Remove Prime-scanner Pop-up Ads — How to Fix Gude

Prime-scanner pop-up alerts may show up unexpectedly, covering the content of the page you explored or opening your browser when you do not wish it to be opened.

Clicking on the Prime-scanner promotion can trigger the injection of other malware or unwanted programs. In this article, you will see the tutorial of Prime-scanner popups clearing in several ways, and also examining your PC for additional viruses presence.

What are Prime-scanner pop-ups?

Prime-scanner popups are an effect of adware presence. Adware is a type of malware that demonstrates to you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click promotions, which creates a significant amount of profit for adware distributors. These ads may have sometimes shocking content, or have a web link to harmful content/website, since adware maintainers have no purpose to inspect the goodness of the web content they are going to reveal – their single target is cash.

Prime-scanner push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is a good, affordable and extremely productive marketing tool¹. It enables the vendor to link the customers’ interest to their site, as well as the customers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they wish to buy. When the customer will get a pop-up notification that the TV set he wishes to purchase is provided at the online shop he/she checked out earlier with a 15% price cut, one will surely use this chance and buy it. Taking into consideration the exceptionally small cost for the popups and their targeting, such a marketing instrument is a favourite thing amidst the advertising teams of huge online retail stores.

Nevertheless, such a profitable system could not be missed by virus creators. Option to show the popup ads forcibly to the targets of malware attack is an ideal basis for malicious tricks with the popup advertisements. And Prime-scanner.com promotions is one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a short details for the Prime-scanner site

How have I got the Prime-scanner virus?

There are a lot of ways of getting contaminated by the adware that result in the Prime-scanner popups tornado. A lion’s part of this virus cases is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Freeware can likewise be downloaded from the main web page, and the adware is offered as a legal bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A plenty of users frequently work with the dubious programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, a wide range of apps that are free of cost, or even hacked programs. All of these sorts of applications are risky, since it is very easy to build in a Prime-scanner 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.

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

How can I get rid of Prime-scanner pop-up advertisements?

The guide of Prime-scanner adware clearing consists of 2 sections. First, we need to exterminate the malware, and then fix the results of its activity. The elimination procedure is quite easy, due to the fact that it can be executed even with the use of Microsoft Defender – anti-malware tool that is present on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nevertheless, as a result of its substantial resources usage, as well as some bugs that may be critical for some groups of individuals, Defender is frequently disabled by the users, so its use is probably impossible. Additionally, various trojan viruses are able to switch off the embedded antivirus. It is much better to make use of the separated program that will not have such weakness.

• 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 Prime-scanner malware the default option is “Delete”. Press “Apply” to finish the malware removal.

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 connect the accurate DNS while connecting to the site you want. Create a text file named “hosts” on your pc’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 issue that makes things much harder to repair, particularly without the anti-malware software. Most of adware versions that are utilized to show you the Prime-scanner pop-up ads are modifying the deep browser settings, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you attempt to fix your browser settings after your machine was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will certainly collapse quickly. In some cases, you will see no crash, however, large lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 seconds, and then it will be back to the typical, until you attempt to open settings once more.

1. More about pop-up ads on Wikipedia.
2. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.