Last week, I saw a great deal of posts like “my browser demonstrates to me unwanted Mentrandingswon.com pop-up promotions, is it a computer virus?” or “these Mentrandingswon.com pop-up ads in my Chrome making me crazy, how to handle them?”. Due to the statistics for last months, virus creators started a vast adware circulation campaign. Let me demonstrate you, how you can erase the computer viruses from your PC, and also forget about the annoying Mentrandingswon.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Mentrandingswon.com) use you pop-up promotions. The message can include something like “do you want to receive notices about the most recent news?” or “permit notifications to be reported about new discount rates?”. Generally, such messages are trustworthy, and can only distract you with its sudden appearing. Plus it can be quite easily turned off, in case notices from this web site are no longer wanted.
Pop-up alerts are quite an reliable advertising mechanism. If you are interested in products of some sort, you can allow pop-ups from the website where you can buy this stuff, and as quickly as these products are in stock again, or if you can have a price cut – you will obtain the alert concerning this. The counterparty – online sellers, car lending companies, etc – will remain in profit, too – buyer will definitely get a reminder about the product he/she meant to purchase. And such an advertising and marketing method is nearly free of charge – this factor is extremely crucial for corporations.
| Site | Mentrandingswon.com |
| IP Address | 52.20.131.174 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Mementrandingsw.com, News-saliga.cc, News-xofiyu.cc |
Mentrandingswon.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However occasionally pop-up promotions can show up without your permission, and also with an information which is totally various from your current cares or search queries. And also, besides unwanted Mentrandingswon.com pop-ups from the unknown source, you can simultaneously see a great deal of advertisements, including ones on the pages which primarily have no advertisements at all. Such a situation can be the indication of adware existence.
Adware is the sort of pc virus which infiltrates into your personal computer, and then begins suggesting you various advertisements. Their material often has no connection with your regular search questions. Besides banner advertisements, your browser can also display you a substantial number of different Mentrandingswon.com pop-up ads, which come into view in the bottom right corner.
The model of adware usage is extremely sly. The large pack of adware is distributed via trojan viruses, which are injected in your PC earlier. Advertisements, which are suggested to you by virus, are paid by their creators. In several weeks, all anti-malware programs began to catch these adware, thus, trojan sheds in productivity. And to ruin the user’s PC, virus distributors begin ransomware distribution via these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer system can continue to be impacted by adware virus. A big quantity of promotions in addition to Mentrandingswon.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your regular tasks will be difficult to perform in normal way.
How Can I Deal With Mentrandingswon.com Pop-Ups?
Presuming the paragraphs above: your PC, along with your information, is in a significant danger. To quit this infection, you need to use virus removal tool. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to deal with Mentrandingswon.com pop-ups virus. Nevertheless, it can not return the web browser changes which were implemented by harmful program. Another disadvantage of the anti-virus by Microsoft is its specific susceptability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender via the Group Policies after being infiltrated to your PC.
To be 100% sure that your PC is clean of any viruses 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 personal computer, including Mentrandingswon.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 programs, because it scans only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can spectate the detected malware sorted by their possible harm simultaneously with the scan process. But to choose any actions against the viruses, you need to wait until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for every detected malicious or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected virus. By default, all the viruses will be moved 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 Mentrandingswon.com malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This option can be located 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 applications
Besides using antivirus programs for browser recovery, you can pick 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 Mentrandingswon.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.
