Last week, I saw a huge amount of messages like “my web browser displays me unwanted Yourcommonfeed.com pop-up promotions, is it a computer virus?” or “these Yourcommonfeed.com pop-up ads in my Chrome making me crazy, how to handle them?”. Due to the stats for last months, computer virus suppliers began a broad adware distribution campaign. Let me show you, how you can remove the computer viruses from your personal computer, and forget about the bothersome Yourcommonfeed.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Yourcommonfeed.com) offer you pop-up promotions. The message can include something like “do you want to have notifications concerning the latest news?” or “enable alerts to be reported regarding recent discount rates?”. Typically, such messages are risk-free, and may just sidetrack you with its abrupt appearance. Also it can be simply turned off, in case alerts from this online resource are no longer required.
Pop-up notices are fairly an effective advertising tool. If you have an interest in products of some sort, you can enable pop-ups from the web site where you can buy this stuff, and as soon as these things are in store again, or if you can have a discount – you will certainly obtain the alert regarding this. The counterparty – online merchants, car lending companies, etc – will certainly remain in profit, too – customer will certainly get a suggestion about the item he/she planned to buy. And such a marketing method is practically free – this factor is very important for corporations.
| Site | Yourcommonfeed.com |
| IP Address | 139.45.197.172 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Nversationa.biz, Blackflightfind.tw, Club-news.xyz |
Yourcommonfeed.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But sometimes pop-up ads can come out without your approval, as well as with a text which is entirely various from your current attentions or search questions. And, besides undesirable Yourcommonfeed.com pop-ups from the unknown origin, you can simultaneously see a lot of ads, including ones on the web pages which originally have no advertisements at all. Such a situation can be the indicator of adware existence.
Adware is the sort of computer virus which infiltrates into your computer, then starts demonstrating to you various promotions. Their material , in most cases, has no connection with your usual search queries. Besides banner promotions, your web browser can additionally show you a substantial amount of different Yourcommonfeed.com pop-up promotions, which show up in the bottom right corner.
The model of adware usage is extremely sly. The huge pack of adware is distributed through trojan viruses, which are injected in your PC earlier. Advertisements, which are suggested to you by virus, are paid by their makers. In several weeks, all anti-malware programs began to catch these adware, for this reason, trojan loses in productivity. And to end up the user’s personal computer, virus distributors begin ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your desktop may continue to be influenced by adware virus. A big quantity of ads along with Yourcommonfeed.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your typical work will certainly be difficult to perform in common manner.
How Can I Deal With Yourcommonfeed.com Pop-Ups?
Concluding the paragraphs above: your computer, and your information, is in a major risk. To stop this virus, you require to make use of antivirus software. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to deal with Yourcommonfeed.com pop-ups virus. Nonetheless, it can’t reset the browser alterations which were applied by harmful program. An additional drawback of the antivirus by Microsoft is its particular vulnerability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender via the Group Policies after being implanted to your PC.
To be 100% sure that your personal computer is clean of any malware 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 personal computer, including Yourcommonfeed.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 viruses, because it scans only the most popular registry entries and directories.
You can spectate the detected malicious programs 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 set the action for each spotted malicious or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected virus. By default, all malware 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 cannot be counteracted by Yourcommonfeed.com virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be located in the Tools tab.
After choosing the Reset Browser Settings option, the menu will be displayed, where you can specify, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without utilizing third-party programs
Besides using anti-malware tools for browser recovery, 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:
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 Yourcommonfeed.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.
