Recently, I saw a plenty of posts like “my browser demonstrates me undesirable Red-video.fun pop-up promotions, is it a virus?” or “these Red-video.fun pop-up advertisements in my Chrome making me insane, how to deal with them?”. According to the stats for last months, pc virus suppliers started a vast adware distribution project. Let me show you, how you can erase the pc virus from your computer system, as well as forget about the bothersome Red-video.fun pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Red-video.fun) show you pop-up promotions. The message can contain something like “do you want to have notifications about the current information?” or “permit notifications to be reported regarding latest price cuts?”. Typically, such messages are harmless, and can just sidetrack you with its abrupt appearing. Moreover, it can be simply disabled, in case notifications from this web page are no longer required.
Pop-up alerts are rather an reliable marketing tool. If you want goods of some sort, you can enable pop-ups from the site where you can acquire this things, and as soon as these things are in store again, or if you can have a price cut – you will obtain the alert about this. The counterparty – online stores, car lending services, etc – will certainly be in profit, too – buyer will surely obtain a pointer regarding the item he/she meant to pay for. And also such a marketing method is almost free of charge – this element is really vital for corporations.
| Site | Red-video.fun |
| 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 | Omegle.onl, Historydj1.xyz, Green-wap.biz |
Red-video.fun Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However sometimes pop-up advertisements can appear without your permission, and with an information which is entirely different from your current interests or search queries. And also, besides unwanted Red-video.fun pop-ups from the unknown site, you can simultaneously see a lot of ads, including ones on the web pages which primarily have no advertisements at all. Such a situation can be the proof of adware appearance.
Adware is the kind of virus which infiltrates into your PC, and then begins suggesting you different advertisements. Their content typically has no match with your ordinary search questions. Besides banner advertisements, your web browser can additionally demonstrate to you a significant number of different Red-video.fun pop-up promotions, which appear in the lower right area.
The model of adware usage is very sly. The large pack of adware is dispersed via trojan viruses, which are injected in your PC previously. Advertisements, which are demonstrated to you by virus, are paid by their makers. In several weeks, all anti-malware programs began to block these adware, therefore, trojan sheds in earnings. And to rub out the user’s PC, malware distributors begin ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer system might continue to be impacted by adware virus. A substantial amount of promotions together with Red-video.fun pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your regular work will certainly be difficult to carry out in usual way.
How Can I Deal With Red-video.fun Pop-Ups?
Presuming the text above: your personal computer, as well as your data, is in a severe risk. To stop this virus, you require to utilize security program. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to handle Red-video.fun pop-ups virus. Nonetheless, it can’t revert the web browser alterations which were implemented by malicious program. An additional downside of the anti-virus by Microsoft is its particular susceptability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender via the Group Policies after being infiltrated to your desktop.
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 erase all malicious programs on your desktop, including Red-video.fun 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 malware, because it checks only the most popular registry entries and directories.
You can observe the detected viruses sorted by their possible harm simultaneously with the scan process. But to perform any actions against malicious apps, you need to wait until the scan is finished, 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 malicious program. 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 cannot be counteracted by Red-video.fun 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 using third-party software
Besides using antivirus software for browser reset, you can pick the “Reset browser settings” function, 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 Red-video.fun 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.
