Last week, I saw a great deal of messages like “my web browser shows me unwanted Nownersac.top pop-up advertisements, is it a virus?” or “these Nownersac.top pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me crazy, how to manage them?”. According to the statistics for last months, virus suppliers started a massive adware circulation campaign. Let me demonstrate you, how you can get rid of the computer viruses from your PC, and also forget about the annoying Nownersac.top pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Nownersac.top) use you pop-up advertisements. The message can contain something like “do you want to receive alerts regarding the latest information?” or “enable notifications to be reported about latest discount rates?”. Usually, such messages are harmless, and can only distract you with its sudden appearing. Moreover, it can be simply turned off, in case alerts from this site are no longer wanted.
Pop-up alerts are rather an effective advertising and marketing tool. If you are interested in items of some kind, you can give a permission to the pop-ups from the web site where you can purchase this stuff, and as quickly as these products are in store again, or if you can have a price cut – you will obtain the alert regarding this. The counterparty – online merchants, automobile lending services, etc – will be in profit, too – customer will certainly obtain a suggestion about the item he/she meant to purchase. And such an advertising method is nearly free – this aspect is extremely vital for firms.
| Site | Nownersac.top |
| IP Address | 54.144.3.29 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Enerateok.top, Nsablema.top, Jkqoe.pro |
Nownersac.top Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However in some cases pop-up ads can come out without your permission, and with a text which is completely various from your present cares or search questions. And, besides undesirable Nownersac.top pop-ups from the unknown source, you can simultaneously see a lot of advertisements, including ones on the pages which originally have no advertisements at all. Such a scenario can be the sign of adware appearance.
Adware is the kind of virus which injects into your personal computer, after that begins demonstrating you various advertisements. Their content , in most cases, has no correlation with your regular search questions. Besides banner advertisements, your web browser can additionally demonstrate you a huge quantity of various Nownersac.top pop-up advertisements, which come into view in the lower right corner.
The model of adware use is really sly. The big pack of adware is dispersed via trojan viruses, which are injected in your PC previously. Advertisements, which are displayed to you by malicious app, are paid by their makers. In a couple of weeks, all antivirus programs began to block these adware, hence, trojan sheds in earnings. And to finish the user’s computer system, virus distributors begin ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer system might still be affected by adware virus. A substantial quantity of advertisements in addition to Nownersac.top pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your typical activities will certainly be impossible to carry out in normal manner.
How Can I Deal With Nownersac.top Pop-Ups?
Concluding the paragraphs above: your personal computer, along with your data, is in a major danger. To stop this virus, you need to make use of antivirus tool. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to handle Nownersac.top pop-ups malware. Nevertheless, it can not change the browser changes which were applied by harmful program. An additional disadvantage of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its specific susceptability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender with the Group Policies after being infiltrated to your computer system.
To be 100% sure that your personal computer is clean of any malware now, and will be clean in future, I can offer you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and erase all unwanted applications on your computer, including Nownersac.top 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 scans only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can see the detected viruses sorted by their possible hazard simultaneously with the scan process. But to perform any actions against malware, you need to wait until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To set the action for every detected virus or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malware. By default, all malware will be removed to quarantine.
Reverting 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 Nownersac.top virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be located 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 tools for browser recovery, you may 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 Nownersac.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.
