Last week, I saw a huge amount of posts like “my browser presents me unwanted Heavypcchained.com pop-up ads, is it a computer virus?” or “these Heavypcchained.com pop-up ads in my Chrome making me insane, how to deal with them?”. According to the data for last months, computer virus suppliers started a vast adware delivery project. Let me show you, how you can remove the computer viruses from your PC, and forget about the annoying Heavypcchained.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Heavypcchained.com) use you pop-up advertisements. The message can have something like “do you want to have notices relating to the latest information?” or “allow alerts to be reported regarding new price cuts?”. Generally, such messages are riskless, and may just sidetrack you with its unexpected appearance. Also it can be quite easily turned off, in case alerts from this web page are no longer desired.
Pop-up notices are fairly an effective advertising and marketing mechanism. If you are interested in items of some sort, you can allow pop-ups from the website where you can get this stuff, and as soon as these items are in store again, or if you can have a price cut – you will get the notice regarding this. The counterparty – online retailers, auto lending services, etc – will certainly be in profit, too – purchaser will definitely get a reminder concerning the item he/she planned to purchase. And also such a marketing method is practically free – this factor is very important for companies.
| Site | Heavypcchained.com |
| IP Address | 104.21.25.239 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Knuckledd.com, Mysniperhome.com, Gossipfeast.com |
Heavypcchained.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However occasionally pop-up promotions can show up without your permission, and with a text which is entirely different from your present attentions or search questions. And, besides undesirable Heavypcchained.com pop-ups from the unknown source, you can at the same time see a lot of promotions, including ones on the web pages which primarily have no advertisements at all. Such a scenario can be the trace of adware appearance.
Adware is the sort of virus which injects into your personal computer, and then begins demonstrating you various advertisements. Their material often has no match with your normal search questions. Besides banner promotions, your browser can additionally demonstrate to you a substantial quantity of different Heavypcchained.com pop-up advertisements, which show up in the bottom right corner.
The model of adware use is really sly. The big pack of adware is distributed via trojan viruses, which are injected in your computer earlier. Promotions, which are demonstrated to you by malicious app, are paid by their creators. In a few weeks, all antivirus programs began to stop these adware, for this reason, trojan sheds in profitability. And to finish the user’s PC, virus distributors begin ransomware distribution with these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer may continue to be influenced by adware virus. A substantial number of ads in addition to Heavypcchained.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your typical jobs will certainly be difficult to do in normal manner.
How Can I Deal With Heavypcchained.com Pop-Ups?
Presuming the paragraphs above: your computer, and your data, is in a serious risk. To quit this virus, you need to make use of virus removal software. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to deal with Heavypcchained.com pop-ups malware. However, it can not change the web browser changes which were put into effect by harmful program. One more drawback of the anti-virus by Microsoft is its certain vulnerability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender through the Group Policies after being injected to your computer system.
To be 100% sure that your desktop is clean of any viruses now, and will be clean in future, I can offer you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and delete all malicious programs on your desktop, including Heavypcchained.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 viruses, because it scans only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can observe the detected malware sorted by their possible hazard during the scan process. But to choose any actions against malware, you need to hold on until the scan is over, 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 malware. By default, all malware will be moved to quarantine.
Reset browser settings to original ones
To reset your browser settings, you are required to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action is not able to be intercepted by Heavypcchained.com malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be found in the Tools tab.
After choosing the Reset Browser Settings option, the menu will be shown, where you can choose, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without making use of third-party programs
Besides using antivirus programs for browser restoration, you can choose 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 Heavypcchained.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.