Remove Haenkyouv Pop-up Ads — How to Fix Gude

Haenkyouv pop-up alerts can show up out of the blue, covering the content of the site you checked or opening your browser when you don’t desire it to be opened.

Clicking on the Haenkyouv promotion may result in the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this guide, you will see the tutorial of Haenkyouv popups removal in various ways, as well as inspecting your personal computer for other viruses existence.

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What are Haenkyouv pop-ups?

Haenkyouv popups are an outcome of adware activity. Adware is a sort of malware that suggests you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click promotions, which generates a large amount of profit for adware suppliers. These ads may have explicit information, or have a web link to malevolent content/website, since adware maintainers have no purpose to check the goodness of the content they are going to show – their single target is cash.

Haenkyouv push notification.

Pop-up promotions itself is an excellent, affordable and very successful advertising tool¹. It allows the seller to link the customers’ attention to their website, as well as the customers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to buy. When the consumer will receive a pop-up notification that the TV set he likes to buy is offered at the online shop he/she visited earlier with a 15% discount, one will definitely use this opportunity and get it. Considering the extremely small cost for the popups and their targeting, such a promotion and marketing method is a much-loved thing among the marketing teams of big online retailers.

Nonetheless, such a rewarding strategy could not be missed by virus developers. Potential to show the popup advertisements by force to the targets of malware attack is an excellent basis for malevolent manipulations with the popup advertisements. And Haenkyouv.space ads is among hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a details for the Haenkyouv

How have I got the Haenkyouv virus?

There are a plenty of ways of becoming infected by the adware that trigger the Haenkyouv popups tornado. A lion’s part of this malware incidents is after the free software or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Freeware can also be downloaded from the official web page, and the adware is provided as a legitimate bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A huge amount of individuals often utilize the unreliable programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, various apps that are free, or even hacked programs. All of these types of programs are unsafe, since it is quite simple to include a Haenkyouv malware under the guise of part of the license hacking script, or as a part of the self-made algoritm inside of the Windows optimization tool.

Haenkyouv popup malware may additionally be hidden in the advertisement somewhere on the unusual website. Such websites are in most cases packed with colorful and blinking advertisements, and their proprietors usually accept any kind of promotions to be published on their page. Therefore, clicking such banners is a shot in the dark: only the ad contractor knows what will occur when you click 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 large share of coin miners circulation is exactly after the malicious promotions.

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

Potentially unwanted programs, like Haenkyouv pop-up virus can provoke a variety of different problems on your PC. Distracting is not the only problem – pop-ups may display you the advertisements, where you are offered to get one more dubious application, or “a amazing security tool”. Scareware is often distributed with the last motto. Potentially undesirable programs, in turn, can have spyware functionality. And it is pretty hard to distinguish the undesirable app from a good one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the potentially unwanted programs and pseudo antiviruses, popup-related banners are also chosen as a spreading way by various trojan viruses, for example – coin miners. The consequences of activity of such viruses is 100% unwanted, and can cost you hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not tapping these ads, they can be clicked by someone who also uses your personal computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the situation may become much more serious, and it will be much harder to deal with it without information loss. It is recommended to remove the viruses with anti-malware applications as soon as possible.

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

The tutorial of Haenkyouv adware clearing includes 2 parts. Initially, we need to deal with the malware, and then correct the effects of its action. The elimination task is quite easy, because it can be executed even with using Microsoft Defender – anti-malware program that is available on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nonetheless, because of its substantial resources utilization, as well as some problems that may be crucial for some groups of users, Defender is oftentimes turned off by the users, so its usage is most likely impossible. In addition, a variety of trojan viruses have the ability to shut off the embedded antivirus. It is far better to use the separated program that will not have such weakness.

I’d advise you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven anti-malware tool that will certainly eliminate the malware from your computer and also make an impenetrable cover with a Proactive protection feature. However, let’s manage Haenkyouv adware first.

Removing Haenkyouv 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 Haenkyouv 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 connect the correct DNS while connecting to the web page 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.

However, there is one issue that makes the things a lot harder to restore, particularly without the anti-malware software. Most of adware variations that are used to show you the Haenkyouv pop-up ads are changing the deep browser settings, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to fix your browser settings after your PC was infected by pop-up-related malware, your browser will crash quickly. Sometimes, you will see no crash, but large lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 seconds, and afterwards it will be back to the normal, until you attempt to open settings 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 review and the reasons why I suggest it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.