Recently, I saw a lot of messages like “my internet browser presents me unwanted Thepande.me pop-up advertisements, is it a pc virus?” or “these Thepande.me pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me mad, how to handle them?”. According to the statistics for last months, virus creators began a vast adware distribution campaign. Let me show you, how you can remove the computer viruses from your computer, and forget about the irritating Thepande.me pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Thepande.me) show you pop-up ads. The message can contain something like “do you want to have notices about the most recent information?” or “enable alerts to be reported regarding recent price cuts?”. Normally, such messages are riskless, and can just sidetrack you with its unexpected showing up. Plus it can be simply turned off, in case alerts from this website are no longer wanted.
Pop-up notifications are rather an efficient advertising and marketing instrument. If you have an interest in products of some kind, you can enable pop-ups from the internet site where you can buy this things, and also as soon as these things are in inventory again, or if you can have a price cut – you will get the alert regarding this. The counterparty – online stores, auto lending services, etc – will be in profit, too – purchaser will undoubtedly obtain a pointer concerning the item he/she meant to purchase. And also such an advertising technique is almost free of charge – this aspect is very important for companies.
| Site | Thepande.me |
| IP Address | 64.225.91.73 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Undescoidecimy.com, Sv.ebadodxoj.cfd, Trustinvestpro.com |
Thepande.me Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However in some cases pop-up advertisements can show up without your permission, and with a text which is entirely various from your existing interests or search questions. And also, besides unwanted Thepande.me pop-ups from the unknown website, you can simultaneously see a lot of advertisements, including ones on the pages which originally have no advertisements whatsoever. Such a situation can be the indicator of adware existence.
Adware is the type of computer virus which infiltrates into your system, after that begins demonstrating you numerous advertisements. Their material usually has no correlation with your normal search queries. Besides banner promotions, your web browser can also display you a big quantity of various Thepande.me pop-up ads, which show up in the lower right corner.
The model of adware usage is extremely sly. The huge pack of adware is distributed through trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your PC earlier. Ads, which are displayed to you by malicious app, are paid by their makers. In several weeks, all antivirus programs began to catch these adware, hence, trojan loses in earnings. And to dispatch the user’s computer system, malware distributors start ransomware distribution via these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer might still be influenced by adware virus. A big quantity of advertisements in addition to Thepande.me pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your regular work will be difficult to perform in common manner.
How Can I Deal With Thepande.me Pop-Ups?
Concluding the paragraphs above: your desktop, as well as your information, is in a major risk. To stop this infection, you require to make use of virus removal tool. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to take care of Thepande.me pop-ups malware. Nonetheless, it can’t return the browser changes which were implemented by harmful program. One more disadvantage of the antivirus by Microsoft is its particular susceptability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender with the Group Policies after being implanted to your computer system.
To be 100% sure that your PC is clean of any viruses now, and will be clean in future, I can advice you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and remove all malicious programs on your personal computer, including Thepande.me 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 checks only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can observe the detected viruses sorted by their possible hazard simultaneously with 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 spotted 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 revert your browser settings, you need to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action is not able to be counteracted by Thepande.me 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 choose, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without utilizing third-party applications
Besides using antivirus tools for browser recovery, you may pick 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:
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 Thepande.me 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.