Clicking on the Cupidrecession.com ad may trigger the injection of other malware or unwanted programs. In this post, you will see the guideline of Cupidrecession.com popups removal in various methods, and also examining your personal computer for extra viruses existence.

What are Cupidrecession.com pop-ups?

Cupidrecession.com popups are a consequence of adware activity. Adware is a kind of malware that presents you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click ads, which generates a major amount of earnings for adware distributors. These promotions may contain explicit information, or have a link to malevolent content/website, because adware maintainers have no purpose to check the goodness of the content they are going to reveal – their single target is cash.

Cupidrecession.com push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is a good, low-cost and also really successful advertising solution¹. It allows the vendor to attach the customers’ interest to their site, as well as the buyers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they wish to buy. When the customer will receive a pop-up alert that the TV set he likes to buy is available at the online shop he/she checked out earlier with a 15% price cut, one will definitely use this possibility and buy it. Considering the very low cost for the popups and their targeting, such a marketing tool is a favourite thing amidst the advertising departments of huge internet stores.

However, such a successful strategy could not be missed by virus developers. Ability to demonstrate the popup advertisements forcibly to the victims of malware invasion is a great basis for malevolent tricks with the popup advertisements. And Cupidrecession.com promotions is one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Site	Cupidrecession.com
Hosting	AS39572 DataWeb Global Group B.V. United States, Washington
Infection Type	Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads
IP Address	192.243.59.20
Symptoms	Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner.
Similar behavior	Departgross, Dinatoorde, Deshaici
Fix Tool	GridinSoft Anti-MalwareTo remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC

How have I got the Cupidrecession.com virus?

There are a huge amount of methods of getting infected by the adware that result in the Cupidrecession.com popups storm. A lion’s part of this malware incidents is after the free software or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Freeware can also be downloaded from the main web page, and the adware is delivered as a legal bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A huge amount of individuals often use the unreliable programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, various utilities that are free of cost, or perhaps hacked programs. All of these kinds of programs are dangerous, because it is very simple to integrate a Cupidrecession.com 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.

Cupidrecession.com popup virus may additionally be concealed in the promotion somewhere on the odd website. Such sites are in most cases packed with bright and blinking advertisements, and their owners usually approve any kind of promotions to be published on their web page. For this reason, clicking such banners is a shot in the dark: only the ad contractor realizes what will occur when you click this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you can also receive something much more unsafe, like ransomware or coin miner; the substantial share of coin miners distribution is exactly after the malicious advertisements.

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

Potentially undesirable programs, like Cupidrecession.com popup virus may provoke a lot of problems on your PC. Distracting is not the single problem – pop-ups can show you the advertisements, where you are offered to download one more dubious application, or “a effective security tool”. Scareware is often distributed under the last slogun. Potentially undesirable programs, in turn, can have spyware functionality. And it is quite hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a good one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and fake antiviruses, popup-related ads are also exploited as a spreading way by different trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such viruses is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not tapping these ads, they can be clicked by whoever who also uses your PC – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the situation 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 antivirus programs as soon as possible.

How can I get rid of Cupidrecession.com pop-up advertisements?

The manual of Cupidrecession.com adware clearing consists of 2 sections. First, we need to exterminate the malware, and after that take care of the results of its action. The elimination process is quite simple, since it may be executed even with using Microsoft Defender – anti-virus software that is present on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nonetheless, due to its significant resources usage, as well as some problems that can be crucial for some categories of individuals, Defender is often turned off by the users, so its use is likely impossible. Additionally, various trojan viruses are able to shut off the embedded antivirus. It is far better to use the separated program that will not have such exposures.

I’d advise you to utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven security tool that will surely eliminate the malware from your personal computer and make an impenetrable cover with a Proactive protection function. But let’s manage Cupidrecession.com adware first.

Download GridinSoft Anti-Malware

Removing Cupidrecession.com 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 Cupidrecession.com 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

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 :

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 :

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 :

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 be connected the correct DNS while connecting to the website you need. Make a text file named “hosts” on your desktop, after that open it and fill it with the following content³:

# Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.
#
# 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 issue that makes the things much more difficult to repair, especially without the anti-malware program. A lot of adware variations that are used to show you the Cupidrecession.com pop-up advertisements are modifying the deep browser settings, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you attempt to change your browser settings after your machine was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will crash quickly. Sometimes, you will see no crash, but significant lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 seconds, and then it will be back to the typical, up until you try 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.

References

1. More about pop-up advertisements on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware overview and also the reasons why I recommend it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.