Remove National Consumer Center (Prize and Reward Scam)

Different kinds of websites can be accessed while browsing on internet. Web visitors may get to encounter unfamiliar sites, which present intrusive ads consistently. Those kinds of websites can be tricky for online users like how National Consumer Center operates.

National Consumer Center is a website where it aims to fool its visitors into allowing alerts from their site to user’s main web browser. National Consumer Center operators utilize tactics to encourage its visitor to enable notifications. National Consumer Center was designed to redirect internet users into unreliable web pages that display questionable and malicious contents. Users can accidentally accessed the site through adware or PUA (Potentially Unwanted Application) installed on the browser program and it is primarily targeting Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Safari. There are unwanted programs that were developed to display malicious advertisements and gather browsing-related details.

National Consumer Center Prizes, Rewards, and Gift Cards

The way National Consumer Center website behaves is just like any other browser redirects such as Bvideo.pro, Secure-inform.space, and many more. These websites aim to deceive web visitors into enabling push notifications. Like for National Consumer Center, operators usually display “Allow” button to proceed with file-download, watch media, join raffle contest, and so on. As you can see, there are several click-bait methods that adware developers use to catch internet users attention. Either way, it has the same effect on the browser. Once web visitor clicked “Allow”, it means that National Consumer Center can automatically send alerts into browser containing deceptive ads that can redirect or link to other dubious web pages. In addition, it aims to collect confidential information from web users by prompting them to answer an online survey. To further lure online users to this scheme, National Consumer Center  will display pages with the following captions:

  • Collect 100 points and get a $100 Visa Gift Card
  • Chance to win $100 Starbucks Gift Card
  • Collect 100 points and get a $1000 Walmart Gift Card
  • Collect 100 points and get an Apple iPhone
  • Complete your information to continue towards your reward.
  • You have won a free new phone! Click here to confirm.

Screenshot of National Consumer Center

Ads by National Consumer Center

National Consumer Center associated advertisements can sometimes be in different forms such as campaign banners, commercial ads, pop-up ads, or surveys. It can be engaging to see since it ought to encourage online users, but once clicked; it can open to access untrustworthy websites like the one on the screenshot image below, National Consumer Center attempts to trick web visitors via prizes that they may claim instantly. But once internet user proceed with this scheme, the web page will require them to submit crucial personal information that attackers may use for other online fraudulent operation. Also, there are advertisements designed for executing script to install or download unwanted programs and infect computer system that usually cause problems especially on privacy and security, browsing safety which can be used against internet users.

Steps to remove National Consumer Center pop-up

Most of the time, browser hijackers are combined with intrusive pop-up ads originating from the source website National Consumer Center. It is taking advantage of push notification feature of popular internet programs like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, or Edge. These pop-up ads from National Consumer Center are extra ordinary as it exceeds the normal display volume and they are certainly annoying.

For Mac and PC : Get rid of Pop-ups (Notification)

Normally, National Consumer Center pop-ups will start to bombard the internet browser screen with pop-ups if a web user is deceived to click the “Allow” button, which triggers the said website to send a push notification. To stop National Consumer Center from showing the pop-ups, please execute the procedures below. Remember, these steps may only be successful after the removal of the main component or dubious browser extension.

Google Chrome

1. On the Google Chrome browser, input the following in the address bar and press Enter:

chrome://settings/content/notifications

2. Navigate to the list under the "Sites that sent a lot of notifications" or "Allowed to send notifications" section and look for National Consumer Center.

3. Click Don't Allow beside National Consumer Center. You may also click on the ellipses to reveal the options.

Push Notification Google Chrome

4. Please restart the Google Chrome browser.

Mozilla Firefox

1. On the Mozilla Firefox browser, type the following in the address bar and press the Enter key:

about:preferences#privacy

2. Navigate below to the Permissions area and look for Notifications.

Notification Settings Mozilla Firefox

3. Click the Settings button aligned with the Notifications.

4. Look for National Consumer Center entry and change the Status to Block.

Block Notification Mozilla Firefox

5. Click on Save Changes, and restart Mozilla Firefox. Check if National Consumer Center pop-up is gone.

Microsoft Edge

1. Assuming that the Edge browser is open, type the following in the address bar and hit Enter on your keyboard.

edge:settings/content/all

2. In the Settings, Site Permissions area, select National Consumer Center from the list.

3. Click on the Options icon. See the image below.

Push Notification on MS Edge

4. Under the All Sites section, look for Notifications and select Block to stop it from showing pop-up ads or notifications.

Block Notificaion on MS Edge

5. You may now restart Edge browser.

Safari (Mac)

1. On the top menu, click on Safari, and then select Preferences from the drop-down list.

2. Click on the Websites tab to open its settings.

3. Select Notifications from the left sidebar.

Block Notification on Safari

4. On the right panel, it will display a list of websites with the "Allow" attribute.

5. Find and click on National Consumer Center.

6. You may choose to Deny or Remove it from the notification list.

7. You may now restart the Safari browser and see if the National Consumer Center pop-up is gone.

If National Consumer Center pop-up still persist after accomplishing the removal of the URL from the push notification feature, there must be an adware on the computer that is causing the annoyances. Continue with the remaining procedures to scan the system with virus and malware removal software.

Additional steps to remove National Consumer Center from PC

Quick Fix - Scan the PC with Combo Cleaner for Windows

Combo Cleaner is a trusted PC security and optimization tool equipped with a powerful virus and malware detection engine. This program can get rid of pop-up and redirect adware like National Consumer Center through this procedure.

1. Download the application from the following page:

2. Save the file to your preferred location.

3. Double-click the downloaded file CCSetup.exe and install with the default settings.

CC for Windows Installation

4. At the end of the setup process, click Finish to run Combo Cleaner.

5. The tool will update the signature file; please wait for this process to complete.

6. To begin checking for threats like National Consumer Center, click on the Start Scan button. Wait for this scan to finish.

CC for Windows Start Scan

7. At the end of the scan process, click on Remove all threats to delete National Consumer Center pop-ups and redirects, including all malicious objects from the computer.

Free features of Combo Cleaner for Windows include Disk Cleaner, Big Files finder, Duplicate files finder, and Uninstaller. To use antivirus, privacy scanner, and to delete identified threats, users have to upgrade to a premium version.

Please continue with the succeeding removal procedures if you are comfortable manually getting rid of the threat and malicious items linked to it.

Run Another Scan : Delete Adware with AdwCleaner

In addition to the procedure, we suggest scanning the computer with AdwCleaner tool. Possibly, there are some traces of National Consumer Center on the browser that was not deleted during the preceding steps. This tool will scan the computer and check for presence of malicious applications.

1. Follow the link below to download the tool called AdwCleaner.

2. When the download has completed, please close all running programs on the computer especially browsers affected by National Consumer Center.

3. Browse the location of the downloaded file and double-click on adwcleaner_Ver.exe to start running the tool. Then, click on Scan button.

Image of AdwCleaner Dashboard

4. AdwCleaner searches the computer for malicious programs, extensions, plug-ins, adware, and any items that may be associated to National Consumer Center.

5. Clean or Remove all suspicious and harmful items identified after the thorough scan.

6. After the cleanup procedure, rebooting the computer is required to finalize the removal of detected threats.

Extra procedures to remove National Consumer Center from Mac

This section contains comprehensive guide for Mac users. It will help you remove malicious browser hijacker from internet application.

Procedures on this page are written in a manner that can be easily understand and execute by Mac users.

Quick Fix - Scan the Mac Computer with Combo Cleaner

Combo Cleaner is a trusted Mac utility application with complete antivirus and optimization features. It is useful in dealing with adware, malware, and PUP's. Moreover, it can get rid of malicious browser hijacker like National Consumer Center. You may need to purchase full version if you require to maximize its premium features.

1. Download the tool from the following page:

2. Double-click the downloaded file and proceed with the installation.

3. In the opened window, drag and drop the Combo Cleaner icon onto your Applications folder icon.

Install Combo Cleaner

4. Open your Launchpad and click on the Combo Cleaner icon.

5. Wait until antivirus downloads its latest virus definition updates and click on "Start Combo Scan" to start removing National Consumer Center.

Combo Cleaner Scanner

6. Free features of Combo Cleaner include Disk Cleaner, Big Files finder, Duplicate files finder, and Uninstaller. To use antivirus and privacy scanner, users have to upgrade to a premium version.

Proceed with the rest of the removal steps if you are comfortable manually removing malicious objects associated with the threat.

Run Another Scan : Double-check with MBAM Tool for Mac

1. Download Malwarebytes Anti-malware for Mac from the link below.

2. Run Malwarebytes Anti-malware for Mac. It will check for updates and download if most recent version is available. This is necessary in finding recent malware threats including National Consumer Center.

3. If it prompts to close all running web browser, please do so. Thus, we advise you to PRINT this guide for your reference before going offline.

4. Once it opens the user interface, please click on Scan button to start scanning your Mac computer.

MBAM for Mac

5. After the scan, Malwarebytes Anti-malware for Mac will display a list of identified threats, National Consumer Center is surely part of it. Be sure to select all items in the list. Then, click Remove button to clean the computer.

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