Remove Hotterenvisage Pop-up Ads — How to Fix Gude

Hotterenvisage pop-up alerts can show up out of the blue, covering the content of the page you checked or opening your web browser when you do not wish it to be opened.

Clicking on the Hotterenvisage advertisement may cause the injection of various malware or unwanted programs. In this article, you will see the tutorial of Hotterenvisage popups removal in a couple of manners, and also checking your personal computer for other malware presence.

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What are Hotterenvisage pop-ups?

Hotterenvisage popups are an outcome of adware action. Adware is a type of malware that demonstrates to you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which produces a major amount of income for adware representatives. These promotions may consist of explicit material, or have a link to malicious content/website, due to the fact that adware maintainers have no reason to examine the goodness of the content they are going to reveal – their solitary target is money.

Hotterenvisage push notification.

Pop-up marketing itself is a good, cheap and very effective advertising solution¹. It makes it possible for the seller to link the customers’ attention to their website, and the customers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to purchase. When the consumer will receive a pop-up notification that the TV set he desires to purchase is available at the online store he/she saw previously with a 15% price cut, one will definitely use this opportunity and purchase it. Taking into consideration the very low cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising tool is a much-loved thing amongst the marketing teams of big internet stores.

Nevertheless, such a successful system could not be missed by virus developers. Potential to demonstrate the popup ads forcibly to the victims of malware invasion is a perfect basis for malevolent manipulations with the popup ads. And Hotterenvisage.com ads is one of hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a summary for the Hotterenvisage

How have I got the Hotterenvisage virus?

There are a lot of ways of getting contaminated by the adware that cause the Hotterenvisage popups storm. 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 may also be downloaded from the official web page, and the adware is presented as a legal bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A lot of users oftentimes utilize the uncertain programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, different apps that are free, or even hacked programs. Every one of these sorts of programs are dangerous, since it is very easy to integrate a Hotterenvisage malware under the cover of part of the license hacking script, or as a component of the self-made algoritm within the Windows optimization tool.

Hotterenvisage popup malware may likewise be concealed in the advertisement somewhere on the strange web page. Such sites are in most cases packed with bright and blinking advertisements, and their proprietors often accept any promotions to be published on their page. For this reason, clicking such banners is a risky thing: only the advertisement provider knows what will occur when you press this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you can also receive something much more unsafe, like ransomware or coin miner; the substantial share of coin miners circulation is exactly after the malicious ads.

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

Potentially undesirable applications, like Hotterenvisage pop-up virus can initiate a wide range of different troubles on your computer. Distracting is not the single effect – pop-ups may present you the banners, where you are offered to get another strange program, or “a amazing anti-malware tool”. Scareware is usually distributed with the use of the last motto. Potentially unwanted applications, in turn, can have spyware functions. And it is pretty hard to distinguish the undesirable app from a good one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and fake antiviruses, popup-related banners are also chosen as a spreading method by various trojan viruses, for example – coin miners. The consequences of activity of such viruses is 100% unwanted, and can cost you several hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not clicking these banners, they can be clicked by someone who also uses your PC – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the situation may become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve it without data loss. It is recommended to wipe out the viruses with anti-malware programs as soon as possible.

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

The guide of Hotterenvisage adware removal includes 2 parts. Initially, we need to deal with the malware, and after that fix the effects of its activity. The elimination procedure is quite easy, due to the fact that it can be done even with making use of Microsoft Defender – security program that is available on all computers with Windows 8/10. However, due to its substantial resources consumption, as well as some bugs that can be pivotal for some groups of users, Defender is frequently turned off by the users, so its use is most likely impossible. Additionally, a wide range of trojan viruses have the ability to shut off the embedded antivirus. It is far better to make use of the separated program that will not have such weakness.

I would certainly suggest you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven security device that will certainly eliminate the viruses from your system and make an impenetrable shield with a Proactive protection feature. However, let’s take care of Hotterenvisage adware initially.

Removing Hotterenvisage 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 Hotterenvisage 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 make sure that your browser will definitely be connected the appropriate DNS while connecting to the website you want. Make a text file named “hosts” on your desktop, after that 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 much more difficult to repair, especially without the anti-malware program. Most of adware variants that are utilized to show you the Hotterenvisage pop-up ads are changing the deep browser setups, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to fix your browser settings after your PC was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will collapse soon. In some cases, you will see no crash, but huge lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 seconds, and afterwards it will be back to the normal, till you attempt 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 overview and also the reasons why I suggest it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.