Recently, I saw a plenty of messages like “my web browser displays me unwanted Yourdesktopguardian.com pop-up advertisements, is it a virus?” or “these Yourdesktopguardian.com pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me mad, how to handle them?”. According to the stats for last months, virus suppliers began a broad adware delivery project. Let me show you, how you can get rid of the viruses from your PC, and also forget about the irritating Yourdesktopguardian.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Yourdesktopguardian.com) offer you pop-up ads. The message can contain something like “do you want to have alerts about the most recent information?” or “allow alerts to be reported regarding latest discount rates?”. Normally, such messages are trustworthy, and can only sidetrack you with its sudden appearing. Also it can be easily disabled, in case notifications from this web site are no longer desired.
Pop-up notifications are fairly an reliable marketing tool. If you have an interest in products of some type, you can give a permission to the pop-ups from the site where you can buy this things, and also as soon as these things are in inventory again, or if you can have a price cut – you will certainly get the notification regarding this. The counterparty – online merchants, cars and truck lending services, etc – will be in profit, too – buyer will definitely get a pointer concerning the item he/she meant to pay for. And such a marketing method is practically free of charge – this factor is really vital for firms.
| Site | Yourdesktopguardian.com |
| IP Address | Yourdesktopguardian.com |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Blue-messenger-wn1.click, Setupcurrentextremelythefile.vip, Shopofprotection.shop |
Yourdesktopguardian.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However sometimes pop-up ads can show up without your confirmation, as well as with an information which is completely various from your existing cares or search queries. And, besides unwanted Yourdesktopguardian.com pop-ups from the unknown origin, you can simultaneously see a great deal of advertisements, consisting of ones on the web pages which initially have no advertisements whatsoever. Such a situation can be the proof of adware presence.
Adware is the type of pc virus which injects into your system, then begins demonstrating to you various promotions. Their content usually has no connection with your typical search queries. Besides banner advertisements, your browser can also display you a significant amount of various Yourdesktopguardian.com pop-up promotions, which come into view in the lower right area.
The model of adware use is very sly. The big pack of adware is dispersed via trojan viruses, which are injected in your desktop earlier. Ads, which are demonstrated to you by malicious app, are paid by their creators. In several weeks, all anti-malware programs began to block these adware, thus, trojan loses in profitability. And to terminate the user’s personal computer, malware distributors start ransomware distribution with these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer system might still be impacted by adware virus. A substantial number of promotions together with Yourdesktopguardian.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your regular jobs will certainly be difficult to perform in normal manner.
How Can I Deal With Yourdesktopguardian.com Pop-Ups?
Presuming the text above: your personal computer, as well as your data, is in a significant danger. To quit this infection, you require to utilize antivirus program. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to deal with Yourdesktopguardian.com pop-ups malware. However, it can not change the browser changes which were put into effect by harmful program. One more disadvantage of the antivirus by Microsoft is its certain vulnerability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender through the Group Policies after being implanted to your desktop.
To be 100% sure that your computer is clean of any malicious programs now, and will be clean in future, I can advice you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and delete all malicious programs on your desktop, including Yourdesktopguardian.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 malware, because it checks only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can see the detected malware sorted by their possible harm simultaneously with the scan process. But to choose any actions against malicious apps, you need to wait until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for every detected malicious 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 Yourdesktopguardian.com virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be located in the Tools tab.
After choosing 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 antivirus programs for browser recovery, you may pick 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 Yourdesktopguardian.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.
