Last week, I saw a lot of messages like “my browser demonstrates to me unwanted Postday.me pop-up advertisements, is it a computer virus?” or “these Postday.me pop-up advertisements in my Chrome making me crazy, how to deal with them?”. According to the statistics for last months, pc virus distributors started a massive adware delivery campaign. Let me demonstrate you, how you can remove the pc virus from your personal computer, and also forget about the bothersome Postday.me pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Postday.me) show you pop-up advertisements. The message can include something like “do you want to receive alerts relating to the latest news?” or “permit alerts to be reported regarding recent discounts?”. Generally, such messages are trustworthy, and may only distract you with its abrupt appearance. Plus it can be easily turned off, in case notifications from this web page are no longer desired.
Pop-up notices are fairly an effective advertising mechanism. If you have an interest in products of some kind, you can give a permission to the pop-ups from the site where you can get this stuff, and also as quickly as these products are in store again, or if you can have a discount – you will get the notice regarding this. The counterparty – online stores, car lending companies, etc – will certainly be in profit, too – buyer will definitely obtain a pointer regarding the product he/she planned to buy. And such an advertising method is practically free of charge – this element is extremely crucial for corporations.
| Site | Postday.me |
| IP Address | 62.210.26.219 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Causticpunctum.casa, Saworbpox.com, Mittenposity.biz |
Postday.me Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But sometimes pop-up ads can show up without your confirmation, as well as with a material which is completely various from your present interests or search queries. And also, besides undesirable Postday.me pop-ups from the unknown website, you can simultaneously see a lot of promotions, consisting of ones on the pages which at first have no ads at all. Such a scenario can be the indication of adware appearance.
Adware is the kind of virus which infiltrates into your personal computer, after that starts showing you numerous advertisements. Their material , in most cases, has no correlation with your usual search queries. Besides banner ads, your web browser can additionally display you a big amount of various Postday.me pop-up ads, which come into view in the bottom right area.
The model of adware use is really sly. The huge pack of adware is dispersed with trojan viruses, which are injected in your PC earlier. Ads, which are shown to you by malicious program, are paid by their creators. In a couple of weeks, all antivirus programs began to catch these adware, thus, trojan sheds in productivity. And to end up the user’s PC, malware distributors begin ransomware distribution with these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your desktop might still be impacted by adware virus. A significant quantity of promotions along with Postday.me pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your normal jobs will be impossible to carry out in normal way.
How Can I Deal With Postday.me Pop-Ups?
Thinking the paragraphs above: your computer, along with your data, is in a severe danger. To stop this virus, you need to use antivirus program. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to deal with Postday.me pop-ups malware. However, it can not change the web browser alterations which were implemented by harmful program. One more negative aspect of the anti-virus by Microsoft is its particular susceptability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender through the Group Policies after being injected to your computer.
To be 100% sure that your system is clean of any viruses now, and will be clean in future, I can offer you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and remove all unwanted programs on your PC, including Postday.me 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 directories.
You can observe the detected malicious apps sorted by their possible harm simultaneously with the scan process. But to choose any actions against malicious programs, you need to wait until the scan is over, 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 app. By default, all the viruses will be removed 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 cannot be counteracted by Postday.me virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be located 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 anti-malware 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 Postday.me 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.
