Remove Hio9.xyz Virus — How to Fix Guide

Hio9.xyz pop-up notices can show up unexpectedly, covering the content of the site you explored or opening your browser when you do not need it to be opened.

Clicking on the Hio9.xyz advertisement can result in the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this article, you will see the guideline of Hio9.xyz popups removal in several ways, and also checking your computer for extra viruses presence.

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What are Hio9.xyz pop-ups?

Hio9.xyz popups are a result of adware presence. Adware is a kind of malware that suggests you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which generates a substantial volume of income for adware suppliers. These promotions may include explicit material, or have a link to malicious content/website, since adware maintainers have no reason to check the goodness of the content they are going to show – their solitary target is money.

Hio9.xyz push notification.

Pop-up promotions itself is an excellent, cheap and extremely efficient marketing instrument¹. It enables the vendor to attach the customers’ interest to their website, as well as the buyers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to buy. When the customer will receive a pop-up alert that the TV set he desires to buy is offered at the online store he/she checked out previously with a 15% discount, one will certainly use this possibility and purchase it. Considering the extremely low price for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising and marketing instrument is a favorite thing among the marketing teams of huge internet retail stores.

Nevertheless, such a successful plan could not be missed by virus creators. Potential to show the popup advertisements by force to the victims of malware attack is a great basis for evil-minded tricks with the popup promotions. And Hio9.xyz advertisements is among hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a details for the Hio9.xyz site

How have I got the Hio9.xyz virus?

There are a huge amount of methods of becoming infected by the adware that lead to the Hio9.xyz popups tornado. A lion’s part of this computer virus cases is after the free software or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Freeware can also be downloaded from the official web page, and the adware is provided as a legal bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A plenty of users oftentimes use the uncertain programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, a wide range of apps that are free of cost, and even hacked programs. All of these kinds of programs are dangerous, because it is extremely easy to integrate a Hio9.xyz 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.

Hio9.xyz popup virus can also be concealed in the advertisement somewhere on the strange website. Such web pages are usually packed with bright and blinking ads, and their proprietors typically approve any kind of promotions to be posted on their web page. For this reason, clicking such banners is a risky thing: only the advertisement contractor knows what will happen when you click this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you can additionally get something far more risky, like ransomware or coin miner; the substantial share of coin miners distribution is exactly after the malicious advertisements.

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

Potentially undesirable programs, like Hio9.xyz popup virus can cause a lot of different troubles on your personal computer. Distracting is not the only problem – pop-ups can show you the ads, where you are offered to download one more dubious application, or “a amazing anti-malware tool”. Scareware is usually spread with the use of the last motto. Potentially undesirable applications, in turn, may have spyware functions. And it is very 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 advertisements are also used as a spreading way by various trojan viruses, for example – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such malware is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you hundreds or even thousands of dollars. And even if you are not clicking these ads, they can 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 deal with it without data loss. It is recommended to eliminate the viruses with antivirus programs as soon as possible.

How can I get rid of Hio9.xyz pop-up advertisements?

The tutorial of Hio9.xyz adware clearing contains 2 parts. First, we need to deal with the malware, and afterwards repair the results of its action. The elimination process is very easy, because it can be performed even with using Microsoft Defender – security tool that is present on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nonetheless, because of its substantial resources utilization, as well as some bugs that may be crucial for some kinds of individuals, Defender is often disabled by the users, so its use is likely impossible. In addition, various trojan viruses are capable to shut off the embedded antivirus. It is better to make use of the separated program that will not have such exposures.

I’d suggest you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven antivirus device that will surely erase the viruses from your personal computer and create an impenetrable cover with a Proactive protection function. However, let’s handle Hio9.xyz adware first.

Removing Hio9.xyz 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 Hio9.xyz 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 browser will definitely be connected the correct DNS while connecting to the site you want. Create a text file named “hosts” on your 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 trouble that makes the things a lot more difficult to restore, especially without the anti-malware program. The majority of adware variations that are utilized to show you the Hio9.xyz pop-up advertisements are modifying the deep browser settings, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to fix your browser settings after your system was infected by pop-up-related malware, your browser will certainly crash quickly. In some cases, you will see no crash, however, huge lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 secs, and then it will be back to the typical, 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 advertisements on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware review and the reasons why I recommend it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.