Recently, I saw a great deal of messages like “my internet browser demonstrates me unwanted Penadlife.com pop-up promotions, is it a virus?” or “these Penadlife.com pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me crazy, how to take care of them?”. Due to the stats for last months, computer virus suppliers started a massive adware distribution project. Let me demonstrate you, how you can eliminate the viruses from your computer, and forget about the annoying Penadlife.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Penadlife.com) offer you pop-up promotions. The message can contain something like “do you want to get alerts regarding the most up to date information?” or “enable alerts to be reported about recent price cuts?”. Typically, such messages are riskless, and can just distract you with its abrupt arrival. Moreover, it can be simply turned off, in case notices from this web site are no longer desired.
Pop-up notices are rather an reliable advertising tool. If you are interested in products of some type, you can allow pop-ups from the website where you can acquire this things, and as soon as these things are in store again, or if you can have a discount – you will get the notification regarding this. The counterparty – online merchants, automobile lending services, etc – will be in profit, too – purchaser will surely get a pointer concerning the item he/she intended to pay for. And such an advertising technique is almost cost-free – this aspect is very important for firms.
| Site | Penadlife.com |
| IP Address | 104.21.95.227 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Ntmadzone.com, Tinyfy.cc, Usegive.monster |
Penadlife.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However occasionally pop-up promotions can show up without your confirmation, and with a text which is entirely different from your existing interests or search questions. And, besides undesirable Penadlife.com pop-ups from the unknown source, you can at the same time see a lot of advertisements, consisting of ones on the pages which initially have no ads at all. Such a scenario can be the sign of adware presence.
Adware is the type of malware which injects into your PC, and then begins demonstrating to you various promotions. Their content usually has no correlation with your typical search queries. Besides banner ads, your browser can also display you a big number of different Penadlife.com pop-up promotions, which come into view in the lower right area.
The model of adware use is very sly. The large pack of adware is distributed through trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your computer previously. Promotions, which are shown to you by virus, are paid by their makers. In several weeks, all anti-malware programs began to stop these adware, for this reason, trojan sheds in profitability. And to end up the user’s personal computer, virus distributors begin ransomware distribution with these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer can continue to be affected by adware virus. A big amount of advertisements together with Penadlife.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your typical tasks will be difficult to perform in common manner.
How Can I Deal With Penadlife.com Pop-Ups?
Presuming the paragraphs above: your desktop, along with your information, is in a significant danger. To quit this virus, you require to use anti-malware tool. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to handle Penadlife.com pop-ups virus. However, it can not change the web browser changes which were implemented by harmful program. An additional downside of the anti-virus by Microsoft is its specific vulnerability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender with the Group Policies after being implanted to your PC.
To be 100% sure that your desktop 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 unwanted applications on your PC, including Penadlife.com 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 observe the detected viruses sorted by their possible harm till the scan process. But to choose any actions against malicious programs, you need to wait until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for each spotted virus or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected virus. By default, all malware will be removed to quarantine.
Reset browser settings to original ones
To reset your browser settings, you need to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action is not able to be intercepted by Penadlife.com malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This option can be found in the Tools tab.
After choosing the Reset Browser Settings button, the menu will be shown, where you can specify, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without making use of third-party applications
Besides using antivirus tools for browser reset, you can 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 Penadlife.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.
