Remove Halevene Pop-up Ads — How to Fix Gude

Halevene pop-up notifications may show up out of the blue, covering the subject of the website you checked or opening your web browser when you don’t wish it to be opened.

Clicking the Halevene promotion may cause the injection of various malware or unwanted programs. In this post, you will see the guideline of Halevene popups removal in multiple ways, and also examining your PC for additional malware existence.

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What are Halevene pop-ups?

Halevene popups are a result of adware activity. Adware is a kind of malware that presents you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click promotions, which creates a massive amount of revenue for adware distributors. These promotions may contain sometimes shocking composition, or have a link to harmful content/website, considering that adware maintainers have no purpose to inspect the goodness of the content they are going to show – their single target is money.

Halevene push notification.

Pop-up promotions itself is a good, cheap and really successful advertising solution¹. It permits the seller to link the customers’ interest to their website, and the customers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they wish to purchase. When the person will receive a pop-up alert that the TV set he wishes to buy is offered at the online shop he/she visited earlier with a 15% price cut, one will certainly use this chance and buy it. Taking into consideration the incredibly low cost for the popups and their targeting, such a promotion and marketing instrument is a favorite thing among the advertising departments of big internet retailers.

Nevertheless, such a rewarding strategy could not be missed by malware creators. Potential to show the popup advertisements by force to the people of malware invasion is an excellent basis for malevolent manipulations with the popup advertisements. And Halevene.com advertisements is among hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a short info for the Halevene

How have I got the Halevene virus?

There are a plenty of ways of getting infected by the adware that create the Halevene popups storm. A lion’s part of this computer virus incidents is after the free software or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Free software may also be downloaded from the main website, and the adware is offered as a legal bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A number of users frequently make use of the dubious programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, a wide range of apps that are free, and even hacked programs. All of these kinds of software are dangerous, because it is extremely simple to integrate a Halevene malware under the cover of part of the license hacking script, or as a component of the self-made algoritm inside of the Windows optimization tool.

Halevene popup virus may also be hidden in the advertisement somewhere on the odd web page. Such websites are in most cases filled with intense and blinking ads, and their owners often permit any type of promos to be published on their web page. Therefore, clicking such banners is a risky thing: only the ad contractor realizes what will occur when you press this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you may likewise receive something a lot more dangerous, like ransomware or coin miner; the substantial share of coin miners distribution is exactly after the malicious promotions.

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

Potentially unwanted programs, like Halevene pop-up virus can initiate a variety of troubles on your PC. Distracting is not the only effect – pop-ups can present you the banners, where you are offered to download one more unknown program, or “a amazing security tool”. Scareware is often spread with the use of the last slogun. Potentially unwanted programs, in turn, can have spyware functionality. And it is pretty hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a normal one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the potentially unwanted programs and fake antiviruses, popup-related banners are also chosen as a distribution method by different trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such viruses is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you hundreds or even thousands of dollars. And even if you are not tapping these promotions, they can be clicked by someone who also makes use of your PC – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things may become much more serious, and it will be much harder to deal with it without information loss. It is recommended to eliminate the viruses with anti-malware applications as soon as possible.

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

The manual of Halevene adware clearing includes 2 parts. Initially, we need to get rid of the malware, and after that deal with the effects of its action. The elimination process is quite easy, because it may be performed even with using Microsoft Defender – security tool that is present on all computers with Windows 8/10. However, due to its substantial resources utilization, along with some defects that can be crucial for some groups of individuals, Defender is often turned off by the users, so its usage is probably impossible. Additionally, different trojan viruses can disable the embedded antivirus. It is better to use the separated program that will not have such vulnerabilities.

I would certainly suggest you to utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven security device that will undoubtedly exterminate the malware from your PC and also make an impenetrable shield with a Proactive protection function. But let’s manage Halevene adware initially.

Removing Halevene 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 Halevene 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 make sure that your web browser will be connected the accurate DNS while connecting to the web page you want. Create a text file titled “hosts” on your pc’s 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.

Nonetheless, there is one problem that makes things a lot harder to restore, specifically without the anti-malware software. The majority of adware versions that are used to show you the Halevene pop-up ads are changing the deep browser configurations, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you attempt to fix your browser settings after your machine was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will certainly collapse soon. In certain cases, you will see no crash, however, large lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 seconds, and after that it will be back to the normal, till you attempt to open settings once more.

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 recommend it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.