Last week, I saw a lot of messages like “my browser shows me unwanted Tentedstars.com pop-up ads, is it a computer virus?” or “these Tentedstars.com pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me insane, how to handle them?”. According to the stats for last months, pc virus suppliers started a wide adware delivery project. Let me demonstrate you, how you can get rid of the pc virus from your PC, and forget about the aggravating Tentedstars.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Tentedstars.com) use you pop-up promotions. The message can have something like “do you want to have notices concerning the most up to date information?” or “allow notifications to be reported about recent discount rates?”. Generally, such messages are risk-free, and may only distract you with its abrupt arrival. Moreover, it can be easily disabled, in case alerts from this site are no longer needed.
Pop-up notices are fairly an reliable advertising and marketing mechanism. If you have an interest in products of some sort, you can give a permission to the pop-ups from the internet site where you can get this stuff, and as soon as these things are in stock again, or if you can have a discount – you will obtain the alert about this. The counterparty – online merchants, car lending services, etc – will be in profit, too – purchaser will definitely get a reminder about the item he/she meant to purchase. As well as such an advertising and marketing approach is practically free of charge – this aspect is very essential for corporations.
| Site | Tentedstars.com |
| IP Address | 172.67.144.47 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Froommixoria.com, Frutiadsstudio.com, Aucmaico.com |
Tentedstars.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But often pop-up ads can show up without your confirmation, and also with a text which is completely various from your present attentions or search questions. And also, besides unwanted Tentedstars.com pop-ups from the unknown source, you can at the same time see a great deal of ads, including ones on the pages which at first have no ads whatsoever. Such a situation can be the indicator of adware presence.
Adware is the type of malware which injects into your system, after that starts demonstrating you various ads. Their content , in most cases, has no connection with your regular search queries. Besides banner promotions, your browser can additionally demonstrate to you a significant amount of various Tentedstars.com pop-up advertisements, which show up in the lower right corner.
The model of adware use is extremely sly. The large pack of adware is spread through trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your desktop earlier. Promotions, which are displayed to you by malicious program, are paid by their makers. In a few weeks, all antivirus programs began to stop these adware, therefore, trojan sheds in productivity. And to end up the user’s personal computer, virus distributors start ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your desktop might still be influenced by adware virus. A big amount of ads in addition to Tentedstars.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your common activities will be impossible to carry out in usual manner.
How Can I Deal With Tentedstars.com Pop-Ups?
Thinking the paragraphs above: your desktop, along with your information, is in a severe danger. To quit this infection, you require to make use of security software. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to take care of Tentedstars.com pop-ups malware. Nonetheless, it can not revert the browser changes which were implemented by harmful program. An additional downside of the anti-virus by Microsoft is its particular susceptability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender with the Group Policies after being injected to your computer.
To be 100% sure that your 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 eliminate all unwanted programs on your personal computer, including Tentedstars.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 directories.
You can observe the detected viruses sorted by their possible harm till the scan process. But to choose any actions against the viruses, you need to wait until the scan is over, or to stop the scan.
To set the action for every detected malicious or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malicious app. By default, all malware will be moved to quarantine.
Reverting browser settings to original ones
To reset your browser settings, you need to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action cannot be counteracted by Tentedstars.com malware, 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 shown, where you can choose, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without making use of third-party applications
Besides using antivirus programs for browser recovery, you may pick 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 Tentedstars.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.
