Recently, I saw a huge amount of messages like “my web browser demonstrates to me unwanted Riverafter.one pop-up advertisements, is it a computer virus?” or “these Riverafter.one pop-up ads in my Chrome making me insane, how to handle them?”. Due to the stats for last months, computer virus distributors began a massive adware distribution project. Let me demonstrate you, how you can get rid of the computer viruses from your computer system, and forget about the annoying Riverafter.one pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Riverafter.one) use you pop-up promotions. The message can include something like “do you want to receive alerts relating to the most recent news?” or “enable notifications to be reported regarding recent discounts?”. Generally, such messages are riskless, and may just distract you with its sudden visual appeal. Moreover, it can be quite easily turned off, in case alerts from this site are no longer wanted.
Pop-up notices are quite an efficient advertising and marketing mechanism. If you are interested in products of some type, you can give a permission to the pop-ups from the internet site where you can acquire this things, and as soon as these products are in store again, or if you can have a discount – you will obtain the alert concerning this. The counterparty – online retailers, vehicle lending services, etc – will be in profit, too – customer will certainly obtain a suggestion regarding the product he/she intended to purchase. And also such a marketing approach is almost cost-free – this element is extremely vital for firms.
| Site | Riverafter.one |
| 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 | Higedgene.com, Requismucuta.com, Inchfreefish.live |
Riverafter.one Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However sometimes pop-up ads can come out without your permission, and also with a text which is entirely various from your current attentions or search questions. And, besides undesirable Riverafter.one pop-ups from the unknown origin, you can simultaneously see a great deal of promotions, consisting of ones on the pages which primarily have no promotions whatsoever. Such a situation can be the sign of adware presence.
Adware is the type of malware which infiltrates into your system, and then starts demonstrating you different advertisements. Their content , in most cases, has no correlation with your normal search queries. Besides banner advertisements, your web browser can additionally demonstrate you a substantial quantity of different Riverafter.one pop-up ads, which come into view in the bottom right area.
The model of adware usage is very sly. The large pack of adware is spread through trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your computer previously. Advertisements, which are displayed to you by virus, are paid by their makers. In a couple of weeks, all antivirus programs began to catch these adware, thus, trojan loses in profitability. And to terminate the user’s computer, malware distributors start ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your PC may still be affected by adware virus. A substantial quantity of ads along with Riverafter.one pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your normal activities will be impossible to execute in typical way.
How Can I Deal With Riverafter.one Pop-Ups?
Concluding the text above: your personal computer, along with your data, is in a serious danger. To quit this infection, you need to use anti-virus tool. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to handle Riverafter.one pop-ups virus. However, it can’t return the web browser alterations which were implemented by malicious program. One more disadvantage of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its specific susceptability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender via 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 remove all unwanted programs on your computer, including Riverafter.one 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 apps, because it checks only the most popular registry entries and directories.
You can see the detected malicious programs sorted by their possible hazard till the scan process. But to perform any actions against malicious programs, you need to wait until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for each detected malicious or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malicious program. By default, all the viruses will be moved to quarantine.
Reset 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 counteracted by Riverafter.one 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 choose, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without utilizing third-party software
Besides using antivirus programs 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 Riverafter.one 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.
