Recently, I saw a ton of messages like “my internet browser presents me unwanted Halevene.com pop-up ads, is it a computer virus?” or “these Halevene.com pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me crazy, how to take care of them?”. Due to the stats for last months, computer virus distributors started a wide adware distribution campaign. Let me demonstrate you, how you can delete the viruses from your personal computer, as well as forget about the bothersome Halevene.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Halevene.com) use you pop-up promotions. The message can contain something like “do you want to have notices about the most up to date news?” or “enable notifications to be reported about new discounts?”. Generally, such messages are safe, and may only distract you with its abrupt showing up. Also it can be quite easily turned off, in case alerts from this web site are no longer desired.
Pop-up alerts are quite an reliable marketing tool. If you want items of some type, you can allow pop-ups from the web site where you can get this things, and also as quickly as these things are in stock again, or if you can have a price cut – you will certainly get the notification regarding this. The counterparty – online merchants, car lending services, etc – will be in profit, too – customer will definitely obtain a reminder concerning the product he/she meant to purchase. And such an advertising and marketing technique is almost free of charge – this aspect is really essential for firms.
| Site | Halevene.com |
| IP Address | 23.81.64.183 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Musicinmysoul.biz, News-harijo.cc, Skouns.club |
Halevene.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However often pop-up ads can show up without your confirmation, as well as with a material which is totally different from your existing interests or search questions. And also, besides unwanted Halevene.com pop-ups from the unknown origin, you can at the same time see a great deal of advertisements, including ones on the pages which originally have no advertisements at all. Such a scenario can be the trace of adware existence.
Adware is the sort of virus which injects into your system, then begins suggesting you different advertisements. Their material often has no connection with your regular search questions. Besides banner advertisements, your web browser can additionally suggest you a big amount of different Halevene.com pop-up promotions, which show up in the bottom right area.
The model of adware use is very sly. The big pack of adware is spread via trojan viruses, which are injected in your desktop earlier. Ads, which are suggested to you by virus, are paid by their makers. In a couple of weeks, all anti-malware programs began to block these adware, therefore, trojan loses in earnings. And to terminate the user’s PC, virus distributors begin ransomware distribution with these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your PC may continue to be affected by adware virus. A huge amount of promotions in addition to Halevene.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your regular work will certainly be impossible to perform in typical manner.
How Can I Deal With Halevene.com Pop-Ups?
Thinking the paragraphs above: your computer, as well as your information, is in a severe risk. To quit this virus, you require to utilize antivirus tool. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to deal with Halevene.com pop-ups malware. Nevertheless, it can’t reset the web browser changes which were applied by malicious program. One more negative aspect of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its certain susceptability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender through the Group Policies after being injected to your desktop.
To be 100% sure that your PC is clean of any viruses now, and will be clean in future, I can advice you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and delete all unwanted programs on your PC, including Halevene.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 programs, because it checks only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can spectate the detected viruses sorted by their possible hazard during the scan process. But to perform any actions against malicious programs, you need to wait 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 program. By default, all the viruses will be moved to quarantine.
Reverting 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 Halevene.com 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 displayed, where you can specify, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without utilizing third-party programs
Besides using antivirus software for browser restoration, you can pick the “Reset browser settings” function, 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 Halevene.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.
