Last week, I saw a ton of messages like “my internet browser demonstrates to me undesirable Nicewinner.net pop-up ads, is it a pc virus?” or “these Nicewinner.net pop-up ads in my Chrome making me insane, how to take care of them?”. According to the statistics for last months, virus distributors began a large adware delivery campaign. Let me demonstrate you, how you can erase the viruses from your computer system, and also forget about the annoying Nicewinner.net pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Nicewinner.net) offer you pop-up promotions. The message can contain something like “do you want to get notifications regarding the current news?” or “allow notifications to be reported about new price cuts?”. Usually, such messages are harmless, and can only distract you with its sudden appearing. And it can be simply disabled, in case notifications from this online resource are no longer wanted.
Pop-up notifications are quite an effective advertising and marketing instrument. If you are interested in products of some sort, you can enable pop-ups from the website where you can get this things, and as soon as these items are in stock again, or if you can have a price cut – you will obtain the alert concerning this. The counterparty – online sellers, vehicle lending services, etc – will remain in profit, too – buyer will surely get a reminder regarding the item he/she intended to purchase. And also such an advertising and marketing method is nearly free of charge – this factor is really essential for corporations.
| Site | Nicewinner.net |
| IP Address | 94.237.93.242 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Velsvides.com, Performprecisecompletelytheproduct.vip, My.savbe.com |
Nicewinner.net Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But often pop-up ads can appear without your confirmation, as well as with an information which is entirely different from your existing interests or search questions. And, besides undesirable Nicewinner.net pop-ups from the unknown site, you can at the same time see a great deal of promotions, including ones on the pages which primarily have no promotions whatsoever. Such a situation can be the indication of adware existence.
Adware is the sort of computer virus which infiltrates into your system, and then starts showing you numerous advertisements. Their content typically has no correlation with your typical search questions. Besides banner advertisements, your browser can additionally demonstrate you a huge amount of various Nicewinner.net pop-up ads, which appear in the bottom right area.
The model of adware usage is really sly. The huge pack of adware is dispersed via trojan viruses, which are injected in your desktop earlier. Ads, which are suggested to you by malicious app, are paid by their creators. In a couple of weeks, all anti-malware programs began to stop these adware, for this reason, trojan sheds in productivity. And to end up the user’s personal computer, virus distributors start ransomware distribution via these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer can still be impacted by adware virus. A substantial number of ads in addition to Nicewinner.net pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your normal activities will be impossible to do in common manner.
How Can I Deal With Nicewinner.net Pop-Ups?
Thinking the text above: your PC, and your information, is in a serious risk. To quit this infection, you need to utilize antivirus program. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to deal with Nicewinner.net pop-ups virus. Nevertheless, it can not change the web browser changes which were put into effect by harmful program. Another downside of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its certain susceptability: 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 delete all malicious programs on your desktop, including Nicewinner.net 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 malware, because it scans only the most popular registry entries and directories.
You can spectate the detected malicious programs sorted by their possible hazard simultaneously with the scan process. But to choose any actions against malware, you need to wait until the scan is over, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for each spotted malicious or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malware. By default, all malware will be moved to quarantine.
Reset browser settings to original ones
To reset your browser settings, you are required to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action is not able to be intercepted by Nicewinner.net virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This action 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 programs
Besides using antivirus tools for browser recovery, you can choose the “Reset browser settings” function, 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 Nicewinner.net 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.
