Hipsuper2 Ads Removal Guide — How to Fix It?

Hipsuper2 pop-up notices can appear out of the blue, covering the content of the site you visited or opening your browser when you don’t need it to be opened.

Clicking on the Hipsuper2 ad can trigger the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this guide, you will see the tutorial of Hipsuper2 popups removal in a couple of ways, as well as examining your PC for additional viruses presence.

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What are Hipsuper2 pop-ups?

Hipsuper2 popups are a result of adware action. Adware is a kind of malware that demonstrates to you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which generates a substantial volume of earnings for adware representatives. These ads may contain explicit composition, or have a link to malevolent content/website, because adware maintainers have no purpose to inspect the goodness of the material they are going to show – their single target is cash.

Hipsuper2 push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is a very good, low-priced and also extremely effective advertising instrument¹. It allows the seller to link the customers’ interest to their website, and the buyers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they want to buy. When the customer will receive a pop-up notification that the TV set he likes to purchase is available at the online store he/she checked out previously with a 15% discount, one will undoubtedly use this possibility and buy it. Considering the exceptionally low cost for the popups and their targeting, such a marketing instrument is a favourite thing amidst the advertising departments of huge online sellers.

Nevertheless, such a profitable system could not be missed by malware developers. Ability to show the popup ads by force to the people of malware invasion is a perfect basis for malevolent manipulations with the popup advertisements. And Hipsuper2.xyz ads is among hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a short summary for the Hipsuper2 site

How have I got the Hipsuper2 virus?

There are a number of methods of becoming contaminated by the adware that trigger the Hipsuper2 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. Free software can likewise be downloaded from the official site, and the adware is supplied as a legit bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A plenty of users regularly make use of the dubious programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, a wide range of utilities that are free, or even hacked programs. Every one of these sorts of applications are dangerous, since it is extremely easy to include a Hipsuper2 malware under the cover of part of the license hacking script, or as a part of the self-made algoritm within the Windows optimization tool.

Hipsuper2 popup malware may also be concealed in the advertisement somewhere on the strange web page. Such websites are generally filled with bright and blinking ads, and their proprietors often accept any promos to be published on their web page. For this reason, clicking on such banners is a shot in the dark: only the ad contractor knows what will happen when you press this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you may also get something much more risky, like ransomware or coin miner; the big 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 applications, like Hipsuper2 pop-up virus may cause a lot of different troubles on your personal computer. Distracting is not the single effect – pop-ups can show you the promotions, where you are offered to get another strange application, or “a amazing anti-malware tool”. Scareware is usually distributed with the last slogun. Potentially undesirable applications, in turn, may have spyware functions. 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 dubious antiviruses, popup-related banners are also exploited as a distribution method by various trojan viruses, for instance – 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 may be clicked by whoever who also uses your computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve it without data and money loss. It is recommended to remove the viruses with anti-malware programs as soon as possible.

How can I get rid of Hipsuper2 pop-up advertisements?

The manual of Hipsuper2 adware clearing consists of 2 parts. Initially, we need to eliminate the malware, and then fix the consequences of its activity. The elimination procedure is quite simple, since it can be performed even with the use of Microsoft Defender – anti-virus tool that is available on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nonetheless, because of its huge resources consumption, along with some failures that can be crucial for some categories of users, Defender is often disabled by the users, so its use is most likely impossible. What’s more, a variety of 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 exposures.

I’d advise you to utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven security tool that will surely wipe out the malware from your computer and create an invulnerable shield with a Proactive protection feature. However, let’s take care of Hipsuper2 adware initially.

Removing Hipsuper2 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 Hipsuper2 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 make sure that your web browser will definitely connect the accurate DNS while connecting to the website you want. Create a text file titled “hosts” on your computer’s desktop, after that 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 a lot harder to fix, particularly without the anti-malware software. A lot of adware variants that are used to show you the Hipsuper2 pop-up ads are adjusting the deep browser configurations, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to fix your browser settings after your machine was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will crash soon. In certain cases, you will see no crash, but significant lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 secs, and afterwards 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 overview and the reasons why I recommend it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.