Last week, I saw a great deal of messages like “my browser demonstrates to me unwanted All-vids-free.com pop-up advertisements, is it a computer virus?” or “these All-vids-free.com pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me insane, how to take care of them?”. According to the data for last months, computer virus distributors started a wide adware distribution campaign. Let me demonstrate you, how you can eliminate the computer viruses from your PC, as well as forget about the irritating All-vids-free.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a All-vids-free.com) show you pop-up advertisements. The message can contain something like “do you want to get alerts concerning the current information?” or “permit notifications to be reported regarding recent price cuts?”. Usually, such messages are riskless, and can just distract you with its sudden appearing. Also it can be simply disabled, in case notices from this site are no longer needed.
Pop-up notices are fairly an efficient advertising mechanism. If you want items of some type, you can allow pop-ups from the site where you can acquire this stuff, and as soon as these products are in stock again, or if you can have a price cut – you will get the notice about this. The counterparty – online retailers, cars and truck lending companies, etc – will be in profit, too – purchaser will definitely get a reminder regarding the product he/she planned to pay for. As well as such an advertising approach is almost cost-free – this element is very crucial for corporations.
| Site | All-vids-free.com |
| IP Address | 109.206.187.4 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Adriftstressful.com, Achingmercury.com, Abortmaydesirable.com |
All-vids-free.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However sometimes pop-up ads can come out without your approval, as well as with a content which is totally various from your present attentions or search questions. And also, besides undesirable All-vids-free.com pop-ups from the unknown origin, you can at the same time see a lot of advertisements, consisting of ones on the web pages which at first have no promotions whatsoever. Such a scenario can be the proof of adware appearance.
Adware is the type of pc virus which infiltrates into your system, then begins suggesting you different advertisements. Their content , in most cases, has no connection with your usual search questions. Besides banner advertisements, your browser can likewise demonstrate you a big number of different All-vids-free.com pop-up advertisements, which appear in the lower right corner.
The model of adware use is very sly. The huge pack of adware is spread through trojan viruses, which are injected in your system previously. Ads, which are demonstrated to you by malicious app, are paid by their creators. In several weeks, all antivirus programs began to catch these adware, for this reason, trojan loses in earnings. And to end up the user’s PC, virus distributors begin ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your PC may continue to be affected by adware virus. A massive amount of advertisements in addition to All-vids-free.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your typical tasks will certainly be impossible to do in typical way.
How Can I Deal With All-vids-free.com Pop-Ups?
Concluding the text above: your PC, and your information, is in a severe risk. To stop this infection, you need to use anti-virus software. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to handle All-vids-free.com pop-ups virus. Nonetheless, it can not revert the browser changes which were put into effect by harmful program. Another downside of the anti-virus by Microsoft is its specific vulnerability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender via the Group Policies after being infiltrated to your PC.
To be 100% sure that your desktop 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 unwanted applications on your personal computer, including All-vids-free.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 scans only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can spectate the detected malicious programs sorted by their possible hazard simultaneously with the scan process. But to choose any actions against malware, you need to wait until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for each spotted virus or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malware. By default, all the viruses will be moved to quarantine.
Reverting browser settings to original ones
To revert your browser settings, you need to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action is not able to be intercepted by All-vids-free.com malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be found in the Tools tab.
After choosing 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 using third-party applications
Besides using antivirus tools for browser recovery, you may choose the “Reset browser settings” function, 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:
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 All-vids-free.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.