Last week, I saw a great deal of posts like “my web browser demonstrates me unwanted Win-touchbonus.top pop-up ads, is it a virus?” or “these Win-touchbonus.top pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me insane, how to handle them?”. According to the stats for last months, virus suppliers began a massive adware distribution project. Let me show you, how you can remove the computer viruses from your computer, and also forget about the frustrating Win-touchbonus.top pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Win-touchbonus.top) show you pop-up promotions. The message can have something like “do you want to receive alerts about the current information?” or “allow notifications to be reported about latest discount rates?”. Generally, such messages are safe, and may just sidetrack you with its sudden appearance. Also it can be simply turned off, in case notifications from this online resource are no longer needed.
Pop-up notices are quite an effective marketing instrument. If you are interested in goods of some kind, you can enable pop-ups from the web site where you can buy this things, and also as quickly as these things are in stock again, or if you can have a price cut – you will certainly obtain the notice concerning this. The counterparty – online merchants, auto lending services, etc – will remain in profit, too – buyer will surely obtain a tip regarding the item he/she planned to pay for. As well as such an advertising approach is practically free of charge – this factor is really crucial for corporations.
| Site | Win-touchbonus.top |
| IP Address | 185.155.184.72 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Yeahgrewsky.live, News-hedebe.cc, Opparasecton.com |
Win-touchbonus.top Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But often pop-up promotions can appear without your permission, as well as with a content which is completely various from your present attentions or search queries. And, besides undesirable Win-touchbonus.top pop-ups from the unknown source, you can simultaneously see a lot of promotions, including ones on the pages which initially have no advertisements whatsoever. Such a situation can be the indication of adware presence.
Adware is the sort of malware which infiltrates into your personal computer, then begins demonstrating to you numerous advertisements. Their content , in most cases, has no match with your normal search questions. Besides banner advertisements, your browser can additionally demonstrate to you a substantial amount of different Win-touchbonus.top pop-up advertisements, which come into view in the lower right corner.
The model of adware usage is extremely sly. The large pack of adware is spread with trojan viruses, which are injected in your computer earlier. Promotions, which are displayed to you by malicious program, are paid by their makers. In a couple of weeks, all antivirus programs began to catch these adware, hence, trojan loses in profitability. And to rub out the user’s computer, malware distributors start ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer system can continue to be influenced by adware virus. A massive number of promotions together with Win-touchbonus.top pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your normal work will certainly be impossible to execute in usual manner.
How Can I Deal With Win-touchbonus.top Pop-Ups?
Presuming the paragraphs above: your PC, along with your data, is in a significant danger. To stop this infection, you need to use security tool. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to take care of Win-touchbonus.top pop-ups malware. Nevertheless, it can’t reset the web browser alterations which were implemented by harmful program. One more disadvantage of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its particular susceptability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender with the Group Policies after being injected to your PC.
To be 100% sure that your system is clean of any viruses now, and will be clean in future, I can advice you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and delete all malicious applications on your PC, including Win-touchbonus.top 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 apps, because it checks only the most popular registry entries and directories.
You can spectate the detected malicious programs sorted by their possible harm till the scan process. But to perform any actions against malware, you need to wait 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 malicious app. 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 Win-touchbonus.top virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This action 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 using third-party software
Besides using anti-malware software for browser reset, you may choose the “Reset browser settings” option, 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 Win-touchbonus.top 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.
