Last week, I saw a huge amount of posts like “my web browser displays me unwanted Centures.info pop-up advertisements, is it a computer virus?” or “these Centures.info pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me insane, how to take care of them?”. According to the data for last months, virus suppliers began a massive adware circulation project. Let me show you, how you can erase the computer viruses from your computer, as well as forget about the frustrating Centures.info pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Centures.info) offer you pop-up promotions. The message can include something like “do you want to receive notifications about the latest news?” or “enable notifications to be reported about new price cuts?”. Generally, such messages are riskless, and can only sidetrack you with its unexpected appearing. And it can be quite easily disabled, in case alerts from this website are no longer required.
Pop-up alerts are quite an effective advertising and marketing mechanism. If you are interested in products of some kind, you can give a permission to the pop-ups from the internet site where you can purchase this things, and as quickly as these things are in inventory again, or if you can have a discount – you will certainly obtain the alert concerning this. The counterparty – online stores, auto lending services, etc – will be in profit, too – purchaser will certainly obtain a tip concerning the item he/she planned to buy. And also such an advertising technique is almost cost-free – this factor is extremely essential for firms.
| Site | Centures.info |
| IP Address | 54.144.3.29 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Emedwa.online, Vpntag.xyz, News-duhaho.com |
Centures.info Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But often pop-up ads can appear without your approval, and also with a text which is completely various from your present cares or search questions. And, besides undesirable Centures.info pop-ups from the unknown site, you can at the same time see a lot of ads, consisting of ones on the web pages which primarily have no promotions at all. Such a scenario can be the sign of adware presence.
Adware is the kind of computer virus which injects into your PC, and then starts demonstrating to you various promotions. Their content often has no correlation with your normal search queries. Besides banner ads, your browser can additionally display you a massive number of various Centures.info pop-up advertisements, which appear in the lower right corner.
The model of adware usage is really sly. The big pack of adware is spread through trojan viruses, which are injected in your personal computer previously. Ads, which are demonstrated to you by virus, are paid by their creators. In several weeks, all antivirus programs began to block these adware, hence, trojan sheds in profitability. And to ruin the user’s personal computer, malware distributors start ransomware distribution with these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer system can still be affected by adware virus. A big amount of ads along with Centures.info pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your common activities will certainly be difficult to perform in common way.
How Can I Deal With Centures.info Pop-Ups?
Concluding the paragraphs above: your PC, and your information, is in a major risk. To quit this infection, you need to utilize anti-malware software. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to handle Centures.info pop-ups malware. Nonetheless, it can’t return the web browser alterations which were put into effect by harmful program. One more downside of the antivirus by Microsoft is its specific vulnerability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender through the Group Policies after being infiltrated to your desktop.
To be 100% sure that your desktop 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 erase all malicious applications on your PC, including Centures.info 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 apps, because it scans only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can spectate the detected viruses sorted by their possible harm till the scan process. But to choose any actions against malicious programs, you need to wait until the scan is over, or to stop the scan.
To set 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 moved to quarantine.
Reset browser settings to original ones
To revert your browser settings, you are required to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action cannot be intercepted by Centures.info malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be found in the Tools tab.
After pressing the Reset Browser Settings option, the menu will be shown, where you can choose, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without making use of third-party software
Besides using antivirus software for browser reset, 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 Centures.info 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.
