Last week, I saw a ton of posts like “my internet browser demonstrates to me unwanted Stonecoremason.top pop-up promotions, is it a virus?” or “these Stonecoremason.top pop-up ads in my Chrome making me crazy, how to deal with them?”. According to the stats for last months, virus creators started a wide adware circulation project. Let me show you, how you can eliminate the pc virus from your computer, as well as forget about the bothersome Stonecoremason.top pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Stonecoremason.top) offer you pop-up promotions. The message can have something like “do you want to receive alerts about the most recent information?” or “enable alerts to be reported regarding new discount rates?”. Normally, such messages are safe, and may only distract you with its sudden appearance. Plus it can be simply turned off, in case notifications from this online resource are no longer needed.
Pop-up alerts are rather an efficient marketing tool. If you are interested in goods of some kind, you can give a permission to the pop-ups from the site where you can acquire this stuff, and as soon as these items are in stock again, or if you can have a price cut – you will obtain the notice about this. The counterparty – online retailers, car lending services, etc – will be in profit, too – buyer will surely obtain a pointer regarding the item he/she meant to pay for. And such a marketing method is nearly free of charge – this aspect is very essential for companies.
| Site | Stonecoremason.top |
| IP Address | 172.67.137.65 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Mp3detka.com, Re-captha-version-3-71.top, Importantpurchase.click |
Stonecoremason.top Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However occasionally pop-up ads can show up without your approval, as well as with a material which is entirely various from your current cares or search queries. And also, besides undesirable Stonecoremason.top pop-ups from the unknown source, you can simultaneously see a great deal of promotions, consisting of ones on the web pages which initially have no advertisements whatsoever. Such a scenario can be the indication of adware appearance.
Adware is the type of pc virus which infiltrates into your personal computer, after that starts demonstrating to you different promotions. Their content usually has no correlation with your regular search queries. Besides banner promotions, your browser can also demonstrate to you a massive number of different Stonecoremason.top pop-up ads, which appear in the lower right area.
The model of adware use is very sly. The big pack of adware is spread via trojan viruses, which are injected in your personal computer earlier. Ads, which are demonstrated to you by virus, are paid by their makers. In a few weeks, all anti-malware programs began to block these adware, thus, trojan sheds in productivity. And to end up the user’s computer, virus distributors begin ransomware distribution via these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer might continue to be affected by adware virus. A big amount of promotions along with Stonecoremason.top pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your typical work will be impossible to do in usual way.
How Can I Deal With Stonecoremason.top Pop-Ups?
Thinking the text above: your desktop, and your information, is in a severe danger. To stop this virus, you need to make use of anti-malware tool. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to take care of Stonecoremason.top pop-ups malware. However, it can’t return the browser alterations which were implemented by malicious program. Another drawback of the antivirus by Microsoft is its certain susceptability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender via the Group Policies after being infiltrated to your desktop.
To be 100% sure that your system is clean of any malware now, and will be clean in future, I can advice you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and erase all malicious applications on your desktop, including Stonecoremason.top 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 malware, because it scans only the most popular registry entries and directories.
You can observe the detected malicious apps sorted by their possible harm during the scan process. But to choose any actions against malware, you need to wait until the scan is finished, 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 malware. By default, all the viruses will be moved 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 intercepted by Stonecoremason.top virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This option can be found in the Tools tab.
After choosing the Reset Browser Settings button, the menu will be shown, where you can specify, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without utilizing third-party software
Besides using anti-malware tools for browser recovery, 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:
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 Stonecoremason.top 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.
