Last week, I saw a huge amount of messages like “my web browser demonstrates me undesirable Cousiness.website pop-up promotions, is it a virus?” or “these Cousiness.website pop-up advertisements in my Chrome making me crazy, how to manage them?”. Due to the data for last months, virus creators started a massive adware distribution project. Let me demonstrate you, how you can remove the viruses from your PC, and forget about the bothersome Cousiness.website pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Cousiness.website) use you pop-up promotions. The message can include something like “do you want to receive notices about the latest information?” or “allow notifications to be reported regarding latest discounts?”. Generally, such messages are risk-free, and can only distract you with its unexpected appearance. Moreover, it can be quite easily disabled, in case notifications from this site are no longer desired.
Pop-up alerts are fairly an efficient marketing mechanism. If you want goods of some type, you can give a permission to the pop-ups from the internet site where you can buy this stuff, and as soon as these products are in stock again, or if you can have a discount – you will certainly obtain the notification regarding this. The counterparty – online retailers, car lending companies, etc – will certainly remain in profit, too – buyer will undoubtedly obtain a pointer regarding the item he/she meant to buy. And such a marketing method is nearly free of charge – this factor is very important for companies.
| Site | Cousiness.website |
| IP Address | 52.206.71.220 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Nomore-spam.com, Deberorewhen.info, News-gamemi.cc |
Cousiness.website Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But occasionally pop-up promotions can come out without your confirmation, and with a content which is totally various from your present cares or search questions. And, besides undesirable Cousiness.website pop-ups from the unknown site, you can at the same time see a great deal of advertisements, including ones on the web pages which originally have no ads at all. Such a situation can be the proof of adware existence.
Adware is the kind of malware which infiltrates into your computer, after that begins demonstrating to you different promotions. Their material typically has no match with your usual search questions. Besides banner promotions, your web browser can also show you a significant quantity of different Cousiness.website pop-up ads, which show up in the bottom right corner.
The model of adware use is extremely sly. The large pack of adware is dispersed via trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your PC earlier. Ads, which are demonstrated to you by malware, are paid by their makers. In a couple of weeks, all anti-malware programs began to block these adware, for this reason, trojan sheds in profitability. And to end up the user’s desktop, virus distributors begin ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer may still be affected by adware virus. A big quantity of ads together with Cousiness.website pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your normal activities will certainly be impossible to carry out in typical way.
How Can I Deal With Cousiness.website Pop-Ups?
Presuming the text above: your personal computer, as well as your information, is in a severe danger. To quit this infection, you need to utilize anti-malware software. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to handle Cousiness.website pop-ups virus. However, it can’t revert the browser changes which were applied by malicious program. Another negative aspect of the antivirus by Microsoft is its specific vulnerability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender with the Group Policies after being infiltrated to your PC.
To be 100% sure that your PC is clean of any viruses now, and will be clean in future, I can advice you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and eliminate all malicious programs on your PC, including Cousiness.website 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 scans only the most popular registry entries and directories.
You can see the detected malicious programs sorted by their possible harm during the scan process. But to choose any actions against malicious apps, you need to wait until the scan is over, or to stop the scan.
To set the action for every spotted malicious or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected virus. By default, all the viruses will be moved to quarantine.
Reset browser settings to original ones
To reset your browser settings, you need to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action is not able to be intercepted by Cousiness.website virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This option can be located in the Tools tab.
After choosing 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 using third-party software
Besides using anti-malware tools for browser restoration, you can 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 Cousiness.website 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.
