Advaguru Ads Removal Guide — How to Fix It?

Advaguru pop-up alerts can appear unexpectedly, covering the post of the website you checked or opening your web browser when you don’t need it to be opened.

Clicking on the Advaguru promotion may result in the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this guide, you will see the tutorial of Advaguru popups removal in various ways, and also inspecting your PC for extra malware presence.

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What are Advaguru pop-ups?

Advaguru popups are an effect of adware presence. Adware is a type of malware that demonstrates to you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click promotions, which generates a significant amount of earnings for adware suppliers. These ads may include sometimes shocking composition, or have a link to harmful content/website, because adware maintainers have no purpose to inspect the goodness of the content they are going to show – their solitary target is money.

Advaguru push notification.

Pop-up marketing itself is an excellent, cheap and also extremely effective advertising solution¹. It allows the seller to attach the customers’ attention to their website, as well as the customers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they want to purchase. When the person will get a pop-up alert that the TV set he desires to purchase is provided at the online store he/she saw earlier with a 15% price cut, one will definitely use this chance and buy it. Considering the incredibly small cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising and marketing method is a favourite thing amongst the marketing departments of huge internet retail stores.

Nevertheless, such a successful strategy could not be missed by virus creators. Option to show the popup advertisements by force to the people of malware attack is a great basis for malevolent manipulations with the popup advertisements. And Advaguru.com ads is among hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a short details for the Advaguru site

How have I got the Advaguru virus?

There are a number of methods of becoming contaminated by the adware that cause the Advaguru popups storm. A lion’s part of this computer virus cases is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Freeware may likewise be downloaded from the main web page, and the adware is provided as a legit bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A lot of users often use the unreliable programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, a wide range of tools that are free of cost, and even hacked programs. All of these types of software are unsafe, due to the fact that it is very easy to build in a Advaguru malware under the cover of part of the license hacking script, or as a part of the self-made algoritm within the Windows optimization tool.

Advaguru popup malware may likewise be hidden in the ad somewhere on the unusual website. Such web pages are typically packed with bright and blinking ads, and their owners often accept any kind of promos to be placed on their web page. For this reason, clicking such banners is a shot in the dark: only the ad contractor knows what will happen when you press this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you can additionally get something far more dangerous, like ransomware or coin miner; the large share of coin miners circulation is exactly after the malicious ads.

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

Potentially undesirable applications, like Advaguru popup virus may provoke a lot of troubles on your personal computer. Distracting is not the only problem – pop-ups may present you the banners, where you are offered to get one more dubious application, or “a perfect security tool”. Scareware is often spread with the use of the last slogun. Potentially undesirable programs, in turn, may have spyware functionality. And it is pretty hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a legit one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and fake antiviruses, popup-related promotions are also used as a distribution method by various trojan viruses, for example – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such viruses is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not interacting with these banners, they can be clicked by someone who also uses your personal computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve it without data loss. It is recommended to remove the viruses with antivirus applications as soon as possible.

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

The manual of Advaguru adware clearing consists of 2 sections. First, we need to get rid of the malware, and after that correct the effects of its activity. The elimination process is quite easy, due to the fact that it may be executed even with the use of Microsoft Defender – anti-malware program that is present on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. Nevertheless, as a result of its significant resources consumption, as well as some failures that may be crucial for some types of users, Defender is frequently turned off by the users, so its usage is most likely impossible. Moreover, a wide range of trojan viruses are capable to shut off the embedded antivirus. It is better to make use of the separated program that will not have such weakness.

I’d suggest you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven security tool that will undoubtedly exterminate the viruses from your system and create an impenetrable shield with a Proactive protection function. But let’s handle Advaguru adware first.

Removing Advaguru 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 Advaguru 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 ensure that your web browser will connect the right DNS while connecting to the web page you need. Create a text file named “hosts” on your computer’s 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.

Nonetheless, there is one trouble that makes things much more difficult to repair, particularly without the anti-malware software. Most of adware variations that are used to show you the Advaguru pop-up promotions are adjusting the deep browser settings, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to change your browser settings after your machine was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will certainly collapse soon. In some cases, you will see no crash, however, significant lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 secs, and then it will be back to the typical, until you try to open settings again.

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 advertisements on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware overview and also the reasons why I recommend it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.