Recently, I saw a huge amount of messages like “my browser shows me undesirable Musmentportal.com pop-up promotions, is it a virus?” or “these Musmentportal.com pop-up ads in my Chrome making me mad, how to deal with them?”. According to the statistics for last months, pc virus distributors began a vast adware circulation campaign. Let me demonstrate you, how you can get rid of the pc virus from your personal computer, as well as forget about the irritating Musmentportal.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Musmentportal.com) use you pop-up advertisements. The message can include something like “do you want to receive notifications relating to the current information?” or “enable alerts to be reported regarding recent discount rates?”. Generally, such messages are safe, and can just distract you with its unexpected visual appeal. Moreover, it can be simply disabled, in case alerts from this online resource are no longer desired.
Pop-up alerts are rather an reliable marketing tool. If you want products of some kind, you can allow pop-ups from the web site where you can buy this stuff, and also as quickly as these items are in store again, or if you can have a discount – you will certainly get the alert concerning this. The counterparty – online stores, vehicle lending companies, etc – will remain in profit, too – customer will certainly obtain a tip regarding the item he/she planned to pay for. And also such an advertising and marketing technique is nearly free – this aspect is really vital for companies.
| Site | Musmentportal.com |
| IP Address | 104.248.199.158 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Mailclick.biz, Premium-shops-around.me, Getvideoair.ru |
Musmentportal.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But sometimes pop-up ads can appear without your confirmation, as well as with a text which is totally different from your current interests or search queries. And also, besides unwanted Musmentportal.com pop-ups from the unknown source, you can simultaneously see a lot of ads, consisting of ones on the pages which initially have no ads at all. Such a situation can be the indication of adware existence.
Adware is the kind of malware which infiltrates into your personal computer, and then begins demonstrating you different promotions. Their subject typically has no match with your normal search queries. Besides banner advertisements, your browser can also show you a massive amount of various Musmentportal.com pop-up promotions, which show up in the lower right area.
The model of adware use is really sly. The huge pack of adware is distributed through trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your PC earlier. Promotions, which are displayed to you by virus, are paid by their makers. In several weeks, all antivirus programs began to stop these adware, thus, trojan loses in earnings. And to ruin the user’s personal computer, virus distributors start ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your desktop might continue to be affected by adware virus. A huge number of ads in addition to Musmentportal.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your typical activities will be difficult to perform in typical manner.
How Can I Deal With Musmentportal.com Pop-Ups?
Thinking the text above: your PC, and your data, is in a major danger. To quit this infection, you need to make use of antivirus program. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to handle Musmentportal.com pop-ups virus. However, it can not reset the web browser changes which were applied by harmful program. Another negative aspect of the antivirus by Microsoft is its certain vulnerability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender through the Group Policies after being injected to your computer system.
To be 100% sure that your computer is clean of any malware now, and will be clean in future, I can advice you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and eliminate all unwanted applications on your PC, including Musmentportal.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 malware, because it scans only the most popular registry entries and directories.
You can spectate the detected malicious programs sorted by their possible hazard till the scan process. But to choose any actions against the viruses, you need to hold on until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for every spotted malicious or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected virus. By default, all malware will be removed to quarantine.
Reset 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 Musmentportal.com malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This option can be found in the Tools tab.
After pressing the Reset Browser Settings button, the menu will be shown, where you can choose, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without using third-party programs
Besides using antivirus programs for browser recovery, you can choose the “Reset browser settings” option, 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 Musmentportal.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.
