Hey-brazil.net Ads Removal Guide — How to Fix It?

Hey-brazil.net pop-up notifications can appear unexpectedly, covering the material of the page you went to or opening your web browser when you do not desire it to be opened.

Clicking on the Hey-brazil.net ad can result in the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this article, you will see the guideline of Hey-brazil.net popups clearing in various manners, and also examining your system for other malware existence.

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What are Hey-brazil.net pop-ups?

Hey-brazil.net popups are an outcome of adware presence. Adware is a kind of malware that demonstrates to you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which generates a substantial volume of profit for adware distributors. These promotions may contain sometimes shocking information, or have a web link to harmful content/website, because adware maintainers have no reason to check the goodness of the web content they are going to show – their solitary target is money.

Hey-brazil.net push notification.

Pop-up promotions itself is a very good, low-priced and also very productive advertising method¹. It allows the seller to attach the buyers’ attention to their website, as well as the customers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they wish to purchase. When the consumer will receive a pop-up alert that the TV set he desires to purchase is available at the online shop he/she saw previously with a 15% price cut, one will definitely use this opportunity and get it. Taking into consideration the very small cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising tool is a favourite thing among the advertising departments of big internet retailers.

However, such a successful plan could not be missed by malware developers. Ability to demonstrate the popup advertisements by force to the targets of malware invasion is an excellent basis for malevolent manipulations with the popup advertisements. And Hey-brazil.net ads is one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

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How have I got the Hey-brazil.net virus?

There are a lot of ways of getting infected by the adware that trigger the Hey-brazil.net popups tornado. A lion’s part of this virus cases is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Freeware can additionally be downloaded from the main website, and the adware is presented as a legitimate bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A lot of people oftentimes work with the uncertain programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, a wide range of tools that are free, or perhaps hacked programs. All of these sorts of applications are unsafe, since it is extremely easy to integrate a Hey-brazil.net 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.

Hey-brazil.net popup malware may also be concealed in the promotion somewhere on the unusual website. Such web pages are usually full of bright and blinking advertisements, and their proprietors often approve any kind of promos to be placed on their page. Thus, clicking on such banners is a risky thing: only the ad provider realizes what will happen when you press this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you can likewise get something a lot more unsafe, like ransomware or coin miner; the big share of coin miners distribution is exactly after the malicious ads.

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

Potentially undesirable programs, like Hey-brazil.net popup virus can cause a variety of different troubles on your computer. Distracting is not the single effect – pop-up notifications can present you the banners, where you are offered to download another unknown application, or “a effective anti-malware tool”. Scareware is often distributed with the use of the last slogun. Potentially undesirable programs, in turn, can have spyware functionality. And it is quite hard to distinguish the undesirable app from a good one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and fake antiviruses, popup-related ads are also used as a distribution method by various trojan viruses, for example – 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 interacting with these banners, they may be clicked by someone who also uses your PC – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the situation can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to deal with it without data loss. It is recommended to remove the viruses with antivirus programs as soon as possible.

How can I get rid of Hey-brazil.net pop-up advertisements?

The tutorial of Hey-brazil.net adware elimination contains 2 sections. Initially, we need to remove the malware, and then deal with the consequences of its action. The removal process is very easy, since it can be done even with the use of Microsoft Defender – anti-virus tool that is available on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. However, due to its significant resources utilization, along with some errors that may be crucial for some kinds of individuals, Defender is often turned off by the users, so its utilization is most likely impossible. Furthermore, different trojan viruses are capable to turn off the embedded antivirus. It is far better to use the separated program that will not have such exposures.

I would certainly recommend you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven anti-malware device that will definitely eliminate the malware from your personal computer and make an invulnerable shield with a Proactive protection function. However, let’s manage Hey-brazil.net adware initially.

Removing Hey-brazil.net 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 Hey-brazil.net 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 correct DNS while connecting to the site you need. Make a text file titled “hosts” on your pc’s desktop, after that 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.

However, there is one trouble that makes the things a lot harder to fix, particularly without the anti-malware program. A lot of adware variants that are utilized to show you the Hey-brazil.net pop-up advertisements are modifying the deep browser configurations, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to change your browser settings after your computer was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will crash quickly. In some cases, you will see no crash, but significant lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 secs, and then it will be back to the typical, 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 elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.