Remove Truthtraff Pop-up Virus — How to Remove?

Truthtraff pop-up notices can appear out of the blue, covering the content of the page you checked or opening your browser when you don’t need it to be opened.

Clicking on the Truthtraff promotion may lead to the injection of other malware or unwanted programs. In this article, you will see the guide of Truthtraff popups clearing in a couple of methods, and also examining your PC for extra viruses existence.

What are Truthtraff pop-ups?

Truthtraff popups are a consequence of adware presence. Adware is a type of malware that presents you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click ads, which creates a massive amount of revenue for adware suppliers. These ads may include explicit material, or have a link to harmful content/website, since adware maintainers have no reason to inspect the goodness of the content they are going to reveal – their single target is cash.

Truthtraff push notification.

Pop-up promotions itself is a very good, cheap and also very productive advertising tool¹. It allows the seller to attach the buyers’ interest to their website, as well as the customers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they wish to buy. When the consumer will receive a pop-up alert that the TV set he wishes to buy is available at the online shop he/she checked out earlier with a 15% discount, one will definitely use this possibility and purchase it. Considering the exceptionally small cost for the popups and their targeting, such a promotion and marketing method is a favorite thing amongst the marketing departments of large online retailers.

However, such a profitable scheme could not be missed by virus creators. Option to show the popup advertisements by force to the victims of malware attack is an ideal basis for evil-minded tricks with the popup advertisements. And Truthtraff.com advertisements is just one of hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a summary for the Truthtraff

How have I got the Truthtraff virus?

There are a huge amount of ways of becoming infected by the adware that result in the Truthtraff popups tornado. A lion’s part of this malware cases is after the free software or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Freeware may also be downloaded from the main website, and the adware is supplied as a legit bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A number of individuals frequently use the dubious programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, a wide range of apps that are free, and even hacked programs. Every one of these sorts of programs are unsafe, because it is extremely simple to build in a Truthtraff malware under the guise of part of the license hacking script, or as a part 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 Truthtraff pop-up advertisements?

The tutorial of Truthtraff adware removal includes 2 parts. First, we need to remove the malware, and afterwards fix the effects of its activity. The removal process is pretty easy, since it may be performed even with the 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 defects that may be critical for some types of users, Defender is often turned off by the users, so its utilization is probably impossible. What’s more, a variety of trojan viruses can disable the embedded antivirus. It is much better to use the separated program that will not have such exposures.

• 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 Truthtraff 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 browsers are reset, you need to ensure that your web browser will connect the appropriate 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 content³:

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 trouble that makes the things much harder to repair, specifically without the anti-malware program. A lot of adware variants that are utilized to show you the Truthtraff pop-up ads are modifying the deep browser setups, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you attempt to change your browser settings after your computer was infected by pop-up-related malware, your browser will certainly collapse soon. In certain cases, you will see no crash, however, large lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 secs, and afterwards it will be back to the typical, till you attempt to open settings one more time.

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