Hophitnews.ru Removal Guide

Even though Hophitnews.ru looks like a Russian news website, its appearance on the screen does not mean that you could read the latest news and search for the information on the web with the click of a button. Instead, its presence indicates that you will experience redirections to suspicious third-party websites or see your browsers open periodically with pages offering to take surveys or showing irritating advertisements. Evidently, Hophitnews.ru does not do anything beneficial and might even expose you to potential threats by opening unknown websites, so our specialists have decided to remove it as an adware helper. It does not mean that it is a good website if you see it every day, so go to remove it from your browser as soon as possible. After reading this article, you will know everything about this adware helper, including how to remove it. Continue reading!

Hophitnews.ru is not a harmless news website. Researchers at 411-spyware.com have found that it is a page developed to distribute advertisements only. Most probably, the author of this website uses it to get revenue from advertising. The more users click on these ads, the more money the owner of Hophitnews.ru receives. Of course, users will not get anything except a number of irritating advertisements. As has already been mentioned in the first paragraph, users might notice that their browsers launch automatically every 33 minutes because changes are made on the computer by malicious software distributing Hophitnews.ru. More specifically, a new task is added in the Task Scheduler. Users might also notice redirections to other websites, for example, they might be taken from Hophitnews.ru to an untrustworthy third-party website after clicking on some kind of link that appears as a news article or is placed on the search results page opened for users after entering a search query. Automatic redirections to third-party websites from Hophitnews.ru might happen too, so it is highly recommended to get rid of Hophitnews.ru as soon as possible if it ever becomes set on browsers without permission or you set it as a homepage yourself willingly.

Privacy-related problems might also arise if users keep Hophitnews.ru and experience all those redirections to third-party websites. On the basis of the previous experience of our specialists, third-party websites might try to extort personal details from users. For example, they might be asked to enter their name, surname, address, and other details for a chance to win an expensive item. Actually, these third-party websites are not the only ones that might not respect your privacy. According to our malware analysts, Hophitnews.ru itself might try to find out everything it can about users’ activities, habits, and preferences too. Protect your privacy from dangers by getting rid of Hophitnews.ru and stopping all those redirections to dubious third-party websites.

Specialists did not need much time to find out how malware spreading the adware helper Hophitnews.ru is distributed because they encountered domains created on the same template, e.g. hrforlastnews.ru/news, bhnr1.ru/news, and gdslkeee1ru.ru some time ago. They are all distributed with other applications in software bundles, so it is not at all surprising that the same can be said about undesirable software spreading Hophitnews.ru as well. Users should be extremely cautious with Russian free applications promoted on third-party websites because they are the ones that usually come bundled with the additional undesirable software. Actually, it might not be enough to be careful with free applications because malicious software might find other ways to sneak onto computers too. In order to prevent this from happening, an automatic security application should be installed on every computer. In the opinion of specialists, users cannot even surf the web if they do not have security applications enabled.

You will remove Hophitnews.ru fully and stop redirections to third-party websites only by resetting browsers to their default settings one by one and deleting the new task created in the Task Scheduler. Use the manual removal guide if you feel that you need some help or use an automatic scanner, such as SpyHunter, for taking care of all the existing computer infections automatically. The latter method is, of course, the easiest one because users do not need to do anything except to install and then launch a reputable scanner.

Delete Hophitnews.ru manually

Remove the scheduled task

1. Press Win+E.
2. Type %WINDIR%\System32\Tasks in the URL box at the top.
3. Find the task hophitnews.ru/energysm and delete it.

Reset browsers to their default settings

Internet Explorer

1. Open Internet Explorer and click Tools at the top.
2. Select Internet Options.
3. Click on the Advanced tab to open it and then click Reset.
4. Check the Delete personal settings box.
5. Click Reset.

Mozilla Firefox

1. Open your browser and press Alt+H.
2. Click Troubleshooting information.
3. Locate Refresh Firefox at the top and click on this button.
4. Click Refresh Firefox in the dialog box one more time.

Google Chrome

1. Launch Google Chrome and press Alt+F.
2. Click Settings.
3. Go to the bottom and click Show advanced settings.
4. Click on the Reset settings button.
5. Click Reset in the pop-up window.