Viiithia Pop-up Virus — How to Remove Unwanted Ads?

Viiithia pop-up advertisements appear out of the blue, detracting and irritating you. Still, they are way more than simple pop-ups – their essence is cleanly malignant, and they may introduce other malware to your device. In this post, I will show you how to remove Viiithia pop-ups and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any interaction with Viiithia push notifications will be ineffective at best. At worst, the pages it can open may introduce malware to your system. These pop-up advertisements can also promote fake online shopping sites which will take your money and payment info. The latter generally ends up with losing all the money you have on the exposed card.

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What are Viiithia pop-up notifications?

As the pop-up definition goes, these are short and small advertisements that attract your attention to a product they promote. But the difference between regular push notifications and Viiithia notifications is the malicious origins of the latter. Common pop-up ads are offered for you to enable with a understandable purpose – keep you aware about the fresh articles, goods for sale and so on. It is a useful tool to help your website to retain visitors and help the interested visitors to have the best price.

Brief summary of the Viiithia.com pop-up ads:

Viiithia pop-up ads, as opposed, have a deal with less legit web pages. You will commonly observe the proposition to enable them after a redirection from another page. There’s nothing bad in redirecting unless it throws you to such a questionable place. At that point, enabling pop-ups is offered as the anti-bot filtering. Alternatively, the websites may deny showing you the content unless you turn on these pop-up advertisements. These demands should already raise suspicion, as sites commonly have a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Seeing this offer should be the reason to skip the site doubtlessly. Sometimes, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not see the site – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up advertisements.

Viiithia push notification.

How does it work?

Most of browsers support turning on push notifications from sites. Sites, on the other hand, may send out notifications with the content they want. It may be an advertisement of the product or a page posted on this website, or a promotion of the page of their partner. As a result, you may see the pop-up from site X, but opening it will direct you to website Y – because a link to the latter was built in.

Crooks bear on this ability in their attempt to gain money using illegal advertising. They trick victims into allowing the pop-ups, and then just spread numerous ads of other crooks they have a deal with. As you may suppose, no normal organisations will have a deal with fraudsters. All the Viiithia popups you may see lead to other untrustworthy sites. In some cases, the same user can get into a trap of multiple pop-up spamming websites, and its web browser will turn into a complete mess.

The banners these crooks show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It usually provides a miserable commission for one view, but when you have a huge number of victims and show them hundreds of ads each day – that is a way bigger sum. Despite the majority of these ads giving no result at all, it may still give all the participants a lot of profit.

Are Viiithia pop-ups dangerous?

Yes, they are. At the surface, they can look harmless – just a blinking pop-up that appears from time to time. However, the contents of this window differ sharply from what you used to see in pop-up ads. Viiithia.com web page is controlled by crooks, who deliberately show hundreds and thousands of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any common sense and can make sporadic pop-up ads into a hurricane of promotions. For weak systems, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But that is not all problems these pop-ups carry.

As with any other thing that touches illegal ads, Viiithia pop-up ads don’t have legit offers. Even when crooks make the ads similar to ones from Amazon, Walmart or Ebay, the web page these banners will throw you to are completely different. And these pages may offer you to turn on other pop-ups, install a “useful” program, or pay for a thing at a big discount and never receive it. Let’s leave aside the cases when pop-up ads promote phishing pages or straightforward malware. There’s no way these pages will bring you any good, thus interacting with them is a very bad idea. For the same reason, Viiithia pop-ups are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Viiithia pop-ups?

Fortunately, Viiithia pop-up advertisements removal is pretty easy. They sit in the web browser and can’t hide themselves among system files. Nonetheless, as I pointed out above, some push notifications can promote malicious software to your system. It is hard to show all cases, and manual malware removal is a poor idea. Thus, after getting rid of the pop-up notifications it is recommended to use anti-malware software. That is especially recommended if you have never clicked “Allow” to pop-up ads, and they still appeared. This situation can be a sign of malware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will perfectly fit both system recovery and malware removal purposes, because of its abilities of system recovery and advanced detection system.

Initially, you should reset your browser settings. You can do that in both manual and automatic manner. The former, obviously, takes more time to complete and may be somewhat complicated if you have never done that. Automated supposes the use of anti-malware programs that can reset all browser settings at once.

Reset your browsers 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 options for each browser. By default, they are set up in a manner that 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 the latter is also able to reset the HOSTS file without any additional commands.

Reset your browsers manually

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 connect the right DNS while connecting to the website you need. Create a text file titled “hosts” on your pc’s desktop, then open it and fill it with the following lines²:

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.

Scan your system for possible viruses

After removing the Viiithia push notifications, it’s time to see if these pop-ups brought any threat to your system. Launch GridinSoft Anti-Malware, and then click on Standard scan. It will be enough in most cases to find and remove malware. The scan will last 5-10 minutes; you are free to use your system during that process.

Once the scan is complete, you will see the detections or a notification about a clean system. Proceed with pressing the Clean Up button (or OK when nothing is detected).

How to Remove Viiithia Pop-ups?

Name: Viiithia

Description: Viiithia - 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 Viiithia.com push notifications?” or “why do Viiithia.com pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with Viiithia 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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1. More about this malware type on GridinSoft Encyclopedia.
2. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.