Last week, I saw a huge amount of posts like “my browser presents me undesirable Becauseoft.top pop-up advertisements, is it a computer virus?” or “these Becauseoft.top pop-up advertisements in my Chrome making me mad, how to deal with them?”. According to the stats for last months, virus distributors began a broad adware distribution campaign. Let me demonstrate you, how you can delete the computer viruses from your PC, and forget about the frustrating Becauseoft.top pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Becauseoft.top) offer you pop-up promotions. The message can contain something like “do you want to receive notices about the most up to date information?” or “enable notifications to be reported about new discount rates?”. Generally, such messages are safe, and may only distract you with its abrupt arrival. Moreover, it can be easily turned off, in case alerts from this web page are no longer wanted.
Pop-up notifications are fairly an effective advertising and marketing instrument. If you are interested in goods of some kind, you can give a permission to the pop-ups from the web site where you can purchase this stuff, and as soon as these items are in store again, or if you can have a price cut – you will certainly get the notification concerning this. The counterparty – online retailers, vehicle lending companies, etc – will remain in profit, too – customer will definitely get a pointer about the product he/she planned to purchase. And such a marketing method is almost free of charge – this element is extremely crucial for firms.
| Site | Becauseoft.top |
| IP Address | 54.144.3.29 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Abeaseihave.top, My-live-videos.com, Woerkedwith.top |
Becauseoft.top Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However sometimes pop-up promotions can appear without your confirmation, and with a text which is totally various from your current interests or search questions. And, besides undesirable Becauseoft.top pop-ups from the unknown website, you can at the same time see a lot of promotions, consisting of ones on the web pages which originally have no promotions whatsoever. Such a situation can be the sign of adware existence.
Adware is the type of pc virus which injects into your PC, and then starts showing you numerous advertisements. Their subject often has no connection with your ordinary search questions. Besides banner promotions, your web browser can likewise display you a huge quantity of various Becauseoft.top pop-up advertisements, which show up in the bottom right area.
The model of adware usage is really sly. The big pack of adware is spread through trojan viruses, which are injected in your PC previously. Promotions, which are suggested to you by malicious app, are paid by their makers. In a couple of weeks, all antivirus programs began to stop these adware, therefore, trojan sheds in profitability. And to terminate the user’s desktop, malware distributors begin ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer can continue to be influenced by adware virus. A massive number of promotions in addition to Becauseoft.top pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your common tasks will be difficult to do in common way.
How Can I Deal With Becauseoft.top Pop-Ups?
Presuming the text above: your PC, as well as your information, is in a serious risk. To quit this virus, you need to utilize anti-malware program. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to take care of Becauseoft.top pop-ups virus. Nevertheless, it can’t reset the web browser changes which were put into effect by malicious program. One more downside of the anti-virus by Microsoft is its specific susceptability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender via the Group Policies after being injected to your desktop.
To be 100% sure that your desktop is clean of any malware now, and will be clean in future, I can advice you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and erase all malicious applications on your personal computer, including Becauseoft.top 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 viruses, because it checks only the most popular registry entries and directories.
You can spectate the detected malicious programs sorted by their possible hazard till the scan process. But to choose any actions against the viruses, you need to wait until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for every spotted malicious or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malicious app. By default, all malware 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 Becauseoft.top 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 specify, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without using third-party programs
Besides using anti-malware tools for browser reset, you may choose 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:
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 Becauseoft.top 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.
