Herdcowhas.icu Ads Removal Guide — How to Fix It?

Herdcowhas.icu pop-up notices can show up out of the blue, covering the content of the website you checked or opening your web browser when you don’t desire it to be opened.

Clicking the Herdcowhas.icu advertisement can trigger the injection of other malware or unwanted programs. In this post, you will see the tutorial of Herdcowhas.icu popups removal in multiple ways, and also examining your PC for other malware existence.

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What are Herdcowhas.icu pop-ups?

Herdcowhas.icu popups are a consequence of adware presence. Adware is a sort of malware that presents you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which produces a massive amount of income for adware distributors. These promotions might include sometimes shocking information, or have a link to malevolent content/website, due to the fact that adware maintainers have no purpose to examine the goodness of the material they are going to reveal – their single target is money.

Herdcowhas.icu push notification.

Pop-up marketing itself is a good, cheap and also really successful marketing tool¹. It enables the vendor to attach the buyers’ interest to their site, and the buyers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they want to buy. When the person will get a pop-up alert that the TV set he likes to purchase is available at the online shop he/she saw earlier with a 15% price cut, one will surely use this opportunity and buy it. Taking into consideration the exceptionally low price for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising tool is a much-loved thing amongst the marketing departments of huge internet stores.

Nonetheless, such a successful scheme could not be missed by malware developers. Ability to demonstrate the popup ads forcibly to the people of malware attack is an excellent basis for malicious manipulations with the popup promotions. And Herdcowhas.icu ads is just one of hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a short summary for the Herdcowhas.icu

How have I got the Herdcowhas.icu virus?

There are a number of ways of becoming infected by the adware that lead to the Herdcowhas.icu popups tornado. 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 likewise be downloaded from the official site, and the adware is presented as a legit bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A number of users frequently use the dubious programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, various tools that are free of cost, or perhaps hacked programs. All of these types of programs are unsafe, due to the fact that it is extremely easy to include a Herdcowhas.icu 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.

Herdcowhas.icu popup malware may likewise be concealed in the promotion somewhere on the odd website. Such websites are usually packed with colorful and blinking ads, and their proprietors often approve any promotions to be published on their page. Thus, clicking such banners is a risky thing: only the ad contractor knows what will occur when you click this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you can also receive something much more hazardous, like ransomware or coin miner; the large share of coin miners distribution is exactly after the malicious advertisements.

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

Potentially undesirable programs, like Herdcowhas.icu pop-up virus can initiate a lot of different troubles on your PC. Distracting is not the only problem – pop-ups may show you the advertisements, where you are offered to get one more unknown application, or “a amazing anti-malware tool”. Scareware is often spread with the last slogun. Potentially unwanted programs, in turn, can have spyware functions. And it is quite hard to distinguish the undesirable app from a legit one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the potentially unwanted programs and pseudo antiviruses, popup-related advertisements are also exploited as a spreading method by various trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of activity of such malware is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not clicking these banners, they may be clicked by whoever who also uses your personal computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things may become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve it without data loss. It is recommended to remove the viruses with anti-malware programs as soon as possible.

How can I get rid of Herdcowhas.icu pop-up advertisements?

The guide of Herdcowhas.icu adware elimination contains 2 parts. Initially, we need to get rid of the malware, and then take care of the effects of its activity. The removal task is very easy, due to the fact that it may be done even with the use of Microsoft Defender – anti-virus program that is available on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. However, due to its huge resources consumption, as well as some failures that can be pivotal for some kinds of users, Defender is frequently disabled by the users, so its use is probably impossible. Additionally, various trojan viruses are able to disable the embedded antivirus. It is better to use the separated program that will not have such vulnerabilities.

I would certainly recommend you to utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven antivirus tool that will certainly erase the malware from your system and make an impenetrable shield with a Proactive protection feature. However, let’s deal with Herdcowhas.icu adware first.

Removing Herdcowhas.icu 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 Herdcowhas.icu 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 browser will be connected the proper DNS while connecting to the web page you need. Make a text file titled “hosts” on your pc’s desktop, after that 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.

Nevertheless, there is one trouble that makes things a lot more difficult to repair, particularly without the anti-malware program. A lot of adware variations that are utilized to show you the Herdcowhas.icu pop-up ads are changing the deep browser configurations, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you attempt to change your browser settings after your system was infected by pop-up-related malware, your browser will certainly crash quickly. Sometimes, you will see no crash, however, huge lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 seconds, and afterwards it will be back to the typical, till you try to open settings once more.

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 suggest it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.