Remove Reianter Pop-up Virus — How to Remove?

Reianter push notifications appear when you do not expect, distracting and annoying you. However, that is slightly more than simple pop-ups – their essence is cleanly malignant, and they can install other malware to your PC. In this article, I will show you the guide how to remove Reianter pop-ups and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any time you interact with Reianter pop-up advertisements will be useless at best. At worst, the web pages it can show you may introduce malware to your system. These pop-up advertisements may also promote fake shopping sites which will take your money and payment info. The latter generally ends up with losing all the money you have on the exposed card.

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What are Reianter push notifications?

As the pop-up definition goes, these are short and small advertisements that attract your attention to a product they promote. But the difference between regular push notifications and Reianter notifications is the malicious origins of the latter. Normal pop-up ads are offered for you to enable on different sites with a benevolent purpose – notify you about the latest articles, goods for sale and so on. It is an effective approach to help your website to keep visitors and help the interested visitors to have the best price.

Brief summary of the Reianter.com pop-ups:

Reianter pop-ups, as opposed, have a deal with untrustworthy websites. You will commonly witness the proposition to turn them on following the redirection from another website. It’s OK to see redirects unless it throws you to such a dubious place. At that point, enabling pop-up notifications is served as the anti-bot check. In other cases, the sites may refuse to show you the contents unless you turn on these pop-up advertisements. These theses should already be the red flag, as sites usually have a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Seeing such an demand is a reason to skip the page right away. Sometimes, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not see the site – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up ads.

Reianter push notification.

How does this work?

The majority of browsers support enabling push notifications from websites. Sites, on the other hand, can send notifications with the content they want. It may be an advertisement of the page published on this website, or an ad of the page of their partner. As a result, you can see the push notification from site X, but interacting with it will throw you to website Y – because a referral link to that website was built in.

Scoundrels bear on this feature in their attempt to earn money using illegal advertising. They trick users into turning on pop-ups, and after that just spread numerous promotions of other crooks they have a deal with. As you can suppose, no legit companies will have a deal with fraudsters. All the Reianter popups you can see lead to other untrustworthy sites. In some cases, the same victim can get into a trap of multiple pop-up spamming web pages, and its web browser will turn into a complete mess.

The ads these criminals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It commonly provides a negligible payment for one person, but when you can send ads to a huge number of victims and show them hundreds of ads every day – that is a much more significant sum. Despite the majority of such ads giving no result at all, it can still give all the parties a lot of money.

Are Reianter pop-up advertisements dangerous?

Yes, they are. Initially, they may look harmless – just a blinking pop-up that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the contents of this window differ drastically from what you generally see in push notifications. Reianter.com site is ruled by crooks, who intendedly throw tons of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any manners of advertising and can make sporadic pop-up advertisements into a storm of banners. For weak computers, that may be enough to make the system slower. But troubles are not over at this point.

As with any other thing that touches illegal advertising, Reianter pop-up ads do not contain any legit deals to offer. Even though hackers make the banners looking similar to ones from Amazon, Walmart or Ebay, the site these banners will throw you to are completely different. And these pages can offer you to turn on other pop-ups, install a “useful” program, or pay for a thing at a big discount and never receive it. Let’s leave aside the cases when pop-up ads promote phishing pages or straightforward malware. There’s no way these pages will bring you any good, thus interacting with them is a very bad idea. For the same reason, Reianter push notifications are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Reianter pop-ups?

Fortunately, Reianter pop-up notifications removal is not very complicated. They parasite in the browser and cannot conceal themselves among system files. However, as I told before, some pop-up advertisements may introduce malware to your system. It is hard to describe all of the cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is inconvenient. For that reason, after disabling the push notifications it is recommended to use anti-malware software. I would especially recommend that in the case when you have never allowed pop-up notifications, but they still appeared. This situation may be a sign of malicious software activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both system recovery and malware checkup purposes, because of its abilities of system recovery and superb detection system.

First of all, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to accomplish in manual or automated way. The former, obviously, requires more time to complete and can be somewhat complicated if you have never done that. Automated supposes the use of anti-malware programs that can reset all browser settings at once.

Reset your browsers 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 options for each browser. By default, they are set up in a manner that 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 the latter is also able to reset the HOSTS file without any additional commands.

Reset your browsers manually

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 connect the right DNS while connecting to the web page you need. Create a text file titled “hosts” on your pc’s desktop, then open it and fill it with the following lines²:

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.

Scan your system for possible viruses

After removing the Reianter push notifications, it’s time to see if these pop-ups brought any threat to your system. Launch GridinSoft Anti-Malware, and then click on Standard scan. It will be enough in most cases to find and remove malware. The scan will last 5-10 minutes; you are free to use your system during that process.

Once the scan is complete, you will see the detections or a notification about a clean system. Proceed with pressing the Clean Up button (or OK when nothing is detected).

How to Remove Reianter Pop-ups?

Name: Reianter

Description: Reianter - a lot of users became a target for the pop-up advertisements. I have a lot of friends who literally bombed me with the questions like “how to remove Reianter.com push notifications?” or “why do Reianter.com pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with Reianter pop-ups, which may corrupt your browser’s correct performance, and create a lot of troubles while you are working.

Operating System: Windows

Application Category: Adware

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1. More about this malware type on GridinSoft Encyclopedia.
2. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.