Kempeu.click Ads Removal Guide — How to Fix It?

Kempeu.click pop-up alerts can appear out of the blue, covering the content of the website you checked or opening your browser when you do not need it to be opened.

Clicking the Kempeu.click promotion can lead to the injection of various malware or unwanted programs. In this guide, you will see the guideline of Kempeu.click popups clearing in multiple ways, as well as examining your computer for extra viruses existence.

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What are Kempeu.click pop-ups?

Kempeu.click popups are an outcome of adware action. Adware is a kind of malware that suggests you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which produces a major amount of profit for adware suppliers. These ads might include explicit content, or have a web link to harmful content/website, since adware maintainers have no reason to examine the goodness of the web content they are going to show – their single target is money.

Kempeu.click push notification.

Pop-up marketing itself is an excellent, low-priced and extremely efficient advertising tool¹. It enables the seller to link the customers’ attention to their website, as well as the customers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they want to buy. When the customer will get a pop-up alert that the TV set he likes to buy is provided at the online store he/she checked out earlier with a 15% discount, one will surely use this possibility and get it. Considering the very low price for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising and marketing tool is a favourite thing among the advertising departments of huge online retailers.

However, such a profitable strategy could not be missed by virus developers. Ability to show the popup advertisements forcibly to the targets of malware invasion is an excellent basis for evil-minded manipulations with the popup promotions. And Kempeu.click promotions is just one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a short details for the Kempeu.click site

How have I got the Kempeu.click virus?

There are a number of ways of getting contaminated by the adware that cause the Kempeu.click popups tornado. 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 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 plenty of individuals frequently make use of the unreliable programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, different tools that are free of cost, or even hacked programs. All of these types of programs are risky, because it is extremely easy to include a Kempeu.click malware under the cover of part of the license hacking script, or as a component of the self-made algoritm within the Windows optimization tool.

Kempeu.click popup malware can additionally be hidden in the ad somewhere on the odd site. Such websites are in most cases full of bright and blinking ads, and their owners usually permit any promos to be published on their web page. Hence, clicking on such banners is a risky thing: only the advertisement provider knows what will occur when you press this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you can likewise receive something far more risky, like ransomware or coin miner; the large 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 unwanted applications, like Kempeu.click popup virus can cause a lot of troubles on your computer. Distracting is not the only problem – pop-up notifications may show you the advertisements, where you are offered to download another strange program, or “a perfect anti-malware tool”. Scareware is usually spread under the last motto. Potentially undesirable programs, in turn, can have spyware functions. 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 distribution way by various trojan viruses, for example – coin miners. The consequences of activity of such viruses is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you several hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not interacting with these ads, they can be clicked by whoever 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 loss. It is recommended to remove the viruses with antivirus applications as soon as possible.

How can I get rid of Kempeu.click pop-up advertisements?

The guide of Kempeu.click adware clearing consists of 2 parts. Initially, we need to exterminate the malware, and afterwards deal with the effects of its action. The elimination task is pretty simple, since it may be done even with the use of Microsoft Defender – anti-malware program that is available on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. Nonetheless, because of its huge resources consumption, along with some bugs that may be pivotal for some types of individuals, Defender is oftentimes disabled by the users, so its use is likely impossible. Additionally, a wide range of trojan viruses are capable to turn off the embedded antivirus. It is far better to use the separated program that will not have such vulnerabilities.

I would certainly recommend you to utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven antivirus tool that will undoubtedly eliminate the malware from your computer and make an impenetrable cover with a Proactive protection function. However, let’s handle Kempeu.click adware initially.

Removing Kempeu.click 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 Kempeu.click 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 web browser will definitely connect the accurate DNS while connecting to the website you need. Create a text file titled “hosts” on your pc’s desktop, after that 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.

Nevertheless, there is one problem that makes things much more difficult to repair, specifically without the anti-malware software. A lot of adware variations that are utilized to show you the Kempeu.click pop-up advertisements are altering the deep browser setups, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to change your browser settings after your system was infected by pop-up-related malware, your browser will certainly collapse quickly. Sometimes, you will see no crash, but significant lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 seconds, and then it will be back to the normal, up 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 overview and also the reasons why I advise it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.