What is Pushokey.com?
Appearance of Pushokey.com pop-ups indicates presence of adware on your computer. The adware might get installed along with dubious freeware and start generating advertising content on your browser. Pushokey.com page is among the sites that adware causes to open. This page, in turn, offers users to enable push notifications by clicking “Allow”. Once activated, the user will see pop-up windows in the lower right corner of the screen promoting ad sites. It is also capable of collecting your private data like web history, preferred sources, IP address, and even your passwords and banking information. Since no one can tell where this information is transferred further and how it is used, it would be the safest solution to stop the malicious activities of the application and to remove Pushokey.com.
How to remove Pushokey.com?
The easiest and convenient way to get rid of malware is to use a proper anti-malware program that can eliminate Pushokey.com and all its traces in just a few clicks.
Norton
Performing an antimalware scan with Norton Antivirus would automatically search out and delete all elements related to the adware. Download it by clicking the button below:
Steps of Pushokey.com manual removal
As it was stated before, more likely that the hijacker appeared on your system brought by other software. So, to get rid of Pushokey.com you need to call to memory what you have installed recently.
How to remove Pushokey.com from Windows XP
- Click the Start button and open Control Panel
- Go to Add or Remove Programs
- Find the application related to Pushokey.com and click Uninstall
How to remove Pushokey.com from Windows 7/Vista
- Click the Start button and open Control Panel
- Go to Uninstall Program
- Find the application related to Pushokey.com and click Uninstall
How to remove Pushokey.com from Windows 8/8.1
- Right-click the menu icon in left bottom corner
- Choose Control Panel
- Select the Uninstall Program line
- Uninstall the application related to Pushokey.com
How to remove Pushokey.com from Windows 10
- Press Win+X to open Windows Power menu
- Click Control Panel
- Choose Uninstall a Program
- Select the application related to Pushokey.com and remove it
If you experience problems with removing Pushokey.com from Control Panel: there is no such title on the list, or you receive an error preventing you from deleting the application, see the article dedicated to this issue.
Read what to do if program won’t uninstall from Control Panel
Remove Pushokey.com from browsers
How to unlock Windows Group Policies
Before you will started to remove Pushokey.com from browser you should perform following instructions in Command Prompt
This step is necessary to delete Windows Group Policies created by Pushokey.com
- Start Command Prompt as Administrator
- To do this in Windows 10/8 or Windows 7 click Start and in the search box type cmd. Right-click on the found result and choose Run as Administrator.
- While in command prompt type:
rd /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicyUsers" - Press Enter button.
- Then type:
rd /S /Q "%WinDir%\System32\GroupPolicy" - Press Enter button.
- Finally, type:
gpupdate /force - Press Enter button.
Since some of malware threats use a disguise of a browser add-on, you will need to check the list of extensions/add-ons in your browser.
How to remove Pushokey.com from Google Chrome
- Start Google Chrome
- Click on More tools, then go to the Extensions
- Delete Pushokey.com or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
How to remove Pushokey.com from Internet Explorer
- Launch Internet Explorer
- Click on the Tools/Gear icon, then select Manage Add-ons
- Delete Pushokey.com or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
How to remove Pushokey.com from Mozilla Firefox
- Start Mozilla Firefox
- Click on the right-upper corner button
- Click Add-ons, then go to Extensions
- Delete Pushokey.com or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
How to remove Pushokey.com from Microsoft Edge
- Start Microsoft Edge
- Click the three-dot button in the upper right corner
- Choose Extensions
- Click the gear icon near Pushokey.com or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
- Choose Remove
Reset your browsers
How to reset settings in Google Chrome
- Click on the icon in the right-upper corner
- Choose Settings
- Click Advanced settings
- Click the Reset button
- In “reset” window click the Reset button
How to reset settings in Mozilla Firefox
- Click the icon in the upper right corner
- Choose Help
- Select Troubleshooting Information
- Click the Refresh Firefox… button
How to reset settings in Internet Explorer
- Click on the Tools button
- Go to Internet options
- Go to the Advanced tab
- Click Reset
How to reset settings in Microsoft Edge
- Start Microsoft Edge
- Click the three-dot button in the upper right corner
- Choose Settings
- Under the Clear browsing data category select Choose what to clear
- Select everything and click Clear
If the above-mentioned methods didn’t help in eliminating the threat, then it’s better to rely on an automatic way of deleting Pushokey.com.
Uninstall Pushokey.com from Android:
Google Chrome:
- Launch the Chrome app.
- To the right of the address bar, tap More.
- Select and open Settings.
- Open Site settings and then find Pushokey.com and disable it.
We also recommend to download and use Norton to scan the system after Pushokey.com removal to make sure that it is completely gone. The antimalware application will detect any vicious components left among system files and registry entries that can recover Pushokey.com.
