How to remove Prowimoniser pop-ups? — Fix Guide

Prowimoniser pop-up alerts can show up unexpectedly, covering the content of the site you went to or opening your web browser when you don’t need it to be opened.

Clicking the Prowimoniser advertisement may trigger the injection of other malware or unwanted programs. In this guide, you will see the tutorial of Prowimoniser popups removal in various ways, as well as inspecting your computer for other malware presence.

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What are Prowimoniser pop-ups?

Prowimoniser popups are an effect of adware action. Adware is a type of malware that demonstrates to you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click promotions, which creates a massive volume of revenue for adware representatives. These promotions may include sometimes shocking information, or have a web link to malevolent content/website, due to the fact that adware maintainers have no purpose to examine the goodness of the content they are going to reveal – their solitary target is cash.

Prowimoniser push notification.

Pop-up marketing itself is a very good, low-priced and also really effective marketing solution¹. It enables the vendor to attach the buyers’ interest to their site, as well as the buyers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they wish to purchase. When the customer will receive a pop-up alert that the TV set he wishes to buy is offered at the online store he/she visited previously with a 15% price cut, one will definitely use this chance and purchase it. Taking into consideration the exceptionally low cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising tool is a favourite thing amidst the marketing departments of big internet sellers.

However, such a rewarding system could not be missed by virus developers. Option to show the popup ads by force to the people of malware attack is an ideal basis for malevolent adjustments with the popup promotions. And Prowimoniser.com ads is one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a summary for the Prowimoniser

How have I got the Prowimoniser virus?

There are a lot of ways of becoming contaminated by the adware that trigger the Prowimoniser popups storm. A lion’s part of this malware instances is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Freeware can also be downloaded from the official web page, and the adware is offered as a legit bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A plenty of people frequently utilize the uncertain programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, a wide range of apps that are free, or perhaps hacked programs. All of these types of applications are unsafe, since it is quite simple to include a Prowimoniser 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.

Prowimoniser popup virus can also be hidden in the ad somewhere on the odd site. Such websites are generally loaded with bright and blinking ads, and their proprietors often approve any type of promos to be placed on their page. Thus, clicking such banners is a shot in the dark: only the advertisement contractor realizes what will occur when you press this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you can additionally get something a lot more risky, like ransomware or coin miner; the big 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 Prowimoniser pop-up virus can provoke a lot of problems on your PC. Distracting is not the single problem – pop-ups can present you the banners, where you are offered to download another dubious application, or “a amazing anti-malware tool”. Scareware is often distributed with the last slogun. Potentially undesirable programs, in turn, may have spyware functionality. And it is quite hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a good one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and fake antiviruses, popup-related banners are also chosen as a distribution method by different trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such viruses is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you hundreds or even thousands of dollars. And even if you are not clicking these promotions, they can be clicked by someone who also uses your personal computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the situation may become much more serious, and it will be much harder to deal with it without data and money loss. It is recommended to eliminate the viruses with antivirus applications as soon as possible.

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

The tutorial of Prowimoniser adware removal consists of 2 sections. Initially, we need to get rid of the malware, and after that correct the effects of its action. The elimination task is pretty easy, because it can be done even with the use of Microsoft Defender – anti-virus tool that is present on all computers with Windows 8/10. However, due to its significant resources usage, as well as some bugs that can be critical for some groups of users, Defender is frequently turned off by the users, so its use is likely impossible. Additionally, a variety of trojan viruses have the ability to turn off the embedded antivirus. It is much better to use the separated program that will not have such vulnerabilities.

I would certainly suggest you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven antivirus tool that will certainly wipe out the malware from your personal computer and also make an impenetrable shield with a Proactive protection feature. However, let’s handle Prowimoniser adware initially.

Removing Prowimoniser 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 Prowimoniser 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 browsers are reset, you need to ensure that your browser will definitely be connected the correct DNS while connecting to the website you want. Create a text file titled “hosts” on your computer’s desktop, after that 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.

Nonetheless, there is one issue that makes the things much more difficult to restore, particularly without the anti-malware program. A lot of adware variations that are used to show you the Prowimoniser pop-up ads are adjusting the deep browser configurations, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to change your browser settings after your PC was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will collapse quickly. In some cases, you will see no crash, but huge lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 seconds, and after that it will be back to the normal, until you attempt 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 review and the reasons why I suggest it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.