Yourgoads Ads Removal Guide — How to Fix It?

Yourgoads pop-up notices may show up out of the blue, covering the post of the page you visited or opening your browser when you do not desire it to be opened.

Clicking on the Yourgoads ad may lead to the injection of other malware or unwanted programs. In this guide, you will see the manual of Yourgoads popups removal in various ways, as well as inspecting your PC for extra malware presence.

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What are Yourgoads pop-ups?

Yourgoads popups are a result of adware presence. Adware is a sort of malware that presents you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click ads, which creates a substantial volume of earnings for adware distributors. These advertisements may include explicit information, or have a web link to malevolent content/website, considering that adware maintainers have no purpose to check the goodness of the material they are going to show – their single target is money.

Yourgoads push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is an excellent, low-cost and extremely effective advertising solution¹. It enables the seller to link the buyers’ interest to their website, as well as the customers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to purchase. When the person will get a pop-up notification that the TV set he likes to buy is offered at the online store he/she checked out previously with a 15% price cut, one will undoubtedly use this chance and get it. Taking into consideration the very small cost for the popups and their targeting, such a promotion and marketing instrument is a favourite thing amongst the advertising departments of large internet retail stores.

However, such a profitable system could not be missed by malware developers. Option to demonstrate the popup ads by force to the people of malware invasion is a great basis for malevolent tricks with the popup advertisements. And Yourgoads.com ads is among hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a short info for the Yourgoads

How have I got the Yourgoads virus?

There are a huge amount of methods of getting contaminated by the adware that trigger the Yourgoads popups storm. A lion’s part of this virus incidents is after the free software or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Free software may additionally be downloaded from the official site, and the adware is offered as a legit bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A plenty of users frequently utilize the unreliable programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, different utilities that are free of cost, and even hacked programs. Every one of these kinds of software are dangerous, since it is extremely easy to build in a Yourgoads malware under the cover of part of the license hacking script, or as a component of the self-made algoritm inside of the Windows optimization tool.

Yourgoads popup malware can also be concealed in the ad somewhere on the unusual web page. Such websites are generally full of bright and blinking advertisements, and their proprietors typically permit any kind of promos to be posted on their page. For this reason, clicking such banners is a shot in the dark: only the advertisement provider knows what will happen when you click this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you may likewise get something a lot more dangerous, like ransomware or coin miner; the large 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 applications, like Yourgoads pop-up virus can cause a variety of different problems on your PC. Distracting is not the single problem – pop-ups may show you the ads, where you are offered to download one more unknown application, or “a perfect anti-malware tool”. Scareware is often spread under the last motto. Potentially undesirable programs, in turn, can have spyware functionality. And it is pretty hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a legit one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and pseudo antiviruses, popup-related banners are also exploited as a spreading way by various trojan viruses, for example – 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 interacting with these promotions, they can be clicked by someone who also makes use of your PC – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the situation may become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve it without information loss. It is recommended to wipe out the viruses with antivirus applications as soon as possible.

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

The guide of Yourgoads adware removal consists of 2 parts. First, we need to eliminate the malware, and then correct the consequences of its action. The removal task is pretty simple, due to the fact that it can be done even with the use of Microsoft Defender – security tool that is present on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. Nonetheless, due to its substantial resources consumption, as well as some errors that can be pivotal for some kinds of users, Defender is oftentimes disabled by the users, so its utilization is likely impossible. Moreover, a wide range of trojan viruses have the ability to switch off the embedded antivirus. It is better to make use of the separated program that will not have such vulnerabilities.

I would certainly suggest you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven security tool that will definitely wipe out the viruses from your PC and also create an invulnerable shield with a Proactive protection function. However, let’s manage Yourgoads adware initially.

Removing Yourgoads 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 Yourgoads 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 browser will definitely connect the correct DNS while connecting to the web page you need. Create a text file titled “hosts” on your 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.

However, there is one problem that makes things a lot harder to fix, specifically without the anti-malware program. Most of adware variants that are used to show you the Yourgoads pop-up ads are adjusting the deep browser setups, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to fix your browser settings after your machine was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will certainly collapse quickly. In certain cases, you will see no crash, but significant lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 secs, and after that it will be back to the normal, until you try to open settings 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 advertisements on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware overview and also the reasons why I suggest it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.