Last week, I saw a lot of posts like “my web browser demonstrates to me unwanted Comedyrent.com pop-up promotions, is it a computer virus?” or “these Comedyrent.com pop-up ads in my Chrome making me crazy, how to deal with them?”. According to the stats for last months, pc virus suppliers began a wide adware distribution project. Let me show you, how you can get rid of the computer viruses from your PC, and also forget about the annoying Comedyrent.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Comedyrent.com) use you pop-up promotions. The message can contain something like “do you want to have notices concerning the current news?” or “allow alerts to be reported about new price cuts?”. Usually, such messages are safe, and may just sidetrack you with its unexpected showing up. And it can be simply turned off, in case notifications from this web page are no longer desired.
Pop-up alerts are quite an reliable marketing tool. If you are interested in products of some kind, you can allow pop-ups from the site where you can acquire this stuff, and as soon as these things are in inventory again, or if you can have a discount – you will get the notice concerning this. The counterparty – online stores, auto lending services, etc – will remain in profit, too – customer will definitely obtain a reminder concerning the item he/she meant to pay for. As well as such an advertising approach is almost cost-free – this aspect is very crucial for firms.
| Site | Comedyrent.com |
| IP Address | 104.21.57.12 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | News-mewaji.cc, Misstarbone.live, Offgifttime.link |
Comedyrent.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However occasionally pop-up promotions can show up without your approval, and also with a material which is completely different from your present attentions or search questions. And, besides unwanted Comedyrent.com pop-ups from the unknown resource, you can at the same time see a lot of promotions, including ones on the web pages which originally have no promotions at all. Such a situation can be the proof of adware existence.
Adware is the kind of virus which infiltrates into your system, then begins demonstrating to you different advertisements. Their content often has no correlation with your usual search questions. Besides banner promotions, your browser can also demonstrate you a massive number of various Comedyrent.com pop-up promotions, which appear in the lower right corner.
The model of adware usage is extremely sly. The huge pack of adware is distributed through trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your system previously. Promotions, which are suggested to you by malicious program, are paid by their creators. In several weeks, all anti-malware programs began to block these adware, therefore, trojan sheds in productivity. And to terminate the user’s PC, malware distributors begin ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your PC can still be affected by adware virus. A huge quantity of advertisements along with Comedyrent.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your common tasks will certainly be impossible to do in usual way.
How Can I Deal With Comedyrent.com Pop-Ups?
Concluding the text above: your PC, and your information, is in a serious risk. To quit this virus, you require to make use of anti-virus program. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to handle Comedyrent.com pop-ups virus. Nonetheless, it can’t revert the web browser changes which were applied by malicious program. Another disadvantage of the anti-virus by Microsoft is its particular vulnerability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender with the Group Policies after being implanted 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 remove all unwanted applications on your computer, including Comedyrent.com 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 viruses, because it scans only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can see the detected malware sorted by their possible harm during the scan process. But to perform any actions against malicious apps, you need to wait until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for every spotted malicious 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 are required to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action is not able to be counteracted by Comedyrent.com virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This option can be located in the Tools tab.
After choosing the Reset Browser Settings button, the menu will be shown, where you can choose, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without using third-party applications
Besides using antivirus programs for browser recovery, you may pick 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 Comedyrent.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.
