Recently, I saw a plenty of messages like “my internet browser shows me unwanted Luckymedia.cyou pop-up promotions, is it a virus?” or “these Luckymedia.cyou pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me insane, how to manage them?”. According to the stats for last months, computer virus distributors started a broad adware delivery campaign. Let me show you, how you can eliminate the computer viruses from your computer, and forget about the bothersome Luckymedia.cyou pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Luckymedia.cyou) offer you pop-up promotions. The message can contain something like “do you want to receive notifications regarding the current news?” or “permit alerts to be reported regarding new discount rates?”. Normally, such messages are riskless, and can just distract you with its sudden arrival. Also it can be simply disabled, in case notifications from this website are no longer needed.
Pop-up alerts are fairly an efficient marketing instrument. If you are interested in items of some type, you can enable pop-ups from the web site where you can buy this things, and as soon as these things are in inventory again, or if you can have a discount – you will get the alert about this. The counterparty – online merchants, car lending companies, etc – will be in profit, too – customer will certainly get a tip about the item he/she intended to pay for. As well as such an advertising approach is almost free of charge – this aspect is very essential for companies.
| Site | Luckymedia.cyou |
| IP Address | 178.62.225.201 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Luckymedia.website, Luckymedia.space, Luckymedia.surf |
Luckymedia.cyou Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But in some cases pop-up advertisements can come out without your confirmation, and also with a text which is totally different from your existing cares or search questions. And also, besides undesirable Luckymedia.cyou pop-ups from the unknown resource, you can at the same time see a great deal of ads, consisting of ones on the web pages which initially have no ads at all. Such a situation can be the trace of adware appearance.
Adware is the sort of computer virus which injects into your personal computer, after that begins showing you numerous promotions. Their subject often has no match with your typical search questions. Besides banner ads, your web browser can also display you a substantial quantity of different Luckymedia.cyou pop-up advertisements, which show up in the lower right corner.
The model of adware use is extremely sly. The huge pack of adware is spread via trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your system earlier. Promotions, which are shown to you by malicious app, are paid by their makers. In a few weeks, all anti-malware programs began to catch these adware, therefore, trojan sheds in earnings. And to rub out the user’s computer system, malware distributors begin ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your PC can still be affected by adware virus. A massive amount of advertisements in addition to Luckymedia.cyou pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your common activities will certainly be difficult to carry out in usual way.
How Can I Deal With Luckymedia.cyou Pop-Ups?
Thinking the text above: your personal computer, and your data, is in a major danger. To stop this virus, you need to make use of antivirus tool. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to handle Luckymedia.cyou pop-ups malware. However, it can’t change the browser changes which were implemented by malicious program. An additional negative aspect of the anti-virus by Microsoft is its certain susceptability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender via the Group Policies after being infiltrated to your desktop.
To be 100% sure that your computer is clean of any viruses now, and will be clean in future, I can offer you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and erase all unwanted applications on your PC, including Luckymedia.cyou 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 malware, because it checks only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can see the detected viruses sorted by their possible harm till the scan process. But to choose any actions against malicious programs, you need to wait until the scan is over, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for each spotted virus or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malicious program. By default, all the viruses will be removed to quarantine.
Reset browser settings to original ones
To revert your browser settings, you are required to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action cannot be counteracted by Luckymedia.cyou malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be located in the Tools tab.
After choosing the Reset Browser Settings option, the menu will be displayed, where you can choose, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without using third-party software
Besides using anti-malware software for browser recovery, you may pick 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 Luckymedia.cyou 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.
