Herelations Ads Removal Guide — How to Fix It?

Herelations pop-up notifications may show up unexpectedly, covering the subject of the page you checked or opening your browser when you don’t need it to be opened.

Clicking the Herelations promotion can result in the injection of other malware or unwanted programs. In this guide, you will see the guideline of Herelations popups clearing in several methods, and also examining your PC for other malware existence.

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What are Herelations pop-ups?

Herelations popups are an outcome of adware activity. Adware is a type of malware that suggests you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click promotions, which produces a substantial volume of revenue for adware suppliers. These advertisements might include explicit content, or have a link to malevolent content/website, considering that adware maintainers have no reason to examine the goodness of the material they are going to show – their solitary target is cash.

Herelations push notification.

Pop-up promotions itself is a very good, low-priced and extremely productive marketing solution¹. It makes it possible for the seller to link the buyers’ interest to their website, as well as the buyers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they wish to buy. When the person will receive a pop-up alert that the TV set he wishes to buy is provided at the online shop he/she saw earlier with a 15% discount, one will definitely use this opportunity and purchase it. Considering the extremely small cost for the popups and their targeting, such a marketing instrument is a much-loved thing amongst the advertising departments of huge online sellers.

However, such a profitable plan could not be missed by malware creators. Ability to demonstrate the popup advertisements by force to the people of malware attack is an excellent basis for evil-minded manipulations with the popup ads. And Herelations.fun ads is among hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a short summary for the Herelations site

How have I got the Herelations virus?

There are a lot of ways of becoming infected by the adware that result in the Herelations popups storm. A lion’s part of this virus cases is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Free software can likewise be downloaded from the official site, and the adware is offered as a legit bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A number of people regularly work with the unreliable programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, various tools that are free of cost, or perhaps hacked programs. All of these types of programs are risky, since it is quite easy to build in a Herelations 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.

Herelations popup virus may also be hidden in the ad somewhere on the strange site. Such web pages are typically full of bright and blinking advertisements, and their owners usually permit any type of promotions to be posted on their web page. Thus, clicking such banners is a shot in the dark: only the advertisement provider realizes what will occur when you click this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you may additionally receive something much more unsafe, like ransomware or coin miner; the substantial share of coin miners circulation is exactly after the malicious promotions.

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

Potentially unwanted applications, like Herelations popup virus can cause a lot of troubles on your personal computer. Distracting is not the only problem – pop-ups can show you the advertisements, where you are offered to download another unknown application, or “a perfect security tool”. Scareware is usually spread with the last motto. Potentially unwanted applications, in turn, can 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 dubious antiviruses, popup-related promotions are also exploited as a spreading method by different trojan viruses, for example – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such malware 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 someone who also uses your personal computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the situation may become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve 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 Herelations pop-up advertisements?

The tutorial of Herelations adware clearing includes 2 parts. First, we need to deal with the malware, and after that deal with the effects of its activity. The removal process is pretty simple, because it may be executed even with the use of Microsoft Defender – anti-malware software that is available on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nonetheless, because of its substantial resources utilization, along with some failures that may be pivotal for some groups of individuals, Defender is often turned off by the users, so its usage is most likely impossible. Furthermore, a variety of trojan viruses can switch off the embedded antivirus. It is better to use the separated program that will not have such exposures.

I’d recommend you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven antivirus tool that will surely wipe out the malware from your PC and also create an impenetrable shield with a Proactive protection feature. However, let’s handle Herelations adware initially.

Removing Herelations 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 Herelations 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 connect the correct DNS while connecting to the website you need. Make a text file named “hosts” on your pc’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.

Nevertheless, there is one trouble that makes the things a lot harder to fix, specifically without the anti-malware program. Most of adware versions that are utilized to show you the Herelations pop-up advertisements are altering the deep browser configurations, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you attempt to change your browser settings after your machine was infected by pop-up-related malware, your browser will crash soon. In certain cases, you will see no crash, however, huge lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 secs, and afterwards it will be back to the normal, till you try to open settings 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 review and the reasons why I suggest it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.