Recently, I saw a huge amount of posts like “my internet browser shows me unwanted Total-protection.tech pop-up advertisements, is it a computer virus?” or “these Total-protection.tech pop-up ads in my Chrome making me crazy, how to deal with them?”. According to the stats for last months, pc virus distributors started a vast adware circulation campaign. Let me demonstrate you, how you can remove the computer viruses from your computer system, and also forget about the annoying Total-protection.tech pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Total-protection.tech) use you pop-up promotions. The message can contain something like “do you want to have notices regarding the latest information?” or “allow notifications to be reported about new discounts?”. Normally, such messages are riskless, and can just sidetrack you with its unexpected appearing. And it can be quickly disabled, in case notices from this website are no longer needed.
Pop-up alerts are quite an effective marketing tool. If you want goods of some kind, you can allow pop-ups from the site where you can acquire this things, and as quickly as these things are in inventory again, or if you can have a discount – you will certainly obtain the alert about this. The counterparty – online sellers, auto lending companies, etc – will remain in profit, too – buyer will surely get a suggestion regarding the product he/she meant to pay for. And such an advertising and marketing method is practically free of charge – this aspect is really crucial for companies.
| Site | Total-protection.tech |
| IP Address | 80.89.234.128 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Avpcshield.live, Labernisk.xyz, Difusent.xyz |
Total-protection.tech Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But in some cases pop-up promotions can show up without your permission, and also with a content which is completely different from your current attentions or search queries. And also, besides undesirable Total-protection.tech pop-ups from the unknown source, you can simultaneously see a lot of advertisements, consisting of ones on the web pages which at first have no promotions whatsoever. Such a scenario can be the indicator of adware appearance.
Adware is the type of pc virus which infiltrates into your computer, then begins demonstrating you different ads. Their content typically has no connection with your normal search questions. Besides banner ads, your browser can likewise display you a massive amount of different Total-protection.tech pop-up promotions, which show up in the lower right corner.
The model of adware usage is extremely sly. The large pack of adware is dispersed via trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your personal computer earlier. Ads, which are suggested to you by malware, are paid by their creators. In a few weeks, all anti-malware programs began to stop these adware, therefore, trojan loses in profitability. And to dispatch the user’s desktop, virus distributors begin ransomware distribution via these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your desktop might still be affected by adware virus. A substantial number of advertisements in addition to Total-protection.tech pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your common activities will be impossible to do in normal manner.
How Can I Deal With Total-protection.tech Pop-Ups?
Concluding the paragraphs above: your personal computer, along with your information, is in a significant risk. To quit this infection, you require to make use of anti-malware software. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to deal with Total-protection.tech pop-ups malware. Nevertheless, it can not reset the browser alterations which were implemented by malicious program. Another drawback of the antivirus by Microsoft is its certain vulnerability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender via the Group Policies after being infiltrated to your PC.
To be 100% sure that your system is clean of any malicious programs now, and will be clean in future, I can offer you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and erase all malicious programs on your PC, including Total-protection.tech 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 scans only the most popular registry entries and directories.
You can spectate the detected viruses sorted by their possible hazard simultaneously with 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 choose the action for each detected virus or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected virus. By default, all the viruses will be moved 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 is not able to be counteracted by Total-protection.tech malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This option can be found in the Tools tab.
After pressing 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 software
Besides using antivirus tools 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:
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 Total-protection.tech 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.