Online-video-hosting.com pop-up notifications can show up unexpectedly, covering the material of the site you visited or opening your browser when you do not need it to be opened.
Clicking on the Online-video-hosting.com promotion can result in the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this guide, you will see the guideline of Online-video-hosting.com popups clearing in several methods, as well as checking your personal computer for other malware existence.
What are Online-video-hosting.com pop-ups?
Online-video-hosting.com popups are an effect of adware presence. Adware is a type of malware that suggests you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click promotions, which creates a large volume of earnings for adware suppliers. These advertisements may contain explicit composition, 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 money.
Online-video-hosting.com push notification.
Pop-up marketing itself is a very good, cheap and really successful advertising method1. It enables the seller to link the buyers’ interest to their website, as well as the buyers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they want to buy. When the person will receive a pop-up notification that the TV set he wishes to buy is available at the online shop he/she checked out previously with a 15% discount, one will certainly use this possibility and buy it. Taking into consideration the extremely low cost for the popups and their targeting, such a marketing method is a favorite thing amongst the marketing departments of huge online retail stores.
Nevertheless, such a successful plan could not be missed by virus developers. Potential to demonstrate the popup ads by force to the targets of malware attack is a perfect basis for malevolent tricks with the popup promotions. And Online-video-hosting.com advertisements is just one of hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.
Here is a details for the Online-video-hosting.com
| Site | Online-video-hosting.com |
| Hosting | AS50245 Serverel Inc. Netherlands, Amsterdam |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| IP Address | 109.206.187.4 |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Pornhdvideos, Enpreven, Faindianship |
| Fix Tool | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
How have I got the Online-video-hosting.com virus?
There are a lot of ways of becoming infected by the adware that trigger the Online-video-hosting.com popups tornado. A lion’s part of this computer virus cases is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Freeware can likewise be downloaded from the main site, and the adware is supplied as a legitimate bundled program.
There is no need to blame yourself. A plenty of individuals oftentimes utilize the unreliable programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, various utilities that are free of cost, or even hacked programs. Every one of these kinds of programs are dangerous, due to the fact that it is very simple to include a Online-video-hosting.com 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.
Online-video-hosting.com popup malware can also be hidden in the advertisement somewhere on the unusual website. Such sites are typically packed with intense and blinking advertisements, and their owners usually accept any type of promos to be placed on their web page. Therefore, clicking such banners is a shot in the dark: only the advertisement contractor realizes what will occur when you click this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you may also get something much more risky, like ransomware or coin miner; the substantial 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 unwanted applications, like Online-video-hosting.com popup virus can cause a wide range of problems on your computer. Distracting is not the single problem – pop-up notifications may display you the advertisements, where you are offered to download another unknown application, or “a amazing anti-malware tool”. Scareware is often distributed with the last motto. 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 potentially unwanted programs and pseudo antiviruses, popup-related banners are also chosen as a distribution way by different trojan viruses, for example – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such malware is 100% unwanted, and can cost you hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not clicking these advertisements, they can be clicked by whoever who also makes use of your PC – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the situation may become much more serious, and it will be much harder to deal with it without data loss. It is recommended to get rid of the viruses with anti-malware applications as soon as possible.
How can I get rid of Online-video-hosting.com pop-up advertisements?
The guide of Online-video-hosting.com adware removal consists of 2 sections. First, we need to exterminate the malware, and after that take care of the results of its activity. The elimination procedure is very easy, since it can be done even with using Microsoft Defender – anti-malware tool that is available on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nevertheless, because of its significant resources consumption, along with some errors that may be serious for some kinds of users, Defender is often disabled by the users, so its utilization is most likely impossible. In addition, a variety of trojan viruses are able to turn off the embedded antivirus. It is much better to make use of the separated program that will not have such exposures.
I would certainly recommend you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware2 – a well-proven antivirus tool that will definitely exterminate the malware from your personal computer and also make an impenetrable cover with a Proactive protection feature. But let’s take care of Online-video-hosting.com adware initially.
Removing Online-video-hosting.com 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 Online-video-hosting.com 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 :
- Open “Settings and more” tab in upper right corner, then find here “Settings” button. In the appeared menu, choose “Reset settings” option :
- 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 :
- Open Menu tab (three strips in upper right corner) and click the “Help” button. In the appeared menu choose “troubleshooting information” :
- In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option :
After choosing this option, you will see the next message :
If you use Google Chrome
- Open Settings tab, find the “Advanced” button. In the extended tab choose the “Reset and clean up” button :
- In the appeared list, click on the “Restore settings to their original defaults” :
- 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
- 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 :
- 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 make sure that your web browser will connect the right DNS while connecting to the site you want. Create a text file titled “hosts” on your computer’s desktop, then open it and fill it with the following content3:
#
# 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.
Nevertheless, there is one trouble that makes the things much harder to repair, particularly without the anti-malware program. A lot of adware versions that are used to show you the Online-video-hosting.com pop-up ads are modifying the deep browser settings, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to fix your browser settings after your PC was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will certainly collapse quickly. In certain cases, you will see no crash, however, significant lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 secs, and after that it will be back to the typical, up until you try 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 Online-video-hosting.com Pop-ups?
Name: Online-video-hosting.com
Description: Online-video-hosting.com - 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 Online-video-hosting.com push notifications?” or “why do Online-video-hosting.com pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with Online-video-hosting.com 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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( votes)References
- More about pop-up advertisements on Wikipedia.
- GridinSoft Anti-Malware overview and the reasons why I suggest it for malware removal.
- Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.
