Recently, I saw a lot of messages like “my browser displays me unwanted Obsidiancutter.top pop-up advertisements, is it a pc virus?” or “these Obsidiancutter.top pop-up ads in my Chrome making me insane, how to handle them?”. According to the data for last months, computer virus distributors started a large adware delivery campaign. Let me demonstrate you, how you can delete the computer viruses from your computer system, as well as forget about the bothersome Obsidiancutter.top pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Obsidiancutter.top) offer you pop-up promotions. The message can have something like “do you want to receive notifications about the current news?” or “enable alerts to be reported regarding recent discounts?”. Normally, such messages are harmless, and may just sidetrack you with its sudden showing up. Plus it can be easily turned off, in case notifications from this site are no longer required.
Pop-up notifications are fairly an effective advertising mechanism. If you are interested in items of some kind, you can enable pop-ups from the internet site where you can buy this stuff, and as soon as these things are in inventory again, or if you can have a discount – you will certainly get the alert regarding this. The counterparty – online retailers, vehicle lending services, etc – will certainly be in profit, too – customer will undoubtedly get a tip about the product he/she intended to purchase. And such an advertising method is nearly free of charge – this aspect is really essential for companies.
| Site | Obsidiancutter.top |
| IP Address | 172.64.101.9 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Troterectobodet.com, Dafins.xyz, Umbrellastep.site |
Obsidiancutter.top Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But sometimes pop-up advertisements can come out without your permission, and with a material which is completely different from your current cares or search questions. And also, besides unwanted Obsidiancutter.top pop-ups from the unknown website, you can simultaneously see a lot of ads, consisting of ones on the pages which originally have no ads at all. Such a scenario can be the indicator of adware appearance.
Adware is the type of malware which infiltrates into your system, after that starts suggesting you different promotions. Their subject often has no correlation with your typical search questions. Besides banner ads, your browser can also show you a substantial number of different Obsidiancutter.top pop-up promotions, which appear in the lower right corner.
The model of adware use is very sly. The large pack of adware is distributed through trojan viruses, which are injected in your desktop earlier. Advertisements, which are suggested to you by malicious program, are paid by their makers. In a couple of weeks, all antivirus programs began to catch these adware, hence, trojan loses in productivity. And to finish the user’s PC, virus distributors start ransomware distribution via these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your desktop might still be impacted by adware virus. A big amount of promotions together with Obsidiancutter.top pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your regular tasks will certainly be impossible to carry out in normal way.
How Can I Deal With Obsidiancutter.top Pop-Ups?
Concluding the paragraphs above: your computer, along with your data, is in a significant risk. To stop this virus, you need to utilize anti-malware program. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to handle Obsidiancutter.top pop-ups virus. However, it can not reset the web browser changes which were implemented by malicious program. One more negative aspect of the anti-virus by Microsoft is its particular vulnerability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender with the Group Policies after being injected to your PC.
To be 100% sure that your PC is clean of any malware now, and will be clean in future, I can offer you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and delete all unwanted applications on your desktop, including Obsidiancutter.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 malicious apps, because it scans only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can see the detected malicious programs sorted by their possible hazard till the scan process. But to choose any actions against malicious apps, 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 malicious app. By default, all the viruses will be removed to quarantine.
Reverting browser settings to original ones
To reset your browser settings, you are required to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action cannot be intercepted by Obsidiancutter.top virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be found in the Tools tab.
After pressing the Reset Browser Settings button, the menu will be displayed, where you can choose, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without utilizing third-party programs
Besides using antivirus programs for browser recovery, you can choose 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 Obsidiancutter.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.
