Last week, I saw a great deal of messages like “my browser shows me undesirable Special-trending-news.com pop-up advertisements, is it a pc virus?” or “these Special-trending-news.com pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me crazy, how to handle them?”. Due to the data for last months, computer virus distributors started a massive adware distribution campaign. Let me show you, how you can eliminate the computer viruses from your computer system, as well as forget about the aggravating Special-trending-news.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Special-trending-news.com) show you pop-up promotions. The message can include something like “do you want to get notices regarding the most recent information?” or “enable notifications to be reported about recent discounts?”. Usually, such messages are safe, and can only sidetrack you with its abrupt arrival. Plus it can be simply turned off, in case notices from this website are no longer desired.
Pop-up notices are rather an reliable marketing mechanism. If you have an interest in items of some kind, you can give a permission to the pop-ups from the website where you can get this things, and as quickly as these things are in inventory again, or if you can have a price cut – you will certainly obtain the notification about this. The counterparty – online stores, cars and truck lending companies, etc – will remain in profit, too – customer will definitely get a reminder regarding the product he/she intended to buy. And also such an advertising technique is nearly free – this factor is extremely essential for companies.
| Site | Special-trending-news.com |
| IP Address | 213.227.149.216 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Safewarns.com, Onebiensicenter.com, Dkeie.co.in |
Special-trending-news.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But sometimes pop-up advertisements can show up without your permission, as well as with a text which is completely various from your current attentions or search queries. And, besides undesirable Special-trending-news.com pop-ups from the unknown origin, you can at the same time see a great deal of ads, including ones on the web pages which at first have no promotions at all. Such a situation can be the proof of adware existence.
Adware is the type of virus which injects into your system, then starts displaying you various advertisements. Their content usually has no correlation with your usual search questions. Besides banner ads, your browser can additionally display you a massive quantity of different Special-trending-news.com pop-up ads, which appear in the lower right corner.
The model of adware usage is very sly. The huge pack of adware is distributed via trojan viruses, which are injected in your personal computer previously. Promotions, which are suggested to you by malicious program, are paid by their creators. In several weeks, all antivirus programs began to catch these adware, thus, trojan loses in earnings. And to end up the user’s desktop, virus distributors begin ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer might continue to be affected by adware virus. A substantial number of advertisements along with Special-trending-news.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your regular work will be difficult to perform in common way.
How Can I Deal With Special-trending-news.com Pop-Ups?
Presuming the paragraphs above: your computer, and your data, is in a major risk. To stop this infection, you require to utilize anti-malware program. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to take care of Special-trending-news.com pop-ups virus. Nonetheless, it can not return the web browser changes which were applied by harmful program. An additional downside of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its certain susceptability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender through the Group Policies after being injected to your computer system.
To be 100% sure that your personal 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 remove all unwanted programs on your PC, including Special-trending-news.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 checks only the most popular registry entries and directories.
You can see the detected malware sorted by their possible hazard during 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 every detected malicious or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malicious app. 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 cannot be counteracted by Special-trending-news.com malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be found in the Tools tab.
After choosing 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 using third-party programs
Besides using anti-malware tools for browser restoration, you may choose 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 Special-trending-news.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.
