Last week, I saw a lot of messages like “my internet browser presents me undesirable Srchtravel.com pop-up ads, is it a pc virus?” or “these Srchtravel.com pop-up advertisements in my Chrome making me crazy, how to take care of them?”. According to the statistics for last months, pc virus suppliers started a large adware circulation campaign. Let me show you, how you can eliminate the computer viruses from your PC, and also forget about the frustrating Srchtravel.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Srchtravel.com) offer you pop-up advertisements. The message can contain something like “do you want to receive notices concerning the latest information?” or “enable notifications to be reported regarding latest discounts?”. Usually, such messages are safe, and may just sidetrack you with its unexpected showing up. And it can be simply disabled, in case notifications from this site are no longer desired.
Pop-up notices are quite an efficient advertising tool. If you want items of some kind, you can allow pop-ups from the website where you can get this things, and as soon as these products are in stock again, or if you can have a price cut – you will get the notification regarding this. The counterparty – online stores, auto lending services, etc – will remain in profit, too – purchaser will undoubtedly get a pointer about the product he/she intended to pay for. As well as such an advertising and marketing technique is almost free – this factor is extremely crucial for companies.
| Site | Srchtravel.com |
| IP Address | 52.6.215.177 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Gxpowered.com, Lawsamelip.live, Gearjewdis.link |
Srchtravel.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However often pop-up ads can show up without your confirmation, and also with an information which is entirely different from your present interests or search queries. And, besides undesirable Srchtravel.com pop-ups from the unknown origin, you can at the same time see a lot of advertisements, consisting of ones on the pages which initially have no advertisements at all. Such a scenario can be the proof of adware appearance.
Adware is the kind of malware which injects into your PC, then begins demonstrating you numerous ads. Their material , in most cases, has no correlation with your normal search queries. Besides banner promotions, your web browser can additionally suggest you a huge number of different Srchtravel.com pop-up ads, which appear in the bottom right corner.
The model of adware use is really sly. The big pack of adware is dispersed through trojan viruses, which are injected in your system previously. Ads, which are displayed to you by malicious app, are paid by their creators. In a few weeks, all anti-malware programs began to catch these adware, thus, trojan loses in productivity. And to dispatch the user’s computer system, malware distributors begin ransomware distribution with these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your desktop can continue to be affected by adware virus. A massive number of ads along with Srchtravel.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your regular jobs will be difficult to perform in normal manner.
How Can I Deal With Srchtravel.com Pop-Ups?
Presuming the paragraphs above: your PC, and your information, is in a severe danger. To stop this virus, you need to make use of anti-virus tool. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to deal with Srchtravel.com pop-ups malware. Nonetheless, it can not revert the browser alterations which were applied by harmful program. An additional negative aspect of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its particular susceptability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender with the Group Policies after being infiltrated to your PC.
To be 100% sure that your personal 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 remove all malicious applications on your desktop, including Srchtravel.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 see the detected malicious programs sorted by their possible hazard during the scan process. But to perform any actions against malicious apps, 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 removed to quarantine.
Reverting browser settings to original ones
To revert your browser settings, you are required to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action is not able to be intercepted by Srchtravel.com 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 specify, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without utilizing third-party programs
Besides using anti-malware software for browser restoration, you can 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 Srchtravel.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.
