How to remove Historyad pop-ups? — Fix Guide

Historyad pop-up notifications can appear unexpectedly, covering the subject of the website you went to or opening your web browser when you do not wish it to be opened.

Clicking the Historyad promotion may trigger the injection of various malware or unwanted programs. In this article, you will see the guideline of Historyad popups clearing in multiple methods, and also inspecting your PC for other malware existence.

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What are Historyad pop-ups?

Historyad popups are a consequence of adware activity. Adware is a type of malware that demonstrates to you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click ads, which generates a large amount of profit for adware suppliers. These advertisements might consist of sometimes shocking material, or have a web link to malicious content/website, because adware maintainers have no purpose to examine the goodness of the material they are going to reveal – their solitary target is money.

Historyad push notification.

Pop-up marketing itself is a very good, low-priced and very successful marketing solution¹. It permits the seller to attach the customers’ interest to their website, and the customers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they want to purchase. When the person will receive a pop-up notification that the TV set he desires to purchase is provided at the online shop he/she checked out previously with a 15% price cut, one will certainly use this opportunity and purchase it. Considering the incredibly low price for the popups and their targeting, such a promotion and marketing method is a favourite thing amidst the marketing departments of large online retail stores.

However, such a rewarding plan could not be missed by virus creators. Potential to demonstrate the popup advertisements by force to the people of malware invasion is an excellent basis for malevolent tricks with the popup promotions. And Historyad1.xyz promotions is among hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a details for the Historyad site

How have I got the Historyad virus?

There are a lot of methods of getting contaminated by the adware that cause the Historyad popups tornado. A lion’s part of this virus instances is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Free software may also be downloaded from the main web page, and the adware is delivered as a legitimate bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A number of users regularly use the unreliable programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, a wide range of utilities that are free of cost, and even hacked programs. All of these sorts of software are unsafe, due to the fact that it is quite simple to build in a Historyad malware under the guise of part of the license hacking script, or as a part of the self-made algoritm within the Windows optimization tool.

Historyad popup virus may likewise be hidden in the advertisement somewhere on the odd website. Such websites are generally packed with intense and blinking ads, and their proprietors generally accept any promos to be posted on their web page. Hence, clicking such banners is a risky thing: only the advertisement contractor knows what will happen when you press this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you may likewise receive something much more threatening, like ransomware or coin miner; the large share of coin miners circulation is exactly after the malicious promotions.

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

Potentially undesirable programs, like Historyad popup virus can cause a wide range of troubles on your PC. Distracting is not the only effect – pop-ups may show you the banners, where you are offered to download another dubious program, or “a perfect anti-malware tool”. Scareware is often distributed with the last slogun. Potentially unwanted 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 ads are also used as a distribution way by different trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of activity of such malware is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you several hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not interacting with these ads, they may be clicked by whoever who also uses your 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 anti-malware programs as soon as possible.

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

The tutorial of Historyad adware elimination contains 2 parts. First, we need to eliminate the malware, and afterwards take care of the effects of its activity. The elimination procedure is pretty easy, because it may be done even with using Microsoft Defender – anti-malware tool that is present on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. Nonetheless, as a result of its significant resources consumption, as well as some problems that may be crucial for some kinds of individuals, Defender is oftentimes turned off by the users, so its usage is most likely impossible. Moreover, a wide range of trojan viruses are capable to disable the embedded antivirus. It is better to use the separated program that will not have such weakness.

I’d advise you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven anti-malware tool that will certainly erase the viruses from your system and also make an invulnerable shield with a Proactive protection feature. But let’s take care of Historyad adware first.

Removing Historyad 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 Historyad 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 be connected the right DNS while connecting to the website you want. 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.

However, there is one trouble that makes the things a lot more difficult to repair, especially without the anti-malware program. The majority of adware versions that are utilized to show you the Historyad pop-up promotions are changing the deep browser setups, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to change your browser settings after your system was infected by pop-up-related malware, your browser will crash soon. Sometimes, 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, up until you try to open settings one more time.

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 the reasons why I suggest it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.