How to remove Hauphuchaum.com pop-ups? — Fix Guide

Hauphuchaum.com pop-up notices can show up unexpectedly, covering the subject of the page you visited or opening your web browser when you do not desire it to be opened.

Clicking the Hauphuchaum.com ad can cause the injection of other malware or unwanted programs. In this guide, you will see the tutorial of Hauphuchaum.com popups clearing in several ways, as well as checking your system for additional malware presence.

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What are Hauphuchaum.com pop-ups?

Hauphuchaum.com popups are a consequence of adware activity. Adware is a sort of malware that shows you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click promotions, which generates a major amount of earnings for adware suppliers. These ads might consist of sometimes shocking material, or have a link to malicious content/website, because adware maintainers have no reason to check the goodness of the material they are going to reveal – their single target is money.

Hauphuchaum.com push notification.

Pop-up promotions itself is an excellent, affordable and really effective advertising solution¹. It allows the vendor to link the customers’ interest to their website, and the buyers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they want to purchase. When the customer will get a pop-up notification that the TV set he wishes to buy is available at the online shop he/she saw previously with a 15% discount, one will undoubtedly use this opportunity and get it. Taking into consideration the incredibly low cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising method is a favourite thing amidst the marketing teams of big internet retail stores.

Nonetheless, such a rewarding plan could not be missed by virus creators. Option to demonstrate the popup ads by force to the people of malware attack is an excellent basis for malevolent tricks with the popup advertisements. And Hauphuchaum.com ads is just one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a short summary for the Hauphuchaum.com site

How have I got the Hauphuchaum.com virus?

There are a plenty of ways of becoming infected by the adware that result in the Hauphuchaum.com popups storm. A lion’s part of this virus incidents is after the free software or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Free software may also be downloaded from the main website, and the adware is offered as a legitimate bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A plenty of individuals oftentimes use the uncertain programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, different apps that are free of cost, or even hacked programs. All of these sorts of software are dangerous, due to the fact that it is quite simple to build in a Hauphuchaum.com malware under the guise of part of the license hacking script, or as a part of the self-made algoritm within the Windows optimization tool.

Hauphuchaum.com popup virus may likewise be concealed in the promotion somewhere on the odd website. Such websites are generally full of bright and blinking ads, and their proprietors generally accept any type of promotions to be posted on their page. For this reason, clicking on such banners is a shot in the dark: only the ad provider realizes what will happen when you click this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you can also receive something far more threatening, 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 undesirable programs, like Hauphuchaum.com popup virus can cause a variety of different troubles on your PC. Distracting is not the only effect – pop-ups may show you the ads, where you are offered to get one more strange application, or “a amazing security tool”. Scareware is usually spread with the use of the last motto. Potentially undesirable applications, in turn, can have spyware functions. And it is quite hard to distinguish the undesirable app from a legit one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and fake antiviruses, popup-related ads are also exploited as a distribution method by various trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of activity of such malware is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not clicking these promotions, they can be clicked by someone who also makes use of your computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the situation may become much more serious, and it will be much harder to deal with it without data loss. It is recommended to eliminate the viruses with antivirus programs as soon as possible.

How can I get rid of Hauphuchaum.com pop-up advertisements?

The tutorial of Hauphuchaum.com adware clearing includes 2 sections. Initially, we need to deal with the malware, and then correct the effects of its action. The removal process is really simple, because it can be performed even with using Microsoft Defender – security software that is present on all computers with Windows 8/10. However, because of its substantial resources consumption, as well as some bugs that can be serious for some kinds of users, Defender is often turned off by the users, so its utilization is most likely impossible. Furthermore, various trojan viruses are able to switch 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 security device that will undoubtedly erase the viruses from your computer and also make an impenetrable cover with a Proactive protection function. But let’s take care of Hauphuchaum.com adware initially.

Removing Hauphuchaum.com 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 Hauphuchaum.com 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 web browsers are reset, you need to ensure that your web browser will connect the proper DNS while connecting to the website you need. Create a text file named “hosts” on your desktop, after that 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.

Nonetheless, there is one issue that makes things a lot harder to restore, specifically without the anti-malware program. A lot of adware variants that are used to show you the Hauphuchaum.com pop-up promotions are adjusting the deep browser settings, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you attempt to change your browser settings after your system was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will crash quickly. In certain cases, you will see no crash, however, huge lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 secs, and then it will be back to the typical, up until you attempt to open settings one more time.

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 elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.