Last week, I saw a great deal of messages like “my web browser displays me unwanted Rulewentcat.live pop-up advertisements, is it a computer virus?” or “these Rulewentcat.live pop-up advertisements in my Chrome making me crazy, how to take care of them?”. Due to the data for last months, virus creators began a vast adware circulation project. Let me show you, how you can remove the computer viruses from your computer, and forget about the aggravating Rulewentcat.live pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Rulewentcat.live) use you pop-up ads. The message can have something like “do you want to have alerts relating to the latest news?” or “allow alerts to be reported about latest discounts?”. Normally, such messages are trustworthy, and may just distract you with its sudden showing up. And it can be simply turned off, in case notifications from this website are no longer needed.
Pop-up notices are fairly an effective advertising and marketing mechanism. If you are interested in products of some sort, you can enable pop-ups from the web site where you can purchase this things, and also as quickly as these things are in stock again, or if you can have a price cut – you will certainly get the notice concerning this. The counterparty – online sellers, cars and truck lending companies, etc – will certainly remain in profit, too – buyer will definitely get a reminder about the item he/she planned to pay for. And also such an advertising and marketing approach is practically cost-free – this aspect is extremely vital for corporations.
| Site | Rulewentcat.live |
| IP Address | 91.195.240.123 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Vorow.xyz, Opengoldion.live, Boonavytech.live |
Rulewentcat.live Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But occasionally pop-up ads can come out without your approval, and also with a content which is totally various from your current cares or search queries. And, besides unwanted Rulewentcat.live pop-ups from the unknown site, you can at the same time see a lot of promotions, consisting of ones on the web pages which originally have no promotions at all. Such a scenario can be the trace of adware presence.
Adware is the sort of pc virus which injects into your PC, and then begins displaying you numerous promotions. Their content , in most cases, has no connection with your ordinary search queries. Besides banner advertisements, your browser can additionally demonstrate you a massive quantity of various Rulewentcat.live pop-up promotions, which appear in the bottom right area.
The model of adware use is very sly. The large pack of adware is dispersed via trojan viruses, which are injected in your personal computer previously. Ads, which are suggested to you by virus, are paid by their creators. In several weeks, all antivirus programs began to stop these adware, hence, trojan loses in earnings. And to terminate the user’s desktop, malware distributors start ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer can still be influenced by adware virus. A significant amount of ads along with Rulewentcat.live pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your regular activities will certainly be difficult to do in normal manner.
How Can I Deal With Rulewentcat.live Pop-Ups?
Assuming the paragraphs above: your PC, and your data, is in a significant danger. To quit this infection, you need to use anti-malware tool. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to deal with Rulewentcat.live pop-ups malware. Nevertheless, it can not change the web browser changes which were put into effect by harmful program. One more negative aspect of the antivirus by Microsoft is its specific vulnerability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender with the Group Policies after being implanted to your computer.
To be 100% sure that your computer is clean of any viruses now, and will be clean in future, I can offer you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and eliminate all unwanted applications on your personal computer, including Rulewentcat.live 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 programs, because it scans only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can observe the detected malicious apps sorted by their possible hazard during the scan process. But to perform any actions against malicious apps, you need to wait until the scan is over, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for each spotted virus or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malware. By default, all the viruses will be removed 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 Rulewentcat.live virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be located in the Tools tab.
After choosing 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 making use of third-party programs
Besides using anti-malware tools for browser restoration, you can choose the “Reset browser settings” option, 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:
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 Rulewentcat.live 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.