Last week, I saw a ton of posts like “my browser presents me undesirable Totaltopposts.com pop-up ads, is it a computer virus?” or “these Totaltopposts.com pop-up advertisements in my Chrome making me crazy, how to handle them?”. According to the statistics for last months, computer virus creators started a broad adware delivery project. Let me demonstrate you, how you can remove the viruses from your computer, and also forget about the frustrating Totaltopposts.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Totaltopposts.com) offer you pop-up promotions. The message can include something like “do you want to have notices relating to the latest news?” or “allow alerts to be reported regarding recent discounts?”. Typically, such messages are risk-free, and can just distract you with its unexpected appearance. Moreover, it can be simply turned off, in case alerts from this site are no longer needed.
Pop-up notices are quite an efficient marketing instrument. If you want goods 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 store again, or if you can have a discount – you will get the notification concerning this. The counterparty – online retailers, cars and truck lending companies, etc – will certainly be in profit, too – buyer will undoubtedly get a reminder concerning the product he/she planned to buy. As well as such a marketing approach is nearly cost-free – this aspect is very important for companies.
| Site | Totaltopposts.com |
| IP Address | 139.45.197.176 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Fbmedia-lys.com, Fbmedia-bls.com, Soverthlaest.space |
Totaltopposts.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However often pop-up advertisements can appear without your approval, and with a text which is completely various from your existing cares or search questions. And also, besides undesirable Totaltopposts.com pop-ups from the unknown source, you can simultaneously see a great deal of advertisements, consisting of ones on the pages which at first have no ads whatsoever. Such a scenario can be the trace of adware appearance.
Adware is the sort of computer virus which infiltrates into your system, then starts showing you numerous ads. Their subject often has no connection with your usual search queries. Besides banner ads, your web browser can also demonstrate to you a substantial number of various Totaltopposts.com pop-up ads, which show up in the bottom right corner.
The model of adware use is really sly. The huge pack of adware is dispersed via trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your PC previously. Advertisements, which are suggested to you by virus, are paid by their creators. In several weeks, all anti-malware programs began to catch these adware, thus, trojan loses in earnings. And to ruin the user’s computer system, malware distributors begin ransomware distribution with these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer might still be impacted by adware virus. A huge number of ads along with Totaltopposts.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your normal jobs will certainly be difficult to do in usual way.
How Can I Deal With Totaltopposts.com Pop-Ups?
Concluding the text above: your PC, as well as your data, is in a significant risk. To stop this infection, you require to utilize virus removal software. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to handle Totaltopposts.com pop-ups virus. However, it can not change the web browser changes which were applied by malicious program. One more disadvantage of the anti-virus by Microsoft is its specific susceptability: 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 malicious programs now, and will be clean in future, I can offer you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and delete all malicious programs on your personal computer, including Totaltopposts.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 programs, because it scans only the most popular registry entries and directories.
You can observe the detected malicious programs sorted by their possible hazard till the scan process. But to choose any actions against malicious programs, you need to hold on until the scan is over, 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 removed to quarantine.
Reverting 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 Totaltopposts.com virus, 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 choose, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without making use of third-party software
Besides using anti-malware programs for browser reset, you can 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:
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 Totaltopposts.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.