Recently, I saw a plenty of messages like “my web browser presents me unwanted Recontent.casa pop-up promotions, is it a pc virus?” or “these Recontent.casa pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me insane, how to handle them?”. Due to the stats for last months, computer virus creators began a wide adware distribution campaign. Let me show you, how you can remove the computer viruses from your personal computer, and also forget about the frustrating Recontent.casa pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Recontent.casa) offer you pop-up promotions. The message can contain something like “do you want to get notifications regarding the most up to date information?” or “enable alerts to be reported about new discounts?”. Normally, such messages are risk-free, and can only distract you with its sudden arrival. Plus it can be easily turned off, in case notifications from this website are no longer wanted.
Pop-up notifications are quite an effective marketing tool. If you are interested in goods of some type, you can enable pop-ups from the site where you can acquire this things, and as soon as these items are in store again, or if you can have a price cut – you will get the alert regarding this. The counterparty – online sellers, cars and truck lending companies, etc – will be in profit, too – customer will undoubtedly get a tip regarding the product he/she meant to purchase. As well as such an advertising and marketing approach is practically free of charge – this element is really essential for companies.
| Site | Recontent.casa |
| IP Address | 178.62.225.201 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Recontent.fun, Recontent.cyou, Recontent.surf |
Recontent.casa Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But in some cases pop-up ads can appear without your confirmation, as well as with a text which is totally different from your current interests or search queries. And also, besides undesirable Recontent.casa pop-ups from the unknown site, you can simultaneously see a great deal of ads, including ones on the web pages which originally have no advertisements at all. Such a scenario can be the indicator of adware existence.
Adware is the sort of computer virus which infiltrates into your personal computer, and then starts suggesting you various promotions. Their content , in most cases, has no match with your ordinary search questions. Besides banner ads, your browser can also show you a substantial number of various Recontent.casa pop-up ads, which show up in the lower right area.
The model of adware usage is extremely sly. The large pack of adware is distributed with trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your PC previously. Promotions, which are demonstrated to you by virus, are paid by their makers. In a few weeks, all antivirus programs began to block these adware, hence, trojan sheds in profitability. And to ruin the user’s personal computer, malware distributors begin ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your PC can still be influenced by adware virus. A significant amount of promotions together with Recontent.casa pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your regular activities will be difficult to do in usual manner.
How Can I Deal With Recontent.casa Pop-Ups?
Thinking the paragraphs above: your desktop, along with your information, is in a serious risk. To quit this infection, you require to use anti-virus program. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to handle Recontent.casa pop-ups malware. However, it can’t reset the web browser alterations 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 implanted to your computer.
To be 100% sure that your PC is clean of any malware now, and will be clean in future, I can advice you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and delete all malicious applications on your desktop, including Recontent.casa 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 scans only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can observe the detected malicious apps sorted by their possible hazard simultaneously with the scan process. But to perform any actions against the viruses, you need to wait until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for every detected virus or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected virus. By default, all malware will be removed 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 counteracted by Recontent.casa malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be found in the Tools tab.
After pressing the Reset Browser Settings option, the menu will be shown, where you can choose, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without using third-party applications
Besides using anti-malware programs for browser recovery, 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 Recontent.casa 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.
