Remove Thetchaix Pop-up Virus — How to Remove?

Thetchaix pop-up notifications may show up unexpectedly, covering the post of the page you explored or opening your web browser when you don’t need it to be opened.

Clicking the Thetchaix ad can cause the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this guide, you will see the manual of Thetchaix popups clearing in various methods, as well as examining your computer for other malware presence.

What are Thetchaix pop-ups?

Thetchaix popups are an effect of adware activity. Adware is a kind of malware that presents you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click ads, which generates a large volume of profit for adware representatives. These promotions might contain sometimes shocking information, or have a web link to harmful content/website, considering that adware maintainers have no purpose to inspect the goodness of the material they are going to show – their solitary target is money.

Thetchaix push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is a very good, low-priced and also very productive advertising tool¹. It makes it possible for the seller to attach the buyers’ interest to their site, and the customers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to purchase. When the consumer will receive a pop-up notification that the TV set he desires to purchase is available at the online store he/she saw earlier with a 15% price cut, one will undoubtedly use this possibility and get it. Considering the very low cost for the popups and their targeting, such a marketing method is a favourite thing amongst the advertising departments of huge online retail stores.

Nonetheless, such a profitable strategy could not be missed by virus creators. Ability to demonstrate the popup advertisements by force to the people of malware attack is a great basis for evil-minded manipulations with the popup advertisements. And Thetchaixoo.com advertisements is among hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a short summary for the Thetchaix site

How have I got the Thetchaix virus?

There are a number of methods of getting infected by the adware that create the Thetchaix popups storm. A lion’s part of this computer virus cases is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Free software may additionally be downloaded from the official web page, and the adware is supplied as a legitimate bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A plenty of people oftentimes make use of the unreliable programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, a wide range of utilities that are free, and even hacked programs. Every one of these kinds of software are dangerous, since it is quite simple to integrate a Thetchaix 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.

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

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

The tutorial of Thetchaix adware elimination includes 2 parts. First, we need to eliminate the malware, and after that repair the consequences of its activity. The removal task is very simple, since it can be performed even with using Microsoft Defender – anti-malware tool that is available on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nevertheless, as a result of its huge resources consumption, along with some bugs that may be serious for some types of users, Defender is frequently turned off by the users, so its use is probably impossible. Furthermore, different trojan viruses can disable the embedded antivirus. It is much better to use the separated program that will not have such vulnerabilities.

• 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 Thetchaix malware the default option is “Delete”. Press “Apply” to finish the malware removal.

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 be connected the right DNS while connecting to the site you want. Create a text file titled “hosts” on your pc’s 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.

Nevertheless, there is one issue that makes the things a lot more difficult to restore, especially without the anti-malware program. Most of adware versions that are used to show you the Thetchaix 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 infected by pop-up-related malware, your browser will collapse soon. In certain cases, you will see no crash, however, significant lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 secs, and then it will be back to the normal, up until you try to open settings once more.

1. More about pop-up ads on Wikipedia.
2. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.