Recently, I saw a huge amount of posts like “my browser demonstrates to me undesirable Winners-lucky.com pop-up advertisements, is it a virus?” or “these Winners-lucky.com pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me crazy, how to take care of them?”. Due to the statistics for last months, computer virus suppliers started a vast adware circulation campaign. Let me show you, how you can erase the viruses from your personal computer, as well as forget about the aggravating Winners-lucky.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Winners-lucky.com) use you pop-up promotions. The message can include something like “do you want to get notifications relating to the most recent news?” or “allow notifications to be reported regarding latest discounts?”. Usually, such messages are risk-free, and may only distract you with its unexpected visual appeal. Moreover, it can be quite easily disabled, in case alerts from this online resource are no longer needed.
Pop-up notifications are fairly an efficient advertising mechanism. If you have an interest in products of some type, you can allow pop-ups from the website where you can purchase this stuff, and as soon as these products are in inventory again, or if you can have a price cut – you will certainly get the notice about this. The counterparty – online merchants, vehicle lending companies, etc – will remain in profit, too – buyer will certainly get a reminder about the product he/she planned to pay for. And also such a marketing approach is almost cost-free – this factor is extremely essential for firms.
| Site | Winners-lucky.com |
| IP Address | 172.67.220.237 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Trymsg.com, Mizmino.ru, Othemyinetere.space |
Winners-lucky.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However occasionally pop-up ads can appear without your approval, as well as with an information which is totally different from your existing attentions or search queries. And, besides undesirable Winners-lucky.com pop-ups from the unknown resource, you can at the same time see a great deal of promotions, consisting of ones on the web pages which originally have no ads whatsoever. Such a scenario can be the indication of adware presence.
Adware is the kind of virus which injects into your personal computer, after that begins demonstrating you numerous promotions. Their content often has no match with your typical search questions. Besides banner ads, your browser can likewise demonstrate to you a massive number of different Winners-lucky.com pop-up ads, which appear in the lower right corner.
The model of adware use is very sly. The large pack of adware is spread with trojan viruses, which are injected in your system earlier. Promotions, which are displayed to you by malicious app, are paid by their creators. In several weeks, all anti-malware programs began to stop these adware, thus, trojan loses in earnings. And to terminate the user’s computer system, virus distributors start ransomware distribution with these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer might continue to be affected by adware virus. A massive amount of advertisements along with Winners-lucky.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your common activities will be impossible to execute in usual manner.
How Can I Deal With Winners-lucky.com Pop-Ups?
Thinking the text above: your personal computer, along with your data, is in a significant danger. To quit this virus, you require to utilize virus removal tool. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to deal with Winners-lucky.com pop-ups virus. Nonetheless, it can not revert the browser alterations which were implemented by malicious program. One more negative aspect of the antivirus by Microsoft is its particular vulnerability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender via the Group Policies after being injected to your computer system.
To be 100% sure that your computer 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 unwanted programs on your computer, including Winners-lucky.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 viruses, because it checks only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can see the detected malicious programs sorted by their possible harm till the scan process. But to perform any actions against malicious apps, 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 the viruses will be moved 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 Winners-lucky.com virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be found in the Tools tab.
After choosing 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 utilizing third-party programs
Besides using anti-malware software for browser reset, you may choose 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:
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 Winners-lucky.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.
