Elephant-ads.com pop-ups redirects. How to stop Elephant-ads.com?

Elephant-ads.com pop-ups appear in your browser with malicious purposes. Many people come across with this problem in many popular browsers. They see numerous alerts forwarding you from the current site and feel troubles with surfing the web as they are constantly interrupted. These pop-ups also complicate closing browser windows. So, don’t stop reading to know what you can do to delete the source of such pop-ups.

Elephant-ads.com

Problems with Elephant-ads.com pop-ups take place not coincidentally in the majority of cases. Clicking on some malicious links can easily lead to the virus penetration, however, current danger looks like an adware. Many browsers face the challenge with this malware, but Google Chrome users complain about the threat most of all these days. Other Chromium open source project browsers show the same tendency.

Elephant-ads.com appears when mindless installation takes place. How often do you read EULAs (End User License Agreements)? If you do it not regularly, there is a chance to install something harmful together with useful utilities. To read or not to read, that is all up to you, but we think it’s our duty to warn you about sad results in advance. You can hardly find a safe resource for installation nowadays as mostly all of them contain infected samples. However, you can fail even when you have already installed anti-virus on your computer. Not all of them are really reliable, they can fail to recognize the threat and to stop the installation of unwanted applications. So, you may need additional software to remove such malware.

Elephant-ads.com

We advise conducting Elephant-ads.com uninstallation as fast as possible, slowness can result wrong things. Remove the threat with GridinSoft Anti-Malware tool now. A thorough scan of your system will show if you have something else to delete. There is a necessity to do such check regularly as your computer may have some other samples of potentially unwanted applications. Instruction below will teach you how to do everything quick and pleasant.

Elephant-ads.com removal guide

STEP 1. Remove Elephant-ads.com virus from the browser

First of all, Elephant-ads.com is a browser hijackers, like many others. So, here is the simple way to remove them from the browser and get your homepage and search engine back. You just need to reset your browser settings. To do this automatically and for free, you can use the Reset Browser Settings tool from GridinSoft:

1. Reset Browser Setting is a tool, included to the complex anti-malware program. So, first of all, you need to download and install GridinSoft Anti-Malware (here or from the product page):
2. Open the Tools tab on the top menu. Choose the Reset Browser Settings tools from the list:

GridinSoft Anti-Malware tools tab

3. Select the browser, which is infected by Elephant-ads.com, and options, that you need to reset, and just do it! (Please, be aware, that this procedure will close all instances of the selected browsers, and save your work in them before clicking on the “Reset” button):

Reset Browser Settings options

4. When this process is done, you’ll see such screen. It means, that your browser settings are default now and Elephant-ads.com has been removed from your browser:

Reset Browser completed

Video guide on how to reset browser automatically:

BUT!! Unfortunately, it doesn’t mean that Elephant-ads.com hasn’t installed some malicious software directly in your system. So, we strongly recommend every user, who has the same problem, to scan his computer after the browser resetting and make sure, that PC is clean and safe.

STEP 2. Remove Elephant-ads.com traces from the system

1. Go back to the GridinSoft Anti-Malware main screen and choose the scan type:

GridinSoft Anti-Malware Scan Types

2. Scan your computer system:

Anti-Malware Scan Process

3. After the scan is completed, you will see if there is any adware on your PC. Remove the detected items by clicking on the “Apply” button:

GridinSoft Anti-Malware Scan Results

4. Finally, this window is a proof of your system’s absolutely cleanness. You removed Elephant-ads.com!

Removal process completed. Your system is clean!

Video guide on how to remove Elephant-ads.com from the system:

STEP 3.How to prevent your PC from being reinfected with Elephant-ads.com in the future.

GridinSoft Anti-Malware offers excellent solution which may help to prevent your system from being contaminated with malware ahead of time. This feature is referred to as “On-Run Protection”. By default, it is disabled once you install the software. To enable it, please click on “Protect” button and press “Start” as demonstrated below:

The useful and interesting function may allow people to prevent install of malicious software. It means, when you will try to install some suspicious file, On-Run Protection will block this installation attempt ahead of time. NOTE! If users want to allow the dangerous program to be installed, they may choose “Ignore this file” button. In case, if you want to terminate malicious program, you must select “Confirm”.

GridinSoft On-Run Protection