Last week, I saw a ton of posts like “my web browser shows me undesirable Ager.live pop-up promotions, is it a computer virus?” or “these Ager.live pop-up ads in my Chrome making me mad, how to deal with them?”. According to the statistics for last months, virus creators started a broad adware delivery campaign. Let me demonstrate you, how you can remove the computer viruses from your computer, and also forget about the irritating Ager.live pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Ager.live) offer you pop-up advertisements. The message can have something like “do you want to receive alerts concerning the latest information?” or “enable notifications to be reported about recent discounts?”. Usually, such messages are harmless, and may only distract you with its sudden arrival. Moreover, it can be quickly turned off, in case alerts from this web site are no longer needed.
Pop-up notices are fairly an efficient advertising instrument. If you are interested in items of some sort, you can enable pop-ups from the web site where you can get this stuff, and also as quickly as these items are in store again, or if you can have a discount – you will certainly get the alert about this. The counterparty – online merchants, automobile lending companies, etc – will be in profit, too – buyer will surely obtain a tip about the item he/she intended to purchase. As well as such an advertising method is nearly free – this factor is really important for companies.
| Site | Ager.live |
| IP Address | 159.223.153.123 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Rideastgi.live, Ekstrapoint.com, Herbeauty.co |
Ager.live Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But often pop-up promotions can come out without your confirmation, and also with a text which is entirely different from your existing attentions or search questions. And also, besides unwanted Ager.live pop-ups from the unknown website, you can at the same time see a great deal of advertisements, including ones on the pages which originally have no ads whatsoever. Such a scenario can be the sign of adware presence.
Adware is the sort of virus which injects into your computer, then begins demonstrating you various advertisements. Their material often has no connection with your ordinary search queries. Besides banner advertisements, your browser can also demonstrate to you a big number of different Ager.live pop-up advertisements, which appear in the bottom right area.
The model of adware usage is really sly. The big pack of adware is dispersed with trojan viruses, which are injected in your system earlier. Promotions, which are shown to you by virus, are paid by their creators. In several weeks, all antivirus programs began to stop these adware, for this reason, trojan loses in profitability. And to rub out the user’s computer, malware distributors begin ransomware distribution with these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer system might still be affected by adware virus. A huge number of ads together with Ager.live pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your typical work will certainly be difficult to perform in usual manner.
How Can I Deal With Ager.live Pop-Ups?
Concluding the paragraphs above: your desktop, and your data, is in a major risk. To quit this infection, you require to use anti-malware tool. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to deal with Ager.live pop-ups malware. Nevertheless, it can not reset the web browser alterations which were implemented by malicious program. An additional negative aspect of the antivirus by Microsoft is its particular vulnerability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender with the Group Policies after being implanted to your computer system.
To be 100% sure that your system is clean of any malicious programs now, and will be clean in future, I can offer you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and delete all unwanted programs on your computer, including Ager.live pop-ups virus, with GridinSoft Anti-Malware, it’s better to utilize Standard or Full scan. Quick Scan is not able to find all the viruses, because it checks only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can observe the detected malicious programs sorted by their possible harm simultaneously with the scan process. But to choose any actions against malware, you need to wait until the scan is over, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for every detected virus or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malware. By default, all malware will be removed to quarantine.
Reverting browser settings to original ones
To revert your browser settings, you need to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action cannot be intercepted by Ager.live virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be found in the Tools tab.
After pressing the Reset Browser Settings button, the menu will be displayed, where you can choose, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without utilizing third-party programs
Besides using antivirus programs for browser recovery, you may choose the “Reset browser settings” function, which is usually embedded in all popular web browsers.
Reset Microsoft Edge ⚙ Settings
- Open "Settings and more" tab in upper right corner, then find here "Settings" button. In the appeared menu, choose "Reset settings" option:
- After picking the Reset Settings option, you will see the following menu, stating about the settings which will be reverted to original:
Reset Mozilla Firefox ⚙ Settings
- Open Menu tab (three strips in upper right corner) and click the "Help" button. In the appeared menu choose "troubleshooting information":
- In the next screen, find the "Refresh Firefox" option:
- Open Settings menu by pressing the gear icon in the toolbar (left side of the browser window), then click "Advanced" option, and choose "Browser" button in the drop-down list. Scroll down, to the bottom of the settings menu. Find there "Restore settings to their original defaults" option:
- After clicking the "Restore settings..." button, you will see the window, where all settings, which will be reset, are shown:
- Open Settings tab, find the "Advanced" button. In the extended tab choose the "Reset and clean up" button:
- In the appeared list, click on the "Restore settings to their original defaults":
- Finally, you will see the window, where you can see all the settings which will be reset to default:
After choosing this option, you will see the next message:
Reset Opera ⚙ Settings
Reset Google Chrome ⚙ Settings
As an afterword, I want to say that the time plays against you and your PC. The activity of browser hijacker Ager.live must be stopped as soon as possible, because of possibility of other malware injection. This malware can be downloaded autonomously, or offered for you to download in one of the windows with advertisements, which are shown to you by the hijacker. You need to act as fast as you can.
