Remove Addssupport Pop-up Ads — How to Fix Gude

Addssupport pop-up notifications can show up out of the blue, covering the subject of the page you visited or opening your web browser when you don’t want it to be opened.

Clicking on the Addssupport advertisement may lead to the injection of various malware or unwanted programs. In this guide, you will see the guideline of Addssupport popups removal in several manners, and also checking your PC for extra malware existence.

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What are Addssupport pop-ups?

Addssupport popups are a result of adware presence. Adware is a type of malware that suggests you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which creates a substantial volume of earnings for adware representatives. These promotions may have explicit content, or have a web link to malevolent content/website, since adware maintainers have no reason to check the goodness of the content they are going to show – their solitary target is money.

Addssupport push notification.

Pop-up marketing itself is a very good, cheap and very successful advertising solution¹. It enables the seller to attach the customers’ attention to their site, and the customers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they wish to buy. When the consumer will receive a pop-up notification that the TV set he wishes to purchase is available at the online shop he/she checked out earlier with a 15% discount, one will certainly use this possibility and buy it. Taking into consideration the incredibly low price for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising and marketing method is a favourite thing among the marketing departments of huge online sellers.

Nonetheless, such a rewarding plan could not be missed by virus developers. Potential to show the popup advertisements by force to the targets of malware invasion is a perfect basis for evil-minded tricks with the popup ads. And Addssupport.com advertisements is among hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a info for the Addssupport

How have I got the Addssupport virus?

There are a lot of ways of getting infected by the adware that result in the Addssupport popups storm. A lion’s part of this computer virus incidents is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Free software can likewise be downloaded from the official site, and the adware is delivered as a legitimate bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A plenty of people often make use of the uncertain programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, different tools that are free, or even hacked programs. Every one of these sorts of programs are unsafe, because it is extremely easy to include a Addssupport malware under the guise of part of the license hacking script, or as a component of the self-made algoritm inside of the Windows optimization tool.

Addssupport popup virus can also be concealed in the advertisement somewhere on the unusual website. Such websites are generally loaded with intense and blinking advertisements, and their proprietors often accept any type of promotions to be posted on their page. Hence, clicking such banners is a risky thing: only the ad provider realizes what will happen when you click this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you may additionally get something a lot more risky, like ransomware or coin miner; the large share of coin miners circulation is exactly after the malicious promotions.

The statistic shows that people dislike popup advertising more than other types of promotions

Potentially undesirable applications, like Addssupport pop-up virus can initiate a wide range of different problems on your personal computer. Distracting is not the single effect – pop-ups can present you the promotions, where you are offered to download another strange application, or “a perfect security tool”. Scareware is often distributed with the last motto. Potentially undesirable programs, in turn, may have spyware functionality. And it is very hard to distinguish the undesirable app from a legit one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and pseudo antiviruses, popup-related promotions are also exploited as a distribution method by different trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of activity of such viruses is 100% unwanted, and can cost you several hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not tapping these banners, they may be clicked by someone who also makes use of your PC – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the situation may become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve it without information loss. It is recommended to get rid of the viruses with anti-malware applications as soon as possible.

How can I get rid of Addssupport pop-up advertisements?

The tutorial of Addssupport adware removal consists of 2 parts. First, we need to remove the malware, and after that correct the effects of its action. The elimination task is pretty easy, due to the fact that it may be performed even with making use of Microsoft Defender – anti-virus software that is available on all computers with Windows 8/10. However, as a result of its huge resources usage, along with some bugs that can be critical for some types of users, Defender is frequently turned off by the users, so its use is most likely impossible. In addition, a wide range of trojan viruses are capable to shut off the embedded antivirus. It is much better to make use of the separated program that will not have such vulnerabilities.

I’d recommend you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven anti-malware device that will definitely erase the viruses from your personal computer and also make an impenetrable cover with a Proactive protection function. But let’s take care of Addssupport adware first.

Removing Addssupport popup virus with GridinSoft Anti-Malware

• Download and install GridinSoft Anti-Malware. After the installation, you will be offered to perform the Standard Scan. Approve this action.

• Standard scan checks the logical disk where the system files are stored, together with the files of programs you have already installed. The scan lasts up to 6 minutes.

• When the scan is over, you may choose the action for each detected virus. For all files of Addssupport malware the default option is “Delete”. Press “Apply” to finish the malware removal.

Now, when the computer is clean of viruses, we can proceed to the browser reset. You can do this step manually, as well as with the use of GridinSoft Anti-Malware.

Reset browser settings to default

Manual method of browser reset

To reset Edge, do the following steps :

1. Open “Settings and more” tab in upper right corner, then find here “Settings” button. In the appeared menu, choose “Reset settings” option :

2. After picking the Reset Settings option, you will see the following menu, stating about the settings which will be reverted to original :

For Mozilla Firefox, do the next actions :

1. Open Menu tab (three strips in upper right corner) and click the “Help” button. In the appeared menu choose “troubleshooting information” :

2. In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option :

After choosing this option, you will see the next message :

If you use Google Chrome

1. Open Settings tab, find the “Advanced” button. In the extended tab choose the “Reset and clean up” button :

2. In the appeared list, click on the “Restore settings to their original defaults” :

3. Finally, you will see the window, where you can see all the settings which will be reset to default :

Opera can be reset in the next way

1. 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 :


2. After clicking the “Restore settings…” button, you will see the window, where all settings, which will be reset, are shown :

When the browsers are reset, you need to make sure that your browser will be connected the appropriate DNS while connecting to the web page you need. Create a text file named “hosts” on your desktop, then open it and fill it with the following content³:

Find the hosts.txt file in C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc directory. Rename this file to “hosts.old.txt” (to distinguish it from the new one), and then move the file you created on the desktop to this folder. Remove the hosts.old from this folder. Now you have your hosts file as good as new.

Nevertheless, there is one issue that makes the things a lot more difficult to restore, especially without the anti-malware software. Most of adware variants that are used to show you the Addssupport pop-up promotions are adjusting the deep browser setups, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you attempt to fix your browser settings after your system was infected by pop-up-related malware, your browser will certainly crash quickly. Sometimes, you will see no crash, however, significant lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 secs, and after that it will be back to the typical, up until you attempt to open settings once more.

Reset your browser settings with GridinSoft Anti-Malware

To reset your browser with GridinSoft Anti-Malware, open the Tools tab, and click the “Reset browser settings” button.

You can see the list of the options for each browser. By default, they are set up in the manner which fits the majority of users. Press the “Reset” button (lower right corner). In a minute your browser will be as good as new.

The browser reset is recommended to perform through the antivirus tool by GridinSoft, because last is also able to reset the HOSTS file without any additional commands.

1. More about pop-up ads on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware review and the reasons why I suggest it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.