Remove Hanner-blobal Virus — How to Fix Guide

Hanner-blobal pop-up notifications may appear unexpectedly, covering the content of the site you checked or opening your browser when you do not want it to be opened.

Clicking on the Hanner-blobal promotion may trigger the injection of various malware or unwanted programs. In this guide, you will see the tutorial of Hanner-blobal popups clearing in several ways, and also examining your personal computer for other malware existence.

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What are Hanner-blobal pop-ups?

Hanner-blobal popups are an effect of adware activity. Adware is a kind of malware that suggests you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which generates a substantial volume of profit for adware distributors. These promotions might consist of explicit material, or have a link to harmful content/website, due to the fact that adware maintainers have no purpose to inspect the goodness of the material they are going to reveal – their single target is money.

Hanner-blobal push notification.

Pop-up marketing itself is a good, low-cost and also very successful marketing solution¹. It allows the vendor to link the buyers’ interest to their site, and the buyers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to purchase. When the consumer will get a pop-up alert that the TV set he desires to buy is available at the online store he/she visited previously with a 15% price cut, one will definitely use this chance and purchase it. Considering the extremely low cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising method is a favorite thing amongst the advertising teams of large online retail stores.

Nevertheless, such a profitable plan could not be missed by malware developers. Ability to demonstrate the popup ads by force to the victims of malware attack is an ideal basis for evil-minded adjustments with the popup promotions. And Hanner-blobal.com promotions is among hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a short details for the Hanner-blobal site

How have I got the Hanner-blobal virus?

There are a huge amount of methods of getting contaminated by the adware that result in the Hanner-blobal popups storm. A lion’s part of this computer virus cases is after the free software or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Free software can also be downloaded from the official website, and the adware is delivered as a legit bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A number of users oftentimes utilize the uncertain programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, a wide range of utilities that are free, or perhaps hacked programs. All of these sorts of programs are risky, since it is extremely easy to build in a Hanner-blobal malware under the cover of part of the license hacking script, or as a part of the self-made algoritm inside of the Windows optimization tool.

Hanner-blobal popup virus can additionally be concealed in the ad somewhere on the unusual site. Such sites are in most cases full of bright and blinking advertisements, and their proprietors typically accept any promos to be placed on their page. For this reason, clicking on such banners is a risky thing: only the ad provider realizes what will happen when you press this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you can also receive something a lot more damaging, like ransomware or coin miner; the big 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 undesirable programs, like Hanner-blobal pop-up virus may initiate a variety of problems on your PC. Distracting is not the single problem – pop-ups can show you the banners, where you are offered to get another strange program, or “a perfect anti-malware tool”. Scareware is usually spread under the last motto. Potentially unwanted applications, in turn, may have spyware functions. And it is pretty hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a good one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the potentially unwanted programs and pseudo antiviruses, popup-related ads are also used as a spreading way by various trojan viruses, for example – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such malware is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you hundreds or even thousands of dollars. And even if you are not interacting with these advertisements, they may be clicked by whoever who also makes use of your PC – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve it without data and money loss. It is recommended to get rid of the viruses with anti-malware programs as soon as possible.

How can I get rid of Hanner-blobal pop-up advertisements?

The guide of Hanner-blobal adware elimination contains 2 parts. Initially, we need to get rid of the malware, and afterwards repair the consequences of its action. The elimination task is quite easy, since it can be executed even with the use of Microsoft Defender – anti-malware tool that is available on all computers with Windows 8/10. However, as a result of its significant resources usage, along with some problems that may be pivotal for some groups of users, Defender is frequently disabled by the users, so its utilization is likely impossible. Additionally, a variety of trojan viruses are capable to shut off the embedded antivirus. It is better to make use of the separated program that will not have such weakness.

I would certainly advise you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven anti-malware device that will undoubtedly exterminate the viruses from your system and make an impenetrable shield with a Proactive protection feature. But let’s deal with Hanner-blobal adware first.

Removing Hanner-blobal 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 Hanner-blobal 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 right DNS while connecting to the web page you want. Create a text file named “hosts” on your computer’s desktop, then open it and fill it with the following text³:

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 issue that makes the things much harder to repair, especially without the anti-malware software. A lot of adware variations that are utilized to show you the Hanner-blobal pop-up ads are changing the deep browser setups, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you attempt to change your browser settings after your PC was infected by pop-up-related malware, your browser will collapse quickly. In certain cases, you will see no crash, however, large lag spike after pressing 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 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 advertisements on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware overview and the reasons why I recommend it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.