Remove Kempus.click Virus — How to Fix Guide

Kempus.click pop-up notices may show up unexpectedly, covering the subject of the page you visited or opening your browser when you don’t wish it to be opened.

Clicking the Kempus.click ad can cause the injection of various malware or unwanted programs. In this guide, you will see the guideline of Kempus.click popups removal in several ways, and also inspecting your system for extra viruses presence.

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What are Kempus.click pop-ups?

Kempus.click popups are an effect of adware presence. Adware is a kind of malware that suggests you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which generates a substantial volume of profit for adware distributors. These promotions may consist of sometimes shocking composition, or have a web link to harmful content/website, because adware maintainers have no purpose to check the goodness of the material they are going to show – their single target is money.

Kempus.click push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is a good, low-cost and extremely efficient marketing method¹. It enables the vendor to attach the customers’ attention to their site, and the buyers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they want to purchase. When the customer will receive a pop-up alert that the TV set he likes to buy is provided at the online shop he/she saw earlier with a 15% discount, one will certainly use this chance and purchase it. Taking into consideration the incredibly low cost for the popups and their targeting, such a marketing instrument is a favourite thing amongst the marketing departments of big internet sellers.

Nonetheless, such a rewarding scheme could not be missed by malware developers. Potential to demonstrate the popup advertisements by force to the targets of malware invasion is an excellent basis for malicious tricks with the popup advertisements. And Kempus.click promotions is among hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a short details for the Kempus.click

How have I got the Kempus.click virus?

There are a huge amount of methods of getting contaminated by the adware that lead to the Kempus.click popups storm. A lion’s part of this computer virus incidents is after the free software or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Free software may likewise be downloaded from the main website, and the adware is delivered as a legal bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A plenty of users often use the uncertain programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, different apps that are free of cost, or even hacked programs. All of these types of software are unsafe, due to the fact that it is very simple to build in a Kempus.click malware under the cover of part of the license hacking script, or as a component of the self-made algoritm inside of the Windows optimization tool.

Kempus.click popup virus can likewise be concealed in the advertisement somewhere on the odd website. Such sites are usually filled with colorful and blinking advertisements, and their owners often permit any kind of promos to be posted on their page. Therefore, clicking on such banners is a risky thing: only the ad provider knows what will occur when you press this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you can likewise get something much more risky, like ransomware or coin miner; the large share of coin miners circulation is exactly after the malicious ads.

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

Potentially undesirable applications, like Kempus.click pop-up virus can initiate a wide range of problems on your computer. Distracting is not the single effect – pop-up notifications can display you the banners, where you are offered to get another strange application, or “a effective security tool”. Scareware is usually distributed under the last slogun. Potentially unwanted programs, in turn, may have spyware functions. And it is pretty hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a legit one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the potentially unwanted programs and dubious antiviruses, popup-related banners are also chosen 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 hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not tapping these promotions, they can be clicked by someone who also uses your computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the situation 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 antivirus programs as soon as possible.

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

The tutorial of Kempus.click adware clearing consists of 2 parts. Initially, we need to remove the malware, and afterwards deal with the consequences of its action. The elimination task is really easy, because it can be executed even with the use of Microsoft Defender – security software that is available on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nevertheless, because of its huge resources usage, along with some failures that may be serious for some categories of individuals, Defender is oftentimes disabled by the users, so its use is probably impossible. Additionally, a wide range of trojan viruses can disable the embedded antivirus. It is far better to use the separated program that will not have such exposures.

I would certainly suggest you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven security device that will definitely exterminate the viruses from your computer and also create an impenetrable cover with a Proactive protection function. However, let’s deal with Kempus.click adware initially.

Removing Kempus.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 Kempus.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 browser will definitely be connected the appropriate DNS while connecting to the web page you need. Make a text file named “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.

Nonetheless, there is one issue that makes things a lot more difficult to repair, particularly without the anti-malware program. A lot of adware variants that are used to show you the Kempus.click 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 penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will certainly collapse quickly. In some cases, you will see no crash, however, huge lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 secs, and after that 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 review and the reasons why I advise it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.