Last week, I saw a lot of messages like “my browser demonstrates me unwanted Video-closed.com pop-up ads, is it a pc virus?” or “these Video-closed.com pop-up ads in my Chrome making me mad, how to handle them?”. According to the statistics for last months, computer virus creators began a massive adware distribution campaign. Let me demonstrate you, how you can erase the computer viruses from your computer system, and forget about the frustrating Video-closed.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Video-closed.com) show you pop-up ads. The message can have something like “do you want to have alerts about the most recent news?” or “permit notifications to be reported about new price cuts?”. Usually, such messages are safe, and can only distract you with its abrupt appearance. Plus it can be quickly disabled, in case alerts from this web site are no longer desired.
Pop-up alerts are rather an efficient marketing tool. If you have an interest in items of some kind, you can enable pop-ups from the internet site where you can get this stuff, and also as soon as these items are in stock again, or if you can have a price cut – you will certainly obtain the alert regarding this. The counterparty – online merchants, car lending companies, etc – will certainly remain in profit, too – purchaser will definitely obtain a reminder concerning the item he/she meant to buy. As well as such an advertising method is practically free of charge – this factor is really essential for firms.
| Site | Video-closed.com |
| IP Address | 52.222.139.53 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Notificationnewshome.com, Celldablad.live, Shopenfly.live |
Video-closed.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However in some cases pop-up ads can appear without your permission, as well as with an information which is entirely different from your present interests or search questions. And, besides undesirable Video-closed.com pop-ups from the unknown origin, you can simultaneously see a great deal of ads, consisting of ones on the pages which originally have no ads at all. Such a scenario can be the indication of adware existence.
Adware is the kind of pc virus which injects into your PC, then starts demonstrating you different ads. Their material , in most cases, has no match with your usual search queries. Besides banner ads, your web browser can also suggest you a significant amount of various Video-closed.com pop-up advertisements, which appear in the lower right area.
The model of adware usage is extremely sly. The big pack of adware is dispersed via trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your system earlier. Advertisements, which are suggested to you by malicious app, are paid by their creators. In a few weeks, all anti-malware programs began to stop these adware, hence, trojan loses in profitability. And to ruin the user’s personal computer, virus distributors begin ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your PC may continue to be influenced by adware virus. A significant quantity of ads together with Video-closed.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your common activities will be difficult to execute in common way.
How Can I Deal With Video-closed.com Pop-Ups?
Presuming the paragraphs above: your computer, as well as your data, is in a serious danger. To quit this infection, you require to use security program. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to take care of Video-closed.com pop-ups malware. Nonetheless, it can’t change the browser changes which were applied by harmful program. Another drawback of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its certain vulnerability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender through the Group Policies after being injected to your computer.
To be 100% sure that your personal computer is clean of any malware 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 Video-closed.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 directories.
You can see the detected viruses sorted by their possible harm during the scan process. But to choose any actions against malicious apps, you need to hold on until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for each spotted virus or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malicious program. By default, all malware will be moved to quarantine.
Reset 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 Video-closed.com virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be located 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 programs for browser restoration, you may choose the “Reset browser settings” function, 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 Video-closed.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.
