How to remove getfiles.wiki/redirect.php?

getfiles.wiki/redirect.php redirect appear when you do not expect, distracting and irritating you. Still, they are slightly more than annoying notifications – their essence is purely malicious, and they can introduce other malicious stuff to your device. In this article, I will show you the guide how to remove getfiles.wiki/redirect.php redirects and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any time you interact with getfiles.wiki/redirect.php pop-ups will be ineffective at best. At worst, the pages it can open may introduce malware to your system. These pop-up notifications may also promote fake online shopping sites which will take your money and payment info. The latter generally ends up with losing all the money you have on the exposed card.

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What are getfiles.wiki/redirect.php?

As the pop-up definition goes, these are short and small advertisements that attract your attention to a product they promote. But the difference between regular pop-up notifications and getfiles.wiki/redirect.php pop-ups is the malicious origins of the latter. Common pop-up notifications are offered for you to enable with a benevolent purpose – keep you aware about the new publications, discounts and so on. It is a useful thing to help your site to keep visitors and help the interested users to have the best price.

Short summary of the Getfiles.wiki pop-ups:

getfiles.wiki/redirect.php pop-up ads, as opposed, have a deal with untrustworthy sites. You will generally observe the offer to enable them following the redirection from another site. It’s OK to see redirects unless they throw you into such a dubious place. In this case, turning on pop-ups is served under the guise of the anti-DDoS check-up. In other cases, the websites may refuse to show you the content unless you enable these pop-up ads. These theses should already raise suspicion, as websites commonly feature a different anti-bot mechanism. Seeing such an requirement is a reason to close the site doubtlessly. Sometimes, even when you click “Allow”, you will not see the website – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up notifications.

getfiles.wiki/redirect.php push notification.

How does it work?

The vast majority of web browsers support turning on push notifications from websites. Sites, on the other hand, can send out notifications with the content of their choice. It can be a promotion of the product or a page published on this particular website, as well as a promotion of their partner page. As a result, you can see the push notification from site X, but opening it will direct you to website Y – because a referral link to that website was built in.

Scoundrels rely on this ability in their approach to earn money through advertising. They trick victims into turning on pop-ups, and after that just spread numerous promotions of anyone they have a deal with. As you may suppose, no normal organisations will have a deal with fraudsters. All the getfiles.wiki/redirect.php notifications you may see lead to other fraudulent sites. In some cases, the same user can be trapped by several pop-up spamming sites, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.

The ads these crooks show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It usually provides a miserable payment for one person, but when you can send ads to hundreds of victims and show them hundreds of ads every day – that is a much more significant sum. Even though the majority of these banners giving no result at all, it can still give all the participants a lot of profit.

Are getfiles.wiki/redirect.php pop-up ads dangerous?

Yes, they are. At the surface, they can look safe – just a blinking window that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the contents of this window differ drastically from what you generally see in pop-up advertisements. Getfiles.wiki site is ruled by fraudsters, who intendedly show hundreds and thousands of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any manners of advertising and can launch sporadic pop-ups into a hurricane of banners. For weak computers, that may be enough to make the system slower. But problems are not over at this point.

As any other thing that touches illegal ads, getfiles.wiki/redirect.php redirects do not contain any legit offers. Even though crooks make the ads looking 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, getfiles.wiki/redirect.php pop-ups are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove getfiles.wiki/redirect.php pop-ups?

Fortunately, getfiles.wiki/redirect.php pop-up advertisements removal is not very complicated. They sit in the browser and cannot conceal themselves on a disk. However, as I stated before, some pop-up advertisements can introduce malicious programs to your system. It is hard to describe all cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is inconvenient. For that reason, after disabling the redirects the best option is to use anti-malware software. I would especially recommend that in the case when you have never clicked “Allow” to push notifications, but they still appeared. That can be a sign of malicious software activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will perfectly fit both recovery and malware scanning and removal purposes, because of its system recovery functionality and multi-component detection system.

First and foremost, you should reset your browser settings. You can do that in both manual and automatic manner. The former, obviously, takes more time to complete and can be somewhat complicated if you have never done that. Automated supposes the use of anti-malware programs that can reset all browser settings at once.

Reset your browsers 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 options for each browser. By default, they are set up in a manner that 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 the latter is also able to reset the HOSTS file without any additional commands.

Reset your browsers manually

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 connect the right DNS while connecting to the web page you need. Create a text file titled “hosts” on your pc’s desktop, then open it and fill it with the following lines²:

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

After removing the getfiles.wiki/redirect.php redirects, it’s time to see if these pop-ups brought any threat to your system. Launch GridinSoft Anti-Malware, and then click on Standard scan. It will be enough in most cases to find and remove malware. The scan will last 5-10 minutes; you are free to use your system during that process.

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).

1. More about this malware type on GridinSoft Encyclopedia.
2. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.