Remove Hechereckewi Pop-up Ads — How to Fix Gude

Hechereckewi pop-up notices may appear unexpectedly, covering the material of the site you explored or opening your web browser when you do not want it to be opened.

Clicking the Hechereckewi ad may trigger the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this guide, you will see the guideline of Hechereckewi popups removal in several manners, and also inspecting your PC for additional malware existence.

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What are Hechereckewi pop-ups?

Hechereckewi popups are a result of adware presence. Adware is a kind of malware that presents you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which generates a massive volume of revenue for adware representatives. These ads might include sometimes shocking composition, or have a link to harmful content/website, considering that adware maintainers have no reason to inspect the goodness of the web content they are going to show – their solitary target is money.

Hechereckewi push notification.

Pop-up promotions itself is a very good, cheap and really efficient marketing tool¹. It makes it possible for the seller to attach the buyers’ interest to their site, as well as the buyers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they wish to purchase. When the consumer will get a pop-up notification that the TV set he wishes to purchase is provided at the online store he/she saw previously with a 15% discount, one will definitely use this chance and buy it. Taking into consideration the exceptionally small cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising and marketing instrument is a favorite thing amidst the advertising teams of big internet retail stores.

However, such a profitable plan could not be missed by malware developers. Option to show the popup ads forcibly to the victims of malware invasion is an excellent basis for malevolent manipulations with the popup advertisements. And Hechereckewi.info advertisements is among hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a details for the Hechereckewi

How have I got the Hechereckewi virus?

There are a plenty of ways of getting contaminated by the adware that lead to the Hechereckewi popups storm. A lion’s part of this virus cases is after the free software or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Freeware can also be downloaded from the official site, and the adware is supplied as a legal bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A huge amount of users frequently use the uncertain programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, a wide range of apps that are free of cost, and even hacked programs. All of these kinds of programs are dangerous, because it is very easy to build in a Hechereckewi malware under the guise of part of the license hacking script, or as a part of the self-made algoritm inside of the Windows optimization tool.

Hechereckewi popup malware may also be concealed in the ad somewhere on the strange website. Such websites are usually full of bright and blinking ads, and their owners usually accept any promotions to be posted on their web page. Therefore, clicking such banners is a shot in the dark: only the advertisement provider knows what will occur when you click this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you can likewise receive something a lot 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 applications, like Hechereckewi popup virus can initiate a lot of troubles on your PC. Distracting is not the single problem – pop-up notifications can display you the promotions, where you are offered to download one more strange application, or “a amazing security tool”. Scareware is usually spread under the last motto. Potentially undesirable programs, in turn, may have spyware functionality. And it is pretty hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a good one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and pseudo antiviruses, popup-related banners are also used as a spreading way by different trojan viruses, for example – coin miners. The consequences of activity 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 promotions, they can be clicked by whoever who also makes use of your computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the situation can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve it without data loss. It is recommended to remove the viruses with antivirus programs as soon as possible.

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

The tutorial of Hechereckewi adware elimination includes 2 parts. First, we need to remove the malware, and afterwards fix the consequences of its activity. The elimination procedure is very simple, since it can be executed even with the use of Microsoft Defender – anti-virus program that is available on all computers with Windows 8/10. However, due to its huge resources utilization, along with some errors that may be critical for some categories of users, Defender is often turned off by the users, so its use is probably impossible. Moreover, different trojan viruses can shut off the embedded antivirus. It is much better to use the separated program that will not have such vulnerabilities.

I’d recommend you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven anti-malware device that will surely wipe out the malware from your personal computer and also make an invulnerable shield with a Proactive protection feature. But let’s deal with Hechereckewi adware initially.

Removing Hechereckewi 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 Hechereckewi 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 accurate DNS while connecting to the website you want. Make a text file named “hosts” on your pc’s desktop, then 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 the things much more difficult to fix, specifically without the anti-malware program. A lot of adware versions that are used to show you the Hechereckewi pop-up promotions are modifying 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 certainly crash soon. Sometimes, you will see no crash, but huge lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 secs, and afterwards it will be back to the typical, till you try to open settings 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 advertisements 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.