Recently, I saw a great deal of messages like “my browser presents me undesirable Protect-now.com pop-up advertisements, is it a computer virus?” or “these Protect-now.com pop-up ads in my Chrome making me crazy, how to deal with them?”. Due to the data for last months, virus suppliers began a vast adware delivery campaign. Let me show you, how you can eliminate the viruses from your PC, as well as forget about the frustrating Protect-now.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Protect-now.com) use you pop-up promotions. The message can contain something like “do you want to receive alerts regarding the current information?” or “permit alerts to be reported about new discounts?”. Usually, such messages are safe, and may only distract you with its sudden appearance. And it can be quickly disabled, in case alerts from this online resource are no longer desired.
Pop-up alerts are quite an efficient marketing tool. If you are interested in products of some kind, you can enable pop-ups from the site where you can purchase this things, and as quickly as these items are in store again, or if you can have a discount – you will certainly obtain the notification concerning this. The counterparty – online stores, cars and truck lending services, etc – will certainly be in profit, too – purchaser will definitely get a suggestion concerning the item he/she meant to purchase. As well as such an advertising and marketing method is nearly free – this factor is really crucial for firms.
| Site | Protect-now.com |
| IP Address | 34.102.136.180 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Wholehugewords.com, News-central.xyz, Ofslakotha.com |
Protect-now.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But often pop-up promotions can come out without your approval, and with a text which is completely different from your current interests or search queries. And, besides unwanted Protect-now.com pop-ups from the unknown source, you can at the same time see a lot of advertisements, consisting of ones on the web pages which primarily have no promotions whatsoever. Such a scenario can be the indicator of adware existence.
Adware is the sort of virus which infiltrates into your system, then starts demonstrating you different ads. Their material often has no match with your typical search queries. Besides banner promotions, your web browser can also display you a significant number of various Protect-now.com pop-up advertisements, which appear in the lower right corner.
The model of adware use is very sly. The large pack of adware is dispersed via trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your desktop previously. Promotions, which are displayed to you by virus, are paid by their creators. In a couple of weeks, all anti-malware programs began to catch these adware, for this reason, trojan sheds in earnings. And to rub out the user’s computer, malware distributors start ransomware distribution via these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your desktop can continue to be affected by adware virus. A substantial quantity of advertisements together with Protect-now.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your normal jobs will certainly be impossible to do in common manner.
How Can I Deal With Protect-now.com Pop-Ups?
Thinking the text above: your personal computer, as well as your information, is in a significant risk. To quit this virus, you require to use security software. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to take care of Protect-now.com pop-ups malware. Nevertheless, it can not revert the browser changes which were implemented by harmful program. Another negative aspect of the anti-virus by Microsoft is its certain susceptability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender via the Group Policies after being injected to your desktop.
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 eliminate all unwanted programs on your desktop, including Protect-now.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 malicious programs, because it scans only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can spectate the detected viruses sorted by their possible harm till the scan process. But to perform any actions against malicious programs, you need to hold on 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 malware. By default, all malware 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 Protect-now.com virus, 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 shown, where you can specify, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without making use of third-party software
Besides using antivirus programs for browser reset, you can pick the “Reset browser settings” option, which is usually embedded in all popular web 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:
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 Protect-now.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.