Recently, I saw a ton of posts like “my browser shows me unwanted Elementalhammer.top pop-up advertisements, is it a virus?” or “these Elementalhammer.top pop-up ads in my Chrome making me mad, how to handle them?”. According to the stats for last months, virus distributors started a wide adware delivery project. Let me demonstrate you, how you can erase the pc virus from your PC, as well as forget about the frustrating Elementalhammer.top pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Elementalhammer.top) show you pop-up advertisements. The message can include something like “do you want to get notices relating to the most recent information?” or “permit notifications to be reported regarding new discounts?”. Usually, such messages are trustworthy, and can just sidetrack you with its abrupt appearing. Moreover, it can be quickly turned off, in case notifications from this web page are no longer desired.
Pop-up alerts are fairly an efficient advertising tool. If you are interested in goods of some kind, you can enable pop-ups from the website where you can acquire this things, and also as soon as these products are in stock again, or if you can have a discount – you will certainly obtain the notification about this. The counterparty – online merchants, auto lending services, etc – will remain in profit, too – purchaser will undoubtedly get a tip concerning the product he/she planned to buy. And also such an advertising and marketing technique is nearly cost-free – this element is very vital for companies.
| Site | Elementalhammer.top |
| IP Address | 172.64.175.20 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Sagink.xyz, News-gohevi.cc, 2.notify-secure.com |
Elementalhammer.top Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However in some cases pop-up ads can appear without your approval, and also with a content which is completely various from your current cares or search questions. And, besides unwanted Elementalhammer.top pop-ups from the unknown source, you can simultaneously see a great deal of advertisements, consisting of ones on the pages which at first have no advertisements at all. Such a scenario can be the sign of adware appearance.
Adware is the type of computer virus which infiltrates into your PC, and then starts demonstrating you various ads. Their content usually has no correlation with your normal search questions. Besides banner promotions, your web browser can additionally demonstrate you a substantial amount of different Elementalhammer.top pop-up advertisements, which appear in the lower right corner.
The model of adware usage is extremely sly. The big pack of adware is spread through trojan viruses, which are injected in your computer previously. Ads, which are suggested to you by malicious program, are paid by their creators. In several weeks, all antivirus programs began to stop these adware, for this reason, trojan sheds in productivity. And to terminate the user’s computer, malware distributors begin ransomware distribution with these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your PC can still be affected by adware virus. A huge number of advertisements along with Elementalhammer.top pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your normal work will be impossible to carry out in typical manner.
How Can I Deal With Elementalhammer.top Pop-Ups?
Concluding the paragraphs above: your desktop, along with your information, is in a major danger. To stop this virus, you need to make use of anti-malware program. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to deal with Elementalhammer.top pop-ups virus. Nevertheless, it can not reset the browser changes which were put into effect by malicious program. An additional negative aspect of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its particular vulnerability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender through the Group Policies after being injected to your PC.
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 remove all unwanted programs on your desktop, including Elementalhammer.top 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 programs, because it scans only the most popular registry entries and directories.
You can spectate the detected malware sorted by their possible harm till the scan process. But to choose any actions against malicious programs, 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 virus. By default, all malware will be removed to quarantine.
Reverting browser settings to original ones
To reset your browser settings, you need to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action cannot be intercepted by Elementalhammer.top malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be located in the Tools tab.
After choosing the Reset Browser Settings button, the menu will be displayed, where you can specify, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without using third-party applications
Besides using anti-malware software for browser reset, you may 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 Elementalhammer.top 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.
