Last week, I saw a huge amount of posts like “my web browser displays me undesirable Yourwowfeed.com pop-up advertisements, is it a computer virus?” or “these Yourwowfeed.com pop-up advertisements in my Chrome making me crazy, how to manage them?”. According to the statistics for last months, virus suppliers began a large adware distribution project. Let me demonstrate you, how you can erase the pc virus from your computer system, as well as forget about the annoying Yourwowfeed.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Yourwowfeed.com) use you pop-up advertisements. The message can include something like “do you want to get notifications concerning the latest news?” or “permit alerts to be reported about recent discounts?”. Generally, such messages are riskless, and can just distract you with its sudden showing up. And it can be simply turned off, in case alerts from this site are no longer required.
Pop-up alerts are rather an reliable advertising mechanism. If you want items of some type, you can enable pop-ups from the website where you can acquire this things, and also as quickly as these items are in store again, or if you can have a discount – you will obtain the notice concerning this. The counterparty – online retailers, cars and truck lending companies, etc – will be in profit, too – customer will surely get a reminder concerning the item he/she intended to pay for. And such a marketing technique is practically cost-free – this element is really vital for corporations.
| Site | Yourwowfeed.com |
| IP Address | 139.45.197.138 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Chultoux.com, News-cuviwo.cc, Icotocotac.biz |
Yourwowfeed.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But occasionally pop-up ads can appear without your confirmation, and also with a text which is totally various from your present attentions or search queries. And, besides undesirable Yourwowfeed.com pop-ups from the unknown website, you can at the same time see a lot of ads, consisting of ones on the web pages which at first have no advertisements at all. Such a situation can be the sign of adware presence.
Adware is the kind of virus which infiltrates into your PC, and then begins displaying you various ads. Their subject , in most cases, has no match with your ordinary search questions. Besides banner advertisements, your web browser can additionally demonstrate you a big amount of various Yourwowfeed.com pop-up advertisements, which come into view in the bottom right area.
The model of adware use is extremely sly. The large pack of adware is distributed through trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your desktop previously. Ads, which are displayed to you by malicious app, are paid by their creators. In a few weeks, all antivirus programs began to block these adware, thus, trojan loses in earnings. And to terminate the user’s computer, virus distributors start ransomware distribution with these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer system may continue to be influenced by adware virus. A huge number of ads in addition to Yourwowfeed.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your common jobs will be impossible to execute in typical manner.
How Can I Deal With Yourwowfeed.com Pop-Ups?
Assuming the text above: your personal computer, as well as your data, is in a major danger. To quit this virus, you require to use anti-virus program. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to deal with Yourwowfeed.com pop-ups virus. However, it can’t reset the web browser changes which were put into effect by malicious program. An additional negative aspect of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its particular susceptability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender through the Group Policies after being infiltrated to your desktop.
To be 100% sure that your PC 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 remove all malicious applications on your PC, including Yourwowfeed.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 malicious apps, because it checks only the most popular registry entries and directories.
You can see the detected viruses sorted by their possible hazard till the scan process. But to perform any actions against malicious programs, you need to wait until the scan is over, 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 malicious app. By default, all the viruses will be moved to quarantine.
Reverting browser settings to original ones
To reset your browser settings, you need to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action cannot be intercepted by Yourwowfeed.com 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 applications
Besides using anti-malware software for browser restoration, you may choose the “Reset browser settings” option, 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 Yourwowfeed.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.
