How to remove Drsgankru pop-ups? — Fix Guide

Drsgankru pop-up notifications can appear out of the blue, covering the material of the site you explored or opening your browser when you don’t want it to be opened.

Clicking on the Drsgankru advertisement can lead to the injection of various malware or unwanted programs. In this guide, you will see the guide of Drsgankru popups clearing in a couple of manners, as well as checking your personal computer for extra viruses existence.

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What are Drsgankru pop-ups?

Drsgankru popups are an effect of adware action. Adware is a type of malware that presents you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click ads, which creates a significant amount of revenue for adware suppliers. These advertisements may contain explicit information, or have a web link to harmful content/website, since adware maintainers have no reason to check the goodness of the material they are going to show – their single target is cash.

Drsgankru push notification.

Pop-up marketing itself is a good, affordable and very productive advertising instrument¹. It allows the seller to attach the customers’ interest to their website, and the buyers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to buy. When the customer will get a pop-up notification that the TV set he likes to purchase is offered at the online shop he/she saw earlier with a 15% price cut, one will surely use this possibility and buy it. Considering the incredibly low cost for the popups and their targeting, such a promotion and marketing method is a favorite thing amongst the marketing teams of big internet retail stores.

Nevertheless, such a rewarding plan could not be missed by malware creators. Ability to demonstrate the popup ads by force to the targets of malware attack is an excellent basis for malicious adjustments with the popup advertisements. And Drsgankrum.com advertisements is just one of hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a short summary for the Drsgankru site

How have I got the Drsgankru virus?

There are a number of methods of getting contaminated by the adware that trigger the Drsgankru popups storm. A lion’s part of this virus cases is after the free software or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Free software may likewise be downloaded from the official web page, and the adware is delivered as a legal bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A plenty of individuals oftentimes utilize the unreliable programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, a wide range of tools that are free of cost, or even hacked programs. All of these sorts of software are risky, since it is very easy to integrate a Drsgankru 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.

Drsgankru popup virus may likewise be hidden in the ad somewhere on the odd site. Such web pages are in most cases full of intense and blinking advertisements, and their owners generally approve any promotions to be placed on their web page. Hence, clicking on such banners is a risky thing: only the advertisement contractor realizes what will happen when you press this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you can also get something much more threatening, like ransomware or coin miner; the substantial share of coin miners distribution is exactly after the malicious ads.

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

Potentially undesirable applications, like Drsgankru popup virus may cause a variety of problems on your computer. Distracting is not the single effect – pop-up notifications may show you the ads, where you are offered to get another dubious program, or “a perfect security tool”. Scareware is usually spread with the last motto. Potentially undesirable applications, in turn, can have spyware functionality. And it is quite hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a legit one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the potentially unwanted programs and fake antiviruses, popup-related advertisements are also chosen as a spreading way by various trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of activity of such viruses is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you hundreds or even thousands of dollars. And even if you are not tapping these ads, they can be clicked by whoever who also makes use of your computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things may become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve it without information loss. It is recommended to wipe out the viruses with antivirus programs as soon as possible.

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

The guide of Drsgankru adware clearing contains 2 sections. First, we need to exterminate the malware, and afterwards deal with the consequences of its action. The removal procedure is quite simple, since it may be performed even with using Microsoft Defender – anti-malware software that is present on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nevertheless, as a result of its large resources usage, along with some defects that may be critical for some kinds of individuals, Defender is often disabled by the users, so its usage is probably impossible. Additionally, a variety of trojan viruses are able to shut off the embedded antivirus. It is better to use the separated program that will not have such vulnerabilities.

I’d suggest you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven anti-malware tool that will certainly erase the viruses from your personal computer and make an invulnerable shield with a Proactive protection function. But let’s deal with Drsgankru adware first.

Removing Drsgankru 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 Drsgankru 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 appropriate DNS while connecting to the site you need. Create a text file named “hosts” on your desktop, after that 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 trouble that makes things a lot harder to fix, especially without the anti-malware software. A lot of adware variations that are used to show you the Drsgankru pop-up ads are adjusting the deep browser configurations, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to fix your browser settings after your machine was infected by pop-up-related malware, your browser will certainly crash quickly. In some cases, you will see no crash, but large lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 secs, and afterwards it will be back to the typical, until 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 the reasons why I advise it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.