Last week, I saw a ton of messages like “my browser displays me undesirable Prize-winner-ko2d.live pop-up advertisements, is it a computer virus?” or “these Prize-winner-ko2d.live pop-up ads in my Chrome making me crazy, how to handle them?”. Due to the stats for last months, virus creators began a vast adware delivery campaign. Let me demonstrate you, how you can eliminate the computer viruses from your PC, and forget about the aggravating Prize-winner-ko2d.live pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Prize-winner-ko2d.live) use you pop-up advertisements. The message can have something like “do you want to have alerts concerning the current news?” or “enable notifications to be reported about new price cuts?”. Normally, such messages are safe, and can just sidetrack you with its sudden appearing. Moreover, it can be quite easily disabled, in case alerts from this site are no longer required.
Pop-up notifications are quite an reliable marketing mechanism. If you want goods of some sort, you can enable pop-ups from the web site where you can get this things, 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 stores, cars and truck lending services, etc – will remain in profit, too – purchaser will surely obtain a suggestion regarding the product he/she meant to purchase. And also such an advertising approach is practically free – this factor is really crucial for companies.
| Site | Prize-winner-ko2d.live |
| IP Address | 5.8.47.58 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Wolve.pro, Nistartedwo.biz, Rkingasann.biz |
Prize-winner-ko2d.live Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But in some cases pop-up advertisements can appear without your confirmation, and also with an information which is completely various from your current cares or search queries. And, besides undesirable Prize-winner-ko2d.live pop-ups from the unknown website, you can simultaneously see a great deal of advertisements, consisting of ones on the web pages which originally have no ads at all. Such a scenario can be the signal of adware presence.
Adware is the type of pc virus which injects into your PC, after that starts demonstrating to you various advertisements. Their subject typically has no correlation with your usual search queries. Besides banner ads, your web browser can also demonstrate you a big quantity of various Prize-winner-ko2d.live pop-up promotions, which appear in the lower right area.
The model of adware usage is extremely sly. The large pack of adware is dispersed via trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your PC previously. Advertisements, which are suggested to you by malicious app, are paid by their creators. In a few weeks, all anti-malware programs began to stop these adware, thus, trojan loses in earnings. And to rub out the user’s PC, virus distributors start ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your PC may continue to be influenced by adware virus. A massive quantity of promotions in addition to Prize-winner-ko2d.live pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your regular jobs will certainly be impossible to execute in normal way.
How Can I Deal With Prize-winner-ko2d.live Pop-Ups?
Thinking the paragraphs above: your desktop, and your data, is in a serious danger. To quit this virus, you require to make use of virus removal program. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to take care of Prize-winner-ko2d.live pop-ups virus. Nevertheless, it can not change the browser alterations which were applied by malicious program. Another drawback of the antivirus by Microsoft is its particular susceptability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender with the Group Policies after being infiltrated to your desktop.
To be 100% sure that your system 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 programs on your PC, including Prize-winner-ko2d.live 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 scans only the most popular registry entries and directories.
You can see the detected viruses sorted by their possible hazard simultaneously with the scan process. But to choose any actions against malware, you need to wait until the scan is over, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for every spotted virus or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected virus. By default, all the viruses will be moved 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 Prize-winner-ko2d.live malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be found in the Tools tab.
After pressing the Reset Browser Settings option, the menu will be shown, where you can specify, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without using third-party applications
Besides using anti-malware programs for browser reset, you can pick 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 Prize-winner-ko2d.live 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.
