Last week, I saw a lot of posts like “my web browser demonstrates me undesirable Activitytonic.com pop-up promotions, is it a virus?” or “these Activitytonic.com pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me mad, how to deal with them?”. Due to the statistics for last months, pc virus distributors started a vast adware delivery campaign. Let me show you, how you can eliminate the computer viruses from your computer, as well as forget about the aggravating Activitytonic.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Activitytonic.com) show you pop-up promotions. The message can include something like “do you want to get notifications relating to the most recent information?” or “allow alerts to be reported about new discounts?”. Typically, such messages are risk-free, and may only sidetrack you with its unexpected arrival. Also it can be easily disabled, in case alerts from this web site are no longer required.
Pop-up alerts are rather an reliable advertising and marketing instrument. If you want products of some kind, you can enable pop-ups from the internet site where you can acquire this things, and also as soon as these products are in inventory again, or if you can have a discount – you will certainly get the notice regarding this. The counterparty – online merchants, automobile lending services, etc – will certainly be in profit, too – purchaser will certainly get a suggestion regarding the item he/she planned to purchase. And also such a marketing method is practically cost-free – this factor is really crucial for companies.
| Site | Activitytonic.com |
| IP Address | 192.243.59.20 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Shopworld.info, Top.allresultsweb.com, Success-news.org |
Activitytonic.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But in some cases pop-up promotions can show up without your approval, and also with a text which is entirely different from your existing cares or search questions. And also, besides unwanted Activitytonic.com pop-ups from the unknown site, you can at the same time see a lot of promotions, including ones on the pages which at first have no promotions whatsoever. Such a scenario can be the signal of adware appearance.
Adware is the sort of pc virus which infiltrates into your personal computer, then begins demonstrating to you various advertisements. Their subject usually has no match with your normal search questions. Besides banner advertisements, your browser can likewise suggest you a massive quantity of various Activitytonic.com pop-up advertisements, which appear in the lower right area.
The model of adware usage is really sly. The big pack of adware is dispersed with trojan viruses, which are injected in your computer earlier. Ads, which are shown to you by malicious app, are paid by their makers. In several weeks, all antivirus programs began to catch these adware, thus, trojan loses in productivity. And to finish the user’s PC, malware distributors begin ransomware distribution via these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer can continue to be influenced by adware virus. A big number of promotions together with Activitytonic.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your normal tasks will be impossible to carry out in usual manner.
How Can I Deal With Activitytonic.com Pop-Ups?
Concluding the text above: your personal computer, along with your data, is in a severe risk. To stop this virus, you require to utilize antivirus program. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to take care of Activitytonic.com pop-ups virus. Nevertheless, it can’t reset the browser changes which were implemented by malicious program. Another negative aspect of the antivirus by Microsoft is its certain vulnerability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender via the Group Policies after being implanted to your desktop.
To be 100% sure that your PC is clean of any viruses now, and will be clean in future, I can advice you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and erase all malicious programs on your desktop, including Activitytonic.com pop-ups virus, with GridinSoft Anti-Malware, it’s better to use Standard or Full scan. Quick Scan is not able to find all the malware, because it checks only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can observe the detected malicious programs sorted by their possible hazard simultaneously with the scan process. But to perform any actions against malicious apps, you need to hold on until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for each spotted malicious or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malware. By default, all the viruses will be moved to quarantine.
Reset browser settings to original ones
To revert your browser settings, you need to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action cannot be counteracted by Activitytonic.com malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This option can be located in the Tools tab.
After pressing the Reset Browser Settings option, the menu will be displayed, where you can specify, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without making use of third-party software
Besides using antivirus tools for browser recovery, you may choose the “Reset browser settings” option, which is usually embedded in all popular browsers.
Reset Microsoft Edge ⚙ Settings
- Open "Settings and more" tab in upper right corner, then find here "Settings" button. In the appeared menu, choose "Reset settings" option:
- After picking the Reset Settings option, you will see the following menu, stating about the settings which will be reverted to original:
Reset Mozilla Firefox ⚙ Settings
- Open Menu tab (three strips in upper right corner) and click the "Help" button. In the appeared menu choose "troubleshooting information":
- In the next screen, find the "Refresh Firefox" option:
- Open Settings menu by pressing the gear icon in the toolbar (left side of the browser window), then click "Advanced" option, and choose "Browser" button in the drop-down list. Scroll down, to the bottom of the settings menu. Find there "Restore settings to their original defaults" option:
- After clicking the "Restore settings..." button, you will see the window, where all settings, which will be reset, are shown:
- Open Settings tab, find the "Advanced" button. In the extended tab choose the "Reset and clean up" button:
- In the appeared list, click on the "Restore settings to their original defaults":
- Finally, you will see the window, where you can see all the settings which will be reset to default:
After choosing this option, you will see the next message:
Reset Opera ⚙ Settings
Reset Google Chrome ⚙ Settings
As an afterword, I want to say that the time plays against you and your PC. The activity of browser hijacker Activitytonic.com must be stopped as soon as possible, because of possibility of other malware injection. This malware can be downloaded autonomously, or offered for you to download in one of the windows with advertisements, which are shown to you by the hijacker. You need to act as fast as you can.
