Unonontate.com Ads Virus — How to Remove Guide

The Unonontate.com pop-up notifications can appear unexpectedly, covering the subject of the site you visited or opening your browser without your consent.

When you click on Unonontate.com, it may inject other malware or unwanted programs. In this post, we will provide you with a guide on how to remove Unonontate pop-ups using multiple methods, as well as how to check your system for the presence of additional viruses.

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What are Unonontate pop-ups?

Unonontate.com pop-ups are caused by the presence of adware. Adware is a type of malware that presents pay-per-view or pay-per-click ads, generating significant profits for adware distributors. These advertisements may contain explicit content or have links to harmful websites, as adware maintainers do not bother to assess the legitimacy of the content they display; their sole focus is making money.

Unonontate push notification.

Pop-up promotions itself is a good, low-cost and very productive advertising tool¹. It allows the vendor to link the customers’ interest to their site, and the buyers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they wish to buy. When the consumer will get a pop-up notification that the TV set he desires to purchase is available at the online shop he/she checked out previously with a 15% discount, one will certainly use this possibility and get it. Considering the exceptionally small cost for the popups and their targeting, such a promotion and marketing tool is a favourite thing amidst the marketing teams of big internet retailers.

Nonetheless, such a successful system could not be missed by malware creators. Ability to demonstrate the popup advertisements by force to the victims of malware invasion is a perfect basis for evil-minded adjustments with the popup promotions. And Unonontate.com advertisements is among hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a summary for the Unonontate

How have I got the Unonontate virus?

There are a number of methods of getting contaminated by the adware that result in the Unonontate popups storm. A lion’s part of this malware incidents is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Free software may additionally be downloaded from the main site, and the adware is supplied as a legit bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A number of individuals oftentimes utilize the unreliable programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, different utilities that are free, or even hacked programs. All of these types of software are unsafe, due to the fact that it is very simple to include a Unonontate 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.

Unonontate popup virus can likewise be concealed in the advertisement somewhere on the unusual site. Such websites are generally packed with colorful and blinking ads, and their owners generally accept any kind of promotions to be published on their page. Hence, clicking such banners is a risky thing: only the advertisement provider knows what will occur when you press this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you may also receive something a lot more dangerous, 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 programs, like Unonontate popup virus may provoke a variety of different problems on your personal computer. Distracting is not the only problem – pop-ups may present you the banners, where you are offered to get another dubious program, or “a effective anti-malware tool”. Scareware is usually distributed with the last motto. Potentially undesirable programs, in turn, can 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 fake antiviruses, popup-related advertisements are also used as a distribution method by various trojan viruses, for example – coin miners. The consequences of activity of such viruses is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you several hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not interacting with these promotions, they may be clicked by someone who also uses your PC – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve it without data and money loss. It is recommended to get rid of the viruses with anti-malware applications as soon as possible.

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

The manual of Unonontate adware clearing contains 2 parts. Initially, we need to deal with the malware, and after that repair the consequences of its action. The elimination task is pretty easy, since it can be executed even with using Microsoft Defender – anti-malware software that is available on all computers with Windows 8/10. However, because of its significant resources usage, along with some errors that can be pivotal for some kinds of individuals, Defender is frequently disabled by the users, so its use is likely impossible. Furthermore, a wide range of trojan viruses have the ability to disable the embedded antivirus. It is far better to make use of the separated program that will not have such exposures.

I’d suggest you to utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven antivirus device that will definitely remove the viruses from your system and make an impenetrable cover with a Proactive protection function. But let’s handle Unonontate adware first.

Removing Unonontate 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 Unonontate 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 make sure that your browser will connect the accurate DNS while connecting to the site you need. Create a text file named “hosts” on your computer’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.

However, there is one problem that makes the things a lot harder to restore, especially without the anti-malware program. A lot of adware versions that are utilized to show you the Unonontate pop-up promotions are modifying the deep browser settings, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you attempt to change your browser settings after your PC was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will certainly crash soon. 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 then it will be back to the typical, up until you try to open settings again.

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 also the reasons why I suggest it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.