Last week, I saw a lot of messages like “my web browser demonstrates me unwanted Easy-captcha.com pop-up advertisements, is it a computer virus?” or “these Easy-captcha.com pop-up ads in my Chrome making me mad, how to handle them?”. Due to the statistics for last months, computer virus suppliers began a wide adware delivery project. Let me show you, how you can get rid of the computer viruses from your computer, as well as forget about the frustrating Easy-captcha.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Easy-captcha.com) use you pop-up promotions. The message can have something like “do you want to get alerts relating to the most up to date information?” or “allow notifications to be reported about recent price cuts?”. Normally, such messages are riskless, and can just distract you with its abrupt showing up. And it can be quite easily turned off, in case notices from this online resource are no longer needed.
Pop-up notifications are rather an reliable advertising tool. If you are interested in items of some kind, you can allow pop-ups from the site where you can get this stuff, and also as soon as these things are in store again, or if you can have a discount – you will certainly get the notification about this. The counterparty – online sellers, vehicle lending services, etc – will be in profit, too – customer will surely obtain a suggestion about the product he/she meant to buy. And also such an advertising approach is practically free – this factor is extremely essential for companies.
| Site | Easy-captcha.com |
| IP Address | 109.206.187.4 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Smooth-captcha.com, Hechereckewi.info, Im-not-a-robot.com |
Easy-captcha.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But sometimes pop-up ads can appear without your permission, and with a material which is entirely various from your current interests or search questions. And also, besides unwanted Easy-captcha.com pop-ups from the unknown website, you can at the same time see a lot of advertisements, including ones on the web pages which originally have no ads at all. Such a scenario can be the indicator of adware existence.
Adware is the kind of virus which infiltrates into your personal computer, after that begins demonstrating to you numerous ads. Their subject usually has no correlation with your typical search queries. Besides banner promotions, your web browser can also show you a significant number of different Easy-captcha.com pop-up advertisements, which come into view in the lower right area.
The model of adware usage is very sly. The large pack of adware is distributed with trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your PC previously. Advertisements, which are shown to you by malicious app, are paid by their creators. In a couple of weeks, all anti-malware programs began to catch these adware, therefore, trojan sheds in earnings. And to rub out the user’s PC, virus distributors start ransomware distribution with these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer can still be influenced by adware virus. A significant number of promotions along with Easy-captcha.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your common activities will certainly be impossible to perform in typical manner.
How Can I Deal With Easy-captcha.com Pop-Ups?
Concluding the paragraphs above: your PC, as well as your data, is in a serious risk. To stop this infection, you require to use anti-virus software. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to deal with Easy-captcha.com pop-ups virus. However, it can’t revert the web browser alterations which were implemented by malicious program. An additional disadvantage of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its specific susceptability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender through the Group Policies after being injected to your computer system.
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 eliminate all malicious programs on your computer, including Easy-captcha.com 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 viruses, because it scans only the most popular registry entries and directories.
You can see the detected viruses sorted by their possible harm simultaneously with the scan process. But to choose any actions against malicious apps, you need to wait until the scan is finished, 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 virus. By default, all malware will be moved 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 counteracted by Easy-captcha.com virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This option 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 utilizing third-party applications
Besides using anti-malware software for browser restoration, you may choose 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:
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 Easy-captcha.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.