Last week, I saw a lot of posts like “my browser presents me undesirable Cellphone-protection.com pop-up advertisements, is it a computer virus?” or “these Cellphone-protection.com pop-up advertisements in my Chrome making me crazy, how to manage them?”. According to the data for last months, virus suppliers started a massive adware delivery campaign. Let me show you, how you can get rid of the pc virus from your computer system, and forget about the annoying Cellphone-protection.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Cellphone-protection.com) use you pop-up promotions. The message can include something like “do you want to receive alerts about the most up to date information?” or “permit alerts to be reported about recent discounts?”. Normally, such messages are riskless, and can only distract you with its abrupt appearance. Moreover, it can be easily turned off, in case alerts from this web page are no longer wanted.
Pop-up alerts are rather an reliable advertising mechanism. If you want items of some sort, you can give a permission to the pop-ups from the internet site where you can purchase this things, and also as quickly as these items are in inventory again, or if you can have a discount – you will obtain the alert about this. The counterparty – online retailers, auto lending services, etc – will be in profit, too – buyer will surely get a pointer about the item he/she planned to pay for. As well as such an advertising and marketing technique is practically free – this aspect is extremely vital for companies.
| Site | Cellphone-protection.com |
| IP Address | 23.106.248.15 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | News-labazu.cc, Tidywarden.store, Grecafa.life |
Cellphone-protection.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However often pop-up advertisements can show up without your approval, and with a text which is completely different from your present attentions or search queries. And also, besides unwanted Cellphone-protection.com pop-ups from the unknown origin, you can simultaneously see a lot of advertisements, including ones on the pages which at first have no promotions whatsoever. Such a situation can be the indication of adware appearance.
Adware is the type of virus which injects into your personal computer, then begins showing you numerous promotions. Their content , in most cases, has no connection with your regular search questions. Besides banner advertisements, your browser can also suggest you a big number of various Cellphone-protection.com pop-up ads, which appear in the bottom right area.
The model of adware use is very sly. The huge pack of adware is distributed via trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your system earlier. Advertisements, which are displayed to you by malicious app, are paid by their makers. In several weeks, all antivirus programs began to catch these adware, therefore, trojan loses in productivity. And to terminate the user’s personal computer, malware distributors start ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer system can continue to be influenced by adware virus. A massive amount of advertisements together with Cellphone-protection.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your typical tasks will certainly be impossible to perform in normal way.
How Can I Deal With Cellphone-protection.com Pop-Ups?
Assuming the paragraphs above: your personal computer, along with your data, is in a significant risk. To stop this virus, you need to utilize antivirus software. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to handle Cellphone-protection.com pop-ups virus. Nonetheless, it can not revert the web browser alterations which were put into effect by harmful program. An additional negative aspect of the antivirus by Microsoft is its specific susceptability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender through the Group Policies after being implanted to your PC.
To be 100% sure that your system 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 applications on your PC, including Cellphone-protection.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 scans only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can see the detected malicious programs sorted by their possible harm simultaneously with the scan process. But to choose any actions against malicious programs, you need to hold on until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for each spotted virus or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malware. By default, all malware will be removed to quarantine.
Reverting browser settings to original ones
To revert your browser settings, you need to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action is not able to be counteracted by Cellphone-protection.com virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This option can be found in the Tools tab.
After choosing the Reset Browser Settings button, the menu will be shown, where you can specify, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without making use of third-party programs
Besides using anti-malware software for browser restoration, you may pick the “Reset browser settings” function, 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 Cellphone-protection.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.
