Last week, I saw a plenty of messages like “my internet browser shows me undesirable Antivirus-click.com pop-up ads, is it a pc virus?” or “these Antivirus-click.com pop-up ads in my Chrome making me mad, how to handle them?”. According to the statistics for last months, computer virus distributors started a broad adware delivery project. Let me demonstrate you, how you can erase the viruses from your PC, as well as forget about the annoying Antivirus-click.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Antivirus-click.com) use you pop-up promotions. The message can contain something like “do you want to have notices concerning the most up to date news?” or “allow notifications to be reported regarding recent price cuts?”. Typically, such messages are riskless, and can only distract you with its unexpected appearance. Also it can be easily turned off, in case alerts from this site are no longer wanted.
Pop-up alerts are fairly an effective marketing tool. If you want items of some type, you can give a permission to the pop-ups from the internet site where you can get this things, and also as quickly as these things are in store again, or if you can have a price cut – you will get the notice about this. The counterparty – online stores, cars and truck lending services, etc – will certainly remain in profit, too – purchaser will certainly obtain a tip concerning the item he/she planned to buy. And also such an advertising method is practically free – this element is really essential for companies.
| Site | Antivirus-click.com |
| IP Address | 104.21.30.219 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Initiateintenselystrongtheproduct.vip, Shocking-celebrity-news.com, Rplnd46.com |
Antivirus-click.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But often pop-up promotions can appear without your confirmation, and also with a content which is entirely different from your current cares or search questions. And, besides unwanted Antivirus-click.com pop-ups from the unknown resource, you can at the same time see a great deal of ads, consisting of ones on the pages which at first have no promotions whatsoever. Such a situation can be the sign of adware existence.
Adware is the sort of computer virus which injects into your computer, then begins displaying you various advertisements. Their subject typically has no connection with your normal search queries. Besides banner advertisements, your browser can also demonstrate to you a massive amount of different Antivirus-click.com pop-up advertisements, which come into view in the lower right area.
The model of adware usage is really sly. The huge pack of adware is distributed via trojan viruses, which are injected in your PC previously. Advertisements, which are demonstrated to you by malware, are paid by their creators. In a few weeks, all antivirus programs began to catch these adware, for this reason, trojan loses in earnings. And to end up the user’s computer, virus distributors begin ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer can continue to be impacted by adware virus. A massive number of promotions in addition to Antivirus-click.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your normal work will be impossible to perform in usual manner.
How Can I Deal With Antivirus-click.com Pop-Ups?
Presuming the paragraphs above: your PC, as well as your information, is in a severe risk. To stop this virus, you require to use anti-virus program. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to handle Antivirus-click.com pop-ups virus. Nonetheless, it can not revert the web browser changes which were implemented by malicious program. An additional downside of the anti-virus by Microsoft is its specific vulnerability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender through 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 offer you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and remove all malicious programs on your PC, including Antivirus-click.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 malware, because it checks 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 perform any actions against malicious apps, you need to hold on until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To set the action for each detected malicious or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malicious program. 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 intercepted by Antivirus-click.com virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be located in the Tools tab.
After choosing the Reset Browser Settings button, the menu will be displayed, where you can specify, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without utilizing third-party programs
Besides using antivirus programs for browser reset, you may pick the “Reset browser settings” option, which is usually embedded in all popular web 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 Antivirus-click.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.