Last week, I saw a lot of messages like “my browser shows me undesirable Greenlight-n1.club pop-up advertisements, is it a computer virus?” or “these Greenlight-n1.club pop-up advertisements in my Chrome making me mad, how to deal with them?”. According to the data for last months, pc virus distributors started a wide adware circulation campaign. Let me show you, how you can remove the computer viruses from your computer, as well as forget about the annoying Greenlight-n1.club pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Greenlight-n1.club) show you pop-up promotions. The message can have something like “do you want to receive alerts regarding the current news?” or “enable alerts to be reported about recent discount rates?”. Usually, such messages are riskless, and can just distract you with its abrupt visual appeal. Plus it can be quickly disabled, in case alerts from this site are no longer required.
Pop-up notifications are fairly an effective advertising and marketing mechanism. If you have an interest in products of some type, you can enable pop-ups from the web site where you can get this things, and as quickly as these items are in stock again, or if you can have a discount – you will certainly get the notification about this. The counterparty – online sellers, car lending companies, etc – will certainly be in profit, too – customer will surely get a reminder about the product he/she planned to purchase. As well as such an advertising and marketing approach is almost cost-free – this factor is very essential for firms.
| Site | Greenlight-n1.club |
| IP Address | 209.246.143.234 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Celeb-trending-news.com, Grey-note-bno1.click, Tropi.fun |
Greenlight-n1.club Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However sometimes pop-up advertisements can show up without your confirmation, and with a content which is completely different from your current cares or search queries. And, besides undesirable Greenlight-n1.club pop-ups from the unknown origin, you can simultaneously see a great deal of promotions, consisting of ones on the web pages which primarily have no advertisements whatsoever. Such a scenario can be the indication of adware existence.
Adware is the type of virus which infiltrates into your system, and then starts demonstrating to you various ads. Their content often has no match with your regular search queries. Besides banner advertisements, your browser can likewise suggest you a significant amount of various Greenlight-n1.club pop-up ads, which show up in the bottom right corner.
The model of adware use is extremely sly. The big pack of adware is spread with trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your personal computer previously. Ads, which are displayed to you by virus, are paid by their creators. In several weeks, all antivirus programs began to catch these adware, therefore, trojan loses in productivity. And to dispatch the user’s PC, virus distributors start ransomware distribution via these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer system may still be influenced by adware virus. A big quantity of ads in addition to Greenlight-n1.club pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your regular jobs will be impossible to execute in normal way.
How Can I Deal With Greenlight-n1.club Pop-Ups?
Assuming the paragraphs above: your computer, and your information, is in a significant danger. To stop this infection, you require to use virus removal tool. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to take care of Greenlight-n1.club pop-ups malware. Nevertheless, it can not return the web browser changes which were put into effect by harmful program. One more disadvantage of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its particular vulnerability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender with the Group Policies after being implanted to your desktop.
To be 100% sure that your system is clean of any malicious programs now, and will be clean in future, I can offer you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and delete all unwanted applications on your personal computer, including Greenlight-n1.club 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 malware, because it scans only the most popular registry entries and directories.
You can see the detected viruses sorted by their possible hazard during the scan process. But to perform any actions against malicious apps, you need to hold on until the scan is finished, 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 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 cannot be counteracted by Greenlight-n1.club malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be found in the Tools tab.
After pressing 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 using third-party programs
Besides using anti-malware tools 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 Greenlight-n1.club 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.
