This step will help you to restore your web browser’s newtab page, search engine and startpage to default state.

Automatic Removal of Guished.com advertisements

Cyber threat analysts have built efficient adware software removal tools to help users in removing unexpected pop-ups and annoying advertisements. Below we will share with you the best malware removal tools that have the ability to scan for and remove adware that causes the intrusive Guished.com pop-ups.

Use Zemana Anti Malware (ZAM) to get rid of Guished.com popups

Download Zemana Anti-Malware (ZAM) to remove Guished.com popup ads automatically from all of your web-browsers. This is a free software specially designed for malicious software removal. This utility can remove adware software, hijacker from Google Chrome, IE, Microsoft Edge and Firefox and MS Windows registry automatically.

Installing the Zemana AntiMalware (ZAM) is simple. First you’ll need to download Zemana Anti Malware on your computer from the following link.

After the downloading process is done, close all software and windows on your PC. Double-click the set up file called Zemana.AntiMalware.Setup. If the “User Account Control” dialog box pops up like below, click the “Yes” button.

It will open the “Setup wizard” that will help you install Zemana Anti Malware (ZAM) on your PC system. Follow the prompts and don’t make any changes to default settings.

Once installation is finished successfully, Zemana Anti-Malware (ZAM) will automatically start and you can see its main screen as on the image below.

Now click the “Scan” button to detect adware software that causes Guished.com ads. This procedure may take some time, so please be patient.

As the scanning ends, Zemana Anti-Malware (ZAM) will open you the results. All found items will be marked. You can delete them all by simply press “Next” button. The Zemana will remove adware that causes multiple annoying pop-ups and move the selected threats to the program’s quarantine. After the process is done, you may be prompted to restart the PC system.

Get rid of Guished.com popups and malicious extensions with Hitman Pro

Hitman Pro is a malicious software removal tool that is designed to scan for and delete browser hijackers, potentially unwanted programs, adware and questionable processes from the PC system that has been infected with malicious software. It’s a portable program which can be run instantly from USB key. HitmanPro have an advanced computer monitoring utility which uses a whitelist database to stop questionable processes and applications.

Download Hitman Pro on your computer from the link below.

Once downloading is complete, open the file location. You will see an icon like below.

Double click the HitmanPro desktop icon. Once the tool is started, you will see a screen as shown in the figure below.

Further, click “Next” button to search for adware software that causes Guished.com advertisements. This task may take quite a while, so please be patient. When finished, you’ll be shown the list of all detected items on your personal computer such as the one below.

Review the scan results and then click “Next” button. It will display a dialog box, click the “Activate free license” button.

Remove Guished.com advertisements with MalwareBytes

If you’re having problems with Guished.com ads removal, then check out MalwareBytes Free. This is a tool that can help clean up your PC and improve your speeds for free. Find out more below.

1. Download MalwareBytes Free on your MS Windows Desktop by clicking on the following link.
   
   

   Malwarebytes Anti-malware
   326391 downloads
   Author: Malwarebytes
   Category: Security tools
   Update: April 15, 2020
   
2. After the download is complete, close all applications and windows on your device. Open a directory in which you saved it. Double-click on the icon that’s named MBsetup.
3. Select “Personal computer” option and click Install button. Follow the prompts.
4. Once installation is done, click the “Scan” button . MalwareBytes Anti-Malware application will scan through the whole PC system for the adware that causes multiple annoying popups. A system scan can take anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes, depending on your computer. During the scan MalwareBytes will detect threats exist on your PC.
5. When MalwareBytes Free has finished scanning, MalwareBytes Free will open a screen that contains a list of malware that has been found. Next, you need to click “Quarantine”. After finished, you can be prompted to reboot your computer.

The following video offers a steps on how to remove hijackers, adware and other malicious software with MalwareBytes AntiMalware (MBAM).

Stop Guished.com pop ups

Run adblocker program like AdGuard in order to block ads, malvertisements, pop-ups and online trackers, avoid having to install malicious and adware browser plug-ins and add-ons that affect your computer performance and impact your PC security. Browse the Internet anonymously and stay safe online!

Please go to the following link to download the latest version of AdGuard for Windows. Save it to your Desktop.

When the downloading process is complete, double-click the downloaded file to start it. The “Setup Wizard” window will show up on the computer screen as displayed in the following example.

Follow the prompts. AdGuard will then be installed and an icon will be placed on your desktop. A window will show up asking you to confirm that you want to see a quick tutorial as displayed in the figure below.

Press “Skip” button to close the window and use the default settings, or click “Get Started” to see an quick instructions which will assist you get to know AdGuard better.

Each time, when you launch your PC system, AdGuard will start automatically and stop undesired ads, block Guished.com, as well as other harmful or misleading web pages. For an overview of all the features of the program, or to change its settings you can simply double-click on the AdGuard icon, that is located on your desktop.

To sum up

We suggest that you keep AdGuard (to help you block unwanted ads and unwanted harmful webpages) and Zemana Anti-Malware (ZAM) (to periodically scan your personal computer for new malicious software, hijackers and adware software). Make sure that you have all the Critical Updates recommended for MS Windows OS. Without regular updates you WILL NOT be protected when new browser hijackers, harmful programs and adware are released.

If you are still having problems while trying to get rid of Guished.com pop-up advertisements from your web-browser, then ask for help here.