Quickdirect.click Ads Removal Guide — How to Fix It?

Quickdirect.click pop-up notifications may appear unexpectedly, covering the material of the site you visited or opening your browser when you do not wish it to be opened.

Clicking the Quickdirect.click ad may trigger the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this article, you will see the manual of Quickdirect.click popups removal in a couple of ways, and also examining your computer for additional malware existence.

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What are Quickdirect.click pop-ups?

Quickdirect.click popups are an outcome of adware action. Adware is a kind of malware that shows you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click promotions, which produces a massive amount of profit for adware suppliers. These promotions might contain sometimes shocking material, or have a link to malicious content/website, due to the fact that adware maintainers have no purpose to examine the goodness of the web content they are going to reveal – their solitary target is money.

Quickdirect.click push notification.

Pop-up marketing itself is an excellent, low-cost and extremely effective marketing solution¹. It permits the seller to link the customers’ interest to their website, as well as the customers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they want to buy. When the consumer will get a pop-up alert that the TV set he wishes to purchase is available at the online shop he/she visited previously with a 15% discount, one will undoubtedly use this possibility and buy it. Considering the incredibly small cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising instrument is a favourite thing among the advertising teams of big internet retailers.

However, such a successful plan could not be missed by malware developers. Option to show the popup ads forcibly to the targets of malware attack is a perfect basis for malicious adjustments with the popup promotions. And Quickdirect.click ads is one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a summary for the Quickdirect.click

How have I got the Quickdirect.click virus?

There are a number of ways of getting contaminated by the adware that create the Quickdirect.click popups tornado. A lion’s part of this malware incidents is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Freeware can also be downloaded from the official site, and the adware is provided as a legitimate bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A number of individuals often make use of the unreliable programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, different apps that are free, and even hacked programs. Every one of these types of software are risky, due to the fact that it is extremely easy to integrate a Quickdirect.click 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.

Quickdirect.click popup virus can likewise be hidden in the promotion somewhere on the unusual site. Such web pages are in most cases full of intense and blinking advertisements, and their proprietors generally permit any promotions to be published on their web page. Hence, clicking on such banners is a shot in the dark: only the advertisement provider realizes what will occur when you click this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you can also get something a lot more damaging, like ransomware or coin miner; the big share of coin miners distribution is exactly after the malicious advertisements.

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

Potentially unwanted programs, like Quickdirect.click popup virus can provoke a lot of troubles on your computer. Distracting is not the only effect – pop-up notifications can present you the advertisements, where you are offered to download another unknown program, or “a effective security tool”. Scareware is often distributed with the last slogun. Potentially undesirable programs, in turn, can have spyware functionality. 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 banners are also exploited as a spreading method by different trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of activity of such malware is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you hundreds or even thousands of dollars. And even if you are not clicking these promotions, they may be clicked by whoever who also uses your computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things may become much more serious, and it will be much harder to deal with it without data and money loss. It is recommended to wipe out the viruses with anti-malware programs as soon as possible.

How can I get rid of Quickdirect.click pop-up advertisements?

The manual of Quickdirect.click adware elimination contains 2 parts. First, we need to eliminate the malware, and afterwards fix the effects of its activity. The removal procedure is really simple, because it may be executed even with using Microsoft Defender – security software that is present on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. Nonetheless, because of its substantial resources usage, along with some errors that may be critical for some groups of individuals, Defender is often turned off by the users, so its utilization is probably impossible. What’s more, a wide range of trojan viruses are capable to turn off the embedded antivirus. It is 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 security tool that will definitely erase the malware from your PC and create an impenetrable cover with a Proactive protection feature. However, let’s take care of Quickdirect.click adware first.

Removing Quickdirect.click 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 Quickdirect.click 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 appropriate DNS while connecting to the site you need. Make a text file titled “hosts” on your 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.

However, there is one trouble that makes things much harder to restore, specifically without the anti-malware software. Most of adware variations that are utilized to show you the Quickdirect.click pop-up promotions are adjusting the deep browser settings, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to fix your browser settings after your system was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will certainly collapse quickly. Sometimes, you will see no crash, but huge lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 seconds, and afterwards it will be back to the typical, up 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 ads on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware overview and the reasons why I suggest it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.