Helthtop.space Ads Removal Guide — How to Fix It?

Helthtop.space pop-up notices can appear out of the blue, covering the post of the page you went to or opening your web browser when you don’t wish it to be opened.

Clicking on the Helthtop.space promotion can trigger the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this post, you will see the guide of Helthtop.space popups clearing in a couple of manners, as well as examining your computer for extra viruses existence.

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What are Helthtop.space pop-ups?

Helthtop.space popups are an outcome of adware activity. Adware is a kind of malware that presents you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which generates a large volume of revenue for adware suppliers. These ads might contain sometimes shocking composition, or have a web link to malevolent content/website, since adware maintainers have no purpose to check the goodness of the material they are going to reveal – their solitary target is cash.

Helthtop.space push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is a good, low-cost and also very effective marketing instrument¹. It makes it possible for the seller to attach the buyers’ interest to their website, as well as the buyers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they want to purchase. When the person will receive a pop-up alert that the TV set he desires to purchase is provided at the online shop he/she checked out previously with a 15% price cut, one will undoubtedly use this chance and buy it. Taking into consideration the exceptionally low cost for the popups and their targeting, such a marketing instrument is a much-loved thing amongst the advertising teams of huge online stores.

Nevertheless, such a profitable plan could not be missed by virus creators. Option to demonstrate the popup advertisements forcibly to the victims of malware invasion is an ideal basis for evil-minded tricks with the popup ads. And Helthtop.space ads is among hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a short details for the Helthtop.space

How have I got the Helthtop.space virus?

There are a number of methods of becoming infected by the adware that trigger the Helthtop.space popups storm. A lion’s part of this malware cases is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Free software 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 lot of individuals oftentimes make use of the unreliable programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, different apps that are free of cost, or even hacked programs. Every one of these types of applications are risky, because it is very easy to integrate a Helthtop.space 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.

Helthtop.space popup malware may additionally be hidden in the ad somewhere on the odd web page. Such websites are generally full of bright and blinking advertisements, and their owners usually approve any type of promos to be posted on their web page. Therefore, clicking such banners is a shot in the dark: only the ad provider knows what will occur when you click this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you can also receive something a lot more unsafe, 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 programs, like Helthtop.space pop-up virus may provoke a wide range of different problems on your personal computer. Distracting is not the only problem – pop-ups can show you the promotions, where you are offered to get another strange program, or “a effective security tool”. Scareware is often spread under the last motto. Potentially unwanted applications, in turn, may have spyware functions. And it is very hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a good one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the potentially unwanted programs and fake antiviruses, popup-related ads are also chosen as a distribution way by different 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 banners, they may be clicked by whoever who also makes use of your personal computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to deal with it without data loss. It is recommended to wipe out the viruses with anti-malware programs as soon as possible.

How can I get rid of Helthtop.space pop-up advertisements?

The manual of Helthtop.space adware clearing consists of 2 sections. First, we need to get rid of the malware, and afterwards correct the effects of its action. The removal procedure is quite easy, because it may be done even with making use of Microsoft Defender – security software that is present on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nonetheless, because of its huge resources consumption, along with some problems that may be pivotal for some kinds of individuals, Defender is oftentimes disabled by the users, so its utilization is probably impossible. Moreover, a wide range of trojan viruses have the ability to turn off the embedded antivirus. It is far better to make use of the separated program that will not have such weakness.

I would certainly advise you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven antivirus tool that will undoubtedly erase the malware from your PC and also create an invulnerable shield with a Proactive protection function. However, let’s handle Helthtop.space adware first.

Removing Helthtop.space 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 Helthtop.space 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 browsers are reset, you need to ensure that your web browser will definitely be connected the appropriate DNS while connecting to the site you want. Make a text file named “hosts” on your computer’s 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 repair, specifically without the anti-malware software. A lot of adware variants that are utilized to show you the Helthtop.space pop-up promotions are modifying the deep browser setups, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to fix your browser settings after your computer was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will crash quickly. Sometimes, you will see no crash, but significant lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 secs, and after that it will be back to the normal, 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 overview and also the reasons why I advise it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.