We hate those little popup notifications in Windows, the ones down by the clock telling you that ‘Your Computer is infected…’ always with a kind of vague or generic looking logo and a ca:wll to action to click something. These are, almost always bogus.

These popups come from your web browser, believe it or not. What happend was a message was displayed on your browser asking if you would like to allow notifications, and someone clicked YES when they should have clicked NO.

fortunately, these are easy to remove. Here are two ways to remove them in Google Chrome.

Delete Notifications

The simple way is to go to the notifications settings page and delete the notifications that have been allowed. I like to leave the ones for Gmail and Calendar, but not much of anything else.

Here is a link to the notifications settings: chrome://settings/content/notifications

You can browse to these settings by going to the ... menu on the top right > Clicking Settings > Privacy and security from the left side > then Site settings about second from the bottom > and then Notifications about half way down the page > finally delete any you don’t need from the section at the bottom titled Allowed to send notifications.

Reset Browser Settings

And then, there is the ‘nuke from orbit’ approach, where you reset ALL Chrome settings, retaining only your saved passwords, forms and history, nuking everything else.

Here is a link to the reset settings: chrome://settings/reset.

You can browse to these settings by going to the ... menu on the top right > Clicking Settings > then click on the 3rd to the bottom on the left-side menu and click Reset settings > click the Restore settings to their original defaults menu > finally click the blue Reset settings button.