Last week, I saw a plenty of posts like “my web browser demonstrates me unwanted Captchatest.top pop-up advertisements, is it a computer virus?” or “these Captchatest.top pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me mad, how to deal with them?”. According to the statistics for last months, computer virus suppliers started a massive adware delivery campaign. Let me demonstrate you, how you can delete the viruses from your computer, and also forget about the frustrating Captchatest.top pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Captchatest.top) show you pop-up ads. The message can include something like “do you want to have alerts relating to the current information?” or “permit notifications to be reported about latest discount rates?”. Normally, such messages are risk-free, and may just sidetrack you with its abrupt appearance. Plus it can be quite easily turned off, in case alerts from this web page are no longer required.
Pop-up notifications are rather an efficient marketing mechanism. If you have an interest in goods of some kind, you can allow pop-ups from the website where you can purchase this things, and as soon as these items are in stock again, or if you can have a price cut – you will get the notification concerning this. The counterparty – online stores, car lending companies, etc – will be in profit, too – buyer will definitely get a suggestion concerning the item he/she meant to pay for. As well as such an advertising and marketing method is almost cost-free – this element is really crucial for corporations.
| Site | Captchatest.top |
| IP Address | 162.55.59.222 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Acplat.online, Esoftwarehelp.com, Mac.walleu.live |
Captchatest.top Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However occasionally pop-up promotions can appear without your approval, as well as with a content which is totally various from your existing cares or search questions. And also, besides undesirable Captchatest.top pop-ups from the unknown resource, you can at the same time see a great deal of advertisements, consisting of ones on the pages which at first have no ads whatsoever. Such a situation can be the proof of adware existence.
Adware is the sort of computer virus which injects into your PC, after that begins demonstrating to you numerous advertisements. Their subject , in most cases, has no connection with your regular search queries. Besides banner advertisements, your browser can also show you a big number of different Captchatest.top pop-up ads, which appear in the bottom right corner.
The model of adware usage is really sly. The big pack of adware is dispersed with trojan viruses, which are injected in your personal computer earlier. Ads, which are shown to you by malicious app, are paid by their makers. In a couple of weeks, all antivirus programs began to block these adware, therefore, trojan sheds in productivity. And to end up the user’s computer system, virus distributors start ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your PC can continue to be impacted by adware virus. A substantial amount of ads in addition to Captchatest.top pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your typical jobs will certainly be impossible to perform in usual manner.
How Can I Deal With Captchatest.top Pop-Ups?
Concluding the paragraphs above: your PC, along with your data, is in a serious risk. To stop this infection, you need to make use of anti-malware software. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to deal with Captchatest.top pop-ups virus. Nonetheless, it can not return the web browser alterations which were implemented by malicious program. Another disadvantage of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its particular susceptability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender through the Group Policies after being injected to your PC.
To be 100% sure that your computer is clean of any malicious programs now, and will be clean in future, I can advice you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and eliminate all unwanted programs on your personal computer, including Captchatest.top 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 programs, because it checks only the most popular registry entries and directories.
You can observe the detected viruses sorted by their possible hazard till 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 malicious program. By default, all the viruses will be removed 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 Captchatest.top malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be found in the Tools tab.
After choosing the Reset Browser Settings button, the menu will be displayed, where you can specify, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without using third-party software
Besides using anti-malware software for browser restoration, 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 Captchatest.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.
