Remove Wholehypewords Virus — How to Fix Guide

Wholehypewords pop-up alerts can appear unexpectedly, covering the subject of the site you explored or opening your web browser when you do not wish it to be opened.

Clicking on the Wholehypewords ad may lead to the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this article, you will see the guideline of Wholehypewords popups removal in a couple of ways, and also inspecting your PC for additional malware presence.

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What are Wholehypewords pop-ups?

Wholehypewords popups are a consequence of adware activity. Adware is a type of malware that suggests you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click promotions, which generates a significant volume of earnings for adware distributors. These advertisements might have sometimes shocking information, or have a web link to malevolent content/website, since adware maintainers have no reason to examine the goodness of the material they are going to reveal – their single target is money.

Wholehypewords push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is an excellent, low-priced and also really successful advertising instrument¹. It allows the seller to link the customers’ interest to their website, as well as the customers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to buy. When the customer will receive a pop-up alert that the TV set he desires to purchase is offered at the online shop he/she visited previously with a 15% discount, one will definitely use this opportunity and purchase it. Taking into consideration the extremely small cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising method is a favourite thing amidst the marketing departments of large online stores.

However, such a successful strategy could not be missed by malware creators. Potential to show the popup advertisements by force to the victims of malware attack is a perfect basis for evil-minded tricks with the popup promotions. And Wholehypewords.com ads is among hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a info for the Wholehypewords site

How have I got the Wholehypewords virus?

There are a lot of methods of becoming contaminated by the adware that trigger the Wholehypewords 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 also be downloaded from the official site, and the adware is delivered as a legitimate bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A lot of individuals frequently utilize the unreliable programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, a wide range of tools that are free of cost, or even hacked programs. Every one of these types of software are unsafe, because it is extremely simple to integrate a Wholehypewords 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.

Wholehypewords popup virus can additionally be concealed in the ad somewhere on the strange website. Such websites are usually full of colorful and blinking ads, and their owners generally accept any type of promos to be placed on their web page. Thus, clicking on such banners is a shot in the dark: only the advertisement provider knows what will occur when you press this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you can likewise receive something a lot more damaging, like ransomware or coin miner; the substantial 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 unwanted programs, like Wholehypewords pop-up virus can initiate a wide range of different problems on your personal computer. Distracting is not the single effect – pop-ups can show you the promotions, where you are offered to get one more strange application, or “a amazing anti-malware tool”. Scareware is often spread with the last slogun. Potentially unwanted programs, in turn, can 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 fake antiviruses, popup-related ads are also chosen as a spreading way by different trojan viruses, for example – coin miners. The consequences of activity of such malware is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you several hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not tapping these ads, they can be clicked by whoever who also makes use of your computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to deal with it without information loss. It is recommended to get rid of the viruses with anti-malware applications as soon as possible.

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

The tutorial of Wholehypewords adware removal consists of 2 sections. First, we need to deal with the malware, and afterwards fix the effects of its activity. The elimination procedure is very easy, since it may be executed even with making use of Microsoft Defender – security software that is present on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nevertheless, due to its huge resources utilization, as well as some errors that may be crucial for some groups of users, Defender is frequently disabled by the users, so its use is most likely impossible. What’s more, a wide range of trojan viruses are able to shut off the embedded antivirus. It is better to make use of the separated program that will not have such vulnerabilities.

I’d suggest you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven antivirus tool that will definitely erase the malware from your system and also make an impenetrable cover with a Proactive protection function. But let’s take care of Wholehypewords adware first.

Removing Wholehypewords 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 Wholehypewords 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 ensure that your web browser will connect the proper DNS while connecting to the site you need. Make a text file named “hosts” on your desktop, after that open it and fill it with the following content³:

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 harder to fix, especially without the anti-malware software. The majority of adware variations that are utilized to show you the Wholehypewords pop-up ads are altering the deep browser setups, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to change your browser settings after your machine was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will crash soon. Sometimes, you will see no crash, however, significant lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 secs, and then it will be back to the normal, until you attempt to open settings once 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 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.