Remove Housedating.top Pop-up Ads — How to Fix Gude

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

Clicking the Housedating.top ad may result in the injection of various malware or unwanted programs. In this post, you will see the guide of Housedating.top popups clearing in a couple of methods, and also examining your personal computer for other viruses existence.

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What are Housedating.top pop-ups?

Housedating.top popups are a result of adware presence. Adware is a type of malware that shows you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click promotions, which generates a major amount of income for adware suppliers. These advertisements may have sometimes shocking composition, or have a web link to malevolent content/website, considering that adware maintainers have no purpose to check the goodness of the content they are going to show – their single target is money.

Housedating.top push notification.

Pop-up marketing itself is a very good, affordable and also extremely successful advertising method¹. It allows the seller to attach the customers’ interest to their site, as well as the buyers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they want to buy. When the person will receive a pop-up notification that the TV set he likes to purchase is available at the online shop he/she visited previously with a 15% price cut, one will surely use this opportunity and purchase it. Considering the exceptionally low price for the popups and their targeting, such a marketing method is a favourite thing amidst the marketing departments of huge online retail stores.

However, such a successful plan could not be missed by malware developers. Potential to demonstrate the popup advertisements by force to the victims of malware invasion is an excellent basis for evil-minded tricks with the popup advertisements. And Housedating.top advertisements is one of hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a short info for the Housedating.top site

How have I got the Housedating.top virus?

There are a number of ways of getting infected by the adware that cause the Housedating.top popups storm. A lion’s part of this virus cases is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Freeware can likewise be downloaded from the main web page, and the adware is presented as a legitimate bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A plenty of people oftentimes utilize the uncertain programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, a wide range of utilities that are free, or even hacked programs. Every one of these types of software are risky, because it is quite simple to include a Housedating.top 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.

Housedating.top popup virus may also be concealed in the ad somewhere on the odd site. Such websites are in most cases full of intense and blinking advertisements, and their proprietors typically permit any promotions to be placed on their page. Therefore, clicking on such banners is a shot in the dark: only the advertisement contractor knows what will happen when you press this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you may likewise receive something a lot more unsafe, 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 undesirable programs, like Housedating.top popup virus may initiate a wide range of different troubles on your personal computer. Distracting is not the single problem – pop-up notifications may present you the banners, where you are offered to get another unknown application, or “a perfect security tool”. Scareware is usually distributed with the last slogun. Potentially undesirable applications, in turn, may have spyware functionality. And it is quite hard to distinguish the undesirable app from a good one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and dubious antiviruses, popup-related ads are also chosen as a spreading method by different 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 promotions, they may 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 information loss. It is recommended to get rid of the viruses with anti-malware programs as soon as possible.

How can I get rid of Housedating.top pop-up advertisements?

The guide of Housedating.top adware removal includes 2 parts. First, we need to deal with the malware, and after that deal with the consequences of its action. The removal procedure is really simple, since it may be performed even with the use of Microsoft Defender – security software that is available on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. Nevertheless, as a result of its substantial resources utilization, along with some errors that may be crucial for some types of individuals, Defender is oftentimes turned off by the users, so its use is most likely impossible. Moreover, a variety of trojan viruses are capable to turn off the embedded antivirus. It is far better to make use of the separated program that will not have such weakness.

I’d suggest you to utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven security tool that will surely wipe out the viruses from your system and also make an invulnerable cover with a Proactive protection function. But let’s handle Housedating.top adware first.

Removing Housedating.top 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 Housedating.top 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 web browser will definitely be connected the correct DNS while connecting to the site you want. Make a text file named “hosts” on your 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.

Nevertheless, there is one trouble that makes the things a lot harder to restore, particularly without the anti-malware program. Most of adware variations that are used to show you the Housedating.top pop-up advertisements are altering the deep browser setups, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you attempt to fix your browser settings after your computer was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will certainly crash soon. In some cases, you will see no crash, however, significant lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 secs, and then it will be back to the typical, up until 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 review and also the reasons why I recommend it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.