Last week, I saw a plenty of posts like “my browser demonstrates to me undesirable Hanut.live pop-up promotions, is it a virus?” or “these Hanut.live pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me insane, how to manage them?”. According to the data for last months, computer virus creators started a vast adware circulation project. Let me show you, how you can get rid of the computer viruses from your computer, and forget about the irritating Hanut.live pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Hanut.live) offer you pop-up ads. The message can contain something like “do you want to have notices regarding the most up to date news?” or “enable notifications to be reported about latest discounts?”. Normally, such messages are safe, and can only distract you with its unexpected arrival. Moreover, it can be quickly turned off, in case notifications from this web page are no longer required.
Pop-up notifications are fairly an efficient marketing mechanism. If you want items of some sort, you can allow pop-ups from the internet site where you can acquire this things, and as soon as these things are in stock again, or if you can have a price cut – you will certainly obtain the alert regarding this. The counterparty – online retailers, auto lending companies, etc – will remain in profit, too – buyer will certainly get a suggestion regarding the product he/she intended to buy. As well as such a marketing approach is nearly free of charge – this aspect is really vital for corporations.
| Site | Hanut.live |
| IP Address | 147.182.255.121 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Goessipwash.live, Cinewstopia.com, Safesitenow.info |
Hanut.live Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But often pop-up ads can come out without your permission, as well as with a text which is entirely different from your current attentions or search queries. And, besides undesirable Hanut.live pop-ups from the unknown resource, you can simultaneously see a great deal of advertisements, including ones on the web pages which originally have no promotions whatsoever. Such a situation can be the trace of adware existence.
Adware is the sort of virus which injects into your computer, then begins demonstrating you numerous advertisements. Their content often has no connection with your usual search questions. Besides banner advertisements, your browser can likewise display you a significant amount of various Hanut.live pop-up promotions, which come into view in the lower right area.
The model of adware use is very sly. The huge pack of adware is spread via trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your desktop previously. Ads, which are displayed to you by malicious app, are paid by their makers. In a few weeks, all anti-malware programs began to catch these adware, hence, trojan loses in profitability. And to end up the user’s personal computer, virus distributors start ransomware distribution with these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer system may still be impacted by adware virus. A significant quantity of advertisements together with Hanut.live pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your typical jobs will certainly be impossible to do in normal way.
How Can I Deal With Hanut.live Pop-Ups?
Thinking the paragraphs above: your desktop, as well as your information, is in a severe risk. To stop this virus, you require to utilize antivirus program. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to deal with Hanut.live pop-ups malware. Nevertheless, it can’t revert the browser alterations which were put into effect by harmful program. One more negative aspect of the antivirus by Microsoft is its certain vulnerability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender via the Group Policies after being injected to your PC.
To be 100% sure that your desktop is clean of any viruses now, and will be clean in future, I can advice you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and erase all malicious applications on your computer, including Hanut.live 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 spectate the detected malware sorted by their possible hazard simultaneously with the scan process. But to choose any actions against malicious programs, you need to hold on until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To set the action for each detected malicious or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malware. By default, all the viruses will be removed to quarantine.
Reverting 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 Hanut.live malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be located in the Tools tab.
After choosing the Reset Browser Settings button, the menu will be shown, where you can specify, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without using third-party software
Besides using antivirus software for browser restoration, you may 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 Hanut.live 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.
