Popcash.net Ads Removal Guide — How to Fix It?

Popcash.net pop-up notices can show up unexpectedly, covering the post of the website you went to or opening your browser when you do not wish it to be opened.

Clicking on the Popcash.net advertisement can result in the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this guide, you will see the tutorial of Popcash.net popups clearing in various methods, as well as inspecting your computer for additional viruses presence.

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What are Popcash.net pop-ups?

Popcash.net popups are a result of adware presence. Adware is a kind of malware that presents you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which creates a significant amount of profit for adware representatives. These ads might contain sometimes shocking content, or have a link to malevolent content/website, considering that adware maintainers have no purpose to inspect the goodness of the material they are going to reveal – their solitary target is money.

Popcash.net push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is a very good, affordable and also really efficient advertising solution¹. It permits the vendor to attach the buyers’ interest to their site, as well as the buyers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they want to buy. When the person will get a pop-up alert that the TV set he desires to buy is offered at the online shop he/she saw previously with a 15% price cut, one will undoubtedly use this possibility and buy it. Taking into consideration the very low cost for the popups and their targeting, such a marketing tool is a favourite thing amongst the marketing teams of huge online retailers.

Nonetheless, such a rewarding plan could not be missed by virus developers. Potential to show the popup ads by force to the victims of malware invasion is an excellent basis for malevolent adjustments with the popup promotions. And Popcash.net ads is one of hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a short info for the Popcash.net

How have I got the Popcash.net virus?

There are a plenty of ways of getting infected by the adware that trigger the Popcash.net 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. Free software may additionally be downloaded from the main web page, and the adware is supplied as a legitimate bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A plenty of individuals often work with the dubious programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, different tools that are free of cost, or even hacked programs. All of these kinds of software are risky, because it is quite easy to include a Popcash.net malware under the guise of part of the license hacking script, or as a component of the self-made algoritm inside of the Windows optimization tool.

Popcash.net popup virus can likewise be hidden in the promotion somewhere on the unusual web page. Such websites are generally filled with bright and blinking advertisements, and their owners usually approve any promos to be published on their page. Thus, clicking such banners is a risky thing: only the advertisement provider realizes what will occur when you press this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you may also get something a lot more threatening, like ransomware or coin miner; the big share of coin miners circulation is exactly after the malicious ads.

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

Potentially undesirable applications, like Popcash.net popup virus can initiate a lot of troubles on your computer. Distracting is not the single effect – pop-up notifications may present you the ads, where you are offered to download another unknown program, or “a perfect anti-malware tool”. Scareware is usually distributed under 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 promotions are also chosen as a spreading way by various trojan viruses, for example – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such malware is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you several hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not tapping these ads, they can be clicked by someone who also uses your computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the situation may become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve it without information loss. It is recommended to wipe out the viruses with antivirus applications as soon as possible.

How can I get rid of Popcash.net pop-up advertisements?

The manual of Popcash.net adware removal consists of 2 parts. First, we need to eliminate the malware, and then fix the effects of its activity. The elimination task is very easy, because it may be executed even with making use of Microsoft Defender – anti-virus tool that is available on all computers with Windows 8/10. However, as a result of its large resources usage, as well as some errors that can be crucial for some kinds of users, Defender is often turned off by the users, so its utilization is most likely impossible. In addition, a variety of trojan viruses are able to switch off the embedded antivirus. It is far better to use the separated program that will not have such exposures.

I would certainly advise you to utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven antivirus device that will definitely erase the malware from your computer and also make an invulnerable cover with a Proactive protection function. But let’s deal with Popcash.net adware initially.

Removing Popcash.net 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 Popcash.net 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 accurate DNS while connecting to the web page you need. Make a text file titled “hosts” on your desktop, then 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.

Nonetheless, there is one trouble that makes the things much harder to repair, specifically without the anti-malware program. Most of adware variants that are utilized to show you the Popcash.net pop-up promotions are altering the deep browser setups, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to fix your browser settings after your machine was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will crash quickly. In some cases, you will see no crash, but huge lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 secs, and after that it will be back to the typical, up until 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 also the reasons why I recommend it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.