Odestech Ads Removal Guide — How to Fix It?

Odestech pop-up alerts can appear out of the blue, covering the content of the website you visited or opening your web browser when you don’t need it to be opened.

Clicking on the Odestech promotion may cause the injection of other malware or unwanted programs. In this guide, you will see the guideline of Odestech popups clearing in several ways, as well as checking your personal computer for other malware presence.

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What are Odestech pop-ups?

Odestech popups are a consequence of adware action. Adware is a sort of malware that presents you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click promotions, which produces a massive volume of income for adware distributors. These promotions might consist of sometimes shocking composition, or have a web link to malicious content/website, due to the fact that adware maintainers have no reason to check the goodness of the material they are going to show – their solitary target is cash.

Odestech push notification.

Pop-up promotions itself is a good, low-priced and also really efficient marketing instrument¹. It allows the vendor to attach the buyers’ attention to their site, 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 alert that the TV set he likes to buy is offered at the online store he/she checked out previously with a 15% price cut, one will definitely use this possibility and get it. Considering the extremely low cost for the popups and their targeting, such a marketing method is a favorite thing amongst the marketing teams of large online retail stores.

Nonetheless, such a successful scheme could not be missed by malware developers. Option to demonstrate the popup advertisements by force to the victims of malware attack is an ideal basis for evil-minded manipulations with the popup ads. And Odestech.com ads is one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a summary for the Odestech site

How have I got the Odestech virus?

There are a lot of methods of getting contaminated by the adware that lead to the Odestech popups tornado. A lion’s part of this computer virus incidents is after the free software or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Freeware may additionally be downloaded from the official web page, and the adware is provided as a legal bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A number of users regularly utilize the uncertain programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, various utilities that are free of cost, and even hacked programs. All of these sorts of software are risky, because it is very easy to build in a Odestech malware under the cover of part of the license hacking script, or as a component of the self-made algoritm inside of the Windows optimization tool.

Odestech popup malware may also be hidden in the ad somewhere on the strange web page. Such websites are in most cases filled with intense and blinking ads, and their proprietors typically permit any promos to be placed on their page. Thus, clicking such banners is a risky thing: only the advertisement contractor realizes what will happen when you click this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you may also get something far more dangerous, 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

Potentially undesirable programs, like Odestech popup virus may provoke a lot of problems on your computer. Distracting is not the only problem – pop-ups can show you the advertisements, where you are offered to get another unknown application, or “a amazing security tool”. Scareware is usually distributed with the use of the last slogun. Potentially undesirable 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 potentially unwanted programs and fake antiviruses, popup-related ads are also exploited as a distribution way by different trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such viruses is 100% unwanted, and can cost you several hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not interacting with these advertisements, 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 and money loss. It is recommended to eliminate the viruses with anti-malware applications as soon as possible.

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

The tutorial of Odestech adware clearing contains 2 parts. Initially, we need to deal with the malware, and afterwards correct the results of its action. The elimination procedure is quite easy, due to the fact that it can be done even with making use of Microsoft Defender – security software that is present on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nevertheless, due to its large resources usage, along with some problems that can be critical for some groups of individuals, Defender is frequently disabled by the users, so its usage is most likely impossible. Furthermore, different trojan viruses are able to turn off the embedded antivirus. It is better to use the separated program that will not have such weakness.

I’d recommend you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven anti-malware tool that will certainly wipe out the viruses from your personal computer and create an invulnerable shield with a Proactive protection feature. But let’s manage Odestech adware initially.

Removing Odestech 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 Odestech 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 connect the appropriate DNS while connecting to the site you need. Create a text file named “hosts” on your pc’s desktop, after that open it and fill it with the following text³:

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 things a lot more difficult to restore, particularly without the anti-malware program. Most of adware versions that are used to show you the Odestech pop-up advertisements are altering the deep browser configurations, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to fix your browser settings after your computer was infected by pop-up-related malware, your browser will certainly collapse quickly. In some cases, you will see no crash, but significant lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 secs, and then it will be back to the normal, till you try 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 ads on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware overview and also the reasons why I recommend it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.