Recently, I saw a great deal of messages like “my web browser presents me undesirable Big-prizes-now2.life pop-up advertisements, is it a computer virus?” or “these Big-prizes-now2.life pop-up ads in my Chrome making me crazy, how to handle them?”. According to the stats for last months, virus distributors started a broad adware distribution project. Let me show you, how you can eliminate the computer viruses from your PC, and forget about the aggravating Big-prizes-now2.life pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Big-prizes-now2.life) use you pop-up promotions. The message can contain something like “do you want to have alerts regarding the latest news?” or “permit alerts to be reported regarding new discount rates?”. Generally, such messages are safe, and can only sidetrack you with its sudden appearance. Plus it can be simply disabled, in case notices from this web page are no longer wanted.
Pop-up notifications are fairly an effective advertising mechanism. If you have an interest in goods of some type, you can give a permission to the pop-ups from the website where you can buy this things, and also as quickly as these products are in inventory again, or if you can have a discount – you will get the alert regarding this. The counterparty – online retailers, vehicle lending companies, etc – will certainly remain in profit, too – customer will undoubtedly obtain a tip concerning the item he/she meant to buy. As well as such an advertising and marketing technique is practically free of charge – this aspect is extremely important for corporations.
| Site | Big-prizes-now2.life |
| IP Address | 5.101.45.14 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Yourdream-girls1.com, Tpdm-news3.club, Tpdm-news2.club |
Big-prizes-now2.life Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However in some cases pop-up ads can show up without your approval, and also with a content which is entirely different from your current attentions or search questions. And, besides undesirable Big-prizes-now2.life pop-ups from the unknown website, you can at the same time see a lot of promotions, including ones on the web pages which at first have no advertisements whatsoever. Such a situation can be the sign of adware appearance.
Adware is the type of virus which infiltrates into your system, after that begins demonstrating to you numerous advertisements. Their subject usually has no connection with your usual search queries. Besides banner ads, your browser can also demonstrate you a huge amount of various Big-prizes-now2.life pop-up ads, which appear in the bottom right area.
The model of adware use is very sly. The big pack of adware is dispersed via trojan viruses, which are injected in your personal computer previously. Ads, which are displayed to you by malicious program, are paid by their creators. In a couple of weeks, all anti-malware programs began to catch these adware, therefore, trojan loses in profitability. And to finish the user’s personal computer, virus distributors begin ransomware distribution via these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your PC may still be influenced by adware virus. A substantial number of promotions along with Big-prizes-now2.life pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your typical jobs will certainly be difficult to carry out in usual way.
How Can I Deal With Big-prizes-now2.life Pop-Ups?
Assuming the text above: your desktop, along with your data, is in a severe danger. To stop this infection, you need to make use of antivirus program. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to deal with Big-prizes-now2.life pop-ups malware. Nonetheless, it can’t change the web browser alterations which were put into effect by malicious program. An additional disadvantage of the anti-virus by Microsoft is its specific susceptability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender through the Group Policies after being injected to your desktop.
To be 100% sure that your computer is clean of any malware now, and will be clean in future, I can advice you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and delete all unwanted applications on your PC, including Big-prizes-now2.life 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 apps, because it scans only the most popular registry entries and directories.
You can see the detected malware sorted by their possible hazard during the scan process. But to perform any actions against malicious programs, you need to hold on until the scan is over, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for every spotted virus or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malicious app. By default, all the viruses will be moved 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 is not able to be intercepted by Big-prizes-now2.life virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This option can be found in the Tools tab.
After pressing the Reset Browser Settings option, the menu will be shown, where you can choose, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without using third-party applications
Besides using antivirus programs for browser restoration, you can 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 Big-prizes-now2.life 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.
