Last week, I saw a huge amount of messages like “my browser demonstrates me undesirable Bollingerjack.fun pop-up advertisements, is it a virus?” or “these Bollingerjack.fun pop-up ads in my Chrome making me insane, how to take care of them?”. According to the data for last months, virus suppliers started a vast adware delivery campaign. Let me demonstrate you, how you can eliminate the computer viruses from your PC, and also forget about the irritating Bollingerjack.fun pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Bollingerjack.fun) offer you pop-up ads. The message can include something like “do you want to receive notices about the most up to date news?” or “allow notifications to be reported about latest price cuts?”. Typically, such messages are riskless, and can just distract you with its abrupt appearance. Plus it can be simply disabled, in case notices from this website are no longer required.
Pop-up notices are fairly an reliable advertising and marketing mechanism. If you want goods of some type, you can allow pop-ups from the web site where you can get this stuff, and also as soon as these products are in stock again, or if you can have a discount – you will obtain the alert regarding this. The counterparty – online sellers, auto lending companies, etc – will certainly be in profit, too – buyer will undoubtedly obtain a tip concerning the item he/she planned to purchase. And such a marketing method is practically free – this element is extremely essential for companies.
| Site | Bollingerjack.fun |
| IP Address | 188.166.68.96 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | G4news.biz, Mediatransfer.biz, Newssonic2.xyz |
Bollingerjack.fun Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However occasionally pop-up advertisements can show up without your permission, as well as with a content which is entirely various from your present cares or search questions. And also, besides unwanted Bollingerjack.fun pop-ups from the unknown website, you can simultaneously see a great deal of ads, consisting of ones on the pages which originally have no promotions whatsoever. Such a situation can be the proof of adware appearance.
Adware is the kind of malware which infiltrates into your computer, after that begins demonstrating you different ads. Their subject often has no match with your normal search questions. Besides banner ads, your browser can also demonstrate to you a substantial number of various Bollingerjack.fun pop-up ads, which show up in the lower right corner.
The model of adware usage is really sly. The large pack of adware is distributed with trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your PC previously. Ads, which are shown to you by virus, are paid by their makers. In a couple of weeks, all antivirus programs began to block these adware, for this reason, trojan sheds in productivity. And to end up the user’s desktop, virus distributors start ransomware distribution via these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your PC may still be impacted by adware virus. A massive number of ads along with Bollingerjack.fun pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your regular jobs will certainly be difficult to carry out in usual way.
How Can I Deal With Bollingerjack.fun Pop-Ups?
Presuming the text above: your desktop, and your data, is in a severe risk. To quit this virus, you require to utilize security software. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to deal with Bollingerjack.fun pop-ups virus. However, it can’t revert the web browser alterations which were applied by malicious program. One more disadvantage of the antivirus by Microsoft is its certain vulnerability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender with the Group Policies after being injected to your computer system.
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 computer, including Bollingerjack.fun 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 scans only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can spectate the detected viruses sorted by their possible hazard during 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 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 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 Bollingerjack.fun virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This option can be located in the Tools tab.
After pressing 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 utilizing third-party software
Besides using anti-malware tools for browser restoration, you may choose the “Reset browser settings” function, 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 Bollingerjack.fun 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.
