Numberpies.icu Ads Removal Guide — How to Fix It?

Numberpies.icu pop-up alerts can appear out of the blue, covering the material of the site you went to or opening your browser when you don’t want it to be opened.

Clicking on the Numberpies.icu advertisement may trigger the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this post, you will see the tutorial of Numberpies.icu popups removal in several ways, as well as checking your computer for additional viruses existence.

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What are Numberpies.icu pop-ups?

Numberpies.icu popups are a consequence of adware action. Adware is a sort of malware that presents you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click ads, which generates a massive volume of earnings for adware representatives. These ads might consist of sometimes shocking content, or have a link to malicious content/website, since adware maintainers have no reason to examine the goodness of the web content they are going to show – their solitary target is cash.

Numberpies.icu push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is a very good, affordable and also really efficient advertising solution¹. It enables the vendor to attach the buyers’ interest to their site, and the buyers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to buy. When the person will get a pop-up notification that the TV set he desires to purchase is available at the online shop he/she saw previously with a 15% discount, one will surely use this possibility and purchase it. Taking into consideration the extremely low cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising instrument is a favourite thing amongst the marketing teams of large online sellers.

However, such a profitable strategy could not be missed by virus creators. Ability to demonstrate the popup ads forcibly to the victims of malware attack is an excellent basis for evil-minded tricks with the popup promotions. And Numberpies.icu advertisements is among hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a short details for the Numberpies.icu

How have I got the Numberpies.icu virus?

There are a lot of ways of getting infected by the adware that cause the Numberpies.icu popups tornado. A lion’s part of this virus instances is after the free software or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Free software can also be downloaded from the official site, and the adware is provided as a legal bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A number of users oftentimes utilize the dubious programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, various tools that are free, or even hacked programs. Every one of these kinds of programs are risky, since it is very easy to build in a Numberpies.icu malware under the cover of part of the license hacking script, or as a part of the self-made algoritm inside of the Windows optimization tool.

Numberpies.icu popup virus can also be concealed in the ad somewhere on the unusual web page. Such sites are in most cases full of colorful and blinking ads, and their proprietors usually permit any type of promotions to be published on their web page. Thus, clicking such banners is a risky thing: only the ad contractor knows what will happen when you click this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you can additionally get something far more dangerous, like ransomware or coin miner; the substantial 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 Numberpies.icu pop-up virus can provoke a variety of different troubles on your computer. Distracting is not the only effect – pop-up notifications can display you the promotions, where you are offered to get another unknown application, or “a effective security tool”. Scareware is often distributed under the last slogun. Potentially undesirable programs, in turn, may have spyware functions. And it is pretty hard to distinguish the undesirable app from a normal one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and fake antiviruses, popup-related ads are also exploited as a spreading method by different trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of activity of such viruses is 100% unwanted, and can cost you hundreds or even thousands of dollars. And even if you are not tapping these banners, they may be clicked by whoever who also makes use of your PC – 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 applications as soon as possible.

How can I get rid of Numberpies.icu pop-up advertisements?

The manual of Numberpies.icu adware clearing includes 2 parts. Initially, we need to deal with the malware, and afterwards deal with the effects of its activity. The removal procedure is really easy, since it can be done even with the use of Microsoft Defender – security program that is available on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. Nonetheless, because of its large resources utilization, as well as some failures that may be pivotal for some kinds of users, Defender is often disabled by the users, so its usage is likely impossible. What’s more, a wide range of trojan viruses are capable to disable the embedded antivirus. It is far better to make use of the separated program that will not have such exposures.

I would certainly suggest you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven antivirus device that will definitely erase the viruses from your computer and make an invulnerable shield with a Proactive protection feature. But let’s take care of Numberpies.icu adware initially.

Removing Numberpies.icu 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 Numberpies.icu 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 web browser will definitely be connected the appropriate DNS while connecting to the site you need. Make a text file named “hosts” on your computer’s 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 trouble that makes the things a lot more difficult to restore, particularly without the anti-malware software. A lot of adware variations that are used to show you the Numberpies.icu pop-up ads are modifying the deep browser setups, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you attempt to fix your browser settings after your system was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will certainly collapse quickly. In certain cases, you will see no crash, but significant lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 secs, and after that it will be back to the typical, 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.

1. More about pop-up advertisements on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware review and the reasons why I suggest it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.