Remove Torggissoft Pop-up Virus — How to Remove?

Torggissoft pop-up alerts may appear out of the blue, covering the material of the page you explored or opening your web browser when you do not need it to be opened.

Clicking the Torggissoft ad may result in the injection of various malware or unwanted programs. In this guide, you will see the tutorial of Torggissoft popups removal in several ways, as well as examining your PC for extra malware presence.

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What are Torggissoft pop-ups?

Torggissoft popups are an effect of adware presence. Adware is a kind of malware that demonstrates to you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click promotions, which generates a substantial volume of profit for adware suppliers. These ads may consist of sometimes shocking information, or have a link to harmful content/website, because adware maintainers have no purpose to check the goodness of the material they are going to reveal – their single target is money.

Torggissoft push notification.

Pop-up promotions itself is a good, low-cost and also very successful marketing tool¹. It enables the vendor to attach the customers’ interest to their website, and the customers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to buy. When the customer will receive a pop-up alert that the TV set he wishes to purchase is provided at the online shop he/she checked out previously with a 15% price cut, one will definitely use this chance and purchase it. Considering the exceptionally low cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising and marketing instrument is a favourite thing amidst the advertising departments of large online retailers.

However, such a rewarding plan could not be missed by malware creators. Ability to demonstrate the popup advertisements by force to the targets of malware attack is a perfect basis for evil-minded manipulations with the popup advertisements. And Torggissoft.com advertisements is one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a short info for the Torggissoft

How have I got the Torggissoft virus?

There are a number of ways of getting infected by the adware that cause the Torggissoft popups storm. A lion’s part of this malware cases is after the free software or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Free software can likewise be downloaded from the main website, and the adware is offered as a legitimate bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A lot of people often work with the dubious programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, a wide range of apps that are free of cost, or perhaps hacked programs. Every one of these kinds of applications are unsafe, since it is very simple to include a Torggissoft 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.

Torggissoft popup malware may also be concealed in the promotion somewhere on the unusual site. Such sites are typically loaded with intense and blinking advertisements, and their owners usually approve any kind of promotions to be published on their page. Hence, clicking such banners is a shot in the dark: only the ad provider knows what will occur when you click this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you can likewise receive something much more threatening, like ransomware or coin miner; the large share of coin miners distribution is exactly after the malicious ads.

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

Potentially undesirable programs, like Torggissoft pop-up virus may initiate a variety of different problems on your personal computer. Distracting is not the single effect – pop-ups may show you the banners, where you are offered to get one more unknown application, or “a effective anti-malware tool”. Scareware is usually distributed under the last slogun. Potentially undesirable applications, in turn, may have spyware functions. And it is very hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a good one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the potentially unwanted programs and pseudo antiviruses, popup-related ads are also chosen as a spreading way by different trojan viruses, for example – 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 tapping 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 information loss. It is recommended to eliminate the viruses with anti-malware applications as soon as possible.

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

The manual of Torggissoft adware clearing contains 2 parts. First, we need to eliminate the malware, and after that fix the effects of its action. The elimination procedure is quite simple, since it can be done even with using Microsoft Defender – anti-virus program that is present on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nonetheless, as a result of its large resources consumption, as well as some failures that may be critical for some kinds of individuals, Defender is frequently disabled by the users, so its utilization is likely impossible. Furthermore, various trojan viruses are able to switch 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 surely eliminate the viruses from your system and also create an impenetrable shield with a Proactive protection function. But let’s handle Torggissoft adware initially.

Removing Torggissoft 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 Torggissoft 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 be connected the right DNS while connecting to the site you need. Make a text file titled “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 trouble that makes things a lot harder to repair, especially without the anti-malware program. The majority of adware variants that are used to show you the Torggissoft pop-up promotions are changing the deep browser configurations, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to change your browser settings after your computer was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will crash quickly. In certain cases, you will see no crash, however, large lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 secs, and then it will be back to the normal, up until you try to open settings once more.

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 overview and the reasons why I advise it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.