How to remove crophit.ru pop-up ads [Chrome, Firefox, IE, Edge]

Are you run your favorite web-browser and do not see usual start page, which is set earlier? Or, the crophit.ru ads is the first thing that pop up once you turn on your PC? It means that your PC system has become the victim of malware from the group of adware (sometimes called ‘ad-supported’ software). If you get it on your PC, this ad-supported software can alter the internet browser’s settings like home page, newtab page and search provider by default and install malicious extension that will open lots of annoying ads within the Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and Edge screen. It is important, do not click on these advertisements, as they can lead you to more dangerous or misleading web sites. The best option is to use the steps posted below to free your personal computer and thereby get rid of crophit.ru redirect.

The adware usually affects only the Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, FF and Edge by changing the web browser’s settings or installing a malicious extensions (addons). Moreover, possible situations, when any other browsers will be affected too. The adware will perform a scan of the machine for web browser shortcuts and modify them without your permission. When it infects the web browser shortcuts, it’ll add the argument such as ‘http://site.address’ into Target property. So, each time you launch the web-browser, you will see an annoying crophit.ru web site.

The adware may insert a large amount of advertisements directly to the web-pages that you visit, creating a sense that the advertising banners has been added by the creators of the web page. Moreover, a legal advertising banners may be replaced on the fake advertisements, that will offer to download and install various unnecessary and harmful programs. Moreover, the adware has the ability to collect tons of personal information about you (your ip address, what is a web page you are viewing now, what you are looking for on the Internet, which links you are clicking), which can later transfer to third parties.

Instructions, which is shown below, will allow you to clean your PC from the adware as well as remove crophit.ru unwanted pop-up ads from the Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer and Edge and other browsers.

How does crophit.ru ads get installed onto computer

The adware usually spreads bundled with various free applications. Most commonly, it may be bundled within the install packages from Softonic, Cnet, Soft32, Brothersoft or other similar web pages. So, you should run any files downloaded from the Internet with great caution, read the User agreement, Software license and Terms of use. In the process of installing a new application, you should choose a Manual, Advanced or Custom install mode to control what components and additional applications to be installed, otherwise you run the risk of infecting your machine with an adware like this that shows tons of the crophit.ru advertisements within the Google Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

How to manually remove crophit.ru

The following instructions is a step-by-step guide, which will help you manually delete crophit.ru ads from the Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Edge.

1. Uninstall suspicious and unknown software by using Windows Control Panel
2. Disinfect the browser’s shortcuts to get rid of crophit.ru redirect
3. Remove crophit.ru pop-ups from Firefox
4. Delete crophit.ru advertisements from Google Chrome
5. Remove crophit.ru ads from IE
6. Get rid of unwanted Scheduled Tasks

Remove suspicious and unknown software by using Windows Control Panel

The best way to begin the machine cleanup is to remove unknown and suspicious applications. Using the Windows Control Panel you can do this quickly and easily. This step, in spite of its simplicity, should not be ignored, because the removing of unneeded programs can clean up your web-browser from pop-ups, hijackers and so on.

1. If you are using Windows 8, 8.1 or 10 then press Windows key, click Search. Type “Control panel”and press Enter.
2. If you are using Windows XP, Vista, 7, then press “Start” button and click “Control Panel”.
3. It will show the Windows Control Panel.
4. Click “Uninstall a program” under Programs category.
5. You will see a list of all installed software.
6. Scroll through the all list, and uninstall suspicious and unknown software. To quickly find the latest installed applications, we recommend sort software by date.

See more details in the video instructions below.

Disinfect the browser’s shortcuts to get rid of crophit.ru redirect

Now you need to clean up the web browser shortcuts. Check that the shortcut referring to the right exe-file of the browser, and not on any unknown file. Right click to a desktop shortcut for your web browser. Choose the “Properties” option.

It will show the Properties window. Select the “Shortcut” tab here, after that, look at the “Target” field. The ad supported software can change it. If you are seeing something like “…exe http://web.site.address” then you need to remove “http…” and leave only, depending on the web-browser you are using:

• Google Chrome: chrome.exe
• Opera: opera.exe
• Firefox: firefox.exe
• Internet Explorer: iexplore.exe

Look at the example on the screen below.

Once is done, click the “OK” button to save the changes. Please repeat this step for internet browser shortcuts that redirects to an annoying pages. When you have completed, go to next step.

Remove crophit.ru pop-ups from Firefox

If the Mozilla Firefox settings have been modified by the ad supported software, then resetting it to the default state can help you to remove the reroute onto crophit.ru web site.

First, run the Firefox and press button. It will open the drop-down menu on the right-part of the internet browser. Next, click the Help button () as shown on the screen below.

In the Help menu, select the “Troubleshooting Information” option. Another way to open the “Troubleshooting Information” screen – type “about:support” in the web-browser address bar and press Enter. It will show the “Troubleshooting Information” page as shown on the image below. In the upper-right corner of this screen, click the “Refresh Firefox” button.

It will show the confirmation dialog box, click the “Refresh Firefox” button. The Firefox will start a procedure to fix your problems that caused by the ad-supported software. Once it is finished, press the “Finish” button

Delete crophit.ru advertisements from Google Chrome

Like other modern internet browsers, the Chrome has the ability to reset the settings to their default values and thereby remove the redirect to crophit.ru annoying advertisements that is caused by the adware.

At first, run the Chrome. Next, click the button in the form of three horizontal stripes (). It will appear the main menu. Click on the option named “Settings”. Another way to display the Chrome’s settings – type chrome://settings in the web-browser adress bar and press Enter.

The browser will display the settings screen. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the “Show advanced settings” link. Now scroll down until the “Reset settings” section is visible, as shown on the screen below and press the “Reset settings” button.

The Google Chrome will display the confirmation dialog box. You need to confirm your action, press the “Reset” button. The program will run the task of cleaning. When it’s done, the internet browser settings including the ‘block pop-ups’ option back to the values that have been when the Google Chrome was first installed on your PC.

Remove crophit.ru ads from IE

First, start the Internet Explorer, then click button. Next, click “Internet Options” as shown in the following image.

In the “Internet Options” screen select the Advanced tab. Next, click the “Reset” button. The Internet Explorer will show the “Reset Internet Explorer” settings dialog box. Select the “Delete personal settings” check box and press Reset button.

You will now need to reboot your computer for the changes to take effect. It will restore the Microsoft Internet Explorer’s settings such as homepage, new tab and default search engine to default state, disable ad-supported web-browser’s extensions and thereby get rid of the redirect to crophit.ru annoying web-page.

Get rid of unwanted Scheduled Tasks

Once installed, the ‘ad-supported’ software can add a task in to the Windows Task Scheduler Library. Due to this, every time when you start your system, it will show crophit.ru annoying web site. So, you need to check the Task Scheduler Library and remove all tasks that have been created by malicios program.

Press Windows and R keys on your keyboard at the same time. It will show a prompt that titled with Run. In the text field, type “taskschd.msc” (without the quotes) and click OK. Task Scheduler window opens. In the left-hand side, click “Task Scheduler Library”, as shown below.

In the middle part you will see a list of installed tasks. Select the first task, its properties will be display just below automatically. Next, click the Actions tab. Necessary to look at the text which is written under Details. Found something such as “explorer.exe http://site.address” or “chrome.exe http://site.address” or “firefox.exe http://site.address”, then you need remove this task. If you are not sure that executes the task, then google it. If it is a component of the malicious software, then this task also should be removed.

Further press on it with the right mouse button and select Delete as shown in the figure below.

Repeat this step, if you have found a few tasks that have been created by adware. Once is finished, close the Task Scheduler window.

How to delete crophit.ru pop-up ads automatically

Manual removal is not always as effective as you might think. Often, even the most experienced users can not completely remove crophit.ru ads from the infected PC. This is because the ‘ad-supported’ software can hide its components which are difficult for you to find out and delete completely. This may lead to the fact that after some time, the ‘ad-supported’ software again infect your system and it will start to display unwanted crophit.ru advertisements. Moreover, I want to note that it is not always safe to remove adware manually, if you do not have much experience in setting up and configuring the computer.

I suggest using the Malwarebytes Free that are completely clean your PC system. It is an advanced malware removal program developed by (c) Malwarebytes lab. This application uses the world’s most popular anti-malware technology. It’s able to help you get rid of browser hijackers, malware, ‘ad-supported’ software, toolbars, ransomware and other security threats from your computer for free.

Now, click the link below to download Malwarebytes Free on your computer. Save it on your Windows desktop or in any other place.

When the download is finished, close all software on your machine. Next, start the setup file named mb3-setup. If the “User Account Control” dialog box pops up as shown below, press the Yes button.

It will open the “Setup wizard” that will help you install Malwarebytes on your computer. Follow the prompts and don’t make any changes to default settings.

Once installation is complete successfully, press Finish button. Then Malwarebytes will automatically start and you can see its main screen as shown in the following image.

Now click the “Scan Now” button . This will start scanning the whole computer to find out adware which cause a redirect to crophit.ru. Once the adware or malware is found, the number of the detected objects will change accordingly. Wait until the the scanning is finished. Please be patient.

When the system scan is complete, you can check all threats detected on your personal computer. Make sure all entries have “checkmark” and click “Quarantine Selected” button. The Malwarebytes will start removing malware and adware that cause crophit.ru pop-up ads. Once disinfection is finished, you may be prompted to restart your computer.

I suggest you look at the following video, which completely explains the process of using the Malwarebytes application to get rid of ad-supported software and other malware.

Stop crophit.ru redirect and other annoying pages

To increase your security and protect your personal computer against new annoying advertisements and malicious sites, you need to use program that stops access to dangerous ads and sites. Moreover, the application can block the display of intrusive advertising, which also leads to faster loading of pages and reduce the consumption of web traffic.

Download AdGuard program by clicking on the following link.

Once the download is done, start the file named adguardInstaller. You will see the “Setup Wizard” screen like below.

Follow the prompts. When the installation is finished, you will see a window as shown on the image below.

You can click “Skip” to close the install program and use the default settings, or press “Get Started” button to see an quick tutorial that will assist you get to know AdGuard better.

In most cases, the default settings are enough and you do not need to change anything. Each time, when you start your personal computer, AdGuard will launch automatically and block advertisements, web pages such as crophit.ru, as well as other dangerous or misleading web-sites. For an overview of all the features of the program, or to change its settings you can simply double-click on the AdGuard icon, that is located on your Windows desktop.

Delete crophit.ru pop-ups and malicious extensions with AdwCleaner.

If MalwareBytes cannot remove the unwanted crophit.ru redirect from the Chrome, Firefox, IE and Edge, then we suggests to use the AdwCleaner. AdwCleaner is a free removal tool for ad-supported software, browser hijackers, PUPs and toolbars.

Download AdwCleaner from the link below.

After downloading is complete, open the directory in which you saved it. Double click the AdwCleaner icon. Once this utility is launched, you will see a screen such as below.

Now, press the “Scan” button for checking your computer for the malicious extensions and adware that displays ads from crophit.ru web page. When the system scan is done, it will show a scan report as shown below.

Review the report and then click “Clean” button. It will open a prompt. Click “OK”. When the clean up is finished, AdwCleaner may ask you to reboot your computer.

Look at the following video, which completely explains the process of using the AdwCleaner to remove ‘ad-supported’ software, browser hijackers and other malicious applications.

Finish words

Once you have complete the few simple steps shown above, your PC should be clean from malware and ‘ad-supported’ software. The Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Edge will no longer open crophit.ru unwanted advertisements or redirect you to unwanted web pages. Unfortunately, if the steps does not help you, then you have caught a new type of ad supported software, and then the best way – ask for help in our Spyware/Malware removal forum.