Last week, I saw a great deal of posts like “my internet browser shows me undesirable Agils.live pop-up promotions, is it a computer virus?” or “these Agils.live pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me mad, how to take care of them?”. Due to the statistics for last months, computer virus suppliers started a broad adware distribution campaign. Let me demonstrate you, how you can remove the viruses from your PC, as well as forget about the annoying Agils.live pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Agils.live) use you pop-up promotions. The message can have something like “do you want to receive notices relating to the current information?” or “allow notifications to be reported regarding recent price cuts?”. Usually, such messages are risk-free, and may just distract you with its sudden visual appeal. Also it can be quite easily disabled, in case notifications from this web site are no longer needed.
Pop-up alerts are quite an effective marketing instrument. If you want products of some sort, you can give a permission to the pop-ups from the site where you can get this things, and as soon as these items are in store again, or if you can have a price cut – you will certainly obtain the notice regarding this. The counterparty – online merchants, car lending services, etc – will certainly remain in profit, too – purchaser will undoubtedly obtain a suggestion concerning the item he/she planned to pay for. And such an advertising and marketing technique is almost cost-free – this factor is extremely crucial for companies.
Site | Agils.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 | Expocaptcha.top, News-yenuji.cc, Czgovd.com |
Agils.live Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However occasionally pop-up promotions can show up without your permission, as well as with a material which is totally different from your current cares or search queries. And also, besides undesirable Agils.live pop-ups from the unknown resource, you can at the same time see a great deal of advertisements, consisting of ones on the pages which at first have no promotions at all. Such a situation can be the sign of adware presence.
Adware is the kind of virus which infiltrates into your PC, and then begins displaying you different ads. Their subject often has no correlation with your ordinary search queries. Besides banner promotions, your web browser can likewise display you a huge number of various Agils.live pop-up ads, which appear in the bottom right area.
The model of adware usage is extremely sly. The big pack of adware is spread with trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your system previously. Ads, which are shown to you by malware, are paid by their creators. In several weeks, all anti-malware programs began to stop these adware, therefore, trojan loses in profitability. And to finish the user’s desktop, malware distributors begin ransomware distribution with these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your desktop may continue to be affected by adware virus. A huge number of ads along with Agils.live pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your regular work will be impossible to perform in common manner.
How Can I Deal With Agils.live Pop-Ups?
Concluding the paragraphs above: your computer, and your data, is in a significant risk. To quit this infection, you need to make use of security tool. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to handle Agils.live pop-ups virus. Nevertheless, it can’t return the web browser changes which were put into effect by harmful program. One more disadvantage of the antivirus by Microsoft is its specific susceptability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender with the Group Policies after being infiltrated to your desktop.
To be 100% sure that your computer is clean of any malware now, and will be clean in future, I can offer you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and eliminate all unwanted applications on your computer, including Agils.live pop-ups virus, with GridinSoft Anti-Malware, it’s better to use Standard or Full scan. Quick Scan is not able to find all the malicious programs, because it scans only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can observe the detected malware sorted by their possible hazard during the scan process. But to choose any actions against malware, you need to hold on until the scan is over, or to stop the scan.
To set the action for every spotted malicious or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malicious program. By default, all malware will be removed to quarantine.
Reset browser settings to original ones
To reset your browser settings, you are required to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action is not able to be intercepted by Agils.live virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be found in the Tools tab.
After choosing the Reset Browser Settings option, the menu will be displayed, where you can specify, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without using third-party programs
Besides using antivirus software for browser reset, you can choose the “Reset browser settings” function, which is usually embedded in all popular 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:
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 Agils.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.