Wevideo.ru pop-up notifications may show up out of the blue, covering the content of the site you explored or opening your browser when you do not wish it to be opened.
Clicking on the Wevideo.ru ad may lead to the injection of other malware or unwanted programs. In this post, you will see the guideline of Wevideo.ru popups clearing in several manners, and also inspecting your personal computer for extra viruses existence.
What are Wevideo.ru pop-ups?
Wevideo.ru popups are an outcome of adware presence. Adware is a kind of malware that demonstrates to you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click ads, which creates a significant volume of revenue for adware suppliers. These promotions might contain sometimes shocking material, or have a web link to malicious content/website, because adware maintainers have no purpose to inspect the goodness of the web content they are going to reveal – their single target is money.
Wevideo.ru push notification.
Pop-up promotions itself is an excellent, affordable and very successful marketing instrument1. It allows the seller to attach the customers’ interest to their site, and the customers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to buy. When the consumer will receive a pop-up alert that the TV set he wishes to purchase is available at the online store he/she checked out previously with a 15% discount, one will undoubtedly use this opportunity and get it. Taking into consideration the incredibly low price for the popups and their targeting, such a promotion and marketing tool is a favourite thing amidst the advertising teams of large online sellers.
However, such a rewarding strategy could not be missed by virus developers. Option to show the popup advertisements forcibly to the people of malware invasion is an excellent basis for malevolent adjustments with the popup ads. And Wevideo.ru promotions is just one of hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.
Here is a short summary for the Wevideo.ru site
| Site | Wevideo.ru |
| Hosting | AS14061 DigitalOcean, LLC Netherlands, Amsterdam |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| IP Address | 104.248.207.50 |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Se24, Topzaycevs, G3news |
| Fix Tool | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
How have I got the Wevideo.ru virus?
There are a huge amount of ways of becoming infected by the adware that trigger the Wevideo.ru popups storm. A lion’s part of this virus incidents is after the free software or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Free software may likewise be downloaded from the main site, and the adware is presented as a legit bundled program.
There is no need to blame yourself. A huge amount of users regularly work with the unreliable programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, various utilities that are free of cost, or perhaps hacked programs. Every one of these kinds of programs are dangerous, because it is quite easy to integrate a Wevideo.ru malware under the guise of part of the license hacking script, or as a part of the self-made algoritm within the Windows optimization tool.
Wevideo.ru popup virus may also be hidden in the ad somewhere on the strange website. Such websites are typically filled with colorful and blinking advertisements, and their proprietors usually accept any promotions to be published on their page. Hence, clicking on such banners is a shot in the dark: only the advertisement provider realizes what will happen when you click this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you may also get something far more risky, like ransomware or coin miner; the big share of coin miners circulation is exactly after the malicious ads.
The statistic shows that people dislike popup advertising more than other types of promotions
Potentially undesirable applications, like Wevideo.ru popup virus may initiate a lot of different troubles on your personal computer. Distracting is not the single problem – pop-up notifications may present you the banners, where you are offered to get another unknown program, or “a amazing anti-malware tool”. Scareware is often spread with the last motto. Potentially unwanted applications, in turn, can have spyware functionality. And it is very hard to distinguish the undesirable app from a normal one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and dubious antiviruses, popup-related ads are also chosen as a distribution way by different trojan viruses, for example – coin miners. The consequences of activity of such malware is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not tapping these ads, they may be clicked by someone who also uses your personal computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things may become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve it without information loss. It is recommended to get rid of the viruses with antivirus applications as soon as possible.
How can I get rid of Wevideo.ru pop-up advertisements?
The tutorial of Wevideo.ru adware elimination contains 2 parts. Initially, we need to remove the malware, and then deal with the results of its action. The removal process is quite simple, because it may be done even with using Microsoft Defender – anti-virus software that is available on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nevertheless, because of its huge resources utilization, as well as some errors that may be serious for some kinds of users, Defender is oftentimes turned off by the users, so its use is most likely impossible. What’s more, a wide range of trojan viruses are capable to turn off the embedded antivirus. It is much better to make use of the separated program that will not have such vulnerabilities.
I’d advise you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware2 – a well-proven security tool that will certainly exterminate the malware from your personal computer and make an invulnerable shield with a Proactive protection function. But let’s deal with Wevideo.ru adware initially.
Removing Wevideo.ru 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 Wevideo.ru 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 :
- Open “Settings and more” tab in upper right corner, then find here “Settings” button. In the appeared menu, choose “Reset settings” option :
- 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 :
- Open Menu tab (three strips in upper right corner) and click the “Help” button. In the appeared menu choose “troubleshooting information” :
- In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option :
After choosing this option, you will see the next message :
If you use Google Chrome
- Open Settings tab, find the “Advanced” button. In the extended tab choose the “Reset and clean up” button :
- In the appeared list, click on the “Restore settings to their original defaults” :
- 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
- 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 :
- 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 web browser will be connected the proper DNS while connecting to the site you want. Make a text file named “hosts” on your desktop, after that open it and fill it with the following content3:
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a ‘#’ symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
# localhost name resolution is handle within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost
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 things a lot harder to repair, specifically without the anti-malware software. A lot of adware variants that are utilized to show you the Wevideo.ru pop-up advertisements are modifying the deep browser settings, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to fix your browser settings after your PC was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will crash quickly. In some cases, you will see no crash, however, large lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 seconds, and afterwards 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.
How to Remove Wevideo.ru Pop-ups?
Name: Wevideo.ru
Description: Wevideo.ru - 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 Wevideo.ru push notifications?” or “why do Wevideo.ru pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with Wevideo.ru 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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( votes)References
- More about pop-up ads on Wikipedia.
- GridinSoft Anti-Malware review and the reasons why I advise it for malware elimination.
- Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.
