AdentSolutions Pop-up Ads Removal — How to Fix Your Browser?

Written by Wilbur Woodham
AdentSolutions pop-up notifications appear when you do not expect, bothering and annoying you. Still, that is way more than annoying pop-ups – their essence is clearly malicious, and they may install other malicious stuff to your device. In this article, I will show you how to remove AdentSolutions pop-up advertisements and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any time you interact with AdentSolutions pop-up advertisements will be ineffective at best. In worst case scenario, the websites it can show you may introduce malware to your system. These pop-ups can also advertise fake online shopping sites which will take your money and payment info. The latter generally ends up with losing all the money you have on the exposed card.

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What are AdentSolutions push notifications?

As the pop-up definition goes, these are short and small advertisements that attract your attention to a product they promote. But the difference between regular pop-ups and AdentSolutions notifications is the malicious origins of the latter. Common pop-up ads are offered for you to enable on different sites with a straightforward purpose – notify you about the latest publications, discounts and so on. It is a useful thing to help your site to keep visitors and help the interested ones to have the best price.

Brief summary of the Adentsolutions.com pop-ups:
NameAdentsolutions.com
HostingAS29222 Infomaniak
Switzerland, Meyrin
IP Address83.166.133.36
Malware typeAdware1
EffectUnwanted pop-up advertisements
Hazard levelMedium
Malware sourceApps from third-party websites, ads on dubious websites
Similar behaviorScadsstar, Demandheart, Worldcoolnewz
Removal method
To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC

AdentSolutions pop-up notifications, on the other hand, have a deal with untrustworthy websites. You will generally witness the proposition to enable them following the redirection from another website. It’s OK to see redirects unless they throw you to such a questionable place. In this case, turning on pop-ups is offered under the guise of the anti-bot check-up. Alternatively, the websites can deny showing you the content unless you apply these pop-up ads. These theses should be the red flag, as websites usually have a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Seeing such an demand should be the reason to leave the website right away. In some cases, even when you click “Allow”, you will not get to the website – the only page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up notifications.

AdentSolutions push notification

AdentSolutions push notification.

How does this work?

The majority of browsers support enabling push notifications from websites. Sites, on the other hand, may send notifications with the content they want. It may be a promotion of the product listed on this particular website, or a promotion of their partner page. As a result, you may see the pop-up from site X, but interacting with it will throw you to website Y – because a referral link to that website was built in.

Scoundrels rely on this ability in their attempt to earn money using illegal advertising. They trick victims into allowing the pop-ups, and after that just spread numerous banners of anyone they contract with. As you can suppose, no benevolent organisations will have a business with fraudsters. All the AdentSolutions notifications you may see lead to other fraudulent sites. At some point, the same victim can be trapped by several pop-up spamming web pages, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.

The ads these crooks show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It usually provides a negligible pay for one person, but when you have hundreds of victims and show them hundreds of ads each day – that is a way bigger sum. Even though most of these ads giving no result at all, it may still bring all the participants a lot of money.

Are AdentSolutions pop-up notifications dangerous?

Yes, they are. Initially, they may look harmless – just a colourful window that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the things this window promotes differ drastically from what you used to see in pop-up ads. Adentsolutions.com web page is controlled by crooks, who deliberately show hundreds and thousands of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any manners of advertising and can make sporadic pop-up advertisements into a hurricane of banners. For weak systems, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But that is not all troubles these pop-ups carry.

Why people dislike popups

As any other thing that touches illegal ads, AdentSolutions pop-up ads do not contain any legit deals to offer. Even though crooks make the ads looking similar to ones from Walmart or Amazon, the site these banners will throw you to are completely different. And these pages can offer you to turn on other pop-ups, install a “useful” program, or pay for a thing at a big discount and never receive it. Let’s leave aside the cases when pop-up ads promote phishing pages or straightforward malware. There’s no way these pages will bring you any good, thus interacting with them is a very bad idea. For the same reason, AdentSolutions push notifications are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove AdentSolutions pop-ups?

Fortunately, AdentSolutions pop-ups removal is pretty easy. They reside in the web browser and cannot conceal themselves among system files. Nevertheless, as I pointed out before, some push notifications may deliver malware to your system. It is nearly impossible to show all cases, and manual malware removal is inconvenient. For that reason, after removing the source of the pop-up ads the best option is to use anti-malware software. I would especially recommend that if you have never clicked “Allow” to pop-up advertisements, but they still appeared. That can be a sign of malicious software activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both system recovery and malware scanning and removal purposes, thanks to its system recovery functionality and advanced detection system.

Initially, you should reset your browser settings. You can do that in both manual and automatic manner. The former, obviously, takes more time to complete and can be somewhat complicated if you have never done that. Automated supposes the use of anti-malware programs that can reset all browser settings at once.

Reset your browsers with GridinSoft Anti-Malware

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

Tools tab in GridinSoft Anti-Malware

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

Reset Browser Settings tab in GridinSoft Anti-Malware

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

Reset your browsers manually

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. Reseting the Edge browser

  3. 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. The first step to revert Mozilla Firefox

  3. In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option:
  4. The second step of Firefox restoration
    After choosing this option, you will see the next message:
    The last step for Firefox
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 ensure that your browser will connect the right DNS while connecting to the web page you need. Create a text file titled “hosts” on your pc’s desktop, then open it and fill it with the following lines2:


# Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
# localhost name resolution is handle within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost

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.

Scan your system for possible viruses

After removing the AdentSolutions push notifications, it’s time to see if these pop-ups brought any threat to your system. Launch GridinSoft Anti-Malware, and then click on Standard scan. It will be enough in most cases to find and remove malware. The scan will last 5-10 minutes; you are free to use your system during that process.

GridinSoft Anti-Malware during the scan process

Once the scan is complete, you will see the detections or a notification about a clean system. Proceed with pressing the Clean Up button (or OK when nothing is detected).

GridinSoft scan finished

How to Remove AdentSolutions Pop-ups?

Name: AdentSolutions

Description: AdentSolutions - a lot of users became a target for the pop-up advertisements. I have a lot of friends who literally bombed me with the questions like “how to remove Adentsolutions.com push notifications?” or “why do Adentsolutions.com pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with AdentSolutions pop-ups, which may corrupt your browser’s correct performance, and create a lot of troubles while you are working.

Operating System: Windows

Application Category: Adware

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References

  1. More about this malware type on GridinSoft Encyclopedia.
  2. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.

About the author

Wilbur Woodham

I was a technical writer from early in my career, and consider IT Security one of my foundational skills. I’m sharing my experience here, and I hope you find it useful.

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