Remove Download-readynow Pop-up Virus — How to Remove?

Download-readynow pop-up notices may show up out of the blue, covering the material of the page you checked or opening your browser when you don’t wish it to be opened.

Clicking the Download-readynow ad may trigger the injection of other malware or unwanted programs. In this post, you will see the tutorial of Download-readynow popups removal in several manners, and also inspecting your system for additional viruses existence.

What are Download-readynow pop-ups?

Download-readynow popups are a consequence of adware presence. Adware is a type of malware that presents you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which creates a substantial amount of earnings for adware representatives. These advertisements may contain sometimes shocking composition, or have a web link to malevolent content/website, considering that adware maintainers have no reason to examine the goodness of the material they are going to show – their single target is cash.

Download-readynow push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is an excellent, cheap and also really productive marketing method¹. It permits the vendor to attach the customers’ attention to their site, and the customers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to buy. When the person will receive a pop-up alert that the TV set he likes to buy is provided at the online shop he/she saw earlier with a 15% discount, one will definitely use this opportunity and purchase it. Taking into consideration the exceptionally low cost for the popups and their targeting, such a marketing method is a favourite thing among the advertising teams of big online retailers.

Nonetheless, such a successful strategy could not be missed by virus developers. Ability to show the popup advertisements forcibly to the targets of malware attack is an ideal basis for malicious manipulations with the popup ads. And Download-readynow.com ads is one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a details for the Download-readynow site

How have I got the Download-readynow virus?

There are a huge amount of ways of getting infected by the adware that create the Download-readynow popups storm. A lion’s part of this malware instances is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Free software may also be downloaded from the official web page, and the adware is presented as a legitimate bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A huge amount of people regularly use the uncertain programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, a wide range of utilities that are free, and even hacked programs. All of these kinds of programs are unsafe, due to the fact that it is very easy to include a Download-readynow 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.

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

How can I get rid of Download-readynow pop-up advertisements?

The manual of Download-readynow adware removal includes 2 sections. First, we need to eliminate the malware, and afterwards fix the results of its action. The elimination process is very easy, due to the fact that it can be done even with the use of Microsoft Defender – anti-virus program that is present on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nonetheless, as a result of its substantial resources utilization, as well as some defects that can be crucial for some types of individuals, Defender is frequently turned off by the users, so its use is likely impossible. What’s more, different trojan viruses are able to turn off the embedded antivirus. It is far better to make use of the separated program that will not have such weakness.

• 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 Download-readynow malware the default option is “Delete”. Press “Apply” to finish the malware removal.

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 appropriate DNS while connecting to the site 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.

However, there is one problem that makes the things much more difficult to fix, particularly without the anti-malware program. The majority of adware versions that are utilized to show you the Download-readynow pop-up ads are adjusting the deep browser setups, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to change your browser settings after your PC was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will collapse quickly. In certain cases, you will see no crash, but large lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 secs, and afterwards it will be back to the typical, till you try to open settings once more.

1. More about pop-up ads on Wikipedia.
2. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.