Get Rid of Chairgaubsy.com Redirect (Adware/PUP)

What is Chairgaubsy.com Redirect? And how does it work?

Chairgaubsy.com Redirect is a shady domain of a pesky browser redirect that hosts suspicious contents like pop-ups, banners, in-text links, and other ads that aims to create traffic. Chairgaubsy.com Redirect is a social engineering attack that tries to trick users into subscribing to its push notifications in order to send unwanted advertisements straight to a user’s desktop. Specifically, it displays a “Confirm notifications” message that asks users to subscribe notifications from the Chairgaubsy.com website and if you click on “Allow”, you will start seeing unwanted ads from the affiliated sites of Chairgaubsy.com. This is why security experts tagged Chairgaubsy.com as an adware and a potentially unwanted program.
This adware will lure users into clicking the Allow button by displaying all kinds of content in the website. And if you are one of the users who clicked Allow, then you will most likely experience redirects to Chairgaubsy.com. You will also be bombarded with ads no matter where you go even when you are not actively browsing, you will still get ads. This can get annoying especially when you are working on something but can’t focus due to the never-ending appearance of ads. Aside from pesky ads, this adware can also track all your activities online to obtain your browsing data like the ads you’ve clicked, website you often visit, search queries, browsing history, IP address, browser type, and so on. The data obtained is then used to produce more customized and personalized contents.
If you keep getting redirected to Chairgaubsy.com then it simply means that there is an ad-supported program installed in your computer that’s causing these redirects which means that closing the tab or your browser won’t fix it. In other words, as long as the adware is installed in your computer, you will keep experiencing redirects to Chairgaubsy.com. So if you want to browse peacefully and secure your sensitive information, you must get rid of the Chairgaubsy.com Redirect and the program that’s triggering it.
How does Chairgaubsy.com Redirect circulate the web?
Redirects like the Chairgaubsy.com Redirect, circulates the web using misleading ads as well as adware programs. These adware programs are often found on free sharing sites being distributed as software bundles and in case you don’t know, this kind of software package contains not just one but two or more programs in it which means that when you install it, you could end up installing all the programs in the package. To prevent that from happening, you have to use the Custom or Advanced setup and not the standard one.
Follow the removal guide prepared below to get rid of Chairgaubsy.com Redirect and the adware program behind it from your computer.
Step 1: Start by opening the Task Manager by simply pressing the Ctrl + Shift + Esc keys.
Step 2: Next, go to Processes and look for dubious processes that could be related to Chairgaubsy.com Redirect and then right click on each one of them and select End Process or End Task to kill their processes.

Step 3: Then open the Control Panel. To do so, tap the Windows key + R, then type in appwiz.cpl and then click OK or press Enter.
Step 4: Look for any suspicious program that could be the one that triggers the Chairgaubsy.com Redirect and then Uninstall it.

Step 5: Close all the browsers affected by Chairgaubsy.com Redirect. If you’re having a hard time closing them, you can close them using the Task Manager just tap on Ctrl + Shift + Esc.
Step 6: After you open the Task Manager, go to the Processes tab and look for the infected browser’s process and end it.
Step 7: Edit your Hosts File

Tap the Win + R keys to open then type in %WinDir% and then click OK.
Go to System32/drivers/etc.
Open the hosts file using Notepad.
Delete all the entries containing Chairgaubsy.com.
After that, save the changes you’ve made and close the file.

Step 8: Reset all your browsers to default to their default state.
Google Chrome

Launch Google Chrome, press Alt + F, move to More tools, and click Extensions.
Look for Chairgaubsy.com Redirect Ads or any other unwanted add-ons, click the Recycle Bin button, and choose Remove.
Restart Google Chrome, then tap Alt + F, and select Settings.
Navigate to the On Startup section at the bottom.
Select “Open a specific page or set of pages”.
Click the More actions button next to the hijacker and click Remove.

Mozilla Firefox

Open the browser and tap Ctrl + Shift + A to access the Add-ons Manager.
In the Extensions menu Remove the unwanted extension.
Restart the browser and tap keys Alt + T.
Select Options and then move to the General menu.
Overwrite the URL in the Home Page section and then restart the browser.

Internet Explorer

Launch Internet Explorer.
Tap Alt + T and select Internet options.
Click the General tab and then overwrite the URL under the homepage section.
Click OK to save the changes.

Step 9: Hold down Windows + E keys simultaneously to open File Explorer.
Step 10: Navigate to the following directories and look for suspicious files associated to Chairgaubsy.com Redirect Ads and delete it/them.

%USERPROFILE%\Downloads
%USERPROFILE%\Desktop
%TEMP%

Step 11: Close the File Explorer.
Step 12: Empty the Recycle Bin.
Step 13: Afterwards, you have to flush the DNS cache. To do that, just, right click on the Start button and click on Command Prompt (administrator). From there, type the “ipconfig /flushdns” command and hit Enter to flush the DNS.
Follow the advanced instructions below to ensure the removal of Chairgaubsy.com Redirect adware using [product-name] as well as all the file residues it left behind.
Perform a full system scan using [product-code]. To do so, follow these steps:

Turn on your computer. If it’s already on, you have to reboot it.
After that, the BIOS screen will be displayed, but if Windows pops up instead, reboot your computer and try again. Once you’re on the BIOS screen, repeat pressing F8, by doing so the Advanced Option shows up.
1. To navigate the Advanced Option use the arrow keys and select Safe Mode with Networking then hit
2. Windows will now load the Safe Mode with Networking.
3. Press and hold both R key and Windows key.
1. If done correctly, the Windows Run Box will show up.
2. Type in the URL address, [product-url] in the Run dialog box and then tap Enter or click OK.
3. After that, it will download the program. Wait for the download to finish and then open the launcher to install the program.
4. Once the installation process is completed, run [product-code] to perform a full system scan.
1. After the scan is completed click the “Fix, Clean & Optimize Now” button.