Last week, I saw a great deal of posts like “my web browser demonstrates to me unwanted Medicmediai.com pop-up promotions, is it a computer virus?” or “these Medicmediai.com pop-up ads in my Chrome making me insane, how to take care of them?”. Due to the stats for last months, pc virus suppliers started a large adware circulation campaign. Let me demonstrate you, how you can delete the viruses from your PC, as well as forget about the annoying Medicmediai.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Medicmediai.com) offer you pop-up promotions. The message can include something like “do you want to receive notices relating to the latest news?” or “allow notifications to be reported about new price cuts?”. Normally, such messages are riskless, and may only distract you with its abrupt arrival. Also it can be quickly disabled, in case notifications from this online resource are no longer desired.
Pop-up notifications are quite an reliable advertising mechanism. If you want items of some sort, you can give a permission to the pop-ups from the website where you can get this stuff, and also as soon as these items are in stock again, or if you can have a discount – you will obtain the alert about this. The counterparty – online sellers, auto lending services, etc – will certainly remain in profit, too – purchaser will undoubtedly obtain a suggestion concerning the item he/she planned to buy. And also such a marketing technique is practically free – this element is extremely crucial for companies.
| Site | Medicmediai.com |
| IP Address | 172.67.214.164 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Totalfreshwords.com, News-duwexu.com, News-domeku.com |
Medicmediai.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However occasionally pop-up ads can appear without your confirmation, as well as with a material which is completely various from your present attentions or search queries. And also, besides undesirable Medicmediai.com pop-ups from the unknown source, you can simultaneously see a great deal of promotions, including ones on the web pages which originally have no promotions at all. Such a scenario can be the trace of adware presence.
Adware is the kind of malware which injects into your system, and then starts displaying you numerous ads. Their content usually has no connection with your ordinary search questions. Besides banner ads, your browser can also demonstrate to you a significant number of various Medicmediai.com pop-up ads, which come into view in the lower right corner.
The model of adware usage is extremely sly. The huge pack of adware is dispersed via trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your PC earlier. Ads, which are suggested to you by malware, are paid by their creators. In a few weeks, all antivirus programs began to catch these adware, therefore, trojan sheds in profitability. And to dispatch the user’s PC, malware distributors begin ransomware distribution with these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer might still be influenced by adware virus. A big number of advertisements along with Medicmediai.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your common tasks will be difficult to perform in common way.
How Can I Deal With Medicmediai.com Pop-Ups?
Assuming the paragraphs above: your computer, and your data, is in a serious risk. To quit this infection, you need to utilize antivirus tool. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to deal with Medicmediai.com pop-ups virus. Nonetheless, it can not return the web browser changes which were applied by malicious program. One more negative aspect of the antivirus by Microsoft is its certain vulnerability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender with the Group Policies after being injected to your PC.
To be 100% sure that your 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 remove all unwanted programs on your PC, including Medicmediai.com 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 directories.
You can see the detected malware sorted by their possible harm during the scan process. But to perform any actions against the viruses, you need to hold on 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 malicious app. By default, all the viruses will be moved to quarantine.
Reverting 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 Medicmediai.com virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This option can be found in the Tools tab.
After pressing the Reset Browser Settings option, the menu will be displayed, where you can specify, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without utilizing third-party applications
Besides using antivirus tools for browser reset, 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 Medicmediai.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.
