Last week, I saw a plenty of messages like “my web browser demonstrates to me unwanted Protective-system.com pop-up advertisements, is it a computer virus?” or “these Protective-system.com pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me insane, how to handle them?”. According to the statistics for last months, virus distributors began a vast adware delivery project. Let me show you, how you can get rid of the computer viruses from your PC, as well as forget about the aggravating Protective-system.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Protective-system.com) use you pop-up advertisements. The message can have something like “do you want to have notifications regarding the most up to date news?” or “allow notifications to be reported regarding recent price cuts?”. Typically, such messages are risk-free, and can just distract you with its abrupt showing up. And it can be quickly turned off, in case notifications from this web page are no longer required.
Pop-up alerts are rather an efficient marketing mechanism. If you are interested in items of some kind, you can enable pop-ups from the web site where you can acquire this stuff, and as quickly as these products are in store again, or if you can have a discount – you will get the alert concerning this. The counterparty – online retailers, vehicle lending services, etc – will certainly remain in profit, too – buyer will surely obtain a tip about the product he/she planned to buy. As well as such an advertising approach is nearly free – this aspect is very essential for companies.
| Site | Protective-system.com |
| IP Address | 91.226.31.80 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Nedassium.com, Kexvideo.ru, Gamesvisions2.xyz |
Protective-system.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But sometimes pop-up ads can come out without your confirmation, as well as with a material which is entirely various from your existing interests or search questions. And, besides unwanted Protective-system.com pop-ups from the unknown resource, you can simultaneously see a lot of promotions, consisting of ones on the web pages which initially have no promotions at all. Such a situation can be the indication of adware existence.
Adware is the sort of virus which injects into your system, and then begins suggesting you different promotions. Their subject usually has no match with your usual search questions. Besides banner advertisements, your web browser can likewise suggest you a significant quantity of various Protective-system.com pop-up advertisements, which appear in the bottom right corner.
The model of adware use is very sly. The large pack of adware is dispersed with trojan viruses, which are injected in your desktop previously. Advertisements, which are suggested to you by malicious app, are paid by their creators. In several weeks, all antivirus programs began to catch these adware, thus, trojan loses in productivity. And to terminate the user’s computer system, virus distributors begin ransomware distribution via these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your desktop might continue to be affected by adware virus. A substantial amount of ads in addition to Protective-system.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your normal jobs will certainly be difficult to perform in usual way.
How Can I Deal With Protective-system.com Pop-Ups?
Presuming the text above: your PC, and your data, is in a serious danger. To stop this infection, you require to utilize virus removal program. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to handle Protective-system.com pop-ups virus. Nonetheless, it can’t change the browser alterations which were put into effect by harmful program. An additional drawback of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its specific susceptability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender with the Group Policies after being injected to your computer system.
To be 100% sure that your personal computer is clean of any malicious programs now, and will be clean in future, I can advice you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and remove all unwanted applications on your PC, including Protective-system.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 spectate the detected malware sorted by their possible hazard during the scan process. But to choose any actions against malware, you need to wait until the scan is finished, 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 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 counteracted by Protective-system.com malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This option can be located in the Tools tab.
After choosing the Reset Browser Settings option, the menu will be displayed, where you can specify, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without utilizing third-party software
Besides using antivirus tools for browser restoration, you may choose 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:
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 Protective-system.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.
