Helllomedias Ads Removal Guide — How to Fix It?

Helllomedias pop-up notifications may show up out of the blue, covering the post of the page you explored or opening your browser when you do not want it to be opened.

Clicking the Helllomedias promotion may lead to the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this post, you will see the tutorial of Helllomedias popups clearing in multiple methods, as well as checking your PC for other malware presence.

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What are Helllomedias pop-ups?

Helllomedias popups are an effect of adware activity. Adware is a kind of malware that demonstrates to you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click ads, which produces a significant volume of income for adware suppliers. These ads might include sometimes shocking material, or have a link to malicious content/website, due to the fact that adware maintainers have no purpose to inspect the goodness of the content they are going to show – their single target is money.

Helllomedias push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is an excellent, low-priced and very effective advertising tool¹. It permits the seller to attach the buyers’ interest to their website, and the customers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to buy. When the customer will get a pop-up notification that the TV set he desires to buy is offered at the online shop he/she visited earlier with a 15% discount, one will definitely use this opportunity and buy it. Considering the incredibly low price for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising tool is a much-loved thing amongst the marketing departments of large online retail stores.

However, such a successful plan could not be missed by virus creators. Option to show the popup ads by force to the people of malware invasion is a perfect basis for evil-minded manipulations with the popup ads. And Helllomedias.com advertisements is one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a summary for the Helllomedias

How have I got the Helllomedias virus?

There are a plenty of methods of becoming infected by the adware that create the Helllomedias popups tornado. A lion’s part of this virus incidents is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Freeware may additionally be downloaded from the main site, and the adware is delivered as a legal bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A number of people frequently work with the uncertain programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, a wide range of apps that are free of cost, or even hacked programs. Every one of these kinds of software are dangerous, due to the fact that it is extremely easy to include a Helllomedias malware under the cover of part of the license hacking script, or as a component of the self-made algoritm within the Windows optimization tool.

Helllomedias popup virus may additionally be concealed in the promotion somewhere on the odd web page. Such sites are typically packed with colorful and blinking advertisements, and their owners typically approve any promos to be published on their web page. Thus, clicking such banners is a shot in the dark: only the advertisement contractor knows what will occur when you click this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you can likewise receive something a lot more hazardous, 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 unwanted applications, like Helllomedias pop-up virus can provoke a lot of problems on your computer. Distracting is not the single problem – pop-up notifications can present you the promotions, where you are offered to download one more strange program, or “a amazing security tool”. Scareware is usually spread with the last motto. Potentially undesirable programs, in turn, may have spyware functionality. And it is quite hard to distinguish the undesirable app from a normal one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and fake antiviruses, popup-related ads are also used as a distribution method by various trojan viruses, for example – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such viruses 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 PC – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the situation may become much more serious, and it will be much harder to deal with it without data and money loss. It is recommended to eliminate the viruses with anti-malware programs as soon as possible.

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

The manual of Helllomedias adware elimination contains 2 parts. Initially, we need to eliminate the malware, and after that fix the results of its activity. The elimination process is really easy, since it may be executed even with making use of Microsoft Defender – anti-malware software that is available on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. However, due to its huge resources consumption, as well as some defects that may be serious for some kinds of users, Defender is frequently turned off by the users, so its use is probably impossible. Moreover, a variety of trojan viruses are able to switch off the embedded antivirus. It is much better to use the separated program that will not have such vulnerabilities.

I would certainly advise you to utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven antivirus device that will surely remove the malware from your computer and make an impenetrable shield with a Proactive protection function. However, let’s deal with Helllomedias adware initially.

Removing Helllomedias 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 Helllomedias 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 be connected the right DNS while connecting to the website you want. Make a text file titled “hosts” on your desktop, then open it and fill it with the following text³:

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, especially without the anti-malware program. Most of adware variants that are utilized to show you the Helllomedias pop-up ads are modifying the deep browser configurations, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to change your browser settings after your PC was infected by pop-up-related malware, your browser will certainly crash quickly. Sometimes, you will see no crash, but significant lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 secs, and afterwards it will be back to the typical, till 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 review and also the reasons why I suggest it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.