Haveresult Ads Removal Guide — How to Fix It?

Haveresult pop-up alerts can show up unexpectedly, covering the content of the website you went to or opening your browser when you don’t need it to be opened.

Clicking on the Haveresult advertisement may trigger the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this guide, you will see the manual of Haveresult popups clearing in multiple manners, and also inspecting your personal computer for additional malware existence.

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What are Haveresult pop-ups?

Haveresult popups are an outcome of adware action. Adware is a sort of malware that shows you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which generates a substantial amount of income for adware representatives. These advertisements might contain explicit content, or have a web link to malevolent content/website, considering that adware maintainers have no purpose to examine the goodness of the content they are going to show – their single target is cash.

Haveresult push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is a very good, cheap and really efficient marketing instrument¹. It makes it possible for the seller to link the buyers’ attention to their site, and the customers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they wish to buy. When the consumer will get a pop-up notification that the TV set he desires to purchase is offered at the online store he/she checked out previously with a 15% discount, one will undoubtedly use this opportunity and buy it. Considering the incredibly small cost for the popups and their targeting, such a promotion and marketing method is a favourite thing among the advertising teams of large online retailers.

Nonetheless, such a rewarding scheme could not be missed by virus developers. Ability to show the popup advertisements forcibly to the targets of malware invasion is a perfect basis for malicious adjustments with the popup advertisements. And Haveresult.com promotions is among hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a summary for the Haveresult site

How have I got the Haveresult virus?

There are a plenty of methods of becoming infected by the adware that trigger the Haveresult popups tornado. A lion’s part of this virus instances is after the free software or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Freeware may additionally be downloaded from the official site, and the adware is delivered as a legal bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A number of people often utilize the uncertain programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, a wide range of tools that are free of cost, or perhaps hacked programs. All of these sorts of applications are risky, due to the fact that it is extremely simple to integrate a Haveresult malware under the cover of part of the license hacking script, or as a part of the self-made algoritm within the Windows optimization tool.

Haveresult popup malware can also be concealed in the promotion somewhere on the odd web page. Such websites are usually loaded with bright and blinking ads, and their proprietors typically approve any type of promos to be placed on their web page. For this reason, clicking on such banners is a shot in the dark: only the advertisement contractor realizes what will happen when you press this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you may additionally receive something a lot more hazardous, like ransomware or coin miner; the large share of coin miners circulation is exactly after the malicious ads.

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

Potentially unwanted programs, like Haveresult pop-up virus can cause a lot of troubles on your personal computer. Distracting is not the single effect – pop-ups may display you the ads, where you are offered to download another dubious program, or “a perfect security tool”. Scareware is usually distributed under the last slogun. Potentially undesirable applications, in turn, may have spyware functions. And it is pretty hard to distinguish the undesirable app from a normal one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the potentially unwanted programs and pseudo antiviruses, popup-related advertisements are also chosen as a distribution way by different 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 interacting with these advertisements, they can be clicked by someone who also uses your PC – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the situation can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve it without data and money loss. It is recommended to eliminate the viruses with anti-malware applications as soon as possible.

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

The tutorial of Haveresult adware clearing includes 2 sections. Initially, we need to eliminate the malware, and then deal with the consequences of its activity. The elimination task is pretty easy, since it can be executed even with using Microsoft Defender – anti-malware software that is present on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. Nonetheless, due to its large resources utilization, as well as some defects that can be serious for some types of individuals, Defender is often turned off by the users, so its utilization is most likely impossible. Moreover, a variety of trojan viruses are capable to switch off the embedded antivirus. It is better to use the separated program that will not have such exposures.

I’d recommend you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven antivirus device that will certainly exterminate the viruses from your PC and also make an impenetrable shield with a Proactive protection feature. However, let’s handle Haveresult adware initially.

Removing Haveresult 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 Haveresult 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 browser will be connected the accurate DNS while connecting to the site you need. Create a text file titled “hosts” on your desktop, then 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.

Nevertheless, there is one problem that makes things a lot harder to fix, especially without the anti-malware program. The majority of adware versions that are used to show you the Haveresult pop-up advertisements are altering the deep browser settings, 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 crash soon. In certain cases, you will see no crash, however, significant lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 seconds, and afterwards it will be back to the typical, up until you try to open settings once 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 overview and the reasons why I suggest it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.