How to remove Protectutilitiesgrid.vip pop-ups? — Fix Guide

Protectutilitiesgrid.vip pop-up alerts can show up unexpectedly, covering the material of the page you explored or opening your browser when you don’t desire it to be opened.

Clicking the Protectutilitiesgrid.vip promotion may trigger the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this guide, you will see the guide of Protectutilitiesgrid.vip popups clearing in a couple of methods, as well as inspecting your computer for extra malware presence.

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What are Protectutilitiesgrid.vip pop-ups?

Protectutilitiesgrid.vip popups are a result of adware activity. Adware is a sort of malware that presents you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which produces a large amount of earnings for adware distributors. These ads may consist of explicit composition, or have a web link to malevolent content/website, due to the fact that adware maintainers have no purpose to check the goodness of the content they are going to show – their solitary target is money.

Protectutilitiesgrid.vip push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is a good, low-priced and also very productive marketing method¹. It allows the vendor to link the buyers’ attention to their site, and the customers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they wish to purchase. When the consumer will receive a pop-up alert that the TV set he desires to purchase is provided at the online store he/she checked out previously with a 15% discount, one will definitely use this opportunity and purchase it. Considering the very low price for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising tool is a much-loved thing amongst the advertising departments of big internet stores.

Nevertheless, such a successful system could not be missed by virus developers. Option to show the popup ads by force to the victims of malware invasion is an ideal basis for evil-minded tricks with the popup ads. And Protectutilitiesgrid.vip advertisements is among hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

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How have I got the Protectutilitiesgrid.vip virus?

There are a huge amount of methods of becoming contaminated by the adware that lead to the Protectutilitiesgrid.vip popups tornado. A lion’s part of this malware incidents is after the free software or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Freeware may also be downloaded from the official web page, and the adware is delivered as a legal bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A number 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 sorts of applications are dangerous, because it is extremely easy to build in a Protectutilitiesgrid.vip malware under the guise of part of the license hacking script, or as a part of the self-made algoritm inside of the Windows optimization tool.

Protectutilitiesgrid.vip popup virus can additionally be concealed in the promotion somewhere on the strange web page. Such websites are usually full of bright and blinking advertisements, and their proprietors usually permit any kind of promos to be placed on their web page. Therefore, clicking such banners is a risky thing: only the advertisement provider realizes what will happen when you press this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you may additionally receive something a lot more hazardous, like ransomware or coin miner; the large share of coin miners distribution is exactly after the malicious promotions.

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

Potentially unwanted programs, like Protectutilitiesgrid.vip pop-up virus may cause a lot of problems on your PC. Distracting is not the only problem – pop-ups may show you the ads, where you are offered to get one more dubious application, or “a amazing anti-malware tool”. Scareware is often spread with the use of the last slogun. Potentially unwanted programs, in turn, can have spyware functions. And it is pretty hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a legit one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the potentially unwanted programs and fake antiviruses, popup-related promotions are also used as a distribution method by different trojan viruses, for example – coin miners. The consequences of activity of such viruses is 100% unwanted, and can cost you hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not clicking these ads, they may be clicked by someone who also uses 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 loss. It is recommended to wipe out the viruses with antivirus programs as soon as possible.

How can I get rid of Protectutilitiesgrid.vip pop-up advertisements?

The tutorial of Protectutilitiesgrid.vip adware elimination contains 2 sections. Initially, we need to get rid of the malware, and after that repair the effects of its activity. The elimination task is very easy, because it may be executed even with the use of Microsoft Defender – anti-virus tool that is available on all computers with Windows 8/10. However, due to its substantial resources utilization, as well as some errors that can be pivotal for some categories of individuals, Defender is often turned off by the users, so its utilization is likely impossible. Furthermore, a wide range of trojan viruses have the ability to shut off the embedded antivirus. It is much 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 security tool that will undoubtedly wipe out the viruses from your PC and make an impenetrable shield with a Proactive protection function. But let’s manage Protectutilitiesgrid.vip adware initially.

Removing Protectutilitiesgrid.vip 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 Protectutilitiesgrid.vip 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 web browser will definitely connect the right DNS while connecting to the site you want. Create a text file named “hosts” on your computer’s desktop, after that 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 things much more difficult to restore, especially without the anti-malware software. A lot of adware variations that are utilized to show you the Protectutilitiesgrid.vip pop-up ads 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. Sometimes, you will see no crash, however, large lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 secs, and afterwards it will be back to the normal, 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.

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