Atoionanruman Ads Removal Guide — How to Fix It?

Atoionanruman pop-up notices can show up unexpectedly, covering the post of the website you checked or opening your browser when you do not desire it to be opened.

Clicking the Atoionanruman promotion can lead to the injection of other malware or unwanted programs. In this article, you will see the tutorial of Atoionanruman popups removal in various methods, and also inspecting your PC for extra viruses existence.

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What are Atoionanruman pop-ups?

Atoionanruman popups are a consequence of adware action. Adware is a kind of malware that suggests you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click ads, which generates a substantial volume of earnings for adware suppliers. These ads might contain sometimes shocking material, or have a web link to malevolent content/website, due to the fact that adware maintainers have no reason to check the goodness of the material they are going to show – their single target is money.

Atoionanruman push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is a good, low-cost and really productive advertising tool¹. It allows the vendor to link the buyers’ attention to their site, and the buyers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to buy. When the customer will receive a pop-up alert that the TV set he wishes to buy is offered at the online shop he/she visited previously with a 15% discount, one will surely use this possibility and purchase it. Taking into consideration the very low cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising and marketing instrument is a much-loved thing amidst the marketing teams of big online stores.

However, such a successful plan could not be missed by malware creators. Option to show the popup advertisements forcibly to the targets of malware attack is a perfect basis for evil-minded tricks with the popup advertisements. And Atoionanruman.com promotions is among hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a summary for the Atoionanruman site

How have I got the Atoionanruman virus?

There are a plenty of methods of getting infected by the adware that create the Atoionanruman popups tornado. A lion’s part of this virus incidents is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Free software may likewise be downloaded from the main website, and the adware is supplied as a legitimate bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A plenty of individuals oftentimes utilize the uncertain programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, different utilities that are free, and even hacked programs. Every one of these kinds of software are dangerous, because it is quite simple to build in a Atoionanruman 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.

Atoionanruman popup malware may also be concealed in the ad somewhere on the unusual web page. Such sites are generally filled with colorful and blinking ads, and their owners often accept any promos to be posted on their page. Therefore, clicking such banners is a risky thing: only the advertisement contractor knows what will occur when you click this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you can likewise receive 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 programs, like Atoionanruman popup virus may provoke a variety of different problems on your personal computer. Distracting is not the single effect – pop-up notifications may present you the ads, where you are offered to get another strange application, or “a effective security tool”. Scareware is usually spread under the last slogun. Potentially unwanted programs, in turn, may have spyware functions. And it is pretty hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a normal one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and dubious antiviruses, popup-related promotions are also exploited as a spreading method by different trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such viruses is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you several hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not tapping these banners, they may be clicked by whoever who also uses your PC – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things may become much more serious, and it will be much harder to deal with it without information loss. It is recommended to get rid of the viruses with antivirus programs as soon as possible.

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

The manual of Atoionanruman adware elimination consists of 2 parts. Initially, we need to deal with the malware, and afterwards deal with the effects of its activity. The elimination task is pretty simple, since it can be executed even with making use of Microsoft Defender – anti-malware tool that is present on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nonetheless, as a result of its huge resources usage, as well as some defects that can be pivotal for some categories of individuals, Defender is oftentimes turned off by the users, so its usage is probably impossible. What’s more, various trojan viruses have the ability to disable the embedded antivirus. It is better to use the separated program that will not have such vulnerabilities.

I would certainly recommend you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven security tool that will surely erase the viruses from your personal computer and create an impenetrable cover with a Proactive protection function. However, let’s handle Atoionanruman adware initially.

Removing Atoionanruman 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 Atoionanruman 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 browser will be connected the right DNS while connecting to the web page you need. Make 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.

Nevertheless, there is one problem that makes the things much harder to restore, particularly without the anti-malware software. The majority of adware versions that are utilized to show you the Atoionanruman pop-up advertisements are adjusting the deep browser settings, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to fix your browser settings after your PC was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will crash soon. Sometimes, you will see no crash, however, significant lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 seconds, and after that it will be back to the normal, until you try to open settings one more time.

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 suggest it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.