Remove Hemicalcov Virus — How to Fix Guide

Hemicalcov pop-up notices may show up out of the blue, covering the material of the website you went to or opening your browser when you don’t desire it to be opened.

Clicking on the Hemicalcov advertisement can trigger the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this guide, you will see the manual of Hemicalcov popups clearing in multiple ways, and also examining your system for extra viruses existence.

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What are Hemicalcov pop-ups?

Hemicalcov popups are a consequence of adware activity. Adware is a kind of malware that demonstrates to you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which produces a large amount of income for adware distributors. These promotions might have explicit composition, or have a link to malevolent content/website, since adware maintainers have no purpose to inspect the goodness of the material they are going to reveal – their solitary target is cash.

Hemicalcov push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is a very good, low-priced and very efficient marketing method¹. It permits the vendor to link the customers’ interest to their website, and the buyers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they want to buy. When the customer will receive a pop-up alert that the TV set he likes to buy is offered at the online shop he/she saw earlier with a 15% price cut, one will undoubtedly use this chance and purchase it. Taking into consideration the very low cost for the popups and their targeting, such a promotion and marketing tool is a much-loved thing amongst the advertising departments of large internet stores.

Nevertheless, such a rewarding scheme could not be missed by virus creators. Ability to demonstrate the popup advertisements by force to the victims of malware attack is an ideal basis for malicious manipulations with the popup ads. And Hemicalcov.com ads is among hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a short info for the Hemicalcov

How have I got the Hemicalcov virus?

There are a huge amount of ways of becoming contaminated by the adware that create the Hemicalcov popups tornado. 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 may likewise be downloaded from the main site, and the adware is provided as a legitimate bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A huge amount of users frequently make use of the unreliable programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, various utilities that are free of cost, and even hacked programs. Every one of these types of software are risky, since it is very simple to include a Hemicalcov malware under the guise of part of the license hacking script, or as a component of the self-made algoritm within the Windows optimization tool.

Hemicalcov popup virus can likewise be concealed in the advertisement somewhere on the odd web page. Such websites are typically packed with intense and blinking advertisements, and their proprietors generally approve any promos to be placed on their page. Hence, clicking such banners is a shot in the dark: only the ad provider knows what will happen when you click this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you can also receive something much more unsafe, like ransomware or coin miner; the substantial 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 programs, like Hemicalcov popup virus can provoke a lot of different troubles on your computer. Distracting is not the only effect – pop-up notifications may show you the advertisements, where you are offered to download another dubious program, or “a effective anti-malware tool”. Scareware is often distributed with the last slogun. Potentially unwanted programs, in turn, may have spyware functions. And it is pretty hard to distinguish the undesirable app from a normal one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the potentially unwanted programs and dubious antiviruses, popup-related banners are also chosen as a spreading way by various trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of activity of such malware is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you several hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not tapping these advertisements, they may be clicked by whoever who also makes use of your PC – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve it without data and money loss. It is recommended to wipe out the viruses with antivirus programs as soon as possible.

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

The guide of Hemicalcov adware removal consists of 2 parts. First, we need to exterminate the malware, and afterwards fix the results of its action. The removal task is really simple, due to the fact that it can be performed even with using Microsoft Defender – anti-virus program that is present on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. However, due to its substantial resources utilization, along with some failures that can be crucial for some categories of users, Defender is frequently turned off by the users, so its use is likely impossible. What’s more, various trojan viruses are able to turn off the embedded antivirus. It is better to use the separated program that will not have such weakness.

I would certainly suggest you to utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven antivirus device that will undoubtedly wipe out the malware from your personal computer and also make an invulnerable cover with a Proactive protection feature. However, let’s deal with Hemicalcov adware first.

Removing Hemicalcov 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 Hemicalcov 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 make sure that your web browser will be connected the proper DNS while connecting to the website you want. Create a text file titled “hosts” on your desktop, after that open it and fill it with the following content³:

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.

However, there is one issue that makes things much harder to repair, specifically without the anti-malware software. Most of adware versions that are used to show you the Hemicalcov pop-up advertisements are changing the deep browser setups, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to fix your browser settings after your PC was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will certainly crash quickly. In certain cases, you will see no crash, however, significant lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 secs, and then it will be back to the typical, up until you attempt 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 overview and also the reasons why I recommend it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.