Clicking on the Agreatplea.fun advertisement may lead to the injection of various malware or unwanted programs. In this post, you will see the manual of Agreatplea.fun popups removal in several ways, and also examining your system for additional malware existence.

What are Agreatplea.fun pop-ups?

Agreatplea.fun popups are a consequence of adware activity. Adware is a sort of malware that presents you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click ads, which produces a massive volume of profit for adware representatives. These promotions may contain sometimes shocking material, or have a link to malicious content/website, because adware maintainers have no reason to inspect the goodness of the web content they are going to reveal – their solitary target is money.

Agreatplea.fun push notification.

Pop-up marketing itself is a very good, low-priced and extremely efficient advertising solution¹. It makes it possible for the vendor to attach the buyers’ attention to their site, as well as the buyers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to buy. When the person will receive a pop-up notification that the TV set he likes to purchase is provided at the online store he/she visited previously with a 15% price cut, one will undoubtedly use this possibility and get it. Considering the extremely low cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising and marketing instrument is a favorite thing among the marketing departments of huge internet retail stores.

Nevertheless, such a rewarding strategy could not be missed by malware creators. Option to demonstrate the popup ads by force to the people of malware invasion is a perfect basis for malicious adjustments with the popup advertisements. And Agreatplea.fun ads is just one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Site	Agreatplea.fun
Hosting	AS14618 Amazon.com, Inc. United States, Ashburn
Infection Type	Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads
IP Address	52.206.71.220
Symptoms	Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner.
Similar behavior	Regionalwinsite, Mediagate, Myactualblog
Fix Tool	GridinSoft Anti-MalwareTo remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC

How have I got the Agreatplea.fun virus?

There are a huge amount of ways of becoming contaminated by the adware that trigger the Agreatplea.fun popups tornado. A lion’s part of this computer virus cases is after the free software or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Freeware can likewise be downloaded from the main website, and the adware is presented as a legit bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A number of individuals often make use of the uncertain programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, various apps that are free, and even hacked programs. All of these types of applications are risky, due to the fact that it is very simple to build in a Agreatplea.fun 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.

Agreatplea.fun popup malware may likewise be hidden in the promotion somewhere on the strange site. Such web pages are generally filled with intense and blinking ads, and their proprietors usually accept any promotions to be placed on their page. For this reason, clicking on such banners is a shot in the dark: only the advertisement contractor knows what will occur when you press this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you can likewise get something far more hazardous, like ransomware or coin miner; the substantial share of coin miners circulation is exactly after the malicious advertisements.

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

Potentially unwanted programs, like Agreatplea.fun pop-up virus may provoke a wide range of different troubles on your PC. Distracting is not the only effect – pop-up notifications can present you the banners, where you are offered to get another strange application, or “a amazing anti-malware tool”. Scareware is often spread with the last motto. Potentially undesirable applications, in turn, may have spyware functionality. And it is quite hard to distinguish the undesirable app from a legit one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the potentially unwanted programs and pseudo antiviruses, popup-related advertisements are also exploited as a distribution way by various trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of activity of such viruses is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you hundreds or even thousands of dollars. And even if you are not clicking these advertisements, they can be clicked by someone who also uses your personal computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the situation can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve it without data loss. It is recommended to remove the viruses with anti-malware programs as soon as possible.

How can I get rid of Agreatplea.fun pop-up advertisements?

The tutorial of Agreatplea.fun adware removal contains 2 parts. Initially, we need to remove the malware, and after that take care of the results of its activity. The removal task is very easy, since it can be done even with making use of Microsoft Defender – security tool that is available on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nonetheless, due to its large resources utilization, along with some failures that can be pivotal for some groups of individuals, Defender is frequently turned off by the users, so its usage is most likely impossible. Moreover, a variety of trojan viruses are able to disable the embedded antivirus. It is better to make use of the separated program that will not have such exposures.

I would certainly advise you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven security device that will certainly erase the viruses from your personal computer and make an invulnerable cover with a Proactive protection function. However, let’s deal with Agreatplea.fun adware initially.

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Removing Agreatplea.fun 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 Agreatplea.fun 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 make sure that your web browser will definitely be connected the right DNS while connecting to the web page you want. Create a text file named “hosts” on your pc’s desktop, then open it and fill it with the following text³:

# 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.

Nevertheless, there is one problem that makes things a lot harder to restore, especially without the anti-malware software. Most of adware variants that are used to show you the Agreatplea.fun pop-up advertisements are changing the deep browser setups, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you attempt to fix your browser settings after your machine was infected by pop-up-related malware, your browser will crash soon. In certain cases, you will see no crash, but large lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 secs, and after that it will be back to the typical, till you try to open settings one more time.

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 ads on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware overview and the reasons why I recommend it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.