Last week, I saw a great deal of posts like “my web browser presents me undesirable Stonkstime.com pop-up advertisements, is it a virus?” or “these Stonkstime.com pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me mad, how to handle them?”. Due to the statistics for last months, pc virus creators started a vast adware delivery project. Let me show you, how you can delete the viruses from your personal computer, and forget about the aggravating Stonkstime.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Stonkstime.com) use you pop-up ads. The message can include something like “do you want to receive alerts concerning the most recent information?” or “enable alerts to be reported about recent discounts?”. Generally, such messages are risk-free, and may just sidetrack you with its sudden showing up. Also it can be quite easily turned off, in case notices from this site are no longer desired.
Pop-up notices are quite an effective advertising and marketing instrument. If you have an interest in goods of some kind, you can give a permission to the pop-ups from the internet site where you can get this stuff, and as soon as these items are in stock again, or if you can have a discount – you will obtain the notice about this. The counterparty – online stores, auto lending companies, etc – will certainly be in profit, too – buyer will undoubtedly obtain a pointer concerning the item he/she planned to pay for. And such an advertising and marketing method is almost cost-free – this factor is really crucial for corporations.
| Site | Stonkstime.com |
| IP Address | 139.45.240.92 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | G0push.com, Ntaspectsofcukorp.com, Mograppido.com |
Stonkstime.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But occasionally pop-up advertisements can come out without your permission, and with a text which is entirely various from your current cares or search queries. And, besides undesirable Stonkstime.com pop-ups from the unknown website, you can at the same time see a great deal of advertisements, consisting of ones on the pages which originally have no advertisements at all. Such a situation can be the sign of adware existence.
Adware is the kind of pc virus which injects into your PC, after that starts demonstrating to you various advertisements. Their content , in most cases, has no connection with your normal search queries. Besides banner ads, your browser can additionally display you a substantial amount of various Stonkstime.com pop-up ads, which appear in the lower right area.
The model of adware use is extremely sly. The big pack of adware is spread through trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your computer previously. Promotions, which are shown to you by virus, are paid by their makers. In a few weeks, all anti-malware programs began to block these adware, hence, trojan loses in profitability. And to finish the user’s computer, malware distributors start ransomware distribution with these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer system might continue to be affected by adware virus. A huge amount of advertisements together with Stonkstime.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your regular jobs will certainly be difficult to do in common way.
How Can I Deal With Stonkstime.com Pop-Ups?
Thinking the paragraphs above: your personal computer, as well as your data, is in a major danger. To stop this infection, you need to utilize antivirus tool. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to deal with Stonkstime.com pop-ups malware. Nevertheless, it can’t change the browser changes which were put into effect by harmful program. One more negative aspect of the antivirus by Microsoft is its specific susceptability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender with the Group Policies after being infiltrated to your computer.
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 eliminate all unwanted programs on your computer, including Stonkstime.com 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 checks only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can observe the detected malicious apps sorted by their possible harm till the scan process. But to choose any actions against malware, you need to hold on 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.
Reverting browser settings to original ones
To revert your browser settings, you are required to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action cannot be counteracted by Stonkstime.com malware, 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 displayed, where you can specify, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without using third-party applications
Besides using antivirus tools for browser restoration, you can pick 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 Stonkstime.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.
