Herdthan Ads Removal Guide — How to Fix It?

Herdthan pop-up notifications can appear unexpectedly, covering the post of the website you explored or opening your browser when you do not need it to be opened.

Clicking on the Herdthan ad can result in the injection of other malware or unwanted programs. In this article, you will see the tutorial of Herdthan popups removal in several methods, and also checking your personal computer for extra malware existence.

It is better to prevent, than repair and repent!

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What are Herdthan pop-ups?

Herdthan popups are a result of adware presence. Adware is a type of malware that demonstrates to you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which creates a significant volume of earnings for adware suppliers. These promotions might contain explicit composition, or have a link to malevolent content/website, due to the fact that adware maintainers have no purpose to check the goodness of the content they are going to reveal – their single target is money.

Herdthan push notification.

Pop-up promotions itself is a very good, cheap and also very successful advertising solution¹. It makes it possible for the vendor to link the customers’ interest to their website, and the buyers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they wish to purchase. When the person will get a pop-up notification that the TV set he likes to purchase is offered at the online store 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 a marketing instrument is a favorite thing among the advertising departments of huge internet retailers.

Nonetheless, such a rewarding scheme could not be missed by malware developers. Potential to demonstrate the popup ads by force to the people of malware attack is a great basis for malicious adjustments with the popup advertisements. And Herdthan.com promotions is among hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a short info for the Herdthan site

How have I got the Herdthan virus?

There are a huge amount of ways of getting contaminated by the adware that result in the Herdthan popups storm. A lion’s part of this virus cases is after the free software or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Freeware may additionally be downloaded from the main website, and the adware is delivered as a legit bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A huge amount of users regularly make use of the uncertain programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, various apps that are free of cost, or even hacked programs. Every one of these sorts of applications are dangerous, due to the fact that it is extremely easy to build in a Herdthan 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.

Herdthan popup virus can also be hidden in the promotion somewhere on the odd web page. Such websites are generally full of intense and blinking advertisements, and their owners typically approve any promotions to be posted on their web page. For this reason, clicking on such banners is a shot in the dark: only the ad provider knows what will occur when you press this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you can additionally receive something a lot more hazardous, like ransomware or coin miner; the big share of coin miners circulation is exactly after the malicious ads.

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

Potentially unwanted programs, like Herdthan pop-up virus can provoke a variety of different problems on your PC. Distracting is not the single problem – pop-ups may present you the advertisements, where you are offered to download another dubious program, or “a perfect security tool”. Scareware is often spread with the last slogun. Potentially unwanted applications, in turn, may have spyware functions. And it is very hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a normal one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the potentially unwanted programs and fake antiviruses, popup-related banners are also chosen as a spreading method by various trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of activity of such viruses is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you several hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not interacting with these ads, they may be clicked by whoever who also uses 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 Herdthan pop-up advertisements?

The guide of Herdthan adware removal consists of 2 sections. First, we need to deal with the malware, and then repair the consequences of its activity. The elimination process is very easy, because it can be executed even with using Microsoft Defender – anti-virus software that is present on all computers with Windows 8/10. However, because of its significant resources usage, as well as some errors that can be crucial for some groups of users, Defender is frequently disabled by the users, so its use is probably impossible. What’s more, different trojan viruses are able to shut off the embedded antivirus. It is better to make use of the separated program that will not have such weakness.

I’d recommend you to utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven anti-malware tool that will certainly eliminate the viruses from your PC and also make an impenetrable shield with a Proactive protection function. But let’s handle Herdthan adware initially.

Removing Herdthan 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 Herdthan 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 connect the proper DNS while connecting to the website you want. Create a text file titled “hosts” on your computer’s 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 things a lot harder to repair, specifically without the anti-malware software. Most of adware variants that are used to show you the Herdthan pop-up advertisements are changing the deep browser setups, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you attempt to fix your browser settings after your computer was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will certainly crash soon. In certain cases, you will see no crash, but significant lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 seconds, and after that it will be back to the normal, up until 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 ads on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware overview and also the reasons why I advise it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.