Remove Log.videocampaign.co Pop-up Virus — How to Remove?

Log.videocampaign.co pop-ups appear unexpectedly, covering the content of the website you visited or opening your web browser when you don’t want it to be opened. They can also disturb you even when you are not using your browser.

The log.videocampaign.co site was reported numerous times for being associated with malicious advertisements. Clicking on these pop-ups may cause the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this guide, you will see the manual of Log.videocampaign.co popups removal in multiple manners, as well as checking your system for extra malware presence.

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What are Log.videocampaign.co pop-ups?

Log.videocampaign.co popups are an effect of adware activity. Adware is a type of malware that suggests you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click promotions, which produces a substantial amount of revenue for adware representatives. These ads might contain explicit content, or have a link to malevolent content/website, considering that adware maintainers have no purpose to inspect the goodness of the web content they are going to reveal – their solitary target is money.

Log.videocampaign.co push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is an excellent, low-priced and extremely productive marketing instrument¹. It enables the vendor to attach the customers’ interest to their website, as well as the buyers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they want to purchase. When the customer will receive a pop-up notification that the TV set he wishes to buy is offered at the online store he/she checked out previously with a 15% discount, one will undoubtedly use this possibility and purchase it. Considering the very low price for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising and marketing instrument is a favorite thing amongst the marketing teams of large internet sellers.

Nevertheless, such a profitable strategy could not be missed by virus creators. Potential to demonstrate the popup ads by force to the targets of malware invasion is a great basis for malevolent adjustments with the popup advertisements. And Log.videocampaign.co advertisements is among hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a summary for the Log.videocampaign.co site

How have I got the Log.videocampaign.co virus?

There are a number of methods of becoming contaminated by the adware that trigger the Log.videocampaign.co popups tornado. A lion’s part of this virus instances is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Free software may additionally be downloaded from the official site, and the adware is delivered as a legitimate bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A huge amount of individuals regularly utilize the unreliable programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, various utilities that are free, or perhaps hacked programs. All of these types of applications are dangerous, because it is quite simple to integrate a Log.videocampaign.co malware under the guise of part of the license hacking script, or as a part of the self-made algoritm within the Windows optimization tool.

Log.videocampaign.co popup malware can also be hidden in the advertisement somewhere on the strange website. Such sites are generally loaded with colorful and blinking ads, and their owners generally accept any promos to be placed on their page. Thus, clicking on such banners is a risky thing. Only the advertisement provider realizes what will happen when you click this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you may likewise receive something much more damaging, like ransomware or coin miner; the large share of coin miners circulation is exactly after the malicious advertisements.

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

Are pop-ups dangerous?

Potentially unwanted applications, like ones Log.videocampaign.co pop-up virus spreads, may initiate a wide range of problems on your PC. Distracting is not the only effect – pop-ups may present you the banners, where you are offered to get one more dubious application, or “a perfect security tool”. Scareware is usually distributed with the last slogun. Potentially unwanted programs, in turn, can have spyware functionality. And it is very hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a normal one, if you don’t know the exact names.

PUPs are only one side of a problem. Popup-related banners are also used as a spreading way by different trojan viruses, for example – coin miners. The consequences of activity of such malware is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not clicking these advertisements, they can be clicked by someone who also uses your personal computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve it without data loss. It is recommended to eliminate the viruses with anti-malware programs as soon as possible.

How can I get rid of Log.videocampaign.co pop-up advertisements?

The tutorial of Log.videocampaign.co adware clearing includes 2 parts. First, we need to deal with the malware, and then take care of the results of its activity. The elimination process is very easy, since it may be done even with making use of Microsoft Defender – security tool that is available on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. Nevertheless, because of its huge resources utilization, as well as some bugs that may be critical for some categories of users, Defender is oftentimes turned off by the users, so its utilization is likely impossible. What’s more, various trojan viruses are able to switch off the embedded antivirus. It is far better to make use of the separated program that will not have such vulnerabilities.

I’d suggest you to utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven anti-malware tool that will definitely erase the malware from your PC and also create an invulnerable shield with a Proactive protection feature. But let’s manage Log.videocampaign.co adware first.

Removing Log.videocampaign.co 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 Log.videocampaign.co 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 ensure that your browser will definitely be connected the proper DNS while connecting to the web page you want. Create a text file named “hosts” on your computer’s desktop, after that open it and fill it with the following lines³:


# Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
# localhost name resolution is handle within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost


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, specifically without the anti-malware software. A lot of adware variants that are used to show you the Log.videocampaign.co pop-up promotions are changing the deep browser settings, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you attempt to fix your browser settings after your system was infected by pop-up-related malware, your browser will certainly collapse soon. In certain cases, you will see no crash, but large lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 seconds, and afterwards it will be back to the typical, up until you attempt 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 in GridinSoft Encyclopedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware overview and also the reasons why I advise it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.

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