How to remove Hotyy.fun pop-ups? — Fix Guide

Hotyy.fun pop-up notifications may appear out of the blue, covering the post of the page you went to or opening your browser when you do not want it to be opened.

Clicking the Hotyy.fun promotion can cause the injection of various malware or unwanted programs. In this post, you will see the manual of Hotyy.fun popups removal in multiple manners, as well as inspecting your personal computer for other viruses existence.

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What are Hotyy.fun pop-ups?

Hotyy.fun popups are an outcome of adware action. Adware is a sort of malware that suggests you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click ads, which generates a substantial volume of income for adware distributors. These advertisements might have explicit information, or have a web link to harmful content/website, since adware maintainers have no reason to inspect the goodness of the content they are going to reveal – their single target is money.

Hotyy.fun push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is a good, low-priced and really productive marketing method¹. It allows the seller to link the customers’ interest to their site, and the buyers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they want to purchase. When the consumer will get a pop-up notification that the TV set he likes to purchase is available at the online store he/she visited previously with a 15% price cut, one will certainly use this chance and purchase it. Considering the very small cost for the popups and their targeting, such a marketing instrument is a much-loved thing amidst the advertising departments of large online retailers.

Nonetheless, such a successful plan could not be missed by virus creators. Potential to demonstrate the popup advertisements by force to the victims of malware invasion is a great basis for malicious adjustments with the popup promotions. And Hotyy.fun advertisements is just one of hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a short summary for the Hotyy.fun

How have I got the Hotyy.fun virus?

There are a lot of methods of getting contaminated by the adware that lead to the Hotyy.fun popups tornado. A lion’s part of this computer virus incidents is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Freeware can likewise be downloaded from the main web page, and the adware is delivered as a legit bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A lot of people often use the unreliable programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, various tools that are free of cost, or perhaps hacked programs. All of these kinds of software are risky, due to the fact that it is extremely simple to integrate a Hotyy.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.

Hotyy.fun popup virus may also be hidden in the promotion somewhere on the unusual website. Such sites are in most cases packed with bright and blinking ads, and their owners typically approve any promotions to be published on their page. Thus, clicking on such banners is a shot in the dark: only the ad provider knows what will occur when you press this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you may likewise receive something far more damaging, like ransomware or coin miner; the substantial 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 unwanted programs, like Hotyy.fun popup virus may cause a lot of problems on your personal computer. Distracting is not the only problem – pop-up notifications can present you the banners, where you are offered to get one more unknown application, or “a effective security tool”. Scareware is often distributed under the last motto. Potentially undesirable programs, in turn, may have spyware functions. And it is pretty hard to distinguish the undesirable app from a normal one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the potentially unwanted programs and fake antiviruses, popup-related banners are also used as a spreading way by various trojan viruses, for instance – 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 tapping these promotions, they may be clicked by someone who also makes use of your PC – 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 antivirus applications as soon as possible.

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

The guide of Hotyy.fun adware removal consists of 2 parts. Initially, we need to exterminate the malware, and after that correct the consequences of its activity. The elimination task is pretty simple, due to the fact that it can be performed even with using Microsoft Defender – anti-malware program that is present on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. However, as a result of its huge resources consumption, as well as some defects that can be pivotal for some kinds of users, Defender is oftentimes turned off by the users, so its use is probably impossible. Moreover, a variety of trojan viruses can disable the embedded antivirus. It is much better to make use of the separated program that will not have such exposures.

I’d suggest you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven antivirus tool that will certainly eliminate the viruses from your system and also make an invulnerable shield with a Proactive protection feature. However, let’s manage Hotyy.fun adware first.

Removing Hotyy.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 Hotyy.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 browsers are reset, you need to make sure that your web browser will definitely be connected the right DNS while connecting to the website you need. Create a text file named “hosts” on your computer’s desktop, then open it and fill it with the following lines³:

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.

Nonetheless, there is one issue that makes the things much harder to fix, especially without the anti-malware software. The majority of adware variants that are utilized to show you the Hotyy.fun pop-up ads 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, however, huge 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 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 ads on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware review and the reasons why I recommend it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.