Last week, I saw a great deal of messages like “my browser presents me undesirable Maincaptchanow.top pop-up promotions, is it a computer virus?” or “these Maincaptchanow.top pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me crazy, how to deal with them?”. According to the stats for last months, computer virus suppliers started a wide adware delivery campaign. Let me show you, how you can remove the computer viruses from your PC, and forget about the bothersome Maincaptchanow.top pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Maincaptchanow.top) offer you pop-up promotions. The message can have something like “do you want to receive alerts about the current news?” or “permit notifications to be reported regarding new discount rates?”. Generally, such messages are riskless, and can only distract you with its abrupt appearing. And it can be easily disabled, in case alerts from this site are no longer desired.
Pop-up notices are rather an effective advertising mechanism. If you want goods of some type, you can give a permission to the pop-ups from the website where you can acquire this things, and as quickly as these products are in store again, or if you can have a price cut – you will certainly obtain the notification regarding this. The counterparty – online merchants, automobile lending companies, etc – will remain in profit, too – purchaser will definitely obtain a tip about the product he/she planned to buy. And such an advertising method is nearly free – this factor is very essential for corporations.
| Site | Maincaptchanow.top |
| IP Address | 45.155.120.179 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Ads.financetrack, Live-sex-chat.club, Afflat3b2.com |
Maincaptchanow.top Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But occasionally pop-up advertisements can appear without your approval, as well as with a content which is completely different from your present attentions or search questions. And also, besides undesirable Maincaptchanow.top pop-ups from the unknown resource, you can at the same time see a great deal of advertisements, including ones on the pages which at first have no promotions at all. Such a situation can be the signal of adware presence.
Adware is the type of pc virus which injects into your PC, then starts suggesting you different promotions. Their material typically has no connection with your normal search queries. Besides banner ads, your browser can also show you a big quantity of different Maincaptchanow.top pop-up promotions, which show up in the lower right area.
The model of adware use is very sly. The large pack of adware is distributed through trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your PC previously. Advertisements, which are suggested to you by virus, are paid by their makers. In several weeks, all antivirus programs began to catch these adware, thus, trojan sheds in productivity. And to finish the user’s personal computer, malware distributors start ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer system can still be impacted by adware virus. A massive amount of ads along with Maincaptchanow.top pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your common work will be impossible to execute in usual way.
How Can I Deal With Maincaptchanow.top Pop-Ups?
Concluding the text above: your desktop, as well as your data, is in a serious danger. To stop this virus, you need to make use of security software. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to deal with Maincaptchanow.top pop-ups virus. However, it can not change the web browser changes which were applied by harmful program. An additional downside of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its specific susceptability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender through the Group Policies after being injected to your desktop.
To be 100% sure that your personal computer 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 programs on your personal computer, including Maincaptchanow.top 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 programs, because it checks only the most popular registry entries and directories.
You can see the detected malicious programs sorted by their possible hazard till the scan process. But to perform any actions against malware, you need to hold on until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To set the action for every spotted virus or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malicious program. By default, all malware will be moved to quarantine.
Reset browser settings to original ones
To revert your browser settings, you need to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action is not able to be intercepted by Maincaptchanow.top virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be found in the Tools tab.
After pressing the Reset Browser Settings option, the menu will be shown, where you can specify, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without utilizing third-party applications
Besides using anti-malware programs 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 Maincaptchanow.top 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.
