Get Annoying “Please support this site by watching this video” Pop-ups?
Many users get “Please support this site by watching this video” Pop-ups recently. This is a malicious browser add-on which sneaks into your computer without your permission. It usually comes with free downloads such as program update or spam email attachments from the Internet, or be distributed when users browse hacked web sites accidentally. Anyway, you should remove it as soon as possible because it causes chaos to your browsers.
“Please support this site by watching this video” ads pop up when you open your browsers. It installs malicious toolbar and extensions to your browser so that it can mess up your browsers’ running. It also runs its processes on your background when users run their browsers. Default browser settings such as homepages, DNS settings or default search engines may be changed sometimes.
However, the problem is you cannot stop “Please support this site by watching this video” Pop-ups at all, because it shows up over and over again.
Symptoms of “Please support this site by watching this video” Pop-ups
1.It attacks your browsers without your notice;
2.It installs malicious toolbar or extensions to your browsers;
3.It runs its processes on your background;
4.It annoys your online activities;
How Can I Deal with “Please support this site by watching this video” Pop-ups
Approach one: manually remove “Please support this site by watching this video” Pop-ups.
Step 1- Reset Internet Explorer by the following guide (take IE as an example):
Open Internet Explorer >> Click on Tools >> Click on Internet Options >> In the Internet Options window click on the Connections tab >> Then click on the LAN settings button>> Uncheck the check box labeled “Use a proxy server for your LAN” under the Proxy Server section and press OK.
Step 2- Remove add-ons:
Internet Explorer
1) Go to 'Tools' → 'Manage Add-ons';
2) Choose 'Search Providers' → choose 'Bing' search engine or 'Google' search engine and make it default;
3) Select 'Search Results' and click 'Remove' to remove it;
4) Go to 'Tools' → 'Internet Options', select 'General tab' and click 'Use default' button or enter your own website, e.g. Google.com. Click OK to save the changes.
Google Chrome
1) Click on 'Customize and control' Google Chrome icon, select 'Settings';
2) Choose 'Basic Options'.
3) Change Google Chrome's homepage to google.com or any other and click the 'Manage search engines...' button;
4) Select 'Google' from the list and make it your default search engine;
5) Select 'Search Results' from the list remove it by clicking the "X" mark.
Mozilla Firefox
1) Click on the magnifier's icon and select 'Manage Search Engines....';
2) Choose 'Search Results' from the list and click 'Remove' and OK to save changes;
3) Go to 'Tools' → 'Options'. Reset the startup homepage or change it to google.com under the 'General tab';
Step 3- Open Windows Task Manager and close all running processes.
( Methods to open Task Manager: Press CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC or Press the Start button->click on the Run option->Type in taskmgr and press OK.)
Approach two: automatically remove “Please support this site by watching this video” Pop-ups with SpyHunter.
Step two: install SpyHunter on your computer step by step.
Step three: after the installation, do a full scanning to find out those malicious files related to “Please support this site by watching this video” Pop-ups.
Step four: restart the computer, and then run a full scanning again to check whether all unfamiliar files have been deleted.
Important Notes: Although we offer you two different measures to remove “Please support this site by watching this video” Pop-ups, but manual removal is too complicated to handle for most of the users. In order to minimize errors, we highly recommend SpyHunter to you. SpyHunter is a powerful anti-virus application, which not only can remove “Please support this site by watching this video” Pop-ups from your computer completely, but also can take precautions against other virus and malware.
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