Last week, I saw a plenty of messages like “my browser demonstrates me unwanted Bigkick.biz pop-up advertisements, is it a virus?” or “these Bigkick.biz pop-up advertisements in my Chrome making me mad, how to deal with them?”. According to the statistics for last months, computer virus distributors began a vast adware distribution campaign. Let me demonstrate you, how you can remove the computer viruses from your computer, and also forget about the aggravating Bigkick.biz pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Bigkick.biz) use you pop-up ads. The message can have something like “do you want to get notices relating to the most up to date news?” or “enable alerts to be reported regarding recent discount rates?”. Normally, such messages are harmless, and can just sidetrack you with its abrupt visual appeal. Plus it can be simply disabled, in case alerts from this online resource are no longer wanted.
Pop-up notices are rather an reliable marketing instrument. If you want goods of some sort, you can enable pop-ups from the internet site where you can get this things, and also as quickly as these items are in stock again, or if you can have a price cut – you will certainly get the notice regarding this. The counterparty – online retailers, automobile lending services, etc – will certainly be in profit, too – buyer will surely get a reminder regarding the item he/she intended to purchase. And such a marketing technique is almost free – this element is really vital for corporations.
| Site | Bigkick.biz |
| IP Address | 134.209.136.174 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Securitymobile.club, Browsernotification.com, Service-update.network |
Bigkick.biz Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However sometimes pop-up ads can show up without your confirmation, and with a material which is entirely various from your existing interests or search questions. And also, besides unwanted Bigkick.biz pop-ups from the unknown source, you can at the same time see a great deal of ads, including ones on the web pages which at first have no advertisements at all. Such a situation can be the signal of adware presence.
Adware is the type of computer virus which infiltrates into your PC, then begins showing you numerous promotions. Their content , in most cases, has no match with your typical search queries. Besides banner ads, your browser can also suggest you a massive amount of various Bigkick.biz pop-up advertisements, which appear in the bottom right area.
The model of adware usage is very sly. The large pack of adware is spread via trojan viruses, which are injected in your system earlier. Ads, which are demonstrated to you by virus, are paid by their makers. In several weeks, all antivirus programs began to stop these adware, for this reason, trojan loses in productivity. And to ruin the user’s computer, malware distributors start ransomware distribution via these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your desktop can still be impacted by adware virus. A massive number of advertisements together with Bigkick.biz pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your normal tasks will be difficult to execute in usual way.
How Can I Deal With Bigkick.biz Pop-Ups?
Presuming the text above: your desktop, as well as your information, is in a serious danger. To stop this virus, you need to make use of virus removal tool. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to take care of Bigkick.biz pop-ups virus. Nevertheless, it can’t change the browser alterations which were applied by malicious program. An additional negative aspect of the antivirus by Microsoft is its specific susceptability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender with the Group Policies after being injected to your computer system.
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 erase all malicious programs on your personal computer, including Bigkick.biz 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 malicious programs, because it checks only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can see the detected malware sorted by their possible hazard during the scan process. But to perform any actions against the viruses, you need to hold on until the scan is finished, 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 malware. By default, all the viruses will be moved to quarantine.
Reset browser settings to original ones
To reset your browser settings, you need to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action cannot be intercepted by Bigkick.biz 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 choose, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without making use of third-party software
Besides using anti-malware tools for browser recovery, you can choose 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 Bigkick.biz 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.
