Remove Hienaterests Pop-up Ads — How to Fix Gude

Hienaterests pop-up notifications can appear unexpectedly, covering the post of the page you explored or opening your web browser when you do not want it to be opened.

Clicking on the Hienaterests ad can lead to the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this post, you will see the guide of Hienaterests popups removal in various ways, as well as checking your personal computer for additional malware existence.

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What are Hienaterests pop-ups?

Hienaterests popups are a consequence of adware activity. Adware is a type of malware that presents you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which generates a large volume of income for adware suppliers. These promotions might consist of sometimes shocking material, or have a web link to malevolent content/website, considering that adware maintainers have no purpose to examine the goodness of the web content they are going to reveal – their solitary target is cash.

Hienaterests push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is a good, low-cost and extremely productive advertising solution¹. It permits the vendor to attach the buyers’ attention to their website, and the customers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they wish to purchase. When the person will get a pop-up alert that the TV set he likes to buy is offered at the online shop he/she checked out previously with a 15% discount, one will undoubtedly use this chance and purchase it. Taking into consideration the incredibly small cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising instrument is a favourite thing amidst the advertising departments of huge online retail stores.

Nevertheless, such a successful strategy could not be missed by virus developers. Ability to show the popup advertisements forcibly to the targets of malware attack is an ideal basis for malicious adjustments with the popup advertisements. And Hienaterests.space promotions is among hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a short info for the Hienaterests

How have I got the Hienaterests virus?

There are a plenty of methods of becoming contaminated by the adware that lead to the Hienaterests popups storm. A lion’s part of this malware cases is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Freeware may also be downloaded from the main website, and the adware is delivered as a legal bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A plenty of users regularly utilize the unreliable programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, various apps that are free, and even hacked programs. Every one of these types of programs are unsafe, since it is quite simple to build in a Hienaterests malware under the cover of part of the license hacking script, or as a component of the self-made algoritm inside of the Windows optimization tool.

Hienaterests popup virus may also be concealed in the advertisement somewhere on the strange site. Such sites are typically packed with bright and blinking advertisements, and their proprietors usually accept any promos to be posted on their web page. For this reason, clicking such banners is a risky thing: only the advertisement provider realizes what will occur when you click this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you can likewise get something much more threatening, like ransomware or coin miner; the large share of coin miners circulation is exactly after the malicious advertisements.

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

Potentially undesirable programs, like Hienaterests popup virus can initiate a wide range of troubles on your personal computer. Distracting is not the only problem – pop-ups can present you the banners, where you are offered to download another unknown application, or “a perfect anti-malware tool”. Scareware is often distributed with the last motto. Potentially undesirable programs, in turn, can have spyware functions. 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 chosen as a distribution method by different trojan viruses, for example – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such malware is 100% unwanted, and can cost you several hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not tapping these ads, they may be clicked by whoever who also makes use of your computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the situation may become much more serious, and it will be much harder to deal with it without data loss. It is recommended to eliminate the viruses with anti-malware programs as soon as possible.

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

The manual of Hienaterests adware removal contains 2 sections. First, we need to remove the malware, and after that repair the effects of its action. The removal procedure is very easy, because it may be executed even with making use of Microsoft Defender – anti-malware tool that is present on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nevertheless, as a result of its huge resources usage, as well as some failures that may be serious for some groups of users, Defender is frequently disabled by the users, so its utilization is likely impossible. Moreover, different trojan viruses are able to shut off the embedded antivirus. It is better to use the separated program that will not have such weakness.

I would certainly advise you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven security device that will certainly remove the malware from your PC and also make an impenetrable cover with a Proactive protection feature. However, let’s take care of Hienaterests adware first.

Removing Hienaterests 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 Hienaterests 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 definitely connect the correct DNS while connecting to the web page you need. Make a text file named “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 trouble that makes things much harder to fix, particularly without the anti-malware program. A lot of adware variants that are used to show you the Hienaterests pop-up promotions are changing the deep browser settings, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to fix your browser settings after your system was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will certainly collapse soon. Sometimes, you will see no crash, however, huge lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 secs, and then it will be back to the normal, until 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 ads on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware overview and also the reasons why I suggest it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.