Remove Hehighlyrec Virus — How to Fix Guide

Hehighlyrec pop-up alerts may show up unexpectedly, covering the subject of the website you went to or opening your browser when you don’t wish it to be opened.

Clicking on the Hehighlyrec ad can cause the injection of other malware or unwanted programs. In this article, you will see the guideline of Hehighlyrec popups clearing in multiple manners, as well as examining your personal computer for additional malware existence.

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What are Hehighlyrec pop-ups?

Hehighlyrec popups are an effect of adware presence. Adware is a type of malware that suggests you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click promotions, which creates a substantial amount of earnings for adware suppliers. These ads may consist of explicit material, or have a link to malicious content/website, because adware maintainers have no purpose to inspect the goodness of the material they are going to reveal – their single target is cash.

Hehighlyrec push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is an excellent, low-cost and also really effective marketing method¹. It allows the seller to attach the buyers’ attention to their site, as well as the buyers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to buy. When the customer will receive a pop-up notification that the TV set he likes to buy is provided at the online store he/she saw earlier with a 15% price cut, one will surely use this possibility and purchase it. Taking into consideration the extremely low price for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising and marketing instrument is a favourite thing amongst the advertising departments of big online retailers.

However, such a profitable scheme could not be missed by malware creators. Ability to demonstrate the popup advertisements forcibly to the victims of malware attack is a great basis for malicious adjustments with the popup promotions. And Hehighlyrec.biz promotions is just one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a short details for the Hehighlyrec

How have I got the Hehighlyrec virus?

There are a number of methods of becoming contaminated by the adware that create the Hehighlyrec popups storm. A lion’s part of this virus instances 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 provided as a legitimate bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A lot of individuals often make use of the uncertain programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, different tools that are free, and even hacked programs. Every one of these types of programs are risky, due to the fact that it is very simple to build in a Hehighlyrec malware under the guise of part of the license hacking script, or as a component of the self-made algoritm inside of the Windows optimization tool.

Hehighlyrec popup virus can also be concealed in the advertisement somewhere on the strange website. Such sites are typically packed with bright and blinking advertisements, and their proprietors typically accept any promos to be published on their web page. Therefore, clicking on such banners is a risky thing: only the advertisement contractor knows what will happen when you press 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 advertisements.

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

Potentially undesirable applications, like Hehighlyrec pop-up virus may cause a lot of problems on your computer. Distracting is not the only effect – pop-ups can display you the ads, where you are offered to get another strange program, or “a perfect anti-malware tool”. Scareware is often distributed under the last slogun. Potentially unwanted programs, in turn, can have spyware functionality. And it is quite 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 banners are also used as a distribution way by various trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such malware is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not tapping these promotions, they may 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 solve it without information loss. It is recommended to eliminate the viruses with anti-malware programs as soon as possible.

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

The guide of Hehighlyrec adware clearing consists of 2 sections. Initially, we need to get rid of the malware, and afterwards take care of the effects of its action. The elimination process is really simple, due to the fact that it may be done even with making use of Microsoft Defender – anti-malware program that is available on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nonetheless, because of its huge resources consumption, along with some bugs that may be serious for some types of individuals, Defender is oftentimes disabled by the users, so its utilization is probably impossible. What’s more, different trojan viruses can turn off the embedded antivirus. It is much better to use the separated program that will not have such weakness.

I’d suggest you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven anti-malware tool that will undoubtedly exterminate the malware from your PC and also create an invulnerable cover with a Proactive protection function. But let’s manage Hehighlyrec adware first.

Removing Hehighlyrec 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 Hehighlyrec 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 make sure that your browser will definitely connect the accurate DNS while connecting to the website you need. Make a text file titled “hosts” on your 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 problem that makes the things much harder to fix, especially without the anti-malware program. The majority of adware versions that are used to show you the Hehighlyrec pop-up advertisements are changing the deep browser settings, 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 some cases, you will see no crash, but large lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 secs, and after that it will be back to the typical, till 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 advertisements on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware review and also the reasons why I recommend it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.