Last week, I saw a lot of posts like “my browser displays me undesirable Android-system.live pop-up promotions, is it a pc virus?” or “these Android-system.live pop-up advertisements in my Chrome making me insane, how to deal with them?”. According to the data for last months, virus creators started a broad adware circulation project. Let me demonstrate you, how you can delete the viruses from your PC, and forget about the bothersome Android-system.live pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Android-system.live) show you pop-up ads. The message can include something like “do you want to get notices regarding the current news?” or “allow notifications to be reported about new discount rates?”. Generally, such messages are safe, and may just distract you with its unexpected showing up. And it can be quite easily turned off, in case alerts from this online resource are no longer required.
Pop-up notifications are rather an effective advertising and marketing instrument. If you have an interest in goods of some sort, you can give a permission to the pop-ups from the internet site where you can buy this things, and as soon as these things are in stock again, or if you can have a price cut – you will certainly get the notice about this. The counterparty – online stores, auto lending services, etc – will be in profit, too – customer will undoubtedly obtain a suggestion concerning the product he/she planned to purchase. And also such an advertising approach is almost free – this factor is very crucial for firms.
| Site | Android-system.live |
| IP Address | 178.128.241.54 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Watchclick.site, Moreattra.online, 9kdfbjgkdfg.monster |
Android-system.live Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However often pop-up promotions can show up without your confirmation, and also with an information which is completely different from your existing attentions or search queries. And also, besides unwanted Android-system.live pop-ups from the unknown site, you can simultaneously see a great deal of promotions, including ones on the web pages which initially have no promotions at all. Such a situation can be the sign of adware existence.
Adware is the type of pc virus which injects into your system, after that starts suggesting you various ads. Their subject usually has no connection with your ordinary search queries. Besides banner promotions, your browser can additionally demonstrate you a huge amount of various Android-system.live pop-up advertisements, which appear in the lower right area.
The model of adware use is very sly. The big pack of adware is distributed with trojan viruses, which are injected in your PC earlier. Advertisements, which are demonstrated to you by malicious program, are paid by their makers. In several weeks, all antivirus programs began to stop these adware, therefore, trojan sheds in earnings. And to end up the user’s personal computer, virus distributors begin ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer can continue to be affected by adware virus. A big amount of ads together with Android-system.live pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your normal activities will certainly be impossible to carry out in usual way.
How Can I Deal With Android-system.live Pop-Ups?
Concluding the paragraphs above: your PC, along with your data, is in a severe danger. To quit this virus, you require to make use of security software. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to handle Android-system.live pop-ups virus. Nevertheless, it can not return the browser changes which were implemented by harmful program. One more drawback of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its specific susceptability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender via the Group Policies after being injected to your PC.
To be 100% sure that your computer 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 remove all malicious applications on your PC, including Android-system.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 malicious apps, because it checks only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can observe the detected viruses sorted by their possible harm during the scan process. But to choose any actions against the viruses, you need to hold on until the scan is finished, 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 malware. By default, all the viruses will be moved 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 Android-system.live virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This option can be located in the Tools tab.
After pressing the Reset Browser Settings button, the menu will be shown, where you can choose, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without using third-party applications
Besides using anti-malware tools for browser recovery, you may pick the “Reset browser settings” option, 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:
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 Android-system.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.
