Last week, I saw a huge amount of messages like “my web browser shows me undesirable Yourwownews.com pop-up ads, is it a computer virus?” or “these Yourwownews.com pop-up advertisements in my Chrome making me mad, how to handle them?”. According to the data for last months, computer virus suppliers started a broad adware distribution project. Let me demonstrate you, how you can delete the viruses from your computer system, and also forget about the aggravating Yourwownews.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Yourwownews.com) show you pop-up advertisements. The message can contain something like “do you want to have notifications relating to the most up to date news?” or “allow notifications to be reported regarding recent discounts?”. Usually, such messages are riskless, and can only distract you with its unexpected visual appeal. Plus it can be easily disabled, in case alerts from this site are no longer needed.
Pop-up alerts are fairly an efficient advertising and marketing mechanism. If you have an interest in goods of some kind, you can give a permission to the pop-ups from the internet site where you can purchase this stuff, and also as quickly as these items are in inventory again, or if you can have a discount – you will certainly get the notification about this. The counterparty – online retailers, car lending services, etc – will remain in profit, too – customer will definitely obtain a reminder regarding the product he/she meant to buy. And such an advertising technique is nearly free of charge – this factor is extremely essential for corporations.
| Site | Yourwownews.com |
| IP Address | 139.45.197.139 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Crypt-protection.com, Wirebasicexcite-3.live, Chesstop.xyz |
Yourwownews.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But often pop-up promotions can come out without your approval, and also with an information which is completely various from your current attentions or search queries. And, besides unwanted Yourwownews.com pop-ups from the unknown resource, you can at the same time see a lot of ads, consisting of ones on the web pages which primarily have no ads whatsoever. Such a situation can be the indication of adware appearance.
Adware is the type of computer virus which infiltrates into your computer, after that starts displaying you numerous promotions. Their subject typically has no match with your normal search questions. Besides banner ads, your web browser can likewise demonstrate to you a substantial quantity of different Yourwownews.com pop-up advertisements, which appear in the bottom right area.
The model of adware use is very sly. The big pack of adware is dispersed through trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your personal computer earlier. Promotions, which are demonstrated to you by malicious program, are paid by their makers. In several weeks, all antivirus programs began to block these adware, hence, trojan loses in earnings. And to terminate the user’s desktop, virus distributors begin ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer may still be influenced by adware virus. A substantial quantity of promotions in addition to Yourwownews.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your common work will be difficult to carry out in typical manner.
How Can I Deal With Yourwownews.com Pop-Ups?
Concluding the paragraphs above: your desktop, and your information, is in a serious danger. To stop this infection, you require to make use of anti-virus tool. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to handle Yourwownews.com pop-ups virus. Nonetheless, it can not revert the browser changes which were implemented by harmful program. An additional drawback of the antivirus by Microsoft is its specific susceptability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender via the Group Policies after being injected to your PC.
To be 100% sure that your PC 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 erase all unwanted programs on your computer, including Yourwownews.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 scans only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can spectate the detected malware sorted by their possible hazard simultaneously with the scan process. But to choose any actions against malware, you need to hold on until the scan is over, 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 malicious program. By default, all the viruses will be moved to quarantine.
Reset browser settings to original ones
To revert your browser settings, you are required to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action is not able to be counteracted by Yourwownews.com malware, 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 programs
Besides using antivirus software for browser recovery, you can 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 Yourwownews.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.
