Ayont.pro Pop-up Virus — How to Remove Unwanted Ads?

Ayont.pro pop-ups that appear while browsing the Web are a consequence of a malicious software activity that resides in your web browser. Such pop-ups emerge in abundant quantities, distracting and irritating you.

Most of the pop-ups from Ayont.pro site are not relevant to your choices, as it shows any advertising elements it gets a contract for. Given that a large number of services promoted in this fashion are not legitimate, it is apparent to expect them to feature dangerous content. In particular, they can expose you to various types of online frauds.

What are Ayont.pro pop-ups?

By some of the properties, Ayont.pro pop-ups are similar to typical pop-ups you may come across on common sites. However, all the difference – and detriment – originates from this specific website. Pages like Ayont.pro are frequently formed with just one objective – to offer unsuspecting individuals to enable pop-ups and then begin spamming them.

Brief summary of the Ayont.pro pop-up ads:

Name	Ayont.pro
Hosting	AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc. United States, San Francisco
IP Address	172.67.184.226
Malware type	Adware¹
Effect	Unwanted pop-up advertisements
Hazard level	Medium
Malware source	Apps from third-party websites, ads on dubious websites
Similar behavior	Adtrack1ng, Dacont, Notif
Removal method	To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC

Ads by the Ayont.pro site are not trustworthy either. At best, those will be totally unrelated ads, that will still be annoying taking into account the frequency. However, more typical scenarios include advertisements of enigmatic deals with 90% discount, adult web pages ads or scam attempts. Here are some of the classic patterns for pop-up notifications spam:

You have a new message on Facebook/Twitter/WhatsApp *link to a phishing copy of the site*
There are 5 (10,20,50) women near you that wish to chat with you
Collect your 90% discount coupon on this new, totally not scam shopping site
Get a huge crypto bonus for signing in on this new crypto exchange website
Your PC is infected with 15(any number up to 100) viruses, scan your system urgently/contact our tech support
Use this extremely effective system cleaner to speed up your PC

Due to the unlawful promotional model of Ayont.pro, no lawful corporations will really employ their advertisement services. Instead, the whole array of subjects I’ve outlined above is controlled by the same fraudulent persons as those who are responsible for Ayont.pro. Occasionally, upon interaction with the pop-up notification, you might be redirected to another page that offers activating pop-up advertisements. The activity of several origins of pop-ups can transform your web browser into an outlet of a pop-up surge.

Ayont.pro push notification.

Where did Ayont.pro pop-ups come from?

The main and most widespread method to access the pop-up spamming site is to navigate through content on warez sites, pages containing pirated content, and the like. The people responsible for such uncertain venues aim to counterbalance expenses via redirects, often as a promotion tactic. This type of redirection is commonly known as an “anti-bot verification”.

A further plausible source of pop-up advertisements is adware, currently active inside of your system. It alters browser settings in a manner so it begins displaying Ayont.pro pop-ups without your consent. However, this situation is relatively rare, as such malware employs its own, more efficient method to showcasing advertisements.

Are Ayont.pro pop-up advertisements dangerous?

Yes, they are. At the surface, they can look harmless – just a colourful pop-up that appears from time to time. However, the contents of this window differ sharply from what you used to see in pop-up ads. Ayont.pro website is ruled by fraudsters, who intentionally throw tons of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any manners of advertising and can launch sporadic pop-up notifications into a hurricane of promotions. For weak computers, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But troubles are not over at this point.

As any other thing related to illegal ads, Ayont.pro pop-up advertisements do not contain any legit offers. Even when hackers make the ads similar to ones from well-known retailers, the website these ads will throw you to are completely different. And these pages may 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 advertisements 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, Ayont.pro pop-ups are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Ayont.pro pop-ups?

Reset your browsers manually

To reset Edge, do the following steps:

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:

For Mozilla Firefox, do the next actions:

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

The first step to revert Mozilla Firefox

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

If you use Google Chrome

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:

Opera can be reset in the next way

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:

When the browsers are reset, you need to ensure that your browser will connect the right DNS while connecting to the site 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

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).

References

Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.