Recently, I saw a great deal of messages like “my browser displays me unwanted Product.directredirection.com pop-up promotions, is it a virus?” or “these Product.directredirection.com pop-up advertisements in my Chrome making me crazy, how to handle them?”. Due to the stats for last months, virus suppliers started a large adware delivery project. Let me show you, how you can eliminate the viruses from your PC, and forget about the irritating Product.directredirection.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Product.directredirection.com) offer you pop-up promotions. The message can have something like “do you want to get notices relating to the latest news?” or “allow alerts to be reported regarding new price cuts?”. Generally, such messages are trustworthy, and can only distract you with its unexpected arrival. Also it can be easily turned off, in case notifications from this site are no longer needed.
Pop-up notices are fairly an efficient advertising mechanism. If you want products of some kind, you can enable pop-ups from the website where you can get this stuff, and also as soon as these products are in stock again, or if you can have a discount – you will certainly obtain the alert regarding this. The counterparty – online merchants, car lending services, etc – will certainly remain in profit, too – customer will definitely obtain a suggestion concerning the product he/she intended to purchase. And such an advertising and marketing approach is almost free – this factor is really important for corporations.
| Site | Product.directredirection.com |
| IP Address | 172.64.169.17 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Flashpvideo.com, Shyflirttalks.com, Dvotestst.online |
Product.directredirection.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But sometimes pop-up advertisements can show up without your approval, and with an information which is totally various from your present cares or search questions. And also, besides unwanted Product.directredirection.com pop-ups from the unknown origin, you can at the same time see a lot of ads, including ones on the web pages which originally have no promotions at all. Such a scenario can be the trace of adware presence.
Adware is the sort of computer virus which injects into your computer, after that begins showing you various promotions. Their content , in most cases, has no match with your typical search questions. Besides banner ads, your web browser can likewise suggest you a substantial amount of various Product.directredirection.com pop-up advertisements, which show up in the bottom right corner.
The model of adware use is extremely sly. The huge pack of adware is spread with trojan viruses, which are injected in your desktop previously. Ads, which are demonstrated to you by malicious app, are paid by their makers. In a few weeks, all antivirus programs began to block these adware, thus, trojan sheds in profitability. And to ruin the user’s desktop, virus distributors start ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer may still be influenced by adware virus. A substantial amount of ads together with Product.directredirection.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your common jobs will be impossible to perform in normal way.
How Can I Deal With Product.directredirection.com Pop-Ups?
Thinking the paragraphs above: your PC, along with your data, is in a serious risk. To stop this virus, you require to use anti-virus program. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to deal with Product.directredirection.com pop-ups virus. However, it can not revert the browser alterations which were implemented by malicious program. Another downside of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its specific susceptability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender via the Group Policies after being implanted to your computer system.
To be 100% sure that your PC is clean of any viruses now, and will be clean in future, I can offer you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and delete all malicious programs on your computer, including Product.directredirection.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 programs, because it checks only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can spectate the detected malicious programs sorted by their possible hazard during the scan process. But to perform any actions against malware, you need to hold on until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To set the action for each 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 revert your browser settings, you are required to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action is not able to be intercepted by Product.directredirection.com virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be located in the Tools tab.
After pressing 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 making use of third-party programs
Besides using antivirus programs for browser recovery, 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 Product.directredirection.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.
