Recently, I saw a huge amount of posts like “my browser presents me unwanted Puredating.top pop-up ads, is it a computer virus?” or “these Puredating.top pop-up ads in my Chrome making me insane, how to deal with them?”. Due to the stats for last months, computer virus suppliers started a broad adware circulation campaign. Let me demonstrate you, how you can eliminate the viruses from your PC, and also forget about the bothersome Puredating.top pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Puredating.top) show you pop-up ads. The message can have something like “do you want to receive notifications regarding the current information?” or “enable alerts to be reported about latest price cuts?”. Typically, such messages are risk-free, and can only distract you with its abrupt appearing. Moreover, it can be quite easily disabled, in case notifications from this web site are no longer desired.
Pop-up notifications are fairly an effective marketing tool. If you have an interest in items of some kind, you can enable pop-ups from the website where you can acquire this stuff, and also as soon as these products are in stock again, or if you can have a discount – you will obtain the notification concerning this. The counterparty – online sellers, auto lending companies, etc – will be in profit, too – buyer will definitely obtain a reminder concerning the product he/she planned to pay for. And also such a marketing technique is practically free – this aspect is very essential for corporations.
| Site | Puredating.top |
| IP Address | 45.155.120.142 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | S.viiqvmfb.com, Filedownloader2.one, Updaterglobal.com |
Puredating.top Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However often pop-up ads can appear without your approval, as well as with a content which is entirely different from your existing cares or search queries. And also, besides undesirable Puredating.top pop-ups from the unknown source, you can simultaneously see a great deal of advertisements, including ones on the pages which at first have no promotions at all. Such a situation can be the sign of adware appearance.
Adware is the type of virus which injects into your computer, then begins showing you different promotions. Their content often has no correlation with your ordinary search questions. Besides banner promotions, your browser can additionally suggest you a huge quantity of various Puredating.top pop-up advertisements, which show up in the bottom right corner.
The model of adware usage is very sly. The large pack of adware is dispersed via trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your computer earlier. Ads, which are shown to you by malicious app, are paid by their creators. In a couple of weeks, all antivirus programs began to block these adware, therefore, trojan sheds in profitability. And to ruin the user’s PC, malware distributors begin ransomware distribution via these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your desktop might still be affected by adware virus. A huge number of advertisements along with Puredating.top pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your normal jobs will be difficult to perform in typical way.
How Can I Deal With Puredating.top Pop-Ups?
Thinking the text above: your desktop, as well as your data, is in a serious risk. To stop this virus, you need to use anti-malware tool. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to deal with Puredating.top pop-ups malware. Nevertheless, it can’t reset the web browser changes which were applied by malicious program. An additional negative aspect of the anti-virus by Microsoft is its certain vulnerability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender through the Group Policies after being injected to your PC.
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 remove all unwanted applications on your personal computer, including Puredating.top 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 directories.
You can spectate the detected malware sorted by their possible hazard simultaneously with the scan process. But to choose any actions against the viruses, you need to wait until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for each spotted virus or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malware. By default, all the viruses will be moved to quarantine.
Reverting browser settings to original ones
To revert your browser settings, you need to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action cannot be intercepted by Puredating.top malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be found in the Tools tab.
After pressing 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 utilizing third-party programs
Besides using antivirus programs for browser restoration, you may 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 Puredating.top 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.
