Itspeedg Ads Removal Guide — How to Fix It?

Itspeedg pop-up alerts can appear out of the blue, covering the content of the site you went to or opening your web browser when you don’t need it to be opened.

Clicking on the Itspeedg advertisement can lead to the injection of various malware or unwanted programs. In this post, you will see the manual of Itspeedg popups removal in several ways, and also inspecting your system for extra viruses presence.

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What are Itspeedg pop-ups?

Itspeedg popups are a consequence of adware action. Adware is a sort of malware that demonstrates to you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click ads, which produces a major amount of revenue for adware suppliers. These advertisements might contain sometimes shocking content, or have a web link to malicious content/website, considering that adware maintainers have no reason to examine the goodness of the material they are going to reveal – their single target is cash.

Itspeedg push notification.

Pop-up marketing itself is a good, affordable and also very successful advertising tool¹. It allows the seller to link the customers’ attention to their site, and the buyers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they wish to buy. When the customer will receive a pop-up alert that the TV set he wishes to purchase is offered at the online shop he/she checked out previously with a 15% price cut, one will definitely use this opportunity and buy it. Considering the extremely small cost for the popups and their targeting, such a marketing tool is a much-loved thing amongst the marketing departments of huge internet retailers.

Nevertheless, such a rewarding scheme could not be missed by malware developers. Option to demonstrate the popup ads by force to the targets of malware invasion is an ideal basis for malicious tricks with the popup advertisements. And Itspeedg.com promotions is one of hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a details for the Itspeedg site

How have I got the Itspeedg virus?

There are a number of methods of becoming infected by the adware that cause the Itspeedg popups storm. A lion’s part of this computer virus instances is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Free software may additionally be downloaded from the main site, and the adware is offered as a legit bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A number of people oftentimes make use of the unreliable programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, a wide range of tools that are free of cost, and even hacked programs. All of these sorts of software are risky, because it is very easy to include a Itspeedg 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.

Itspeedg popup malware may additionally be concealed in the promotion somewhere on the odd site. Such websites are typically full of colorful and blinking advertisements, and their proprietors typically accept any type of promos to be placed on their web page. Hence, clicking such banners is a risky thing: only the ad contractor realizes what will occur when you press this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you can likewise receive something a lot more threatening, 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 Itspeedg popup virus can cause a variety of different problems on your computer. Distracting is not the single effect – pop-up notifications may present you the banners, where you are offered to download one more strange program, or “a amazing anti-malware tool”. Scareware is often distributed with the last slogun. Potentially undesirable applications, in turn, can 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 potentially unwanted programs and pseudo 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 hundreds or even thousands of dollars. And even if you are not tapping these advertisements, they can be clicked by someone who also makes use of your PC – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things may become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve 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 Itspeedg pop-up advertisements?

The tutorial of Itspeedg adware elimination contains 2 sections. Initially, we need to deal with the malware, and after that correct the results of its action. The removal procedure is very simple, since it may be executed even with the use of Microsoft Defender – anti-malware tool that is present on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. However, because of its large resources utilization, along with some problems that can be crucial for some types of users, Defender is often turned off by the users, so its use is most likely impossible. Additionally, various trojan viruses are able to disable the embedded antivirus. It is better to use the separated program that will not have such vulnerabilities.

I would certainly recommend you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven security device that will surely eliminate the malware from your PC and also create an impenetrable cover with a Proactive protection feature. But let’s manage Itspeedg adware first.

Removing Itspeedg 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 Itspeedg 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 browser will be connected the correct DNS while connecting to the web page you want. Make a text file titled “hosts” on your pc’s 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 things a lot more difficult to fix, specifically without the anti-malware program. The majority of adware versions that are used to show you the Itspeedg pop-up ads are changing the deep browser settings, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you attempt to change your browser settings after your machine was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will certainly collapse soon. In some cases, you will see no crash, but huge lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 seconds, and after that it will be back to the typical, up until you try to open settings one more time.

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 suggest it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.