Hurawatch.ru Ads Removal Guide — How to Fix It?

Hurawatch.ru pop-up alerts may appear out of the blue, covering the material of the page you visited or opening your web browser when you don’t desire it to be opened.

Clicking the Hurawatch.ru ad can lead to the injection of various malware or unwanted programs. In this post, you will see the manual of Hurawatch.ru popups clearing in a couple of ways, and also inspecting your system for additional malware existence.

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What are Hurawatch.ru pop-ups?

Hurawatch.ru popups are an effect of adware presence. Adware is a type of malware that demonstrates to you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click ads, which generates a significant volume of income for adware representatives. These ads might have sometimes shocking content, or have a link to harmful content/website, since adware maintainers have no purpose to examine the goodness of the content they are going to show – their solitary target is money.

Hurawatch.ru push notification.

Pop-up promotions itself is an excellent, low-priced and extremely efficient marketing solution¹. It allows the seller to attach the buyers’ attention to their website, as well as the buyers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to purchase. When the customer will get a pop-up alert that the TV set he desires to buy is offered at the online shop he/she saw earlier with a 15% discount, one will undoubtedly use this chance and get it. Taking into consideration the very small cost for the popups and their targeting, such a marketing instrument is a much-loved thing among the marketing teams of large online stores.

Nevertheless, such a profitable strategy could not be missed by virus developers. Option to show the popup advertisements by force to the victims of malware attack is an ideal basis for malicious tricks with the popup advertisements. And Hurawatch.ru promotions is among hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a details for the Hurawatch.ru site

How have I got the Hurawatch.ru virus?

There are a plenty of methods of getting contaminated by the adware that result in the Hurawatch.ru popups storm. A lion’s part of this virus incidents is after the free software or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Freeware can also be downloaded from the main website, and the adware is delivered as a legit bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A huge amount of users oftentimes use the uncertain programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, a wide range of apps that are free of cost, or perhaps hacked programs. Every one of these sorts of applications are risky, since it is extremely easy to build in a Hurawatch.ru malware under the cover of part of the license hacking script, or as a component of the self-made algoritm inside of the Windows optimization tool.

Hurawatch.ru popup malware may additionally be concealed in the promotion somewhere on the odd web page. Such web pages are generally full of bright and blinking advertisements, and their proprietors generally permit any kind of promotions to be placed on their web page. Hence, clicking such banners is a risky thing: only the ad contractor knows what will occur when you click this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you may also get something a lot 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 Hurawatch.ru popup virus can provoke a wide range of problems on your personal computer. Distracting is not the only problem – pop-ups may display you the banners, where you are offered to download another unknown application, or “a perfect security tool”. Scareware is usually spread with the last slogun. Potentially undesirable programs, in turn, can have spyware functionality. And it is pretty hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a good one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and dubious antiviruses, popup-related banners are also exploited as a spreading method by various 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 tapping these banners, they can be clicked by someone who also makes use of 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 and money loss. It is recommended to eliminate the viruses with antivirus applications as soon as possible.

How can I get rid of Hurawatch.ru pop-up advertisements?

The tutorial of Hurawatch.ru adware elimination contains 2 parts. Initially, we need to deal with the malware, and then correct the results of its action. The removal procedure is very simple, due to the fact that it can be performed even with using Microsoft Defender – anti-virus tool that is present on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. Nonetheless, as a result of its substantial resources utilization, as well as some failures that may be pivotal for some categories of individuals, Defender is frequently turned off by the users, so its utilization is likely impossible. What’s more, a variety 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 utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven security device that will undoubtedly wipe out the viruses from your computer and make an impenetrable cover with a Proactive protection feature. But let’s manage Hurawatch.ru adware first.

Removing Hurawatch.ru 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 Hurawatch.ru 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 web browser will connect the correct DNS while connecting to the web page you need. Create a text file named “hosts” on your pc’s desktop, then open it and fill it with the following text³:

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 issue that makes things much harder to fix, particularly without the anti-malware program. A lot of adware versions that are used to show you the Hurawatch.ru pop-up ads are modifying the deep browser setups, 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 certainly collapse soon. Sometimes, you will see no crash, but significant lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 seconds, and afterwards it will be back to the normal, up until 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.