Recently, I saw a great deal of posts like “my web browser displays me unwanted Cloudmedia.surf pop-up ads, is it a pc virus?” or “these Cloudmedia.surf pop-up ads in my Chrome making me crazy, how to manage them?”. Due to the statistics for last months, virus creators began a vast adware distribution campaign. Let me show you, how you can delete the computer viruses from your PC, and forget about the irritating Cloudmedia.surf pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Cloudmedia.surf) show you pop-up advertisements. The message can have something like “do you want to receive notices about the most recent news?” or “permit notifications to be reported about recent discount rates?”. Normally, such messages are trustworthy, and can just sidetrack you with its unexpected arrival. Plus it can be quickly turned off, in case notifications from this site are no longer needed.
Pop-up notifications are quite an efficient marketing instrument. If you are interested in items of some sort, you can enable pop-ups from the site where you can get this things, and as soon as these products are in inventory again, or if you can have a discount – you will get the alert about this. The counterparty – online sellers, automobile lending companies, etc – will certainly be in profit, too – purchaser will certainly get a reminder concerning the product he/she meant to buy. As well as such a marketing method is nearly free – this aspect is very important for companies.
| Site | Cloudmedia.surf |
| IP Address | 178.62.225.201 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Cloudmedia.cyou, Cloudmedia.fun, Browser-notification.work |
Cloudmedia.surf Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But sometimes pop-up ads can show up without your confirmation, and also with a text which is entirely different from your present interests or search queries. And also, besides undesirable Cloudmedia.surf pop-ups from the unknown origin, you can simultaneously see a lot of advertisements, including ones on the web pages which originally have no promotions at all. Such a situation can be the indication of adware presence.
Adware is the type of computer virus which infiltrates into your personal computer, after that begins demonstrating you various advertisements. Their content often has no correlation with your typical search questions. Besides banner ads, your web browser can also show you a massive number of various Cloudmedia.surf pop-up advertisements, which appear in the bottom right corner.
The model of adware usage is really sly. The big pack of adware is dispersed through trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your PC previously. Advertisements, which are displayed to you by malicious program, are paid by their creators. In several weeks, all antivirus programs began to catch these adware, hence, trojan sheds in productivity. And to rub out the user’s computer, malware distributors begin ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer may still be impacted by adware virus. A huge amount of advertisements in addition to Cloudmedia.surf pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your common tasks will be impossible to do in normal manner.
How Can I Deal With Cloudmedia.surf Pop-Ups?
Concluding the text above: your computer, as well as your information, is in a major risk. To quit this infection, you require to use anti-malware program. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to handle Cloudmedia.surf pop-ups malware. However, it can not change the web browser alterations which were applied by harmful program. One more disadvantage of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its certain vulnerability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender via the Group Policies after being injected to your PC.
To be 100% sure that your PC 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 malicious applications on your PC, including Cloudmedia.surf 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 apps, because it checks only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can observe the detected viruses sorted by their possible hazard simultaneously with 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 every detected virus or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malware. By default, all the viruses will be removed to quarantine.
Reset browser settings to original ones
To reset your browser settings, you are required to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action is not able to be intercepted by Cloudmedia.surf malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This option can be located 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 anti-malware software for browser reset, you may 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:
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 Cloudmedia.surf 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.
