Last week, I saw a great deal of messages like “my internet browser shows me undesirable Secure-support.space pop-up ads, is it a computer virus?” or “these Secure-support.space pop-up ads in my Chrome making me crazy, how to handle them?”. Due to the stats for last months, pc virus suppliers started a vast adware delivery project. Let me demonstrate you, how you can erase the viruses from your personal computer, and also forget about the annoying Secure-support.space pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Secure-support.space) offer you pop-up promotions. The message can have something like “do you want to get notifications relating to the most up to date information?” or “permit alerts to be reported about new discounts?”. Generally, such messages are riskless, and may just sidetrack you with its unexpected showing up. Plus it can be quite easily turned off, in case notifications from this online resource are no longer needed.
Pop-up notifications are rather an efficient advertising and marketing tool. If you want goods of some type, you can allow pop-ups from the site where you can purchase this stuff, and as quickly as these things are in store again, or if you can have a discount – you will get the notification concerning this. The counterparty – online merchants, cars and truck lending services, etc – will certainly be in profit, too – customer will undoubtedly get a suggestion about the product he/she intended to buy. And also such an advertising and marketing technique is practically free of charge – this element is really important for firms.
| Site | Secure-support.space |
| IP Address | 172.67.136.189 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Internetappwn1.click, Nicyaboyenan.com, Escribeda.xyz |
Secure-support.space Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However in some cases pop-up advertisements can appear without your permission, as well as with a text which is entirely different from your present attentions or search questions. And, besides undesirable Secure-support.space pop-ups from the unknown website, you can simultaneously see a great deal of advertisements, consisting of ones on the pages which originally have no ads at all. Such a situation can be the sign of adware existence.
Adware is the kind of computer virus which infiltrates into your personal computer, and then starts showing you various promotions. Their material usually has no correlation with your ordinary search questions. Besides banner ads, your browser can also demonstrate you a significant quantity of various Secure-support.space pop-up promotions, which show up in the bottom right area.
The model of adware usage is very sly. The large pack of adware is distributed via trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your computer earlier. Advertisements, which are demonstrated to you by malicious program, are paid by their makers. In several weeks, all antivirus programs began to block these adware, thus, trojan sheds in earnings. And to terminate the user’s computer system, malware distributors start ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer system can still be influenced by adware virus. A huge number of ads together with Secure-support.space pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your normal activities will certainly be impossible to carry out in usual manner.
How Can I Deal With Secure-support.space Pop-Ups?
Thinking the text above: your personal computer, as well as your data, is in a severe danger. To quit this virus, you need to use antivirus software. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to handle Secure-support.space pop-ups malware. However, it can’t revert the browser alterations which were put into effect by malicious program. One more negative aspect of the anti-virus by Microsoft is its particular susceptability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender via the Group Policies after being implanted to your computer system.
To be 100% sure that your PC is clean of any malware now, and will be clean in future, I can offer you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and erase all unwanted programs on your personal computer, including Secure-support.space 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 apps, because it checks only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can spectate the detected malicious programs sorted by their possible harm simultaneously with the scan process. But to choose any actions against malicious programs, you need to hold on until the scan is over, or to stop the scan.
To set the action for each detected virus or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected virus. By default, all the viruses will be moved to quarantine.
Reset browser settings to original ones
To reset your browser settings, you need to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action is not able to be counteracted by Secure-support.space 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 using third-party applications
Besides using antivirus software for browser restoration, you can choose 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 Secure-support.space 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.
