Recently, I saw a huge amount of posts like “my web browser shows me undesirable Blowpush.com pop-up advertisements, is it a virus?” or “these Blowpush.com pop-up advertisements in my Chrome making me mad, how to take care of them?”. According to the stats for last months, virus creators started a massive adware delivery project. Let me show you, how you can remove the pc virus from your computer system, and also forget about the annoying Blowpush.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Blowpush.com) offer you pop-up advertisements. The message can include something like “do you want to receive notices relating to the current information?” or “permit alerts to be reported about recent price cuts?”. Typically, such messages are riskless, and may only distract you with its abrupt appearing. Moreover, it can be easily disabled, in case notifications from this site are no longer needed.
Pop-up notices are quite an effective advertising mechanism. If you want products of some type, you can allow pop-ups from the website where you can get this things, and 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 merchants, car lending companies, etc – will certainly be in profit, too – customer will undoubtedly obtain a reminder concerning the item he/she meant to buy. And such an advertising and marketing method is practically free of charge – this factor is really essential for companies.
| Site | Blowpush.com |
| IP Address | 104.21.35.198 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | News-ramafi.cc, Hutters.click, Advertizement-toyou.com |
Blowpush.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But sometimes pop-up promotions can come out without your permission, and with an information which is completely different from your existing interests or search queries. And, besides undesirable Blowpush.com pop-ups from the unknown site, you can simultaneously see a great deal of ads, consisting of ones on the pages which primarily have no advertisements at all. Such a scenario can be the signal of adware existence.
Adware is the type of malware which injects into your personal computer, then begins displaying you different advertisements. Their content typically has no match with your normal search questions. Besides banner promotions, your browser can likewise display you a massive amount of various Blowpush.com pop-up promotions, which show up 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 system previously. Advertisements, which are demonstrated to you by virus, are paid by their makers. In several weeks, all anti-malware programs began to catch these adware, hence, trojan sheds in productivity. And to terminate the user’s computer system, malware distributors begin ransomware distribution with these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer can continue to be impacted by adware virus. A substantial number of promotions in addition to Blowpush.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your regular jobs will be impossible to perform in normal way.
How Can I Deal With Blowpush.com Pop-Ups?
Thinking the paragraphs above: your personal computer, along with your information, is in a severe danger. To stop this infection, you require to utilize anti-malware tool. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to take care of Blowpush.com pop-ups malware. Nonetheless, it can not return the browser changes which were implemented by harmful program. One more disadvantage of the antivirus by Microsoft is its certain vulnerability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender through the Group Policies after being infiltrated to your computer.
To be 100% sure that your personal computer is clean of any malware now, and will be clean in future, I can offer you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and erase all malicious applications on your PC, including Blowpush.com 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 viruses, because it checks only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can see the detected viruses sorted by their possible hazard during the scan process. But to choose any actions against the viruses, you need to wait until the scan is over, 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.
Reverting 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 Blowpush.com malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This option can be found in the Tools tab.
After pressing the Reset Browser Settings button, 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 programs
Besides using antivirus programs for browser reset, 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:
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 Blowpush.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.