Recently, I saw a great deal of messages like “my browser demonstrates me undesirable Get-positive.com pop-up ads, is it a pc virus?” or “these Get-positive.com pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me mad, how to take care of them?”. Due to the statistics for last months, computer virus creators started a vast adware delivery project. Let me demonstrate you, how you can delete the pc virus from your PC, and also forget about the bothersome Get-positive.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Get-positive.com) use you pop-up promotions. The message can have something like “do you want to have alerts regarding the latest information?” or “enable notifications to be reported regarding recent discount rates?”. Normally, such messages are safe, and may only sidetrack you with its abrupt showing up. And it can be easily turned off, in case notifications from this online resource are no longer desired.
Pop-up notifications are quite an effective marketing tool. If you want items of some kind, you can give a permission to the pop-ups from the site where you can get this things, and also as quickly as these products are in store again, or if you can have a price cut – you will certainly obtain the alert about this. The counterparty – online merchants, automobile lending services, etc – will certainly be in profit, too – buyer will surely get a tip regarding the product he/she planned to pay for. And also such an advertising and marketing technique is almost free of charge – this element is extremely vital for corporations.
| Site | Get-positive.com |
| IP Address | 52.21.125.181 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Funtoday.info, Browserfast.online, Betgorebyson.club |
Get-positive.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However in some cases pop-up promotions can appear without your approval, and also with a material which is entirely different from your existing attentions or search queries. And, besides undesirable Get-positive.com pop-ups from the unknown site, you can simultaneously see a lot of promotions, consisting of ones on the pages which initially have no advertisements whatsoever. Such a scenario can be the signal of adware existence.
Adware is the kind of computer virus which infiltrates into your computer, after that begins displaying you different advertisements. Their content usually has no correlation with your normal search questions. Besides banner ads, your browser can likewise demonstrate you a substantial quantity of different Get-positive.com pop-up promotions, which appear in the lower right corner.
The model of adware use is very sly. The big pack of adware is spread via trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your computer earlier. Advertisements, which are shown to you by malicious program, are paid by their makers. In a couple of weeks, all anti-malware programs began to stop these adware, hence, trojan loses in profitability. And to ruin the user’s computer, malware distributors start ransomware distribution via these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your PC can continue to be affected by adware virus. A substantial amount of advertisements together with Get-positive.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your typical jobs will be impossible to do in normal manner.
How Can I Deal With Get-positive.com Pop-Ups?
Thinking the text above: your computer, and your information, is in a severe risk. To quit this virus, you need to make use of anti-malware software. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to deal with Get-positive.com pop-ups malware. Nevertheless, it can not revert the browser changes which were implemented by harmful program. An additional disadvantage of the anti-virus by Microsoft is its particular vulnerability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender with the Group Policies after being implanted to your computer system.
To be 100% sure that your computer is clean of any viruses now, and will be clean in future, I can offer you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and erase all malicious programs on your personal computer, including Get-positive.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 scans only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can spectate the detected malicious apps sorted by their possible harm during the scan process. But to choose any actions against malware, 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 malicious app. By default, all the viruses will be moved to quarantine.
Reverting browser settings to original ones
To revert your browser settings, you are required to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action is not able to be intercepted by Get-positive.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 specify, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without utilizing third-party software
Besides using anti-malware programs 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 Get-positive.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.
