Last week, I saw a huge amount of posts like “my browser demonstrates to me unwanted Allwowwords.com pop-up advertisements, is it a computer virus?” or “these Allwowwords.com pop-up ads in my Chrome making me insane, how to deal with them?”. Due to the stats for last months, computer virus creators started a large adware distribution campaign. Let me show you, how you can delete the pc virus from your computer, and forget about the aggravating Allwowwords.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Allwowwords.com) offer you pop-up ads. The message can have something like “do you want to have notices about the most up to date news?” or “permit alerts to be reported about recent discounts?”. Normally, such messages are risk-free, and can only distract you with its unexpected appearance. And it can be quite easily disabled, in case alerts from this site are no longer desired.
Pop-up alerts are quite an efficient advertising and marketing instrument. If you have an interest in products of some kind, you can enable pop-ups from the web 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 obtain the alert about this. The counterparty – online merchants, automobile lending services, etc – will certainly remain in profit, too – purchaser will surely get a suggestion regarding the product he/she planned to pay for. And also such an advertising and marketing approach is practically free of charge – this element is very important for companies.
| Site | Allwowwords.com |
| IP Address | 188.114.96.0 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Colamecola.biz, Nofils.xyz, Kagons.xyz |
Allwowwords.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But sometimes pop-up advertisements can show up without your confirmation, and also with a content which is totally different from your current cares or search queries. And, besides undesirable Allwowwords.com pop-ups from the unknown website, you can at the same time see a lot of advertisements, including ones on the pages which primarily have no advertisements at all. Such a scenario can be the signal of adware appearance.
Adware is the kind of pc virus which injects into your personal computer, and then begins demonstrating to you various ads. Their content , in most cases, has no correlation with your usual search questions. Besides banner advertisements, your web browser can also demonstrate you a big quantity of various Allwowwords.com pop-up ads, which appear in the bottom right area.
The model of adware use is extremely sly. The large pack of adware is spread through trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your PC earlier. Promotions, which are displayed to you by malicious app, are paid by their makers. In a couple of weeks, all anti-malware programs began to stop these adware, therefore, trojan loses in earnings. And to end up the user’s desktop, malware distributors begin ransomware distribution via these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your desktop might continue to be impacted by adware virus. A huge number of promotions along with Allwowwords.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your normal tasks will be difficult to perform in typical way.
How Can I Deal With Allwowwords.com Pop-Ups?
Presuming the paragraphs above: your desktop, as well as your data, is in a major risk. To stop this infection, you require to use anti-malware tool. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to deal with Allwowwords.com pop-ups malware. However, it can’t return the browser changes which were applied by harmful program. An additional negative aspect of the antivirus by Microsoft is its particular susceptability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender via the Group Policies after being implanted to your PC.
To be 100% sure that your system is clean of any viruses 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 computer, including Allwowwords.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 malicious programs, because it checks only the most popular registry entries and directories.
You can see the detected viruses sorted by their possible harm till the scan process. But to choose any actions against malicious programs, you need to hold on until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for every detected malicious or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected virus. By default, all malware will be moved to quarantine.
Reverting browser settings to original ones
To reset your browser settings, you are required to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action is not able to be intercepted by Allwowwords.com malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be located 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 utilizing third-party programs
Besides using anti-malware tools for browser restoration, you may pick 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 Allwowwords.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.
