The browser opens by itself with advertising: how to solve the problem

Many of those reading the article have encountered a magical effect when the browser opens by itself, and immediately loads some unknown page with intrusive advertising.

There are many reasons that cause this behavior, but their meaning is the same.

We will look at the most common cases and methods for solving problems for each of them.

Why?

This is the main question that a user has when his browser spontaneously opens and displays advertising or is launched by the user and also displays.

The reason for this is the installation of applications downloaded from untrusted sources or the use of various kinds of downloaders - programs that allow you to download the files you need (installers of applications, games).

Such unwanted software also includes “gray” software, such as uBar.

Why is this being done? Not very good people make money this way.

A couple of hundred lucky people like you will gather in a day and make money for someone together.

An Internet browser can either launch spontaneously without user intervention or display unnecessary pages or the same advertisement (sometimes they change cyclically) after the user opens the browser.

Solution

Since it so happens that the browser opens on its own and shows ads, then you need to find what makes it perform these actions.

In the first case, we will do without third-party tools, since the program was installed without anyone’s knowledge and added to .

First we will delete it, and then the culprit of this task.

• Open the command interpreter through the Start menu or with the key combination Win + R.
• Enter the command in the “Run” text line « msc" and launch it with the "OK" button or the Enter key.

• Click on the button, which will display the contents of the Scheduler.

Here we need to find the task or tasks responsible for launching the web browser. As a rule, they have the names of system services, processes or popular applications, for example, etc. Another distinctive feature of similar recordings is that they are performed periodically with high frequency (once every few minutes, at least several times per hour).

The easiest way to find malicious entries is if there are few of them, using the following algorithm.

• Click on assignment.
• Go to the "Triggers" tab.
• In the form located under the tab name, study the frequency of task execution.

It is given in the column "Details" usually after a brief introduction to the basic conditions of the launch.

The job status will be "Allowed", and after the path to your Internet browser, the path to the site is written, which is loaded after it is launched.

• Select this Scheduler entry, if you are sure that it is the cause of the browser launch, and delete it through the context menu or with the corresponding button in the toolbar, which is located on the right side of the window.

If the steps performed above did not solve the problem or if a record of this kind was not found, then we are looking for the wrong thing. We view the contents of the “Action” tab for each line.

We are interested in something like executing a batch file with the extension bat or , which contains the path to your Internet browser with a link to a malicious resource or just the address of an advertising site.

The last command causes the page to open in the system's default website browser.

• We delete this entry or, as before, first disable it, and if everything works out, delete it.

After successfully solving the problem, it is necessary to add this task if it did not appear as a result of the work of an installer downloaded from a source with a dubious reputation.

Reset Browser

Such plugins should be removed, which is not always easy.

• From the main menu call the “Extensions” item, located in Additional Tools.

• Finding plugins that you didn’t install yourself, and delete them.

If this does not help or no such ones are found, reset the Internet browser settings ().

• Open “Settings” applications.

• Click “Advanced” at the bottom of the page.
• Scroll down and select “Reset” and confirm the action

Removing traces

Let’s assume that it was an application running in the background, or a miniature bat or vbs script, that forced you to open your browser and visit an advertising site, and not a “harmful” installer.

This means you need to get rid of this software.

• Let's launch Task Manager or its alternative, for example, the more functional Process Explorer.
• We find a suspicious process, if one is found, through "Properties" we find the location of the file and complete the task.