Remove Hurirk.net Pop-up Ads — How to Fix Gude

Hurirk.net pop-up notices can appear unexpectedly, covering the post of the page you explored or opening your browser when you don’t need it to be opened.

Clicking the Hurirk.net advertisement may result in the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this guide, you will see the manual of Hurirk.net popups removal in several methods, as well as examining your PC for other malware presence.

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What are Hurirk.net pop-ups?

Hurirk.net popups are an outcome of adware activity. Adware is a type of malware that demonstrates to you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click ads, which produces a substantial amount of profit for adware distributors. These ads may have sometimes shocking composition, or have a web link to malevolent content/website, considering that adware maintainers have no purpose to examine the goodness of the content they are going to show – their solitary target is cash.

Hurirk.net push notification.

Pop-up promotions itself is a good, low-cost and really productive marketing solution¹. It enables the vendor to link the buyers’ interest to their website, as well as the customers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to purchase. When the consumer will get a pop-up alert that the TV set he wishes to buy is offered at the online shop he/she checked out previously with a 15% price cut, one will surely use this chance and get it. Considering the extremely small cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising method is a favourite thing among the advertising teams of large online retail stores.

Nonetheless, such a rewarding strategy could not be missed by malware developers. Ability to demonstrate the popup advertisements forcibly to the victims of malware invasion is an excellent basis for malicious tricks with the popup promotions. And Hurirk.net ads is one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a summary for the Hurirk.net

How have I got the Hurirk.net virus?

There are a lot of methods of getting infected by the adware that trigger the Hurirk.net popups storm. A lion’s part of this computer virus incidents is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Free software can also be downloaded from the main website, and the adware is presented as a legit bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A huge amount of users regularly utilize the dubious programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, various apps that are free of cost, or perhaps hacked programs. All of these kinds of programs are risky, since it is very simple to integrate a Hurirk.net 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.

Hurirk.net popup virus can also be concealed in the ad somewhere on the odd website. Such web pages are usually full of intense and blinking ads, and their proprietors often permit any kind of promos to be posted on their web page. Thus, clicking such banners is a shot in the dark: only the advertisement provider knows what will occur when you click this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you may additionally receive something far more risky, like ransomware or coin miner; the big share of coin miners distribution is exactly after the malicious ads.

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

Potentially undesirable applications, like Hurirk.net pop-up virus can provoke a wide range of different problems on your personal computer. Distracting is not the single effect – pop-ups can show you the banners, where you are offered to get one more dubious application, or “a amazing anti-malware tool”. Scareware is usually distributed with the use of the last motto. Potentially unwanted applications, in turn, may have spyware functions. 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 advertisements are also exploited as a spreading method by various trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of activity of such viruses is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not clicking these promotions, they can be clicked by whoever who also makes use of your personal computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things may become much more serious, and it will be much harder to deal with it without data loss. It is recommended to get rid of the viruses with anti-malware applications as soon as possible.

How can I get rid of Hurirk.net pop-up advertisements?

The guide of Hurirk.net adware removal consists of 2 parts. Initially, we need to remove the malware, and afterwards correct the results of its activity. The elimination task is really easy, because it can be executed even with the use of Microsoft Defender – anti-malware program that is available on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nonetheless, because of its substantial resources usage, along with some errors that may be crucial for some groups of users, Defender is oftentimes disabled by the users, so its use is likely impossible. Additionally, a variety of trojan viruses are able to disable the embedded antivirus. It is far better to use the separated program that will not have such weakness.

I would certainly advise you to utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven antivirus device that will certainly eliminate the malware from your personal computer and make an impenetrable shield with a Proactive protection function. However, let’s manage Hurirk.net adware first.

Removing Hurirk.net 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 Hurirk.net 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 connect the appropriate DNS while connecting to the website you want. Create a text file titled “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.

However, there is one trouble that makes the things a lot more difficult to restore, particularly without the anti-malware program. A lot of adware versions that are used to show you the Hurirk.net pop-up promotions are changing the deep browser setups, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you attempt to fix your browser settings after your system was infected by pop-up-related malware, your browser will certainly collapse soon. Sometimes, you will see no crash, but huge lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 secs, and after that it will be back to the normal, up until you attempt 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 overview and also the reasons why I advise it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.