How to remove Mmenta pop-ups? — Fix Guide

Mmenta pop-up notifications may appear unexpectedly, covering the subject of the site you went to or opening your web browser when you don’t need it to be opened.

Clicking the Mmenta promotion may cause the injection of various malware or unwanted programs. In this post, you will see the guide of Mmenta popups removal in a couple of manners, as well as checking your personal computer for other viruses presence.

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What are Mmenta pop-ups?

Mmenta popups are an outcome of adware presence. Adware is a kind of malware that demonstrates to you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which generates a substantial volume of income for adware suppliers. These promotions may include sometimes shocking content, or have a web link to malicious content/website, because adware maintainers have no reason to check the goodness of the material they are going to show – their solitary target is cash.

Mmenta push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is a good, low-priced and very successful marketing solution¹. It allows the vendor to link the customers’ interest to their website, and the buyers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they want to purchase. When the customer will get a pop-up alert that the TV set he desires to buy is provided at the online store he/she saw previously with a 15% discount, one will surely use this opportunity and buy it. Considering the very low price for the popups and their targeting, such a marketing method is a favorite thing amongst the marketing departments of huge internet sellers.

Nevertheless, such a rewarding system could not be missed by malware creators. Potential to demonstrate the popup ads forcibly to the victims of malware invasion is a perfect basis for evil-minded tricks with the popup advertisements. And Mmenta.com advertisements is one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a short summary for the Mmenta site

How have I got the Mmenta virus?

There are a lot of methods of getting contaminated by the adware that result in the Mmenta popups storm. A lion’s part of this virus instances is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Freeware may additionally be downloaded from the main site, and the adware is provided as a legitimate bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A huge amount of users often make use of the uncertain programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, various apps that are free of cost, or even hacked programs. Every one of these types of software are risky, because it is very easy to build in a Mmenta 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.

Mmenta popup malware can additionally be hidden in the promotion somewhere on the unusual site. Such web pages are usually filled with intense and blinking ads, and their proprietors typically approve any type of promos to be published on their page. For this reason, clicking such banners is a risky thing: only the ad provider realizes what will occur when you click this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you may also receive something a lot more risky, like ransomware or coin miner; the big share of coin miners circulation is exactly after the malicious promotions.

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

Potentially unwanted applications, like Mmenta popup virus may cause a wide range of different problems on your PC. Distracting is not the only problem – pop-up notifications can present you the advertisements, where you are offered to get another dubious program, or “a effective anti-malware tool”. Scareware is usually spread with the last motto. Potentially undesirable programs, in turn, may have spyware functions. And it is very hard to distinguish the undesirable app from a legit one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and dubious antiviruses, popup-related banners are also used as a spreading method by different trojan viruses, for example – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such malware is 100% unwanted, and can cost you several hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not tapping these promotions, they may be clicked by someone 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 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 Mmenta pop-up advertisements?

The guide of Mmenta adware removal includes 2 sections. Initially, we need to remove the malware, and then correct the results of its activity. The elimination procedure is really simple, since it may be done even with the use of Microsoft Defender – anti-malware program that is present on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. Nevertheless, due to its significant resources usage, along with some defects that may be crucial for some types of individuals, Defender is often disabled by the users, so its use is probably impossible. In addition, different trojan viruses are able to shut off 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 erase the viruses from your system and make an invulnerable shield with a Proactive protection function. However, let’s handle Mmenta adware initially.

Removing Mmenta 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 Mmenta 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 make sure that your browser will be connected the proper DNS while connecting to the web page you need. Create a text file named “hosts” on your pc’s desktop, after that open it and fill it with the following content³:

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.

However, there is one issue that makes the things a lot harder to fix, especially without the anti-malware software. The majority of adware versions that are used to show you the Mmenta pop-up promotions are modifying the deep browser setups, 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 crash soon. In certain cases, you will see no crash, but huge lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 secs, and after that it will be back to the normal, 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.

How to Remove Mmenta Pop-ups?

Name: Mmenta

Description: Mmenta - a lot of users became a target for the pop-up advertisements. I have a lot of friends who literally bombed me with the questions like “how to remove Mmenta.com push notifications?” or “why do Mmenta.com pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with Mmenta pop-ups, which may corrupt your browser’s correct performance, and create a lot of troubles while you are working.

Operating System: Windows

Application Category: Adware

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1. More about pop-up ads on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware overview and the reasons why I recommend it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.