Last week, I saw a plenty of posts like “my browser demonstrates me unwanted Rainbowblocker.com pop-up ads, is it a computer virus?” or “these Rainbowblocker.com pop-up ads in my Chrome making me insane, how to deal with them?”. Due to the stats for last months, virus distributors started a vast adware distribution project. Let me demonstrate you, how you can get rid of the computer viruses from your computer system, as well as forget about the annoying Rainbowblocker.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Rainbowblocker.com) use you pop-up advertisements. The message can have something like “do you want to get notices about the latest information?” or “allow notifications to be reported about latest discount rates?”. Normally, such messages are trustworthy, and may only sidetrack you with its unexpected visual appeal. And it can be quite easily disabled, in case notices from this online resource are no longer wanted.
Pop-up alerts are rather an efficient advertising and marketing mechanism. If you want products of some type, you can give a permission to the pop-ups from the internet site where you can purchase this stuff, and as quickly as these things are in inventory again, or if you can have a price cut – you will obtain the notice about this. The counterparty – online merchants, cars and truck lending companies, etc – will remain in profit, too – customer will certainly obtain a tip about the item he/she intended to buy. As well as such an advertising and marketing method is almost free – this element is really essential for corporations.
| Site | Rainbowblocker.com |
| IP Address | 188.114.96.0 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Notificationsworld.com, News-faxetu.cc, System-notify.dev |
Rainbowblocker.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However often pop-up ads can show up without your confirmation, and with a material which is completely various from your existing attentions or search questions. And also, besides undesirable Rainbowblocker.com pop-ups from the unknown site, you can at the same time see a lot of ads, consisting of ones on the web pages which originally have no promotions whatsoever. Such a situation can be the proof of adware appearance.
Adware is the sort of virus which infiltrates into your system, and then starts showing you numerous advertisements. Their subject usually has no connection with your regular search questions. Besides banner promotions, your browser can likewise demonstrate you a substantial quantity of different Rainbowblocker.com pop-up promotions, which appear in the lower right area.
The model of adware usage is very sly. The large pack of adware is spread with trojan viruses, which are injected in your PC previously. Ads, which are shown to you by virus, are paid by their creators. In a couple of weeks, all anti-malware programs began to block these adware, hence, trojan loses in productivity. And to terminate the user’s PC, malware distributors start ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your PC can continue to be influenced by adware virus. A huge amount of advertisements in addition to Rainbowblocker.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your regular tasks will be difficult to carry out in common way.
How Can I Deal With Rainbowblocker.com Pop-Ups?
Presuming the text above: your personal computer, along with your data, is in a significant risk. To quit this virus, you require to utilize anti-malware tool. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to take care of Rainbowblocker.com pop-ups malware. Nevertheless, it can not change the web browser changes which were implemented by malicious program. One more disadvantage of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its certain vulnerability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender through the Group Policies after being infiltrated 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 Rainbowblocker.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 directories.
You can spectate the detected malicious apps sorted by their possible hazard during the scan process. But to perform any actions against malicious programs, you need to wait until the scan is over, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for each spotted malicious or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected virus. 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 is not able to be intercepted by Rainbowblocker.com virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be located in the Tools tab.
After choosing the Reset Browser Settings button, the menu will be shown, where you can choose, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without using third-party programs
Besides using anti-malware 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 Rainbowblocker.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.