Recently, I saw a lot of posts like “my web browser shows me undesirable Rainmealslow.live pop-up promotions, is it a pc virus?” or “these Rainmealslow.live pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me crazy, how to take care of them?”. Due to the data for last months, virus distributors started a vast adware delivery campaign. Let me demonstrate you, how you can remove the viruses from your computer system, and also forget about the bothersome Rainmealslow.live pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Rainmealslow.live) show you pop-up promotions. The message can contain something like “do you want to get notifications concerning the current information?” or “allow alerts to be reported about new discounts?”. Typically, such messages are risk-free, and may just sidetrack you with its unexpected showing up. Plus it can be quite easily disabled, in case notifications from this site are no longer wanted.
Pop-up alerts are quite an efficient advertising and marketing mechanism. If you have an interest in items of some kind, you can allow pop-ups from the site where you can buy this things, and as soon as these products are in inventory again, or if you can have a price cut – you will get the alert about this. The counterparty – online merchants, auto lending services, etc – will be in profit, too – customer will surely obtain a suggestion regarding the item he/she planned to buy. As well as such an advertising method is almost free of charge – this element is really important for corporations.
Site | Rainmealslow.live |
IP Address | Rainmealslow.live |
Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
Similar behavior | Foodboorum.live, Porau.com, Alldotheblog.com |
Rainmealslow.live Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But often pop-up advertisements can appear without your approval, as well as with a text which is completely different from your existing interests or search questions. And, besides unwanted Rainmealslow.live pop-ups from the unknown website, you can at the same time see a great deal of ads, including ones on the web pages which originally have no ads at all. Such a scenario can be the indication of adware existence.
Adware is the kind of pc virus which infiltrates into your PC, and then starts demonstrating you various ads. Their content often has no match with your usual search questions. Besides banner ads, your browser can also display you a substantial quantity of different Rainmealslow.live pop-up advertisements, which appear in the lower right area.
The model of adware usage is extremely sly. The huge pack of adware is spread through trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your system earlier. Promotions, which are demonstrated to you by malicious app, are paid by their creators. In a few weeks, all anti-malware programs began to block these adware, hence, trojan sheds in profitability. And to ruin the user’s personal computer, malware distributors start ransomware distribution with these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your desktop might continue to be impacted by adware virus. A massive amount of advertisements together with Rainmealslow.live pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your common tasks will be difficult to carry out in usual way.
How Can I Deal With Rainmealslow.live Pop-Ups?
Concluding the text above: your computer, as well as your data, is in a severe risk. To quit this infection, you need to make use of security tool. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to take care of Rainmealslow.live pop-ups virus. However, it can’t change the browser changes which were put into effect by malicious program. An additional drawback of the antivirus by Microsoft is its particular vulnerability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender via the Group Policies after being infiltrated to your computer system.
To be 100% sure that your PC 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 delete all unwanted applications on your computer, including Rainmealslow.live 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 apps, because it checks only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can see the detected viruses sorted by their possible harm till the scan process. But to choose any actions against the viruses, you need to wait until the scan is over, or to stop the scan.
To set the action for every 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 reset your browser settings, you need to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action cannot be intercepted by Rainmealslow.live virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be located in the Tools tab.
After pressing the Reset Browser Settings button, the menu will be displayed, where you can choose, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without utilizing third-party applications
Besides using antivirus programs for browser reset, 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: After choosing this option, you will see the next message:
- 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 Rainmealslow.live 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.