Remove Hetapus Pop-up Ads — How to Fix Gude

Hetapus pop-up notifications may appear unexpectedly, covering the subject of the website you explored or opening your web browser when you don’t wish it to be opened.

Clicking the Hetapus promotion may cause the injection of various malware or unwanted programs. In this article, you will see the tutorial of Hetapus popups removal in several methods, and also inspecting your system for other malware existence.

What are Hetapus pop-ups?

Hetapus popups are a consequence of adware action. Adware is a sort of malware that presents you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click ads, which produces a large amount of income for adware distributors. These advertisements may contain explicit information, or have a web link to malevolent content/website, because adware maintainers have no reason to check the goodness of the web content they are going to reveal – their solitary target is cash.

Hetapus push notification.

Pop-up promotions itself is a good, low-priced and also extremely effective advertising solution¹. It enables the seller to attach the buyers’ attention to their site, as well as the buyers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they wish to buy. When the person will get a pop-up notification that the TV set he desires to buy is available at the online shop he/she saw earlier with a 15% price cut, one will definitely use this opportunity and buy it. Taking into consideration the very low cost for the popups and their targeting, such a marketing method is a favourite thing amidst the marketing departments of huge online retail stores.

Nevertheless, such a rewarding scheme could not be missed by virus creators. Ability to demonstrate the popup ads forcibly to the targets of malware invasion is a perfect basis for evil-minded adjustments with the popup advertisements. And Hetapus.com advertisements is among hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a short info for the Hetapus site

How have I got the Hetapus virus?

There are a number of methods of getting contaminated by the adware that lead to the Hetapus popups storm. A lion’s part of this malware incidents is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Free software can likewise be downloaded from the main web page, and the adware is provided as a legitimate bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A lot of people often make use of the unreliable programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, a wide range of apps that are free, and even hacked programs. All of these kinds of programs are risky, due to the fact that it is very easy to build in a Hetapus 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.

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

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

The manual of Hetapus adware elimination consists of 2 sections. Initially, we need to remove the malware, and after that fix the consequences of its activity. The removal procedure is really easy, since it may be done even with using Microsoft Defender – security tool that is available on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nevertheless, due to its large resources consumption, as well as some defects that can be crucial for some types of users, Defender is frequently disabled by the users, so its usage is likely impossible. What’s more, various trojan viruses can shut off the embedded antivirus. It is far better to use the separated program that will not have such exposures.

• 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 Hetapus malware the default option is “Delete”. Press “Apply” to finish the malware removal.

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 definitely be connected the right DNS while connecting to the web page you want. Make a text file titled “hosts” on your computer’s desktop, then 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.

Nonetheless, there is one problem that makes things much harder to restore, especially without the anti-malware program. Most of adware versions that are utilized to show you the Hetapus pop-up ads are adjusting the deep browser settings, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you attempt to change your browser settings after your machine was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will certainly crash soon. In some cases, you will see no crash, but huge lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 seconds, and after that it will be back to the typical, till you attempt to open settings once again.

1. More about pop-up advertisements on Wikipedia.
2. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.