Last week, I saw a lot of messages like “my browser presents me undesirable Hurirk.net pop-up ads, is it a virus?” or “these Hurirk.net pop-up ads in my Chrome making me mad, how to deal with them?”. According to the stats for last months, pc virus creators began a broad adware delivery campaign. Let me show you, how you can eliminate the computer viruses from your computer system, and forget about the bothersome Hurirk.net pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Hurirk.net) show you pop-up advertisements. The message can contain something like “do you want to have alerts about the current news?” or “permit alerts to be reported about recent discount rates?”. Typically, such messages are riskless, and may just distract you with its abrupt showing up. Also it can be easily turned off, in case alerts from this online resource are no longer desired.
Pop-up alerts are rather an efficient advertising instrument. If you want items of some type, you can enable pop-ups from the website where you can acquire this stuff, and also as quickly as these things are in stock again, or if you can have a price cut – you will get the notification concerning this. The counterparty – online stores, automobile lending services, etc – will remain in profit, too – purchaser will surely obtain a suggestion regarding the product he/she planned to buy. And also such an advertising and marketing approach is almost cost-free – this aspect is very vital for corporations.
| Site | Hurirk.net |
| IP Address | 172.67.159.248 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Angusmemor.info, Ansparceb.info, News-ciseho.cc |
Hurirk.net Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However sometimes pop-up ads can show up without your confirmation, as well as with an information which is totally various from your present interests or search queries. And, besides unwanted Hurirk.net pop-ups from the unknown site, you can simultaneously see a lot of promotions, including ones on the web pages which at first have no ads at all. Such a scenario can be the indication of adware appearance.
Adware is the sort of pc virus which injects into your PC, after that starts suggesting you various advertisements. Their material , in most cases, has no match with your typical search questions. Besides banner ads, your browser can also display you a significant number of different Hurirk.net pop-up promotions, which appear in the lower right corner.
The model of adware usage is very sly. The huge pack of adware is distributed through trojan viruses, which are injected in your system previously. Promotions, which are suggested to you by malicious app, are paid by their creators. In several weeks, all anti-malware programs began to block these adware, for this reason, trojan sheds in profitability. And to terminate the user’s desktop, malware distributors start ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your PC may continue to be affected by adware virus. A significant amount of promotions along with Hurirk.net pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your typical activities will be impossible to carry out in common manner.
How Can I Deal With Hurirk.net Pop-Ups?
Assuming the paragraphs above: your desktop, as well as your information, is in a major danger. To stop this infection, you require to utilize anti-virus program. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to handle Hurirk.net pop-ups malware. However, it can not return the web browser changes which were applied by malicious program. Another downside of the antivirus by Microsoft is its certain vulnerability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender with the Group Policies after being injected to your desktop.
To be 100% sure that your PC is clean of any malicious programs now, and will be clean in future, I can offer you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and eliminate all malicious programs on your PC, including Hurirk.net pop-ups virus, with GridinSoft Anti-Malware, it’s better to use 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 folders.
You can observe the detected malicious apps sorted by their possible harm simultaneously with the scan process. But to perform any actions against the viruses, you need to hold on until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To set the action for each spotted malicious or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malware. By default, all malware 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 Hurirk.net malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This option can be found in the Tools tab.
After choosing the Reset Browser Settings button, the menu will be displayed, where you can specify, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without using third-party programs
Besides using antivirus tools for browser reset, 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 Hurirk.net 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.
