Remove Lolydatingcool.top Virus — How to Fix Guide

Lolydatingcool.top pop-up notices can appear unexpectedly, covering the content of the page you explored or opening your browser when you don’t wish it to be opened.

Clicking on the Lolydatingcool.top ad may lead to the injection of other malware or unwanted programs. In this post, you will see the tutorial of Lolydatingcool.top popups clearing in several ways, and also checking your system for additional malware presence.

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What are Lolydatingcool.top pop-ups?

Lolydatingcool.top popups are an outcome of adware activity. Adware is a kind of malware that demonstrates to you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click ads, which generates a substantial amount of profit for adware suppliers. These advertisements might include explicit content, or have a link to harmful content/website, considering that adware maintainers have no reason to inspect the goodness of the content they are going to show – their solitary target is cash.

Lolydatingcool.top push notification.

Pop-up promotions itself is a very good, low-cost and also very productive advertising method¹. It permits the vendor to attach the buyers’ interest to their website, and the buyers 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 likes to buy is offered at the online shop he/she checked out previously with a 15% price cut, one will definitely use this chance and get it. Taking into consideration the very low cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising method is a favorite thing among the advertising teams of big internet sellers.

Nonetheless, such a profitable scheme could not be missed by virus creators. Potential to show the popup advertisements forcibly to the victims of malware invasion is an excellent basis for evil-minded adjustments with the popup advertisements. And Lolydatingcool.top ads is just one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a short details for the Lolydatingcool.top site

How have I got the Lolydatingcool.top virus?

There are a plenty of methods of getting contaminated by the adware that result in the Lolydatingcool.top popups tornado. A lion’s part of this virus instances is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Freeware can also 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 users oftentimes utilize the unreliable programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, different apps that are free, or even hacked programs. All of these sorts of applications are dangerous, since it is very simple to integrate a Lolydatingcool.top malware under the guise of part of the license hacking script, or as a part of the self-made algoritm inside of the Windows optimization tool.

Lolydatingcool.top popup virus can also be concealed in the ad somewhere on the unusual site. Such web pages are typically full of colorful and blinking ads, and their owners usually approve any type of promotions to be posted on their web page. For this reason, clicking on such banners is a shot in the dark: only the advertisement provider knows what will happen when you click this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you can likewise get something much more risky, like ransomware or coin miner; the large share of coin miners distribution is exactly after the malicious advertisements.

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

Potentially unwanted programs, like Lolydatingcool.top popup virus can provoke a variety of problems on your computer. Distracting is not the only problem – pop-ups can show you the advertisements, where you are offered to download one more dubious application, or “a effective security tool”. Scareware is often distributed with the use of the last slogun. Potentially undesirable programs, in turn, may have spyware functions. And it is quite hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a good one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and fake antiviruses, popup-related ads are also exploited as a spreading way by different trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such viruses is 100% unwanted, and can cost you hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not interacting with these banners, they can be clicked by whoever who also makes use of your 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 and money loss. It is recommended to eliminate the viruses with antivirus programs as soon as possible.

How can I get rid of Lolydatingcool.top pop-up advertisements?

The guide of Lolydatingcool.top adware clearing consists of 2 sections. First, we need to remove the malware, and then fix the effects of its action. The removal process is quite easy, since it can be done even with the use of Microsoft Defender – security software that is present on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. However, due to its huge resources consumption, along with some problems that may be critical for some groups of users, Defender is frequently disabled by the users, so its use is most likely impossible. What’s more, different trojan viruses can disable the embedded antivirus. It is better to use the separated program that will not have such weakness.

I would certainly advise you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven antivirus device that will definitely exterminate the viruses from your computer and also make an invulnerable shield with a Proactive protection function. But let’s manage Lolydatingcool.top adware first.

Removing Lolydatingcool.top 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 Lolydatingcool.top 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 browsers are reset, you need to ensure that your browser will be connected the right DNS while connecting to the web page you need. Create a text file titled “hosts” on your pc’s desktop, after that 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 trouble that makes the things a lot harder to restore, especially without the anti-malware software. A lot of adware versions that are used to show you the Lolydatingcool.top pop-up advertisements are modifying the deep browser setups, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to change your browser settings after your machine was infected by pop-up-related malware, your browser will certainly crash soon. Sometimes, you will see no crash, but huge lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 secs, and then it will be back to the normal, till you attempt to open settings 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 advertisements on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware overview and the reasons why I advise it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.