Hornypornvid Ads Removal Guide — How to Fix It?

Hornypornvid pop-up alerts may appear unexpectedly, covering the content of the site you visited or opening your web browser when you do not need it to be opened.

Clicking on the Hornypornvid advertisement may cause the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this post, you will see the guide of Hornypornvid popups clearing in various methods, as well as examining your computer for extra malware presence.

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What are Hornypornvid pop-ups?

Hornypornvid popups are a result of adware presence. Adware is a type of malware that suggests you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which generates a major amount of profit for adware representatives. These ads may include explicit composition, or have a link to malicious content/website, since adware maintainers have no purpose to inspect the goodness of the web content they are going to show – their solitary target is money.

Hornypornvid push notification.

Pop-up promotions itself is an excellent, low-priced and very effective marketing tool¹. It enables the seller to attach the buyers’ interest to their website, and the buyers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they want to buy. When the consumer will receive a pop-up notification that the TV set he desires to purchase is provided at the online store he/she saw previously with a 15% price cut, one will undoubtedly use this possibility and get it. Considering the extremely small cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising and marketing instrument is a favorite thing among the advertising teams of huge internet retail stores.

Nevertheless, such a rewarding scheme could not be missed by malware creators. Option to demonstrate the popup ads forcibly to the targets of malware attack is a great basis for malicious manipulations with the popup promotions. And Hornypornvid.com ads is one of hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a details for the Hornypornvid site

How have I got the Hornypornvid virus?

There are a lot of methods of becoming contaminated by the adware that lead to the Hornypornvid popups tornado. A lion’s part of this computer virus instances is after the free software or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Freeware may likewise be downloaded from the official web page, and the adware is delivered as a legal bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A lot of people frequently work with the uncertain programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, a wide range of tools that are free of cost, and even hacked programs. All of these types of software are risky, since it is very simple to integrate a Hornypornvid 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.

Hornypornvid popup malware can likewise be hidden in the ad somewhere on the strange site. Such websites are usually filled with intense and blinking ads, and their owners generally approve any promos to be placed on their page. Therefore, clicking on such banners is a risky thing: only the advertisement contractor realizes what will happen when you press this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you may additionally receive something much more damaging, like ransomware or coin miner; the large 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 unwanted programs, like Hornypornvid pop-up virus can initiate a wide range of troubles on your personal computer. Distracting is not the only problem – pop-up notifications can present you the ads, where you are offered to get another unknown program, or “a effective security tool”. Scareware is usually spread with the last slogun. Potentially undesirable programs, in turn, can have spyware functionality. And it is very hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a normal one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the potentially unwanted programs and pseudo antiviruses, popup-related promotions are also chosen as a spreading method by different trojan viruses, for example – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such viruses is 100% unwanted, and can cost you 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 things can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve it without data and money loss. It is recommended to wipe out the viruses with antivirus programs as soon as possible.

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

The tutorial of Hornypornvid adware elimination includes 2 sections. Initially, we need to eliminate the malware, and then repair the results of its action. The elimination procedure is quite easy, because it can be done even with using Microsoft Defender – anti-malware program that is present on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. However, due to its significant resources consumption, as well as some problems that can be critical for some kinds of individuals, Defender is often turned off by the users, so its use is probably impossible. Furthermore, different trojan viruses are able to shut off the embedded antivirus. It is far better to use the separated program that will not have such weakness.

I would certainly advise you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven antivirus tool that will definitely erase the malware from your system and create an impenetrable shield with a Proactive protection feature. But let’s deal with Hornypornvid adware first.

Removing Hornypornvid 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 Hornypornvid 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 connect the right DNS while connecting to the web page you want. Create 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 problem that makes things much more difficult to repair, specifically without the anti-malware software. Most of adware versions that are used to show you the Hornypornvid pop-up ads are adjusting the deep browser settings, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to change your browser settings after your PC was infected by pop-up-related malware, your browser will crash quickly. In certain cases, you will see no crash, but significant lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 secs, and after that it will be back to the normal, till you try 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 the reasons why I advise it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.