Vexvideo.cam Ads Removal Guide — How to Fix It?

Vexvideo.cam pop-up alerts can show up out of the blue, covering the post of the page you visited or opening your web browser when you don’t desire it to be opened.

Clicking on the Vexvideo.cam advertisement can trigger the injection of other malware or unwanted programs. In this post, you will see the guide of Vexvideo.cam popups removal in multiple manners, and also checking your system for extra viruses existence.

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What are Vexvideo.cam pop-ups?

Vexvideo.cam popups are an outcome of adware presence. Adware is a sort of malware that demonstrates to you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click ads, which produces a major amount of profit for adware suppliers. These ads may contain sometimes shocking information, or have a web link to harmful content/website, due to the fact that adware maintainers have no reason to examine the goodness of the material they are going to show – their solitary target is money.

Vexvideo.cam push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is a good, low-priced and extremely successful advertising tool¹. It enables the seller to link the customers’ interest to their website, as well as the customers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they want to purchase. When the person will get 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 undoubtedly use this opportunity and get it. Considering the very low cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising tool is a favourite thing among the marketing departments of huge online stores.

Nevertheless, such a successful system could not be missed by virus creators. Potential to demonstrate the popup advertisements by force to the people of malware invasion is an excellent basis for malevolent manipulations with the popup advertisements. And Vexvideo.cam advertisements is among hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a details for the Vexvideo.cam site

How have I got the Vexvideo.cam virus?

There are a lot of methods of getting contaminated by the adware that trigger the Vexvideo.cam popups storm. A lion’s part of this computer virus cases is after the free software or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Freeware can likewise be downloaded from the official website, and the adware is presented as a legitimate bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A number of people frequently work with the unreliable programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, a wide range of utilities that are free of cost, and even hacked programs. Every one of these kinds of programs are risky, since it is very simple to integrate a Vexvideo.cam 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.

Vexvideo.cam popup malware can likewise be concealed in the ad somewhere on the strange website. Such web pages are generally filled with colorful and blinking ads, and their owners usually approve any type of promotions to be posted on their web page. Therefore, clicking on such banners is a shot in the dark: only the advertisement contractor realizes what will occur when you click this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you can likewise get something far more dangerous, 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 unwanted applications, like Vexvideo.cam pop-up virus can provoke a lot of problems on your computer. Distracting is not the single problem – pop-up notifications may present you the advertisements, where you are offered to download another strange application, or “a perfect security tool”. Scareware is often spread with the last slogun. Potentially unwanted applications, in turn, can have spyware functionality. And it is quite hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a legit one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the potentially unwanted programs and fake antiviruses, popup-related banners are also chosen as a distribution way by different trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such viruses is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you several hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not tapping these promotions, they can be clicked by whoever who also makes use of your computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the situation can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve it without data loss. It is recommended to get rid of the viruses with anti-malware programs as soon as possible.

How can I get rid of Vexvideo.cam pop-up advertisements?

The guide of Vexvideo.cam adware elimination consists of 2 parts. First, we need to eliminate the malware, and then correct the consequences of its action. The elimination task is pretty easy, due to the fact that it can be done even with making use of Microsoft Defender – anti-malware tool that is available on all computers with Windows 8/10. However, as a result of its huge resources usage, as well as some defects that can be crucial for some groups of users, Defender is often disabled by the users, so its use is probably impossible. What’s more, a variety of trojan viruses are capable to disable the embedded antivirus. It is far better to use the separated program that will not have such exposures.

I’d suggest you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven antivirus tool that will undoubtedly erase the malware from your system and make an impenetrable cover with a Proactive protection function. However, let’s handle Vexvideo.cam adware first.

Removing Vexvideo.cam 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 Vexvideo.cam 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 definitely connect the correct DNS while connecting to the web page you want. Create a text file named “hosts” on your pc’s desktop, after that 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.

Nonetheless, there is one problem that makes things a lot harder to fix, especially without the anti-malware software. A lot of adware variants that are utilized to show you the Vexvideo.cam pop-up ads are adjusting the deep browser configurations, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to fix your browser settings after your system was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will collapse quickly. Sometimes, you will see no crash, but large lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 seconds, and after that 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.

1. More about pop-up advertisements on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware review and also the reasons why I advise it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.