Last week, I saw a huge amount of posts like “my web browser displays me undesirable Flowext.com pop-up ads, is it a virus?” or “these Flowext.com pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me crazy, how to handle them?”. According to the stats for last months, virus distributors started a large adware circulation project. Let me show you, how you can eliminate the pc virus from your computer, and forget about the aggravating Flowext.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Flowext.com) offer you pop-up ads. The message can include something like “do you want to have notices regarding the current information?” or “allow notifications to be reported regarding latest discounts?”. Normally, such messages are riskless, and may just distract you with its sudden appearing. Plus it can be easily disabled, in case notifications from this site are no longer needed.
Pop-up notifications are rather an effective advertising and marketing tool. If you are interested in goods of some type, you can allow pop-ups from the website where you can purchase this things, and also as quickly as these products are in stock again, or if you can have a price cut – you will certainly obtain the notification about this. The counterparty – online sellers, vehicle lending companies, etc – will certainly remain in profit, too – customer will surely obtain a suggestion regarding the product he/she meant to buy. As well as such an advertising approach is almost cost-free – this element is very important for firms.
| Site | Flowext.com |
| IP Address | 172.67.182.181 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Finderflash.xyz, News-cotevi.cc, Browserguards.com |
Flowext.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But occasionally pop-up promotions can appear without your approval, and also with a content which is entirely various from your existing attentions or search questions. And, besides unwanted Flowext.com pop-ups from the unknown resource, you can simultaneously see a great deal of advertisements, consisting of ones on the pages which at first have no promotions at all. Such a situation can be the indicator of adware appearance.
Adware is the type of virus which injects into your PC, then starts suggesting you numerous promotions. Their subject typically has no connection with your normal search queries. Besides banner ads, your web browser can also show you a significant quantity of different Flowext.com pop-up advertisements, which appear in the lower right area.
The model of adware usage is really sly. The huge pack of adware is spread with trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your system earlier. Promotions, which are demonstrated to you by malicious program, are paid by their creators. In several weeks, all anti-malware programs began to catch these adware, thus, trojan sheds in productivity. And to dispatch the user’s desktop, virus distributors start ransomware distribution with these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your PC can continue to be influenced by adware virus. A big number of ads in addition to Flowext.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your typical tasks will be impossible to do in common manner.
How Can I Deal With Flowext.com Pop-Ups?
Presuming the paragraphs above: your desktop, and your data, is in a significant danger. To quit this infection, you require to make use of anti-virus software. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to take care of Flowext.com pop-ups virus. Nevertheless, it can not revert the web browser alterations which were applied by harmful program. Another downside of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its certain vulnerability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender via the Group Policies after being infiltrated 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 remove all unwanted applications on your personal computer, including Flowext.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 malicious apps, because it checks only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can observe the detected viruses sorted by their possible hazard during the scan process. But to choose any actions against the viruses, you need to wait until the scan is over, 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 malicious program. By default, all malware 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 cannot be intercepted by Flowext.com malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This option can be found 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 utilizing third-party software
Besides using anti-malware programs for browser restoration, you can 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:
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 Flowext.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.