Last week, I saw a huge amount of posts like “my web browser demonstrates me unwanted Weakeland.com pop-up advertisements, is it a virus?” or “these Weakeland.com pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me crazy, how to deal with them?”. According to the stats for last months, virus suppliers started a massive adware circulation campaign. Let me demonstrate you, how you can erase the viruses from your PC, and also forget about the aggravating Weakeland.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Weakeland.com) offer you pop-up advertisements. The message can include something like “do you want to receive alerts relating to the current information?” or “permit notifications to be reported about latest discount rates?”. Typically, such messages are riskless, and can only sidetrack you with its abrupt arrival. Moreover, it can be easily turned off, in case notices from this web page are no longer desired.
Pop-up alerts are quite an reliable marketing instrument. If you want items of some kind, you can give a permission to the pop-ups from the internet 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 obtain the alert regarding this. The counterparty – online merchants, vehicle lending companies, etc – will be in profit, too – purchaser will undoubtedly get a reminder about the product he/she intended to pay for. And such a marketing technique is practically cost-free – this factor is really important for companies.
| Site | Weakeland.com |
| IP Address | 107.22.28.167 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Gentssepa.com, Se22.biz, Se23.biz |
Weakeland.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However in some cases pop-up advertisements can appear without your approval, and also with a text which is completely various from your present cares or search questions. And, besides undesirable Weakeland.com pop-ups from the unknown source, you can simultaneously see a lot of advertisements, including ones on the pages which originally have no promotions at all. Such a situation can be the sign of adware presence.
Adware is the type of pc virus which injects into your computer, after that starts demonstrating you various advertisements. Their content typically has no correlation with your usual search questions. Besides banner ads, your web browser can additionally suggest you a substantial amount of various Weakeland.com pop-up ads, which show up in the lower right area.
The model of adware use is extremely sly. The large pack of adware is dispersed with trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your PC earlier. Ads, which are suggested to you by malicious app, are paid by their creators. In a couple of weeks, all anti-malware programs began to stop these adware, thus, trojan sheds in earnings. And to dispatch the user’s computer system, malware distributors begin ransomware distribution with these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer can continue to be impacted by adware virus. A huge quantity of advertisements along with Weakeland.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your common tasks will certainly be difficult to carry out in normal manner.
How Can I Deal With Weakeland.com Pop-Ups?
Presuming the text above: your personal computer, and your data, is in a severe risk. To stop this infection, you need to use anti-virus program. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to handle Weakeland.com pop-ups virus. Nonetheless, it can’t revert the browser changes which were put into effect by malicious program. An additional negative aspect of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its specific susceptability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender through the Group Policies after being infiltrated 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 eliminate all malicious programs on your personal computer, including Weakeland.com 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 malicious programs sorted by their possible harm 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 set the action for every spotted virus or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected virus. By default, all malware will be removed 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 intercepted by Weakeland.com 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 displayed, where you can specify, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without using third-party software
Besides using antivirus tools for browser restoration, 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 Weakeland.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.
