Clicking the Mega-tonne promotion may cause the injection of other malware or unwanted programs. In this guide, you will see the manual of Mega-tonne popups removal in multiple methods, as well as checking your PC for other malware existence.

What are Mega-tonne pop-ups?

Mega-tonne popups are a result of adware presence. Adware is a sort of malware that presents you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click promotions, which generates a substantial volume of revenue for adware suppliers. These ads might have explicit content, or have a link to malicious content/website, due to the fact that adware maintainers have no reason to examine the goodness of the web content they are going to reveal – their single target is cash.

Mega-tonne push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is a very good, low-priced and really efficient advertising solution¹. It makes it possible for the seller to attach the customers’ attention to their site, as well as the buyers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they wish to purchase. When the consumer will receive a pop-up notification that the TV set he likes to buy is available at the online store he/she checked out previously with a 15% discount, one will undoubtedly use this possibility and get it. Taking into consideration the exceptionally small cost for the popups and their targeting, such a marketing method is a much-loved thing amidst the advertising departments of huge online retailers.

However, such a successful scheme could not be missed by virus developers. Potential to show the popup ads forcibly to the people of malware attack is an ideal basis for malevolent manipulations with the popup promotions. And Mega-tonne.com advertisements is among hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Site	Mega-tonne.com
Hosting	AS49981 WorldStream B.V. Netherlands, Naaldwijk
Infection Type	Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads
IP Address	190.2.146.101
Symptoms	Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner.
Similar behavior	Malox, Glam, Doeomraw
Fix Tool	GridinSoft Anti-MalwareTo remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC

How have I got the Mega-tonne virus?

There are a lot of methods of becoming contaminated by the adware that create the Mega-tonne 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 additionally be downloaded from the main web page, and the adware is delivered as a legit bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A lot of people regularly use the uncertain programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, various tools that are free, or perhaps hacked programs. All of these kinds of programs are unsafe, since it is very simple to build in a Mega-tonne malware under the cover of part of the license hacking script, or as a part of the self-made algoritm inside of the Windows optimization tool.

Mega-tonne popup malware can also be hidden in the advertisement somewhere on the odd web page. Such sites are usually filled with intense and blinking advertisements, and their proprietors usually accept any type of promotions to be published on their web page. Therefore, clicking such banners is a shot in the dark: only the ad 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 risky, 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 Mega-tonne popup virus can cause a wide range of problems on your PC. Distracting is not the only problem – pop-up notifications can show you the advertisements, where you are offered to get one more dubious program, or “a perfect anti-malware tool”. Scareware is usually distributed with the last slogun. Potentially unwanted applications, 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 promotions are also used 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 interacting with these promotions, they may be clicked by whoever who also makes use of your computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things may become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve it without data loss. It is recommended to get rid of the viruses with antivirus programs as soon as possible.

How can I get rid of Mega-tonne pop-up advertisements?

The tutorial of Mega-tonne adware clearing includes 2 sections. First, we need to exterminate the malware, and then take care of the consequences of its activity. The elimination process is quite easy, due to the fact that it can be executed even with using Microsoft Defender – anti-virus tool that is present on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. Nonetheless, as a result of its significant resources utilization, along with some defects that can be serious for some kinds of users, Defender is often turned off by the users, so its utilization is likely impossible. Furthermore, different trojan viruses are able to disable the embedded antivirus. It is better to use the separated program that will not have such vulnerabilities.

I would certainly recommend you to utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven security device that will definitely wipe out the malware from your personal computer and create an invulnerable shield with a Proactive protection feature. However, let’s deal with Mega-tonne adware first.

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Removing Mega-tonne 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 Mega-tonne 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 web browsers are reset, you need to make sure that your web browser will definitely connect the appropriate DNS while connecting to the website you need. Create a text file titled “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 more difficult to fix, particularly without the anti-malware program. Most of adware variations that are used to show you the Mega-tonne pop-up promotions are modifying the deep browser setups, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you attempt to change your browser settings after your system was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will collapse quickly. In certain cases, you will see no crash, however, huge lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 secs, and afterwards it will be back to the typical, 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 ads on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware review and also the reasons why I recommend it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.