KissAsian Ads Removal Guide — How to Fix It?

Kissasian.cam, an illegal streaming website, actively violates copyright laws. Similar to fdrama.net, bitcoinshortener.top, sabishare.com, and thousands of others, kissasian.cam employs rogue advertising networks to promote various sites, likely untrustworthy, deceptive, and malicious.

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What are KissAsian?

KissAsian popups are a consequence of adware activity. Adware is a kind of malware that suggests you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click ads, which creates a massive amount of earnings for adware representatives. These ads might include explicit material, or have a link to malevolent content/website, considering that adware maintainers have no reason to examine the goodness of the web content they are going to reveal – their solitary target is cash.

KissAsian push notification.

Overview of Kissasian.cam

Websites like kissasian.cam utilize rogue advertising networks to forcefully open webpages upon access or redirect users to them when interacting with hosted content such as buttons, links, or adverts. These deceptive networks promote sales-based, untrustworthy, misleading, compromised, scam, and even malicious sites.

In addition, these websites often display intrusive advertisements and attempt to deceive visitors into enabling browser notifications, enabling the pages to run intrusive ad campaigns. The ads and notifications promote equally suspicious and dangerous webpages. Furthermore, some intrusive advertisements can discreetly download and install software upon being clicked.

Pop-up advertising itself is a good, low-priced and extremely efficient advertising instrument¹. It enables the vendor to attach the customers’ attention to their website, and the customers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they wish to purchase. When the customer will get a pop-up alert that the TV set he desires to buy is provided at the online shop he/she visited previously with a 15% discount, one will definitely use this chance and purchase it. Considering the extremely low price for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising method is a much-loved thing among the advertising teams of large internet sellers.

Nevertheless, such a profitable plan could not be missed by malware developers. Ability to demonstrate the popup advertisements by force to the victims of malware invasion is an excellent basis for evil-minded manipulations with the popup ads. And Kissasian.cam advertisements is among hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a details for the KissAsian

How have I got the KissAsian virus?

There are a lot of methods of getting infected by the adware that trigger the KissAsian popups tornado. A lion’s part of this 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 web page, and the adware is offered as a legal bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A huge amount of individuals regularly use the unreliable programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, various tools that are free, or even hacked programs. All of these kinds of programs are unsafe, due to the fact that it is extremely easy to build in a KissAsian 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.

KissAsian popup virus may additionally be concealed in the advertisement somewhere on the strange web page. Such websites are generally full of intense and blinking ads, and their proprietors generally accept any type of promos to be placed on their page. Therefore, clicking on 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 may additionally receive something far more damaging, 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 undesirable programs, like KissAsian popup virus may cause a wide range of different troubles on your PC. Distracting is not the single problem – pop-up notifications can show you the promotions, where you are offered to get one more unknown application, or “a amazing security tool”. Scareware is usually distributed with the use of the last motto. Potentially unwanted applications, in turn, may 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 PUPs and dubious antiviruses, popup-related ads are also used as a distribution method by various trojan viruses, for example – 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 computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things may become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve it without information loss. It is recommended to remove the viruses with anti-malware programs as soon as possible.

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

The tutorial of KissAsian adware elimination includes 2 parts. First, we need to eliminate the malware, and then deal with the effects of its activity. The elimination task is quite simple, because it can be executed even with the use of Microsoft Defender – anti-malware program that is available on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nonetheless, due to its substantial resources usage, along with some errors that can be pivotal for some groups of users, Defender is oftentimes turned off by the users, so its usage is probably impossible. Furthermore, different trojan viruses have the ability to disable the embedded antivirus. It is far better to use the separated program that will not have such vulnerabilities.

I’d advise you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven antivirus device that will certainly wipe out the viruses from your computer and also make an impenetrable cover with a Proactive protection feature. However, let’s handle KissAsian adware first.

Removing KissAsian 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 KissAsian 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 proper DNS while connecting to the site you need. Create a text file titled “hosts” on your 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 issue that makes the things a lot more difficult to repair, specifically without the anti-malware program. The majority of adware variations that are utilized to show you the KissAsian pop-up advertisements are modifying the deep browser settings, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to change your browser settings after your computer was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will certainly collapse soon. In some cases, you will see no crash, but large lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 secs, and afterwards it will be back to the typical, up until you attempt 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 advertisements on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware overview and also the reasons why I recommend it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.