How to remove Ivids.ru pop-ups? — Fix Guide

Ivids.ru pop-up alerts can show up unexpectedly, covering the subject of the site you visited or opening your browser when you don’t desire it to be opened.

Clicking the Ivids.ru advertisement can cause the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this guide, you will see the manual of Ivids.ru popups removal in several ways, and also checking your PC for other malware presence.

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What are Ivids.ru pop-ups?

Ivids.ru popups are an outcome of adware presence. Adware is a sort of malware that shows you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click promotions, which creates a substantial volume of revenue for adware suppliers. These ads might consist of explicit content, or have a web link to malicious content/website, because adware maintainers have no purpose to examine the goodness of the material they are going to reveal – their solitary target is cash.

Ivids.ru push notification.

Pop-up promotions itself is a very good, affordable and also very successful marketing tool¹. It enables the seller to link the customers’ attention to their website, as well as the customers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to purchase. When the person will get a pop-up notification that the TV set he wishes to purchase is available at the online shop he/she saw earlier with a 15% price cut, one will definitely use this possibility and purchase it. Considering the incredibly low cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising and marketing method is a much-loved thing amongst the marketing teams of large internet retail stores.

Nevertheless, such a profitable strategy could not be missed by malware developers. Potential to show the popup advertisements forcibly to the targets of malware attack is a perfect basis for evil-minded adjustments with the popup advertisements. And Ivids.ru advertisements is one of hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a short details for the Ivids.ru site

How have I got the Ivids.ru virus?

There are a huge amount of ways of becoming contaminated by the adware that cause the Ivids.ru popups tornado. A lion’s part of this virus incidents is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Free software can likewise be downloaded from the official site, and the adware is presented as a legit bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A number of people oftentimes make use of the dubious programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, a wide range of utilities that are free of cost, or perhaps hacked programs. All of these types of applications are dangerous, because it is quite simple to integrate a Ivids.ru 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.

Ivids.ru popup malware may additionally be hidden in the advertisement somewhere on the strange website. Such sites are in most cases loaded with intense and blinking advertisements, and their proprietors generally approve any type of promos to be published on their page. For this reason, clicking on such banners is a shot in the dark: only the ad provider knows what will occur when you click this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you may likewise get something much more unsafe, like ransomware or coin miner; the substantial share of coin miners circulation is exactly after the malicious promotions.

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

Potentially undesirable applications, like Ivids.ru popup virus may initiate a variety of different problems on your computer. Distracting is not the single effect – pop-ups may display you the advertisements, where you are offered to download another strange application, or “a perfect anti-malware tool”. Scareware is usually spread with the use of the last slogun. Potentially unwanted applications, in turn, may have spyware functions. And it is very hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a normal one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the potentially unwanted programs and dubious antiviruses, popup-related banners are also exploited as a distribution method by different trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such malware is 100% unwanted, and can cost you hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not clicking these promotions, they may be clicked by someone who also makes use of your personal computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the situation can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to deal with it without data loss. It is recommended to wipe out the viruses with antivirus applications as soon as possible.

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

The tutorial of Ivids.ru adware removal includes 2 parts. Initially, we need to eliminate the malware, and then deal with the effects of its activity. The elimination task is really easy, due to the fact that it can be performed even with making use of Microsoft Defender – anti-virus program that is present on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nonetheless, due to its large resources usage, as well as some failures that may be critical for some groups of users, Defender is frequently turned off by the users, so its use is probably impossible. Furthermore, a variety of trojan viruses are capable to turn off the embedded antivirus. It is much better to use the separated program that will not have such weakness.

I’d suggest you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven antivirus tool that will certainly remove the malware from your system and also create an impenetrable cover with a Proactive protection feature. However, let’s deal with Ivids.ru adware initially.

Removing Ivids.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 Ivids.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 browser will definitely connect the proper 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 content³:

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.

Nonetheless, there is one trouble that makes the things much more difficult to restore, particularly without the anti-malware program. The majority of adware variants that are used to show you the Ivids.ru pop-up ads are adjusting the deep browser setups, 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 huge lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 secs, and after that it will be back to the normal, until you attempt to open settings once 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 also the reasons why I recommend it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.