Remove Hiltus.click Virus — How to Fix Guide

Hiltus.click pop-up notifications can show up unexpectedly, covering the subject of the website you explored or opening your web browser when you do not wish it to be opened.

Clicking the Hiltus.click ad can result in the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this post, you will see the tutorial of Hiltus.click popups clearing in multiple methods, as well as checking your PC for other malware existence.

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What are Hiltus.click pop-ups?

Hiltus.click popups are a consequence of adware activity. Adware is a kind of malware that demonstrates to you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which creates a major volume of income for adware representatives. These promotions might have explicit composition, or have a web link to harmful content/website, since adware maintainers have no reason to examine the goodness of the material they are going to reveal – their single target is cash.

Hiltus.click push notification.

Pop-up marketing itself is a very good, affordable and very productive advertising method¹. It permits the seller to link the customers’ interest to their website, as well as the customers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they want to buy. When the customer will get a pop-up alert that the TV set he wishes to purchase is offered at the online store he/she saw previously with a 15% price cut, one will undoubtedly use this chance and get it. Considering the very small cost for the popups and their targeting, such a promotion and marketing tool is a favourite thing amongst the marketing departments of large internet retailers.

However, such a rewarding strategy could not be missed by malware creators. Option to show the popup ads by force to the targets of malware attack is an ideal basis for malicious adjustments with the popup ads. And Hiltus.click advertisements is among hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a info for the Hiltus.click site

How have I got the Hiltus.click virus?

There are a number of methods of becoming infected by the adware that cause the Hiltus.click popups tornado. A lion’s part of this computer virus instances is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Free software can also be downloaded from the official website, and the adware is supplied as a legit bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A plenty of users regularly use the uncertain programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, various tools that are free of cost, and even hacked programs. Every one of these types of software are dangerous, due to the fact that it is very easy to build in a Hiltus.click 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.

Hiltus.click popup virus may likewise be hidden in the promotion somewhere on the odd web page. Such sites are generally filled with colorful and blinking ads, and their proprietors generally approve any promotions to be placed on their page. Thus, clicking on such banners is a shot in the dark: only the advertisement contractor realizes what will occur when you click this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you may additionally get something much more damaging, like ransomware or coin miner; the large 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 unwanted applications, like Hiltus.click popup virus may cause a wide range of problems on your PC. Distracting is not the single problem – pop-ups may display you the banners, where you are offered to download another unknown application, or “a effective anti-malware tool”. Scareware is often spread with the use of the last motto. Potentially undesirable applications, in turn, may have spyware functionality. And it is pretty hard to distinguish the undesirable app from a good one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the potentially unwanted programs and pseudo antiviruses, popup-related banners are also used as a spreading way by various trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such viruses is 100% unwanted, and can cost you several hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not tapping these promotions, they may be clicked by someone who also uses your PC – 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 applications as soon as possible.

How can I get rid of Hiltus.click pop-up advertisements?

The tutorial of Hiltus.click adware clearing includes 2 parts. First, we need to deal with the malware, and then fix the effects of its action. The elimination process is pretty easy, because it may be executed even with making use of Microsoft Defender – security tool that is available on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. However, because of its huge resources utilization, as well as some bugs that can be pivotal for some categories of users, Defender is oftentimes disabled by the users, so its utilization is probably impossible. Moreover, different trojan viruses are able to turn off the embedded antivirus. It is much better to make use of the separated program that will not have such vulnerabilities.

I would certainly advise you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven anti-malware device that will certainly eliminate the malware from your PC and make an impenetrable shield with a Proactive protection feature. But let’s handle Hiltus.click adware first.

Removing Hiltus.click 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 Hiltus.click 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 make sure that your browser will definitely connect the appropriate DNS while connecting to the site you need. Make a text file named “hosts” on your computer’s desktop, then open it and fill it with the following text³:

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 problem that makes the things much more difficult to repair, specifically without the anti-malware program. A lot of adware variants that are utilized to show you the Hiltus.click pop-up promotions are changing the deep browser setups, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you attempt to fix your browser settings after your system was infected by pop-up-related malware, your browser will 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 normal, till you attempt 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 advertisements on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware review and also the reasons why I recommend it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.