Last week, I saw a ton of messages like “my web browser demonstrates to me unwanted Getyourbonus.life pop-up advertisements, is it a virus?” or “these Getyourbonus.life pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me insane, how to take care of them?”. According to the stats for last months, virus creators started a large adware distribution campaign. Let me show you, how you can eliminate the pc virus from your computer system, as well as forget about the frustrating Getyourbonus.life pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Getyourbonus.life) show you pop-up promotions. The message can contain something like “do you want to receive notifications concerning the most up to date news?” or “enable notifications to be reported about latest discount rates?”. Generally, such messages are safe, and can just sidetrack you with its abrupt appearing. And it can be easily turned off, in case alerts from this online resource are no longer needed.
Pop-up alerts are quite an effective marketing mechanism. If you want items of some sort, you can enable pop-ups from the web site where you can get this things, and also as soon as these items are in store again, or if you can have a price cut – you will certainly obtain the alert concerning this. The counterparty – online sellers, cars and truck lending companies, etc – will certainly remain in profit, too – purchaser will definitely get a suggestion regarding the item he/she planned to purchase. And such an advertising and marketing technique is practically cost-free – this element is really vital for corporations.
| Site | Getyourbonus.life |
| IP Address | 188.166.47.204 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Uplucarioon.com, Wager07.xyz, Whairtoa.com |
Getyourbonus.life Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However sometimes pop-up promotions can show up without your approval, as well as with a material which is completely various from your current cares or search queries. And, besides undesirable Getyourbonus.life pop-ups from the unknown source, you can simultaneously see a great deal of ads, including ones on the web pages which initially have no advertisements whatsoever. Such a situation can be the indicator of adware presence.
Adware is the sort of pc virus which infiltrates into your system, after that begins demonstrating you various ads. Their material often has no match with your normal search queries. Besides banner ads, your browser can likewise display you a huge amount of various Getyourbonus.life pop-up ads, which show up in the bottom right area.
The model of adware use is extremely sly. The big pack of adware is dispersed via trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your desktop previously. Ads, which are suggested to you by virus, are paid by their makers. In several weeks, all antivirus programs began to block these adware, thus, trojan sheds in earnings. And to finish the user’s PC, virus distributors start ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your PC may continue to be affected by adware virus. A big number of advertisements in addition to Getyourbonus.life pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your typical tasks will be difficult to execute in normal way.
How Can I Deal With Getyourbonus.life Pop-Ups?
Assuming the text above: your PC, as well as your information, is in a severe danger. To stop this virus, you require to make use of anti-virus program. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to deal with Getyourbonus.life pop-ups malware. However, it can not revert the web browser changes which were applied by malicious program. An additional downside of the anti-virus by Microsoft is its particular vulnerability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender via the Group Policies after being injected to your computer system.
To be 100% sure that your computer 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 malicious programs on your personal computer, including Getyourbonus.life 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 apps, because it checks only the most popular registry entries and directories.
You can spectate the detected viruses sorted by their possible harm during the scan process. But to choose any actions against malicious apps, 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 app. By default, all the viruses will be removed to quarantine.
Reset 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 Getyourbonus.life virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This option can be found in the Tools tab.
After choosing 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 making use of third-party programs
Besides using antivirus programs 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 Getyourbonus.life 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.
