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.

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

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
Site Highpotencysoftware.com
Hosting AS16509 Amazon.com, Inc.
Germany, Frankfurt am Main
Infection Type Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads
IP Address 108.138.7.53
Symptoms Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner.
Similar behavior Ovenlapodioria, Gishbecom, News
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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.

People dislike popups

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

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.

    Gridinsoft Anti-Malware during the scan process
  • 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.
  • GridinSoft Anti-Malware scan results
  • 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.
  • GridinSoft Anti-Malware - After Cleaning

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. Reseting the Edge browser
  3. 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. The first step to revert Mozilla Firefox
  3. In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option :
  4. The second step of Firefox restoration
    After choosing this option, you will see the next message :
    The last step for Firefox
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:

# Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a ‘#’ symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
# localhost name resolution is handle within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost

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.

References

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

About the author

Wilbur Woodham

Technical writer covering malware detections, unwanted programs, and browser-based threats. Wilbur turns research notes into step-by-step guides that Windows users can follow safely.

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