Last week, I saw a plenty of posts like “my browser presents me unwanted New2acc.top pop-up advertisements, is it a computer virus?” or “these New2acc.top pop-up advertisements in my Chrome making me crazy, how to manage them?”. Due to the statistics for last months, pc virus suppliers started a massive adware delivery project. Let me show you, how you can remove the pc virus from your personal computer, and forget about the annoying New2acc.top pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a New2acc.top) offer you pop-up promotions. The message can have something like “do you want to have alerts regarding the current information?” or “permit alerts to be reported regarding latest discount rates?”. Normally, such messages are riskless, and may just sidetrack you with its unexpected appearance. Plus it can be quite easily turned off, in case notices from this web page are no longer desired.
Pop-up alerts are rather an effective advertising instrument. If you have an interest in products of some kind, you can enable pop-ups from the site where you can acquire this things, and as quickly as these products are in stock again, or if you can have a price cut – you will certainly obtain the notification regarding this. The counterparty – online merchants, auto lending companies, etc – will be in profit, too – buyer will certainly get a suggestion about the product he/she planned to pay for. And such an advertising and marketing approach is practically free of charge – this aspect is really vital for corporations.
| Site | New2acc.top |
| IP Address | 159.65.242.87 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Ourcoolspot.com, Publicprize.cyou, Destinynewyorks.co |
New2acc.top Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However in some cases pop-up promotions can appear without your confirmation, as well as with an information which is totally different from your existing attentions or search questions. And, besides unwanted New2acc.top pop-ups from the unknown origin, you can simultaneously see a lot of advertisements, consisting of ones on the pages which at first have no advertisements at all. Such a scenario can be the sign of adware appearance.
Adware is the type of virus which infiltrates into your PC, then starts displaying you different ads. Their content typically has no correlation with your typical search questions. Besides banner ads, your web browser can additionally show you a big number of various New2acc.top pop-up advertisements, which appear in the lower right corner.
The model of adware use is very sly. The big pack of adware is dispersed via trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your desktop earlier. Promotions, which are suggested to you by virus, are paid by their makers. In several weeks, all antivirus programs began to stop these adware, thus, trojan sheds in profitability. And to rub out the user’s computer system, virus distributors start ransomware distribution via these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your PC can continue to be affected by adware virus. A massive amount of ads together with New2acc.top pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your common work will be difficult to do in usual way.
How Can I Deal With New2acc.top Pop-Ups?
Assuming the paragraphs above: your computer, as well as your data, is in a severe danger. To quit this virus, you need to utilize anti-malware program. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to take care of New2acc.top pop-ups virus. However, it can’t revert the web browser alterations which were applied by malicious program. One more downside of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its certain susceptability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender through the Group Policies after being implanted to your computer system.
To be 100% sure that your desktop is clean of any malicious programs now, and will be clean in future, I can offer you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and erase all unwanted programs on your PC, including New2acc.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 viruses, because it scans only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can spectate the detected malware sorted by their possible hazard simultaneously with the scan process. But to perform 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 virus 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 revert your browser settings, you need to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action cannot be counteracted by New2acc.top malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This option can be found in the Tools tab.
After choosing 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 making use of third-party applications
Besides using anti-malware software for browser restoration, you can pick 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 New2acc.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.
