Vinetguide Ads Removal Guide — How to Fix It?

Vinetguide pop-up notices may appear out of the blue, covering the subject of the page you checked or opening your web browser when you do not desire it to be opened.

Clicking the Vinetguide advertisement may lead to the injection of other malware or unwanted programs. In this guide, you will see the manual of Vinetguide popups clearing in multiple manners, as well as inspecting your computer for additional malware existence.

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What are Vinetguide pop-ups?

Vinetguide popups are an outcome of adware action. Adware is a type of malware that presents you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which creates a significant volume of revenue for adware distributors. These ads might include sometimes shocking composition, or have a web link to malevolent content/website, since adware maintainers have no reason to examine the goodness of the web content they are going to reveal – their solitary target is money.

Vinetguide push notification.

Pop-up marketing itself is an excellent, cheap and really efficient advertising method¹. It makes it possible for the vendor to attach the customers’ interest to their website, and the customers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they want to purchase. When the consumer will receive a pop-up alert that the TV set he wishes to purchase is available at the online shop he/she checked out previously with a 15% price cut, one will undoubtedly use this possibility and purchase it. Taking into consideration the exceptionally low cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising instrument is a much-loved thing amongst the advertising teams of huge internet retail stores.

Nevertheless, such a rewarding system could not be missed by virus developers. Potential to demonstrate the popup ads forcibly to the people of malware attack is a great basis for evil-minded adjustments with the popup promotions. And Vinetguide.com ads is just one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a short details for the Vinetguide

How have I got the Vinetguide virus?

There are a lot of methods of getting infected by the adware that trigger the Vinetguide popups tornado. A lion’s part of this virus incidents is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Free software can likewise be downloaded from the official web page, and the adware is offered as a legitimate bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A plenty of people oftentimes make use of the dubious programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, a wide range of utilities that are free of cost, or perhaps hacked programs. Every one of these types of software are unsafe, because it is quite easy to integrate a Vinetguide malware under the cover of part of the license hacking script, or as a component of the self-made algoritm within the Windows optimization tool.

Vinetguide popup virus can likewise be concealed in the promotion somewhere on the unusual website. Such websites are usually filled with colorful and blinking advertisements, and their owners typically approve any type of promos to be placed on their page. Thus, clicking such banners is a risky thing: only the ad provider knows what will occur when you press this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you may additionally get something much more dangerous, like ransomware or coin miner; the large share of coin miners circulation is exactly after the malicious promotions.

The statistic shows that people dislike popup advertising more than other types of promotions

Potentially undesirable applications, like Vinetguide pop-up virus may cause a lot of different problems on your PC. Distracting is not the single problem – pop-ups can show you the banners, where you are offered to download another unknown program, or “a amazing anti-malware tool”. Scareware is usually distributed under the last motto. Potentially unwanted applications, in turn, may have spyware functions. And it is pretty hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a normal one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the potentially unwanted programs and pseudo antiviruses, popup-related banners are also exploited as a spreading method by various trojan viruses, for instance – 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 clicking these promotions, they can be clicked by whoever who also uses your computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the situation can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to deal with it without data loss. It is recommended to remove the viruses with antivirus applications as soon as possible.

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

The guide of Vinetguide adware removal contains 2 parts. First, we need to remove the malware, and after that deal with the consequences of its action. The removal task is pretty easy, since it may be done even with using Microsoft Defender – anti-virus tool that is present on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. Nonetheless, due to its substantial resources consumption, as well as some problems that may be crucial for some categories of individuals, Defender is oftentimes disabled by the users, so its usage is probably impossible. In addition, different trojan viruses have the ability to disable the embedded antivirus. It is much better to make use of the separated program that will not have such weakness.

I’d advise you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven antivirus tool that will definitely remove the viruses from your system and create an invulnerable shield with a Proactive protection function. However, let’s manage Vinetguide adware first.

Removing Vinetguide 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 Vinetguide 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 web browsers are reset, you need to ensure that your browser will be connected the correct DNS while connecting to the site you want. Create a text file named “hosts” on your computer’s desktop, after that 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.

Nonetheless, there is one issue that makes things much more difficult to repair, especially without the anti-malware software. Most of adware variations that are used to show you the Vinetguide pop-up promotions are changing the deep browser settings, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to fix your browser settings after your computer was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will crash soon. Sometimes, you will see no crash, however, large lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 seconds, and then it will be back to the normal, up until you attempt 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 ads on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware overview and also the reasons why I advise it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.