Recently, I saw a lot of posts like “my web browser shows me undesirable Online-guard.com pop-up ads, is it a computer virus?” or “these Online-guard.com pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me mad, how to take care of them?”. Due to the statistics for last months, virus creators started a vast adware delivery project. Let me demonstrate you, how you can remove the viruses from your personal computer, and forget about the annoying Online-guard.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Online-guard.com) use you pop-up advertisements. The message can contain something like “do you want to have notifications about the current news?” or “allow alerts to be reported about latest price cuts?”. Typically, such messages are trustworthy, and may only distract you with its unexpected appearance. Moreover, it can be quite easily turned off, in case alerts from this web site are no longer required.
Pop-up notices are fairly an effective advertising and marketing mechanism. If you are interested in products of some type, you can allow pop-ups from the web site where you can buy this stuff, and also as quickly as these things are in store again, or if you can have a discount – you will certainly get the notification concerning this. The counterparty – online retailers, car lending services, etc – will remain in profit, too – buyer will surely obtain a tip about the product he/she planned to buy. And also such a marketing technique is almost free of charge – this element is extremely essential for companies.
| Site | Online-guard.com |
| IP Address | 188.114.97.0 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Win-super-prizesnow.life, Windows-hold.com, News-hanuca.cc |
Online-guard.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However sometimes pop-up promotions can appear without your approval, and also with a text which is entirely different from your existing attentions or search questions. And, besides unwanted Online-guard.com pop-ups from the unknown site, you can at the same time see a great deal of promotions, including ones on the pages which at first have no ads at all. Such a scenario can be the sign of adware existence.
Adware is the sort of virus which infiltrates into your PC, and then starts demonstrating you various advertisements. Their material often has no match with your usual search questions. Besides banner advertisements, your browser can also display you a big number of different Online-guard.com pop-up ads, which come into view in the bottom right area.
The model of adware use is very sly. The large pack of adware is distributed via trojan viruses, which are injected in your computer previously. Ads, which are displayed to you by virus, are paid by their makers. In several weeks, all anti-malware programs began to stop these adware, therefore, trojan loses in productivity. And to finish the user’s computer system, malware distributors start ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer can continue to be impacted by adware virus. A massive amount of ads along with Online-guard.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your normal activities will certainly be impossible to carry out in typical way.
How Can I Deal With Online-guard.com Pop-Ups?
Assuming the paragraphs above: your PC, and your information, is in a severe danger. To stop this infection, you need to use virus removal tool. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to take care of Online-guard.com pop-ups virus. Nevertheless, it can not return the browser alterations which were applied by harmful program. An additional disadvantage of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its particular vulnerability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender with the Group Policies after being infiltrated to your PC.
To be 100% sure that your personal 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 eliminate all unwanted applications on your desktop, including Online-guard.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 checks only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can spectate the detected malware sorted by their possible harm simultaneously with the scan process. But to perform any actions against malicious apps, you need to wait until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To set the action for each detected malicious or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malicious program. By default, all the viruses will be removed to quarantine.
Reset browser settings to original ones
To revert your browser settings, you are required to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action is not able to be intercepted by Online-guard.com malware, 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 choose, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without utilizing third-party applications
Besides using antivirus software for browser reset, you may 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 Online-guard.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.
