How to remove Highpotencysoftware pop-ups? — Fix Guide

Highpotencysoftware pop-up notices may show up unexpectedly, covering the content of the website you explored or opening your web browser when you don’t wish it to be opened.

Clicking on the Highpotencysoftware advertisement can trigger the injection of various malware or unwanted programs. In this post, you will see the manual of Highpotencysoftware popups clearing in various ways, as well as examining your personal computer for additional malware presence.

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What are Highpotencysoftware pop-ups?

Highpotencysoftware popups are a result of adware activity. Adware is a kind of malware that presents you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which produces a major volume of revenue for adware representatives. These ads may have sometimes shocking information, or have a web link to harmful content/website, considering that adware maintainers have no reason to inspect the goodness of the material they are going to reveal – their single target is money.

Highpotencysoftware push notification.

Pop-up promotions itself is an excellent, cheap and also really efficient marketing method¹. It enables the seller to link the buyers’ attention to their website, as well as the customers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they wish to buy. When the person will receive a pop-up alert that the TV set he likes to buy is provided at the online shop he/she saw previously with a 15% price cut, one will certainly use this opportunity and buy it. Considering the exceptionally low price for the popups and their targeting, such a marketing tool is a much-loved thing among the marketing teams of large internet sellers.

Nevertheless, such a successful scheme could not be missed by virus developers. Option to show the popup advertisements by force to the people of malware attack is an ideal basis for malevolent manipulations with the popup advertisements. And Highpotencysoftware.com promotions is among hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a short summary for the Highpotencysoftware site

How have I got the Highpotencysoftware virus?

There are a lot of ways of becoming contaminated by the adware that result in the Highpotencysoftware popups tornado. 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 additionally be downloaded from the main site, and the adware is provided as a legit bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A number of people oftentimes utilize the uncertain programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, various utilities that are free of cost, and even hacked programs. Every one of these types of programs are unsafe, due to the fact that it is extremely simple to include a Highpotencysoftware 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.

Highpotencysoftware popup malware may likewise be hidden in the promotion somewhere on the strange site. Such web pages are typically loaded with colorful and blinking advertisements, and their proprietors generally permit any type of promotions to be posted on their page. For this reason, clicking such banners is a shot in the dark: only the ad provider realizes what will happen when you press this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you may likewise receive something a lot more damaging, like ransomware or coin miner; the substantial share of coin miners distribution is exactly after the malicious promotions.

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

Potentially undesirable programs, like Highpotencysoftware pop-up virus may cause a variety of problems on your PC. Distracting is not the single effect – pop-ups can show you the promotions, where you are offered to download one more dubious program, or “a perfect security tool”. Scareware is usually distributed with the use of the last motto. Potentially unwanted applications, in turn, can have spyware functionality. And it is pretty hard to distinguish the undesirable app from a normal one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and fake antiviruses, popup-related banners are also used as a distribution method by various trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such viruses is 100% unwanted, and can cost you hundreds or even thousands of dollars. And even if you are not interacting with these promotions, they may be clicked by someone who also makes use of 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 loss. It is recommended to eliminate the viruses with antivirus programs as soon as possible.

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

The guide of Highpotencysoftware adware clearing contains 2 sections. First, we need to exterminate the malware, and then fix the effects of its action. The removal procedure is really easy, since it may be done even with making use of Microsoft Defender – anti-malware tool that is available on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. However, due to its substantial resources utilization, along with some problems that may be pivotal for some kinds of users, Defender is frequently disabled by the users, so its usage is most likely impossible. In addition, various trojan viruses can switch off the embedded antivirus. It is far better to use the separated program that will not have such weakness.

I would certainly suggest you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven antivirus device that will certainly exterminate the malware from your personal computer and also create an impenetrable cover with a Proactive protection function. However, let’s manage Highpotencysoftware adware initially.

Removing Highpotencysoftware 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 Highpotencysoftware 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 web browsers are reset, you need to ensure that your browser will be connected the appropriate DNS while connecting to the website you need. Create a text file titled “hosts” on your pc’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.

Nevertheless, there is one issue that makes the things much more difficult to repair, specifically without the anti-malware software. Most of adware variations that are utilized to show you the Highpotencysoftware pop-up ads are modifying the deep browser setups, 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 collapse soon. In some cases, you will see no crash, but large lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 secs, and then it will be back to the normal, up until you attempt 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 overview and the reasons why I suggest it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.