Remove Hypercaffe Pop-up Virus — How to Remove?

Hypercaffe pop-up notifications may show up unexpectedly, covering the content of the site you explored or opening your browser when you don’t wish it to be opened.

Clicking on the Hypercaffe ad can cause the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this article, you will see the guide of Hypercaffe popups clearing in a couple of ways, as well as checking your system for additional viruses existence.

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What are Hypercaffe pop-ups?

Hypercaffe popups are a consequence of adware presence. Adware is a type of malware that presents you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click promotions, which creates a large volume of earnings for adware suppliers. These advertisements may consist of sometimes shocking material, or have a web link to harmful content/website, due to the fact that adware maintainers have no purpose to inspect the goodness of the content they are going to reveal – their single target is cash.

Hypercaffe push notification.

Pop-up promotions itself is a very good, cheap and very effective advertising tool¹. It enables the seller to attach the buyers’ interest to their site, and the customers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to buy. When the customer will receive a pop-up notification that the TV set he desires to buy is offered at the online store he/she visited previously with a 15% discount, one will undoubtedly use this possibility and buy it. Taking into consideration the extremely low price for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising tool is a favorite thing amongst the advertising teams of big online sellers.

However, such a rewarding strategy could not be missed by virus creators. Ability to demonstrate the popup advertisements forcibly to the people of malware attack is an excellent basis for evil-minded manipulations with the popup ads. And Hypercaffe.com ads is just one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a short details for the Hypercaffe

How have I got the Hypercaffe virus?

There are a plenty of ways of getting infected by the adware that lead to the Hypercaffe popups storm. A lion’s part of this virus cases is after the free software or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Freeware may also be downloaded from the official website, and the adware is provided as a legitimate bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A number of people frequently utilize the unreliable programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, a wide range of utilities that are free of cost, and even hacked programs. Every one of these sorts of applications are dangerous, due to the fact that it is quite easy to include a Hypercaffe malware under the guise of part of the license hacking script, or as a component of the self-made algoritm inside of the Windows optimization tool.

Hypercaffe popup malware may likewise be hidden in the ad somewhere on the odd web page. Such web pages are in most cases loaded with bright and blinking advertisements, and their owners usually permit any promos to be published on their page. Therefore, clicking such banners is a shot in the dark: only the advertisement contractor knows what will occur when you click this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you can also receive something a lot more damaging, like ransomware or coin miner; the large 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 Hypercaffe pop-up virus can cause a variety of troubles on your computer. Distracting is not the only problem – pop-ups can show you the advertisements, where you are offered to download one more strange program, or “a perfect anti-malware tool”. Scareware is usually distributed under the last slogun. Potentially undesirable applications, in turn, may have spyware functionality. And it is quite hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a normal one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and fake antiviruses, popup-related ads are also exploited as a spreading way by different trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such malware is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you hundreds or even thousands of dollars. And even if you are not tapping these ads, they can be clicked by someone who also makes use of your personal computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to deal with it without data and money loss. It is recommended to remove the viruses with anti-malware programs as soon as possible.

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

The manual of Hypercaffe adware removal contains 2 sections. First, we need to deal with the malware, and afterwards deal with the effects of its action. The removal task is very easy, since it may be done even with the use of Microsoft Defender – anti-malware software that is present on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. However, because of its significant resources usage, along with some errors that may be crucial for some kinds of individuals, Defender is often disabled by the users, so its utilization is most likely impossible. In addition, a variety of trojan viruses are capable to switch off the embedded antivirus. It is much better to make use of the separated program that will not have such weakness.

I’d advise you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven anti-malware tool that will surely wipe out the viruses from your computer and also make an impenetrable shield with a Proactive protection feature. But let’s manage Hypercaffe adware first.

Removing Hypercaffe 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 Hypercaffe 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 appropriate DNS while connecting to the web page you want. Create a text file named “hosts” on your computer’s desktop, after that 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.

However, there is one problem that makes the things much harder to repair, specifically without the anti-malware software. Most of adware versions that are utilized to show you the Hypercaffe pop-up promotions are adjusting the deep browser setups, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you attempt to change your browser settings after your machine was infected by pop-up-related malware, your browser will collapse quickly. In certain cases, you will see no crash, but significant lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 secs, and then it will be back to the normal, 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 overview and the reasons why I recommend it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.