Remove Hynomanhete Virus — How to Fix Guide

Hynomanhete pop-up alerts can appear out of the blue, covering the content of the page you explored or opening your browser when you don’t wish it to be opened.

Clicking the Hynomanhete advertisement may result in the injection of various malware or unwanted programs. In this article, you will see the guideline of Hynomanhete popups removal in multiple manners, as well as examining your personal computer for other malware existence.

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What are Hynomanhete pop-ups?

Hynomanhete popups are a result of adware action. Adware is a type of malware that suggests you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which generates a major amount of income for adware distributors. These promotions might have explicit information, or have a link to malicious content/website, because adware maintainers have no purpose to check the goodness of the material they are going to show – their solitary target is cash.

Hynomanhete push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is a very good, low-cost and also very efficient advertising tool¹. It allows the vendor to link the buyers’ interest to their website, as well as the customers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they wish to buy. When the person will get a pop-up notification that the TV set he likes to purchase is provided at the online shop he/she saw earlier with a 15% discount, one will definitely use this possibility and get it. Considering the incredibly low price for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising and marketing method is a favorite thing amidst the marketing departments of huge online retail stores.

Nonetheless, such a rewarding scheme could not be missed by virus creators. Ability to show the popup advertisements by force to the people of malware attack is a perfect basis for malevolent manipulations with the popup ads. And Hynomanhete.com ads is among hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a short info for the Hynomanhete site

How have I got the Hynomanhete virus?

There are a huge amount of methods of getting infected by the adware that cause the Hynomanhete popups tornado. A lion’s part of this computer virus incidents is after the free software or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Freeware may also be downloaded from the main site, and the adware is presented as a legal bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A number of people regularly work with the unreliable programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, various tools that are free of cost, or perhaps hacked programs. Every one of these kinds of programs are risky, since it is very easy to build in a Hynomanhete 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.

Hynomanhete popup malware may additionally be hidden in the promotion somewhere on the strange website. Such websites are typically loaded with colorful and blinking ads, and their owners generally approve any type of promotions to be placed on their page. For this reason, clicking such banners is a shot in the dark: only the advertisement contractor knows what will happen when you click this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you may additionally receive something much more hazardous, like ransomware or coin miner; the substantial share of coin miners circulation is exactly after the malicious advertisements.

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

Potentially undesirable applications, like Hynomanhete pop-up virus can provoke a wide range of problems on your computer. Distracting is not the only effect – pop-ups can show you the ads, where you are offered to download one more strange program, or “a effective anti-malware tool”. Scareware is usually spread with the use of the last slogun. Potentially undesirable applications, in turn, may have spyware functionality. And it is very hard to distinguish the undesirable app from a good one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and pseudo antiviruses, popup-related promotions are also used as a spreading method by different trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such viruses is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not tapping these promotions, they may be clicked by someone who also uses your PC – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve it without data and money loss. It is recommended to get rid of the viruses with anti-malware programs as soon as possible.

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

The tutorial of Hynomanhete adware clearing consists of 2 parts. First, we need to exterminate the malware, and then fix the results of its activity. The removal task is quite easy, because it can be done even with using Microsoft Defender – anti-malware program that is present on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. Nevertheless, due to its significant resources utilization, along with some failures that may be serious for some groups of users, Defender is frequently disabled by the users, so its use is most likely impossible. Moreover, various trojan viruses are capable to shut off the embedded antivirus. It is much better to make use of the separated program that will not have such vulnerabilities.

I would certainly recommend you to utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven anti-malware tool that will definitely eliminate the viruses from your PC and also make an invulnerable cover with a Proactive protection function. However, let’s deal with Hynomanhete adware initially.

Removing Hynomanhete 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 Hynomanhete 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 browser will connect the correct DNS while connecting to the web page you need. Make a text file titled “hosts” on your computer’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 issue that makes the things much more difficult to fix, specifically without the anti-malware software. Most of adware versions that are used to show you the Hynomanhete pop-up advertisements are changing the deep browser settings, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to fix your browser settings after your computer was infected by pop-up-related malware, your browser will collapse quickly. Sometimes, you will see no crash, but large lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 secs, and after that 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 advertisements on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware review and also the reasons why I advise it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.