Remove Hipbeitwee.fun Virus — How to Fix Guide

Hipbeitwee.fun pop-up notices may appear unexpectedly, covering the material of the website you went to or opening your browser when you do not need it to be opened.

Clicking on the Hipbeitwee.fun ad can trigger the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this article, you will see the manual of Hipbeitwee.fun popups clearing in a couple of ways, as well as checking your PC for extra viruses existence.

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What are Hipbeitwee.fun pop-ups?

Hipbeitwee.fun popups are a result of adware activity. Adware is a type of malware that suggests you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click ads, which produces a large volume of revenue for adware distributors. These promotions might consist of sometimes shocking information, or have a web link to malicious content/website, due to the fact that adware maintainers have no purpose to check the goodness of the content they are going to show – their solitary target is money.

Hipbeitwee.fun push notification.

Pop-up marketing itself is a good, cheap and also very effective marketing method¹. It enables the seller to link the customers’ attention to their website, and the buyers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they want to buy. When the customer will receive a pop-up alert that the TV set he likes to buy is provided at the online shop he/she checked out previously with a 15% discount, one will surely use this opportunity and buy it. Taking into consideration the exceptionally small cost for the popups and their targeting, such a promotion and marketing method is a much-loved thing amongst the marketing teams of large internet stores.

However, such a successful system could not be missed by malware developers. Potential to show the popup ads forcibly to the targets of malware attack is a perfect basis for malevolent manipulations with the popup advertisements. And Hipbeitwee.fun promotions is among hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a info for the Hipbeitwee.fun site

How have I got the Hipbeitwee.fun virus?

There are a number of methods of getting infected by the adware that result in the Hipbeitwee.fun popups tornado. A lion’s part of this virus instances is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Freeware can also be downloaded from the official site, and the adware is delivered as a legitimate bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A lot of users often make use of the unreliable programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, various utilities that are free of cost, or even hacked programs. All of these types of applications are dangerous, because it is extremely simple to integrate a Hipbeitwee.fun malware under the guise of part of the license hacking script, or as a part of the self-made algoritm inside of the Windows optimization tool.

Hipbeitwee.fun popup malware may likewise be hidden in the promotion somewhere on the strange web page. Such websites are in most cases full of bright and blinking ads, and their proprietors often accept any kind of promotions to be posted on their web page. Hence, clicking such banners is a risky thing: only the advertisement provider knows what will happen when you press this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you may additionally receive something far more unsafe, like ransomware or coin miner; the big 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 Hipbeitwee.fun pop-up virus can cause a wide range of troubles on your computer. Distracting is not the single effect – pop-ups can display you the ads, where you are offered to download one more dubious application, or “a effective security tool”. Scareware is usually distributed under the last motto. Potentially unwanted programs, in turn, may have spyware functionality. And it is very hard to distinguish the undesirable app from a good one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the potentially unwanted programs and fake antiviruses, popup-related ads are also chosen 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 interacting with these banners, they can be clicked by someone who also makes use of your personal computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the situation can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to deal with it without data and money loss. It is recommended to wipe out the viruses with anti-malware applications as soon as possible.

How can I get rid of Hipbeitwee.fun pop-up advertisements?

The guide of Hipbeitwee.fun adware elimination consists of 2 parts. Initially, we need to deal with the malware, and then take care of the consequences of its action. The elimination task is really easy, because it can be executed even with using Microsoft Defender – anti-virus tool that is present on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. Nevertheless, because of its large resources consumption, as well as some problems that can be critical for some groups of individuals, 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 better to use the separated program that will not have such vulnerabilities.

I would certainly suggest you to utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven antivirus device that will definitely erase the malware from your PC and create an invulnerable shield with a Proactive protection feature. But let’s handle Hipbeitwee.fun adware first.

Removing Hipbeitwee.fun 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 Hipbeitwee.fun 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 connect the proper DNS while connecting to the web page you need. Make a text file titled “hosts” on your 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 trouble that makes the things much more difficult to repair, especially without the anti-malware software. A lot of adware versions that are utilized to show you the Hipbeitwee.fun pop-up promotions are adjusting the deep browser configurations, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you attempt to fix your browser settings after your machine was infected by pop-up-related malware, your browser will collapse quickly. Sometimes, you will see no crash, but large lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 seconds, and then it will be back to the typical, till 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 review and also the reasons why I advise it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.