Last week, I saw a huge amount of messages like “my browser presents me undesirable Rekadvice.com pop-up promotions, is it a pc virus?” or “these Rekadvice.com pop-up advertisements in my Chrome making me insane, how to handle them?”. Due to the data for last months, virus suppliers started a broad adware delivery project. Let me show you, how you can erase the computer viruses from your computer, and forget about the bothersome Rekadvice.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Rekadvice.com) use you pop-up promotions. The message can contain something like “do you want to get notices concerning the most up to date news?” or “allow alerts to be reported about latest price cuts?”. Typically, such messages are harmless, and may only distract you with its unexpected showing up. Moreover, it can be quite easily disabled, in case alerts from this web site are no longer desired.
Pop-up notices are quite an effective marketing mechanism. If you have an interest in products of some sort, you can enable pop-ups from the internet site where you can get this stuff, and as soon as these things are in stock again, or if you can have a price cut – you will certainly get the notification concerning this. The counterparty – online stores, automobile lending companies, etc – will certainly be in profit, too – buyer will certainly obtain a pointer concerning the item he/she meant to buy. As well as such an advertising and marketing approach is almost free – this element is really crucial for companies.
| Site | Rekadvice.com |
| IP Address | 104.21.19.161 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | News-nazipa.cc, Advdomlab.com, Advfandom.com |
Rekadvice.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However often pop-up advertisements can appear without your permission, and also with a material which is entirely various from your current attentions or search questions. And also, besides undesirable Rekadvice.com pop-ups from the unknown site, you can simultaneously see a lot of promotions, consisting of ones on the pages which initially have no advertisements at all. Such a situation can be the indicator of adware existence.
Adware is the type of computer virus which injects into your personal computer, then begins displaying you numerous promotions. Their content typically has no match with your typical search questions. Besides banner promotions, your web browser can additionally suggest you a significant number of different Rekadvice.com pop-up ads, which show up in the bottom right area.
The model of adware use is very sly. The big pack of adware is distributed through trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your computer earlier. Ads, which are demonstrated to you by malicious program, are paid by their creators. In a few weeks, all anti-malware programs began to catch these adware, therefore, trojan loses in productivity. And to terminate the user’s desktop, malware distributors begin ransomware distribution with these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your desktop might continue to be impacted by adware virus. A substantial amount of ads together with Rekadvice.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your typical work will be difficult to perform in normal manner.
How Can I Deal With Rekadvice.com Pop-Ups?
Thinking the text above: your PC, as well as your information, is in a severe danger. To stop this infection, you require to make use of virus removal software. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to handle Rekadvice.com pop-ups virus. However, it can not revert the web browser changes which were put into effect by harmful program. Another downside of the anti-virus by Microsoft is its specific vulnerability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender through the Group Policies after being infiltrated to your desktop.
To be 100% sure that your desktop 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 eliminate all unwanted programs on your personal computer, including Rekadvice.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 viruses, because it scans only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can see the detected malicious apps sorted by their possible harm till the scan process. But to choose any actions against malware, you need to hold on until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for every spotted virus or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malicious program. 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 Rekadvice.com virus, 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 displayed, where you can specify, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without making use of third-party programs
Besides using antivirus software for browser recovery, 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:
- 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 Rekadvice.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.
