Softstorright Ads Removal Guide — How to Fix It?

Softstorright pop-up alerts may show up unexpectedly, covering the post of the site you checked or opening your web browser when you don’t need it to be opened.

Clicking the Softstorright promotion can result in the injection of other malware or unwanted programs. In this guide, you will see the guide of Softstorright popups clearing in several manners, and also checking your personal computer for extra malware presence.

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What are Softstorright pop-ups?

Softstorright popups are an outcome of adware activity. Adware is a sort of malware that shows you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which creates a massive amount of profit for adware distributors. These ads might contain explicit material, or have a web link to malicious content/website, considering that adware maintainers have no reason to inspect the goodness of the material they are going to reveal – their solitary target is cash.

Softstorright push notification.

Pop-up marketing itself is a good, cheap and very effective advertising instrument¹. It enables the seller to link the buyers’ attention to their site, and the customers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to buy. When the customer will get a pop-up notification that the TV set he likes to purchase is available at the online store he/she visited earlier with a 15% discount, one will definitely use this possibility and purchase it. Taking into consideration the exceptionally low cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising method is a much-loved thing amongst the marketing departments of large online stores.

Nonetheless, such a successful strategy could not be missed by virus developers. Potential to demonstrate the popup ads forcibly to the victims of malware attack is an excellent basis for malicious adjustments with the popup advertisements. And Softstorright.com promotions is one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a details for the Softstorright

How have I got the Softstorright virus?

There are a lot of methods of becoming contaminated by the adware that result in the Softstorright popups storm. A lion’s part of this computer virus cases is after the free software or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Free software can additionally be downloaded from the official website, and the adware is delivered as a legal bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A plenty of users often work with the unreliable programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, various utilities that are free, and even hacked programs. Every one of these kinds of programs are dangerous, because it is quite easy to integrate a Softstorright malware under the guise of part of the license hacking script, or as a component of the self-made algoritm inside of the Windows optimization tool.

Softstorright popup malware may additionally be hidden in the advertisement somewhere on the odd website. Such web pages are usually packed with bright and blinking ads, and their owners typically permit any kind of promos to be published on their page. Hence, clicking such banners is a shot in the dark: only the ad provider knows what will happen when you click this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you can additionally receive something a lot more damaging, like ransomware or coin miner; the large 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 applications, like Softstorright popup virus can provoke a wide range of troubles on your personal computer. Distracting is not the only effect – pop-up notifications can present you the promotions, where you are offered to download one more dubious program, or “a amazing security tool”. Scareware is usually distributed under the last slogun. Potentially unwanted applications, in turn, may have spyware functionality. And it is quite hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a normal one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and fake antiviruses, popup-related advertisements are also used as a spreading way by various trojan viruses, for example – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such viruses is 100% unwanted, and can cost you several hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not clicking these advertisements, they can 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 loss. It is recommended to get rid of the viruses with antivirus applications as soon as possible.

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

The guide of Softstorright adware clearing consists of 2 parts. First, we need to deal with the malware, and afterwards repair the effects of its action. The elimination process is very easy, since it may be done even with making use of Microsoft Defender – security tool that is available on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. Nevertheless, due to its significant resources utilization, as well as some bugs that can be serious for some groups of users, Defender is often turned off by the users, so its use is probably impossible. Additionally, various trojan viruses can disable 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 utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven security device that will surely exterminate the malware from your system and also create an invulnerable shield with a Proactive protection function. However, let’s deal with Softstorright adware initially.

Removing Softstorright 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 Softstorright 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 browser will definitely be connected the proper DNS while connecting to the web page you want. Make a text file named “hosts” on your computer’s desktop, then open it and fill it with the following text³:

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 more difficult to fix, specifically without the anti-malware program. The majority of adware versions that are utilized to show you the Softstorright pop-up ads are changing the deep browser settings, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to fix your browser settings after your computer was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will collapse quickly. In certain cases, you will see no crash, however, significant lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 seconds, and after that it will be back to the typical, till you try to open settings one more time.

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 advise it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.