Last week, I saw a ton of posts like “my browser demonstrates me undesirable Goodcaptcha.top pop-up advertisements, is it a computer virus?” or “these Goodcaptcha.top pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me insane, how to take care of them?”. Due to the statistics for last months, virus creators started a large adware circulation campaign. Let me show you, how you can delete the pc virus from your computer, as well as forget about the irritating Goodcaptcha.top pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Goodcaptcha.top) use you pop-up advertisements. The message can have something like “do you want to receive alerts concerning the most recent information?” or “enable alerts to be reported regarding recent price cuts?”. Generally, such messages are trustworthy, and may only distract you with its abrupt showing up. Also it can be quite easily disabled, in case notices from this site are no longer wanted.
Pop-up notifications are rather an efficient advertising and marketing instrument. If you want items of some kind, you can give a permission to the pop-ups from the website where you can purchase this stuff, and also as soon as these products are in stock again, or if you can have a price cut – you will get the notification about this. The counterparty – online merchants, cars and truck lending companies, etc – will remain in profit, too – buyer will surely get a suggestion concerning the item he/she meant to purchase. As well as such an advertising technique is practically cost-free – this factor is very crucial for corporations.
| Site | Goodcaptcha.top |
| IP Address | 78.128.112.196 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | News-xiyodu.cc, Posttrendingblog.com, Sfullydevelo.com |
Goodcaptcha.top Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However sometimes pop-up advertisements can appear without your approval, as well as with a content which is completely various from your current cares or search questions. And, besides undesirable Goodcaptcha.top pop-ups from the unknown source, you can simultaneously see a great deal of promotions, including ones on the web pages which originally have no ads whatsoever. Such a scenario can be the indication of adware presence.
Adware is the kind of computer virus which injects into your personal computer, and then begins displaying you various advertisements. Their content usually has no correlation with your regular search queries. Besides banner advertisements, your web browser can additionally demonstrate to you a big amount of various Goodcaptcha.top pop-up ads, which come into view in the bottom right corner.
The model of adware use is very sly. The big pack of adware is dispersed through trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your personal computer earlier. Promotions, which are suggested to you by malicious app, are paid by their creators. In a couple of weeks, all antivirus programs began to stop these adware, thus, trojan sheds in earnings. And to end up the user’s computer system, virus distributors start ransomware distribution via these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your desktop might continue to be affected by adware virus. A significant number of ads together with Goodcaptcha.top pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your normal jobs will certainly be impossible to perform in common way.
How Can I Deal With Goodcaptcha.top Pop-Ups?
Assuming the text above: your computer, as well as your data, is in a significant danger. To quit this infection, you need to utilize virus removal tool. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to deal with Goodcaptcha.top pop-ups malware. Nonetheless, it can not return the browser alterations which were put into effect by harmful program. Another negative aspect of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its particular susceptability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender through the Group Policies after being implanted to your PC.
To be 100% sure that your system is clean of any viruses now, and will be clean in future, I can advice you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and remove all malicious applications on your personal computer, including Goodcaptcha.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 malicious apps sorted by their possible harm simultaneously with the scan process. But to perform any actions against malware, you need to wait until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for every detected malicious or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malicious app. 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 cannot be counteracted by Goodcaptcha.top virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be located in the Tools tab.
After choosing the Reset Browser Settings option, the menu will be displayed, where you can choose, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without making use of third-party programs
Besides using anti-malware programs for browser reset, you can 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 Goodcaptcha.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.
