Trending-celebs pop-up notifications can appear out of the blue, covering the content of the page you visited or opening your browser when you do not want it to be opened.
Clicking the Trending-celebs promotion may trigger the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this article, you will see the tutorial of Trending-celebs popups clearing in various manners, and also examining your computer for extra viruses presence.
What are Trending-celebs pop-ups?
Trending-celebs popups are a consequence of adware presence. Adware is a kind of malware that shows you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which produces a major amount of income for adware suppliers. These advertisements may consist of sometimes shocking material, or have a link to malevolent content/website, because adware maintainers have no purpose to examine the goodness of the web content they are going to reveal – their solitary target is money.
Trending-celebs push notification.
Pop-up marketing itself is a good, cheap and really efficient advertising instrument1. It allows the vendor to link the customers’ interest to their website, and the customers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they wish to buy. When the consumer will receive a pop-up alert that the TV set he likes to buy is offered at the online store he/she visited earlier with a 15% price cut, one will surely use this opportunity and purchase it. Taking into consideration the exceptionally low price for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising instrument is a much-loved thing amidst the marketing departments of big online retail stores.
However, such a rewarding plan could not be missed by malware creators. Ability to show the popup advertisements by force to the victims of malware attack is an excellent basis for evil-minded adjustments with the popup ads. And Trending-celebs.com advertisements is among hundreds that are “employed” in this system.
Here is a short details for the Trending-celebs site
| Site | Trending-celebs.com |
| Hosting | AS60781 LeaseWeb Netherlands B.V. Netherlands, Amsterdam |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| IP Address | 213.227.145.147 |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Maf, News, Get |
| Fix Tool | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
How have I got the Trending-celebs virus?
There are a huge amount of methods of getting infected by the adware that trigger the Trending-celebs popups storm. A lion’s part of this malware instances is after the free software or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Free software may also be downloaded from the main web page, and the adware is provided as a legitimate bundled program.
There is no need to blame yourself. A plenty of users regularly make use of the unreliable programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, a wide range of apps that are free, or perhaps hacked programs. All of these types of programs are unsafe, because it is extremely easy to include a Trending-celebs 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.
Trending-celebs popup virus may also be concealed in the ad somewhere on the unusual web page. Such sites are generally filled with intense and blinking ads, and their owners often approve any type of promotions to be posted on their web page. Hence, clicking such banners is a risky thing: only the advertisement contractor realizes what will occur when you press this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you may likewise get something a lot more risky, 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 applications, like Trending-celebs pop-up virus may initiate a variety of different troubles on your PC. Distracting is not the single effect – pop-ups can present you the advertisements, where you are offered to get one more unknown program, or “a effective security tool”. Scareware is often distributed under the last slogun. Potentially undesirable programs, in turn, may have spyware functionality. And it is pretty hard to distinguish the undesirable app from a legit one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and dubious antiviruses, popup-related advertisements are also used as a distribution method by different trojan viruses, for example – coin miners. The consequences of activity of such viruses is 100% unwanted, and can cost you hundreds or even thousands of dollars. And even if you are not tapping these ads, 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 solve it without information loss. It is recommended to get rid of the viruses with antivirus applications as soon as possible.
How can I get rid of Trending-celebs pop-up advertisements?
The manual of Trending-celebs adware clearing contains 2 parts. Initially, we need to remove the malware, and then fix the consequences of its activity. The removal procedure is quite easy, because it may be performed even with making use of Microsoft Defender – anti-virus program that is available on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. However, as a result of its huge resources usage, as well as some bugs that can be serious for some groups of individuals, Defender is often disabled by the users, so its use is probably impossible. Furthermore, various trojan viruses are able to disable the embedded antivirus. It is better to make use of the separated program that will not have such weakness.
I’d suggest you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware2 – a well-proven security tool that will certainly erase the malware from your personal computer and also create an impenetrable cover with a Proactive protection function. However, let’s deal with Trending-celebs adware first.
Removing Trending-celebs 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 Trending-celebs 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 :
- Open “Settings and more” tab in upper right corner, then find here “Settings” button. In the appeared menu, choose “Reset settings” option :
- 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 :
- Open Menu tab (three strips in upper right corner) and click the “Help” button. In the appeared menu choose “troubleshooting information” :
- In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option :
After choosing this option, you will see the next message :
If you use Google Chrome
- Open Settings tab, find the “Advanced” button. In the extended tab choose the “Reset and clean up” button :
- In the appeared list, click on the “Restore settings to their original defaults” :
- 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
- 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 :
- 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 web browser will definitely be connected the right DNS while connecting to the website you want. Make a text file titled “hosts” on your desktop, after that open it and fill it with the following lines3:
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a ‘#’ symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
# localhost name resolution is handle within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost
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 issue that makes the things much more difficult to repair, particularly without the anti-malware program. Most of adware variations that are used to show you the Trending-celebs pop-up advertisements are altering the deep browser settings, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to change your browser settings after your PC was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will collapse quickly. In certain cases, you will see no crash, but large lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 secs, and then it will be back to the normal, 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.
How to Remove Trending-celebs Pop-ups?
Name: Trending-celebs
Description: Trending-celebs - 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 Trending-celebs.com push notifications?” or “why do Trending-celebs.com pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with Trending-celebs 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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( votes)References
- More about pop-up advertisements on Wikipedia.
- GridinSoft Anti-Malware review and the reasons why I recommend it for malware removal.
- Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.
