Recently, I saw a ton of messages like “my internet browser presents me undesirable Cousonelly.com pop-up advertisements, is it a computer virus?” or “these Cousonelly.com pop-up ads in my Chrome making me mad, how to take care of them?”. According to the data for last months, virus creators started a massive adware distribution project. Let me show you, how you can remove the computer viruses from your PC, as well as forget about the annoying Cousonelly.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Cousonelly.com) use you pop-up advertisements. The message can have something like “do you want to have alerts regarding the most up to date news?” or “enable notifications to be reported regarding new price cuts?”. Typically, such messages are harmless, and can just sidetrack you with its unexpected appearing. Moreover, it can be simply disabled, in case notices from this web site are no longer desired.
Pop-up notices are fairly an efficient advertising and marketing tool. If you have an interest in products of some kind, you can allow pop-ups from the website where you can get this things, and as quickly as these things are in store again, or if you can have a discount – you will certainly obtain the alert regarding this. The counterparty – online stores, auto lending companies, etc – will remain in profit, too – buyer will certainly get a suggestion about the item he/she planned to purchase. As well as such a marketing approach is practically cost-free – this aspect is extremely important for companies.
| Site | Cousonelly.com |
| IP Address | 104.21.68.155 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Poris.live, News-sehoma.cc, Webtouchinc.com |
Cousonelly.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However sometimes pop-up ads can show up without your permission, as well as with a content which is completely various from your current cares or search queries. And, besides undesirable Cousonelly.com pop-ups from the unknown source, you can simultaneously see a lot of ads, including ones on the web pages which at first have no advertisements at all. Such a situation can be the trace of adware presence.
Adware is the type of computer virus which injects into your PC, then starts displaying you different promotions. Their material typically has no correlation with your normal search queries. Besides banner advertisements, your web browser can likewise display you a significant quantity of different Cousonelly.com pop-up ads, which appear in the lower right corner.
The model of adware usage is extremely sly. The big pack of adware is distributed with trojan viruses, which are injected in your PC earlier. Ads, which are demonstrated to you by malware, are paid by their makers. In a few weeks, all antivirus programs began to catch these adware, therefore, trojan sheds in profitability. And to dispatch the user’s desktop, virus distributors start ransomware distribution via these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your PC can still be influenced by adware virus. A massive quantity of advertisements in addition to Cousonelly.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your typical work will be impossible to do in usual way.
How Can I Deal With Cousonelly.com Pop-Ups?
Thinking the text above: your personal computer, and your information, is in a significant danger. To quit this infection, you need to make use of anti-malware software. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to take care of Cousonelly.com pop-ups malware. However, it can’t reset the web browser changes which were put into effect by malicious program. An additional drawback of the antivirus by Microsoft is its particular susceptability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender via 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 unwanted applications on your PC, including Cousonelly.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 malware, because it scans only the most popular registry entries and directories.
You can spectate the detected malware sorted by their possible hazard simultaneously with the scan process. But to perform any actions against the viruses, you need to hold on until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To set the action for every detected malicious or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malicious program. By default, all the viruses will be removed to quarantine.
Reset 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 intercepted by Cousonelly.com malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This option can be found 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 applications
Besides using antivirus tools 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 Cousonelly.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.
