Last week, I saw a lot of posts like “my web browser demonstrates me unwanted Greenwaterwmc1.clicks pop-up promotions, is it a pc virus?” or “these Greenwaterwmc1.clicks pop-up advertisements in my Chrome making me insane, how to manage them?”. According to the statistics for last months, virus distributors started a vast adware circulation project. Let me demonstrate you, how you can eliminate the computer viruses from your PC, as well as forget about the irritating Greenwaterwmc1.clicks pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Greenwaterwmc1.clicks) use you pop-up promotions. The message can contain something like “do you want to receive notifications about the current information?” or “allow notifications to be reported about new discount rates?”. Typically, such messages are riskless, and can just sidetrack you with its abrupt showing up. Moreover, it can be quickly disabled, in case notifications from this web site are no longer desired.
Pop-up alerts are quite an efficient marketing instrument. If you have an interest in goods of some type, you can enable pop-ups from the site where you can purchase this stuff, and as quickly as these things are in store again, or if you can have a price cut – you will certainly get the notice concerning this. The counterparty – online merchants, auto lending services, etc – will be in profit, too – buyer will surely get a pointer about the product he/she meant to buy. And such a marketing technique is practically cost-free – this element is really essential for corporations.
| Site | Greenwaterwmc1.clicks |
| IP Address | Greenwaterwmc1.clicks |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Hatmyoure.xyz, Serch11.biz, Serch13.biz |
Greenwaterwmc1.clicks Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However in some cases pop-up promotions can come out without your approval, as well as with an information which is completely various from your current cares or search queries. And, besides undesirable Greenwaterwmc1.clicks pop-ups from the unknown site, you can simultaneously see a lot of ads, consisting of ones on the web pages which originally have no ads whatsoever. Such a scenario can be the signal of adware existence.
Adware is the type of computer virus which infiltrates into your personal computer, and then starts demonstrating you various ads. Their subject usually has no correlation with your usual search queries. Besides banner advertisements, your browser can also show you a huge amount of various Greenwaterwmc1.clicks pop-up ads, which come into view in the lower right area.
The model of adware usage is very sly. The large pack of adware is distributed via trojan viruses, which are injected in your desktop earlier. Advertisements, which are demonstrated to you by malicious app, are paid by their makers. In several weeks, all anti-malware programs began to block these adware, hence, trojan loses in productivity. And to dispatch the user’s personal computer, malware distributors start ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer system might continue to be influenced by adware virus. A massive number of promotions along with Greenwaterwmc1.clicks pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your regular activities will be impossible to carry out in typical way.
How Can I Deal With Greenwaterwmc1.clicks Pop-Ups?
Concluding the text above: your personal computer, and your data, is in a significant risk. To stop this infection, you need to utilize antivirus program. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to deal with Greenwaterwmc1.clicks pop-ups malware. Nevertheless, it can’t return the browser changes which were implemented by harmful program. An additional drawback of the antivirus by Microsoft is its particular vulnerability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender with the Group Policies after being injected to your computer.
To be 100% sure that your computer is clean of any malware now, and will be clean in future, I can advice you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and remove all unwanted programs on your computer, including Greenwaterwmc1.clicks 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 viruses, because it checks only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can see the detected malicious apps sorted by their possible harm till the scan process. But to choose any actions against malicious programs, 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 program. By default, all the viruses will be removed to quarantine.
Reset 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 Greenwaterwmc1.clicks malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be found in the Tools tab.
After choosing the Reset Browser Settings button, 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 software
Besides using anti-malware tools for browser recovery, you may pick the “Reset browser settings” option, 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 Greenwaterwmc1.clicks 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.