Il notification system used by most modern websites is a mechanism that allows you to receive push messages directly to your device, even when you are not using your web browser or even browsing a particular domain. It is a useful tool to stay updated on the activity of your favorite websites and quickly visit a page containing important updates from the notification area. In recent times, however, reports of notifiche Android virus.
The smartphone display lights up and, depending on the user’s preferences, the playback of a sound and/or a vibration announces the appearance of a notification. The fact is that it is often a notification with suspicious content: the text tries to mislead by referring to the presence of a malware on the mobile device, citing the importance of running an antivirus scan or mentioning the (false) detection of other threats due to browsing websites with inappropriate content.
Android virus notifications: These are the modern version of phishing attacks
If he phishing attacks via email are always the order of the day, the use of Android notifications that refer to absolutely bogus threats or emergencies that the user should handle as soon as possible have become extremely common. Very often, cyber criminals cause messages to appear in the Android notification area with the aim of misleading the user, often making them carry out dangerous operations (aimed at stealing personal data and confidential information).
When you visit a site from your Android device, the web page you are viewing may ask for permission to show push notifications. In the case of Chrome, these are messages similar to the following (the site in the figure is also absolutely legitimate):
Per do not receive any notifications push, just touch the item Block. In some cases, however, you want because the request is sometimes mistaken for the consent to cookiesor because it can happen to press Consent Without wanting to, it happens that you authorize one or more sites to show notifications. The fact is that so many websites are known to continually mess up the sending of spam or protagonists of real online scams, exploit the mechanism of Chrome notifications on Android to show content aimed at setting traps for users. Some of them are really well done, so much so that the contents proposed in the form of notifications seem quite convincing.
How to delete Android notifications on Chrome
Chrome for Android users can check the list of allowed websites at any time.sending notifications push simply by touching the three dots at the top right, selecting Settings Therefore Site Settings. On the following screen, you have to choose Notifications. Here you get the list of websites not authorized to send notifications and those which, vice versa, are enabled.
When Android virus notifications appear, referring to looming threats, you will most likely find the name of the site that is generating the push notifications right on the screen Site Settings, Notifications of the Chrome browser. Usually, by holding down on the name of the website that is sending the unwanted notifications, you can delete it from the list. “Spam notifications” will finally disappear.
Depending on the version of Android used and any customization by the manufacturer, to delete all preferences regarding push notifications it may be necessary to return to the main Chrome settings screen and then choose Privacy and security. In the section Privacy and securityyou have to choose Clear browsing data then access the tab Advanceto select From the beginning at Time lapsedeactivate all the boxes leaving only active Site Settings.
After tapping the button Clear datathe list of authorized and blocked sites in the section Site Settings, Notifications will finally be completely empty.
Avoid prompting to display push notifications on Android
To avoid making a mistake and mistakenly granting the display of push notifications to some “dubious” website with a questionable identity, at this point it is sufficient to go back to the browser settings Chrome su Androidchoose Site Settingstouch Notifications then disable the option Notifications. In this way, no website will be able to show the request portrayed in the image published in the introduction. The technology behind the notification display push is thus automatically disabled in Android.
