Last week, I saw a huge amount of posts like “my browser displays me undesirable Tonwisthan.live pop-up advertisements, is it a computer virus?” or “these Tonwisthan.live pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me insane, how to handle them?”. According to the data for last months, virus creators started a vast adware delivery campaign. Let me demonstrate you, how you can eliminate the computer viruses from your personal computer, and also forget about the irritating Tonwisthan.live pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Tonwisthan.live) use you pop-up promotions. The message can have something like “do you want to have notifications regarding the most recent news?” or “enable notifications to be reported about latest discount rates?”. Generally, such messages are risk-free, and can just distract you with its abrupt showing up. And it can be quickly turned off, in case alerts from this web page are no longer wanted.
Pop-up notifications are fairly an efficient marketing instrument. If you are interested in products of some sort, you can enable pop-ups from the site where you can get this things, and as quickly as these things are in inventory again, or if you can have a discount – you will certainly get the notification about this. The counterparty – online merchants, automobile lending companies, etc – will remain in profit, too – customer will surely get a suggestion concerning the product he/she planned to buy. As well as such an advertising and marketing approach is almost free of charge – this aspect is extremely crucial for companies.
| Site | Tonwisthan.live |
| IP Address | Tonwisthan.live |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Piltoadauns.com, Moadspace.com, Ondshub.com |
Tonwisthan.live Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But occasionally pop-up ads can come out without your permission, and also with a text which is completely different from your present attentions or search questions. And, besides unwanted Tonwisthan.live pop-ups from the unknown website, you can simultaneously see a great deal of ads, including ones on the pages which primarily have no promotions whatsoever. Such a scenario can be the indicator of adware existence.
Adware is the kind of virus which infiltrates into your personal computer, after that starts demonstrating to you various advertisements. Their material often has no correlation with your typical search questions. Besides banner promotions, your web browser can likewise suggest you a significant amount of various Tonwisthan.live pop-up promotions, which show up in the bottom right area.
The model of adware use is extremely sly. The large pack of adware is distributed with trojan viruses, which are injected in your PC earlier. Advertisements, which are demonstrated to you by malicious app, are paid by their creators. In several weeks, all antivirus programs began to stop these adware, thus, trojan loses in profitability. And to rub out the user’s computer, malware distributors start ransomware distribution via these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer system can still be impacted by adware virus. A big number of advertisements in addition to Tonwisthan.live pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your regular activities will be impossible to carry out in usual manner.
How Can I Deal With Tonwisthan.live Pop-Ups?
Presuming the text above: your computer, as well as your data, is in a severe risk. To quit this virus, you require to use virus removal software. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to handle Tonwisthan.live pop-ups virus. However, it can’t revert the web browser changes which were applied by harmful program. One more drawback of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its certain vulnerability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender via the Group Policies after being implanted to your desktop.
To be 100% sure that your desktop is clean of any malware now, and will be clean in future, I can offer you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and erase all unwanted applications on your computer, including Tonwisthan.live 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 viruses, because it checks only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can observe the detected viruses sorted by their possible hazard during the scan process. But to choose any actions against the viruses, you need to hold on until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To set the action for each spotted malicious or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected virus. By default, all the viruses will be removed to quarantine.
Reset browser settings to original ones
To reset your browser settings, you are required to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action cannot be intercepted by Tonwisthan.live malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be found in the Tools tab.
After pressing the Reset Browser Settings option, the menu will be shown, where you can specify, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without utilizing third-party programs
Besides using antivirus programs for browser recovery, you can choose 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 Tonwisthan.live 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.
