Bestmeal Ads Removal Guide — How to Fix It?

Bestmeal pop-up alerts may show up out of the blue, covering the post of the website you checked or opening your browser when you do not wish it to be opened.

Clicking the Bestmeal advertisement can cause the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this guide, you will see the guideline of Bestmeal popups clearing in several ways, and also examining your computer for additional malware existence.

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What are Bestmeal pop-ups?

Bestmeal popups are an effect of adware activity. Adware is a type of malware that shows you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click ads, which generates a massive amount of revenue for adware representatives. These promotions might consist of explicit composition, or have a link to malicious content/website, due to the fact that adware maintainers have no purpose to examine the goodness of the material they are going to show – their solitary target is money.

Bestmeal push notification.

Pop-up promotions itself is an excellent, low-priced and extremely efficient advertising solution¹. It permits the seller to link the customers’ attention to their site, as well as the buyers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they want to purchase. When the customer will get a pop-up alert that the TV set he wishes to purchase is available at the online shop he/she saw earlier with a 15% discount, one will certainly use this possibility and buy it. Taking into consideration the very low price for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising instrument is a favourite thing amidst the marketing departments of huge online stores.

However, such a successful strategy could not be missed by virus creators. Ability to show the popup ads by force to the people of malware invasion is an ideal basis for evil-minded tricks with the popup ads. And Bestmeal.xyz promotions is just one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a short details for the Bestmeal

How have I got the Bestmeal virus?

There are a plenty of ways of becoming infected by the adware that result in the Bestmeal popups tornado. A lion’s part of this virus incidents is after the free software or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Free software can also be downloaded from the main website, and the adware is offered as a legitimate bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A number of individuals often use the uncertain programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, various apps that are free, or perhaps hacked programs. All of these sorts of software are unsafe, because it is very easy to integrate a Bestmeal malware under the cover of part of the license hacking script, or as a component of the self-made algoritm within the Windows optimization tool.

Bestmeal popup malware can additionally be concealed in the promotion somewhere on the strange website. Such web pages are typically full of bright and blinking advertisements, and their proprietors often accept any promotions to be placed on their page. Therefore, clicking such banners is a shot in the dark: only the advertisement provider knows what will happen when you press this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you may additionally receive something much more dangerous, like ransomware or coin miner; the big share of coin miners distribution is exactly after the malicious advertisements.

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

Potentially undesirable programs, like Bestmeal pop-up virus can provoke a variety of troubles on your personal computer. Distracting is not the single problem – pop-up notifications can present you the banners, where you are offered to get one more unknown program, or “a perfect anti-malware tool”. Scareware is usually distributed with the use of the last motto. Potentially unwanted applications, in turn, may have spyware functions. And it is quite hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a normal one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and fake antiviruses, popup-related advertisements are also exploited as a spreading way by various trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such malware is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you several hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not tapping these ads, they may be clicked by whoever who also uses your PC – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the situation may become much more serious, and it will be much harder to deal with it without data and money loss. It is recommended to eliminate the viruses with antivirus applications as soon as possible.

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

The manual of Bestmeal adware removal contains 2 sections. First, we need to exterminate the malware, and after that correct the results of its action. The elimination task is really simple, because it may be done even with using Microsoft Defender – anti-malware program that is present on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. However, due to its substantial resources usage, along with some bugs that may be crucial for some types of users, Defender is oftentimes disabled by the users, so its usage is likely impossible. Moreover, different trojan viruses can switch off the embedded antivirus. It is far better to make use of the separated program that will not have such exposures.

I would certainly suggest you to utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven security device that will certainly eliminate the malware from your system and also make an invulnerable cover with a Proactive protection function. But let’s handle Bestmeal adware initially.

Removing Bestmeal 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 Bestmeal 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 definitely connect the proper DNS while connecting to the site you want. Make a text file titled “hosts” on your desktop, then open it and fill it with the following lines³:

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 the things much harder to fix, specifically without the anti-malware software. Most of adware variations that are used to show you the Bestmeal pop-up advertisements are adjusting the deep browser configurations, 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 crash quickly. In some cases, you will see no crash, however, huge lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 secs, and then it will be back to the normal, till you try to open settings once 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 ads 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.