Recently, I saw a ton of posts like “my internet browser shows me undesirable Advtlife.com pop-up advertisements, is it a computer virus?” or “these Advtlife.com pop-up advertisements in my Chrome making me mad, how to deal with them?”. Due to the data for last months, pc virus distributors started a massive adware distribution project. Let me show you, how you can eliminate the computer viruses from your computer, as well as forget about the annoying Advtlife.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Advtlife.com) offer you pop-up promotions. The message can include something like “do you want to get notifications relating to the latest information?” or “enable notifications to be reported about new price cuts?”. Typically, such messages are riskless, and may only sidetrack you with its sudden appearance. And it can be quickly disabled, in case notifications from this site are no longer wanted.
Pop-up notifications are fairly an reliable marketing tool. If you are interested in items of some type, you can allow pop-ups from the site where you can purchase this things, and also as quickly as these products are in stock again, or if you can have a price cut – you will get the notification concerning this. The counterparty – online retailers, vehicle lending services, etc – will be in profit, too – purchaser will surely obtain a reminder about the item he/she intended to purchase. As well as such a marketing method is almost cost-free – this factor is really essential for corporations.
| Site | Advtlife.com |
| IP Address | 52.0.170.221 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Alliedowlagator.store, Advtreviews.com, News-rirere.cc |
Advtlife.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But often pop-up advertisements can appear without your approval, and with an information which is entirely different from your current interests or search questions. And, besides unwanted Advtlife.com pop-ups from the unknown site, you can at the same time see a great deal of advertisements, consisting of ones on the pages which primarily have no ads at all. Such a situation can be the indicator of adware presence.
Adware is the sort of pc virus which infiltrates into your computer, and then begins displaying you various promotions. Their subject , in most cases, has no connection with your ordinary search queries. Besides banner advertisements, your web browser can also display you a substantial quantity of different Advtlife.com pop-up promotions, which come into view in the lower right corner.
The model of adware usage is really sly. The big pack of adware is distributed with trojan viruses, which are injected in your system previously. Advertisements, which are demonstrated to you by malware, are paid by their makers. In a couple of weeks, all anti-malware programs began to block these adware, therefore, trojan loses in productivity. And to dispatch the user’s desktop, malware distributors start ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer system might still be affected by adware virus. A huge amount of ads together with Advtlife.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your common activities will be impossible to carry out in normal manner.
How Can I Deal With Advtlife.com Pop-Ups?
Concluding the text above: your desktop, as well as your data, is in a severe risk. To stop this infection, you need to use antivirus tool. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to deal with Advtlife.com pop-ups virus. Nevertheless, it can’t change the web browser changes which were put into effect by harmful program. One more disadvantage of the anti-virus by Microsoft is its particular susceptability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender through the Group Policies after being infiltrated to your computer.
To be 100% sure that your personal computer is clean of any malware now, and will be clean in future, I can offer you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and remove all malicious programs on your desktop, including Advtlife.com pop-ups virus, with GridinSoft Anti-Malware, it’s better to utilize Standard or Full scan. Quick Scan is not able to find all the malicious apps, because it scans only the most popular registry entries and directories.
You can observe the detected viruses sorted by their possible harm during the scan process. But to choose 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 malicious program. By default, all malware will be removed to quarantine.
Reset browser settings to original ones
To revert your browser settings, you are required to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action cannot be counteracted by Advtlife.com malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This option can be found in the Tools tab.
After pressing the Reset Browser Settings option, the menu will be displayed, where you can choose, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without utilizing third-party programs
Besides using antivirus software for browser recovery, you can 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 Advtlife.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.
