Recently, I saw a great deal of posts like “my web browser shows me unwanted Apple-techs.com pop-up advertisements, is it a computer virus?” or “these Apple-techs.com pop-up ads in my Chrome making me insane, how to deal with them?”. According to the data for last months, virus creators began a broad adware delivery project. Let me show you, how you can remove the pc virus from your personal computer, and forget about the irritating Apple-techs.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Apple-techs.com) offer you pop-up promotions. The message can have something like “do you want to get notifications regarding the most up to date information?” or “enable alerts to be reported regarding latest discount rates?”. Usually, such messages are riskless, and may only distract you with its abrupt arrival. Moreover, it can be simply disabled, in case notices from this web site are no longer desired.
Pop-up notifications are quite an reliable advertising mechanism. If you want goods of some type, you can enable pop-ups from the website where you can buy this stuff, and as quickly as these products are in store again, or if you can have a discount – you will certainly get the notification about this. The counterparty – online merchants, automobile lending companies, etc – will be in profit, too – buyer will surely obtain a pointer regarding the product he/she planned to buy. And such a marketing method is nearly free – this aspect is very crucial for companies.
| Site | Apple-techs.com |
| IP Address | 34.141.48.9 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Agins.live, Reamsan.buzz, Midcopyhave.live |
Apple-techs.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However occasionally pop-up promotions can appear without your confirmation, and also with an information which is completely various from your current interests or search queries. And also, besides undesirable Apple-techs.com pop-ups from the unknown site, you can simultaneously see a great deal of promotions, consisting of ones on the web pages which originally have no promotions at all. Such a scenario can be the trace of adware existence.
Adware is the kind of computer virus which infiltrates into your computer, then starts demonstrating to you different advertisements. Their subject usually has no correlation with your regular search queries. Besides banner promotions, your browser can additionally demonstrate you a massive amount of various Apple-techs.com pop-up advertisements, which appear in the bottom right area.
The model of adware usage is really sly. The huge pack of adware is spread via trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your personal computer earlier. Ads, which are demonstrated to you by malicious app, are paid by their makers. In a couple of weeks, all anti-malware programs began to catch these adware, hence, trojan loses in earnings. And to ruin the user’s desktop, virus distributors start ransomware distribution with these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your PC might continue to be affected by adware virus. A massive number of advertisements in addition to Apple-techs.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your regular activities will be impossible to perform in common way.
How Can I Deal With Apple-techs.com Pop-Ups?
Concluding the paragraphs above: your computer, along with your information, is in a major risk. To stop this virus, you need to use anti-virus tool. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to handle Apple-techs.com pop-ups malware. Nonetheless, it can’t revert the web browser changes which were put into effect by harmful program. Another disadvantage of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its specific vulnerability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender via the Group Policies after being implanted to your computer system.
To be 100% sure that your personal computer is clean of any viruses now, and will be clean in future, I can advice you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and eliminate all malicious applications on your PC, including Apple-techs.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 scans only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can see the detected viruses sorted by their possible hazard simultaneously with the scan process. But to choose any actions against malware, 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 malicious app. By default, all malware will be removed to quarantine.
Reverting 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 Apple-techs.com virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This option can be located in the Tools tab.
After choosing the Reset Browser Settings option, the menu will be shown, where you can specify, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without making use of third-party applications
Besides using anti-malware programs for browser restoration, you can 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 Apple-techs.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.
