Last week, I saw a great deal of posts like “my browser shows me unwanted Rizereward.com pop-up promotions, is it a pc virus?” or “these Rizereward.com pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me mad, how to take care of them?”. Due to the stats for last months, pc virus distributors began a wide adware distribution project. Let me show you, how you can remove the viruses from your PC, and also forget about the bothersome Rizereward.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Rizereward.com) offer you pop-up promotions. The message can include something like “do you want to receive notifications concerning the current news?” or “enable alerts to be reported regarding recent discount rates?”. Generally, such messages are harmless, and may just distract you with its sudden showing up. Plus it can be simply turned off, in case notifications from this web page are no longer required.
Pop-up notifications are rather an effective advertising and marketing instrument. If you have an interest in items of some sort, you can enable pop-ups from the site where you can buy this things, and as soon as these things are in inventory again, or if you can have a discount – you will get the alert about this. The counterparty – online retailers, vehicle lending services, etc – will certainly remain in profit, too – customer will definitely get a tip about the item he/she intended to purchase. And such an advertising approach is practically cost-free – this element is extremely important for firms.
| Site | Rizereward.com |
| IP Address | 103.140.249.50 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | News-cucegu.cc, Wirietheppre.com, News-naxuyu.cc |
Rizereward.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However often pop-up advertisements can show up without your approval, as well as with an information which is entirely various from your current cares or search queries. And also, besides unwanted Rizereward.com pop-ups from the unknown site, you can simultaneously see a great deal of ads, including ones on the web pages which primarily have no ads whatsoever. Such a scenario can be the signal of adware appearance.
Adware is the sort of virus which injects into your system, and then begins demonstrating you various promotions. Their material typically has no match with your usual search questions. Besides banner advertisements, your browser can also demonstrate you a massive amount of different Rizereward.com pop-up promotions, which show up in the bottom right corner.
The model of adware use is extremely sly. The huge pack of adware is dispersed through trojan viruses, which are injected in your system previously. Promotions, which are suggested to you by malware, are paid by their creators. In several weeks, all anti-malware programs began to stop these adware, hence, trojan loses in earnings. And to ruin the user’s desktop, malware distributors start ransomware distribution with these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your PC can still be affected by adware virus. A substantial number of promotions together with Rizereward.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your regular tasks will certainly be impossible to perform in common way.
How Can I Deal With Rizereward.com Pop-Ups?
Thinking the paragraphs above: your desktop, as well as your data, is in a significant danger. To quit this infection, you need to use security tool. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to take care of Rizereward.com pop-ups virus. Nonetheless, it can’t return the web browser changes which were implemented by harmful program. One more downside of the anti-virus by Microsoft is its specific vulnerability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender via the Group Policies after being injected to your computer system.
To be 100% sure that your computer 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 malicious applications on your computer, including Rizereward.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 malicious apps, because it scans only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can spectate the detected malicious programs sorted by their possible hazard simultaneously with the scan process. But to choose any actions against malicious programs, you need to hold on until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for each spotted malicious or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malware. By default, all malware will be moved to quarantine.
Reset browser settings to original ones
To reset your browser settings, you are required to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action is not able to be intercepted by Rizereward.com virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This option can be found in the Tools tab.
After pressing the Reset Browser Settings option, the menu will be displayed, where you can choose, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without utilizing third-party programs
Besides using anti-malware software for browser recovery, you may pick the “Reset browser settings” option, 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 Rizereward.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.
