Last week, I saw a huge amount of messages like “my web browser demonstrates to me unwanted High-benefits.com pop-up advertisements, is it a computer virus?” or “these High-benefits.com pop-up advertisements in my Chrome making me mad, how to manage them?”. According to the stats for last months, pc virus suppliers started a vast adware delivery project. Let me demonstrate you, how you can erase the pc virus from your PC, and forget about the bothersome High-benefits.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a High-benefits.com) show you pop-up promotions. The message can contain something like “do you want to get notices concerning the most recent news?” or “allow alerts to be reported about latest discounts?”. Typically, such messages are trustworthy, and can just sidetrack you with its abrupt appearing. Plus it can be quickly turned off, in case alerts from this web page are no longer desired.
Pop-up notifications are quite an effective marketing instrument. If you have an interest in items of some kind, you can allow pop-ups from the web site where you can get this stuff, and also as quickly as these items are in inventory again, or if you can have a discount – you will obtain the notification regarding this. The counterparty – online sellers, vehicle lending services, etc – will remain in profit, too – purchaser will surely obtain a pointer concerning the item he/she planned to buy. As well as such an advertising and marketing technique is nearly free – this element is really essential for firms.
| Site | High-benefits.com |
| IP Address | 104.21.69.109 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Dspultra.com, File1sready.com, R3adyt0download.com |
High-benefits.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But in some cases pop-up promotions can appear without your confirmation, as well as with a content which is entirely different from your current attentions or search questions. And, besides unwanted High-benefits.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 promotions at all. Such a scenario can be the indication of adware appearance.
Adware is the sort of virus which injects into your PC, and then begins demonstrating to you various advertisements. Their subject often has no correlation with your usual search questions. Besides banner ads, your browser can additionally demonstrate to you a significant number of various High-benefits.com pop-up promotions, which appear in the lower right corner.
The model of adware usage is extremely sly. The huge pack of adware is spread with trojan viruses, which are injected in your desktop previously. Advertisements, which are demonstrated to you by malware, are paid by their makers. In a few weeks, all anti-malware programs began to stop these adware, thus, trojan loses in profitability. And to terminate the user’s personal computer, malware distributors start ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer may still be impacted by adware virus. A huge quantity of ads together with High-benefits.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your common activities will be impossible to execute in common way.
How Can I Deal With High-benefits.com Pop-Ups?
Presuming the text above: your desktop, along with your data, is in a major risk. To stop this virus, you require to use anti-virus software. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to take care of High-benefits.com pop-ups malware. Nevertheless, it can not reset the web browser changes which were put into effect by harmful program. An additional downside of the antivirus by Microsoft is its certain vulnerability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender through the Group Policies after being injected to your desktop.
To be 100% sure that your system is clean of any viruses now, and will be clean in future, I can advice you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and eliminate all unwanted applications on your personal computer, including High-benefits.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 apps, because it checks only the most popular registry entries and directories.
You can spectate the detected malicious programs sorted by their possible harm till the scan process. But to perform any actions against malicious apps, you need to wait until the scan is over, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for each detected malicious or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected virus. 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 cannot be counteracted by High-benefits.com virus, 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 tools for browser reset, you can choose 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 High-benefits.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.
