Heavypcprotection Ads Removal Guide — How to Fix It?

Heavypcprotection pop-up advertisements appear out of the blue, disturbing and annoying you. Still, they are much more than annoying pop-ups – their essence is cleanly malicious, and they can install other malicious stuff to your PC. In this article, I will show you how to remove Heavypcprotection pop-up notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any interaction with Heavypcprotection pop-up advertisements will be useless at best. In worst case scenario, the web pages it can throw you to can introduce malware to your system. These pop-up notifications may also promote fake shopping websites which will take your money and payment info. The latter generally ends up with losing all the money you have on the exposed card.

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What are Heavypcprotection pop-ups?

As the pop-up definition goes, these are short and small advertisements that attract your attention to a product they promote. But the difference between regular pop-ups and Heavypcprotection pop-ups is the malignant origins of the latter. Common push notifications are offered for you to enable on different sites with a understandable purpose – notify you about the latest publications, goods for sale and so on. It is a useful thing to help your site to keep visitors and help the interested ones to have the best deal.

Brief description of the Heavypcprotection.com pop-ups:

Heavypcprotection pop-ups, on the other hand, have a deal with less legit web pages. You will generally see the proposition to enable them following the redirection from another site. There’s nothing bad in redirecting unless it throws you to such a dubious place. At that point, enabling pop-up ads is served under the guise of the anti-DDoS filtering. In other cases, the websites can deny showing you the contents unless you turn on these pop-ups. These requirements should be the red flag, as sites generally have a less obscure anti-bot mechanism. Spectating such an demand is a reason to close the website right away. Sometimes, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not get to the website – the sole page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up ads.

Heavypcprotection push notification.

How does it work?

The majority of web browsers support enabling pop-ups from websites. Sites, on the other hand, may send notifications with the content they like. It can be an advertisement of the page posted on this particular site, or an ad of the page of their partner. As a result, you may see the push notification from site X, but opening it will direct you to site Y – because a link to the latter was built in.

Scoundrels rely on this feature in their attempt to gain money using illegal advertising. They trick victims into allowing the pop-ups, and after that just spread hundreds of promotions of other crooks they contract with. As you can suppose, no image-caring companies will have a deal with fraudsters. All the Heavypcprotection push ads you may see lead to other untrustworthy sites. In some cases, the same user can be trapped by several pop-up spamming websites, and its web browser will turn into a complete mess.

The ads these crooks show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It usually provides a miserable commission for one view, but when you have a huge number of victims and make it hundreds of times every day – that is a way bigger sum. Despite the majority of these ads giving no result at all, it may still bring all the participants a lot of money.

Are Heavypcprotection pop-up ads dangerous?

Yes, they are. Initially, they can look non-threatening – just a colourful window that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the things this window promotes differ drastically from what you used to see in pop-up advertisements. Heavypcprotection.com website is controlled by crooks, who intendedly spread hundreds of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any manners of advertising and can make sporadic pop-up ads into a hurricane of banners. For weak computers, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But that is not all problems these push notifications carry.

As with any other thing related to illegal advertising, Heavypcprotection push notifications do not contain any legit offers. Even though hackers make the banners similar to ones from Walmart or Amazon, the site these ads will throw you to are completely different. And these pages can offer you to turn on other pop-ups, install a “useful” program, or pay for a thing at a big discount and never receive it. Let’s leave aside the cases when pop-ups promote phishing pages or straightforward malware. There’s no way these pages will bring you any good, thus interacting with them is a very bad idea. For the same reason, Heavypcprotection pop-up notifications are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Heavypcprotection pop-ups?

Fortunately, Heavypcprotection pop-up notifications removal is not very complicated. They reside in the browser and can’t hide themselves among system files. Nonetheless, as I told above, some push notifications may promote malware to your computer. It is hard to predict all of the cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is inconvenient. Thus, after disabling the pop-up ads the best option is to use anti-malware software. That is especially recommended in the case when you have never allowed pop-up ads, but they still appeared. This situation may point at malware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both recovery and malware removal purposes, because of its abilities of system recovery and multi-layer detection system.

First and foremost, you should reset your browser settings. You can do that in manual or automated way. The former, obviously, requires more time to complete and can be somewhat complicated if you have never done that. Automated supposes the use of anti-malware programs that can reset all browser settings at once.

Reset your browsers with GridinSoft Anti-Malware

To reset your browser with GridinSoft Anti-Malware, open the Tools tab, and click the “Reset browser settings” button.

You may see the list of options for each browser. By default, they are set up in a manner that 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 the latter is also able to reset the HOSTS file without any additional commands.

Reset your browsers manually

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 right DNS while connecting to the website you need. Create a text file titled “hosts” on your pc’s desktop, then open it and fill it with the following lines²:

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.

Scan your system for possible viruses

After removing the Heavypcprotection push notifications, it’s time to see if these pop-ups brought any threat to your system. Launch GridinSoft Anti-Malware, and then click on Standard scan. It will be enough in most cases to find and remove malware. The scan will last 5-10 minutes; you are free to use your system during that process.

Once the scan is complete, you will see the detections or a notification about a clean system. Proceed with pressing the Clean Up button (or OK when nothing is detected).

How to Remove Heavypcprotection Pop-ups?

Name: Heavypcprotection

Description: Heavypcprotection - a lot of users became a target for the pop-up advertisements. I have a lot of friends who literally bombed me with the questions like “how to remove Heavypcprotection.com push notifications?” or “why do Heavypcprotection.com pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with Heavypcprotection pop-ups, which may corrupt your browser’s correct performance, and create a lot of troubles while you are working.

Operating System: Windows

Application Category: Adware

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1. More about this malware type on GridinSoft Encyclopedia.
2. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.