How to remove a banner from the browser and clean the computer?

On the Internet, we are waiting for a lot of sites that along with useful information can contain dangerous viruses and Trojans. After visiting such resources, a typical question arises: how to remove a banner or clean the computer?

Varieties of malware

The most common phenomenon is various banners and pop-up messages that ask to send SMS to unlock the computer. And then the problem arises, how to remove the banner from the browser.

This program appears, usually in the form of a pop-up window at the bottom of the screen. This is the so-called advertising module or informer, which indicates the presence of the virus. Usually he asks the user to perform an action. Often this is due to a visit to pornographic resources. Although it also happens that they masquerade as popular applications.

In any case, every user should know how to remove a banner from the browser, so that if necessary, be able to completely clean your computer of the malicious program. In spite of the fact that the module usually asks to send SMS to get rid of a small inconvenience, the result is not necessarily positive. It is better not to send any message, so it will be safer.

How to remove a banner from the Internet Explorer ?

Method one.

In the browser settings, you must reset the settings. Sometimes it works. We go into the "properties of the browser", select the "additional" and click "reset settings." After that you need to reboot.

But how to remove a banner from the browser, if these actions did not help?

In the browser, we find "settings management", where there is the item "enable and disable settings". There you can find out which file is responsible for the operation of the malicious informer. This file with the extension .dll is located in the "System32" folder on drive C; / Windows.

Removing a banner from Opera

In the Opera, you can remove an advertising banner as follows:

• Tools -> Options -> Advanced. In this menu we will see the "Content" item, in which there are "javascript settings".

• Here you can find the folder with the configuration files. If you copy all the files from there and return them one at a time, you can find the ad unit. When you copy a new file, you must restart the browser.

How to remove the Mozilla banner FireFox ?

• Go to the "Tools" and select the item "Add-ons".

• There we will open the item "Extensions" - these are additional modules that are installed in the baruser. Malicious software can also be added here.

Firefox is convenient because there is a special item ("Extensions") dedicated to additional modules. From here you can remove not only ad units and virus applications, but also other unwanted add-ons: Yandex.Bar, modules from third-party sites and so on.

Removing banners from the desktop

Sometimes virus modules are added directly to the desktop. This situation is somewhat more complicated. Typically, users begin to panic because the computer is locked and nothing can be done.

The actions are as follows:

• Restart the computer and select the boot in safe mode. To do this, go first to the BIOS (button "Delete" or F2 for laptops).

• In "Safe Mode" the computer will uniquely boot and the Trojan will not block the computer. But you still can not work in it.

• After the download, you need to start the "Task Manager". Or immediately click "Windows" + R and in the appeared line "Run" drive msconfig. In the "Startup" tab, you can find programs that are loaded with Windows. There will be a Trojan.

In some cases, you can restore the system using the WindowsLive utility, or you need to roll back to the last save point in the system settings.

It is also necessary for the prevention to put a good antivirus with fresh databases and use other protective utilities, such as the AdBlock Plus extension for Mozilla FireFox or similar for other browsers.