Last week, I saw a huge amount of messages like “my web browser presents me undesirable Fiten.live pop-up ads, is it a pc virus?” or “these Fiten.live pop-up advertisements in my Chrome making me insane, how to deal with them?”. According to the statistics for last months, computer virus creators began a wide adware circulation campaign. Let me demonstrate you, how you can eliminate the viruses from your computer system, and also forget about the frustrating Fiten.live pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Fiten.live) use you pop-up ads. The message can have something like “do you want to get alerts concerning the current information?” or “allow alerts to be reported about latest discounts?”. Generally, such messages are harmless, and can only distract you with its abrupt appearance. Moreover, it can be simply disabled, in case notifications from this site are no longer wanted.
Pop-up notifications are quite an reliable marketing instrument. If you have an interest in items of some kind, you can allow pop-ups from the site where you can purchase this things, and as soon as these products are in inventory again, or if you can have a discount – you will obtain the notice concerning this. The counterparty – online merchants, auto lending services, etc – will certainly be in profit, too – purchaser will definitely get a reminder about the product he/she intended to purchase. And such a marketing technique is practically cost-free – this factor is really vital for companies.
| Site | Fiten.live |
| IP Address | 147.182.255.121 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Manageuberrefinedinfo-file.info, Sumatranbox.com, Infinity-message.com |
Fiten.live Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But often pop-up ads can appear without your confirmation, as well as with an information which is completely different from your present cares or search questions. And, besides undesirable Fiten.live pop-ups from the unknown site, you can at the same time see a lot of promotions, consisting of ones on the web pages which originally have no ads at all. Such a scenario can be the sign of adware appearance.
Adware is the type of malware which injects into your computer, after that starts displaying you different advertisements. Their content usually has no correlation with your regular search queries. Besides banner advertisements, your web browser can likewise display you a substantial quantity of different Fiten.live pop-up advertisements, which appear in the bottom right corner.
The model of adware use is really sly. The huge pack of adware is spread via trojan viruses, which are injected in your computer earlier. Advertisements, which are shown to you by virus, are paid by their creators. In a few weeks, all anti-malware programs began to block these adware, for this reason, trojan sheds in profitability. And to terminate the user’s PC, virus distributors begin ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your desktop can still be influenced by adware virus. A massive number of promotions along with Fiten.live pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your typical activities will be difficult to perform in common manner.
How Can I Deal With Fiten.live Pop-Ups?
Thinking the text above: your personal computer, along with your data, is in a major danger. To quit this virus, you need to make use of antivirus software. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to handle Fiten.live pop-ups virus. However, it can not return the browser changes which were implemented by malicious program. Another drawback of the anti-virus by Microsoft is its particular vulnerability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender with the Group Policies after being infiltrated to your desktop.
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 remove all unwanted applications on your personal computer, including Fiten.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 checks only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can observe the detected malicious programs sorted by their possible hazard till the scan process. But to perform any actions against malware, you need to wait until the scan is over, or to stop the scan.
To set the action for each detected virus or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malicious app. By default, all the viruses will be moved to quarantine.
Reset browser settings to original ones
To reset your browser settings, you need to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action is not able to be intercepted by Fiten.live malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be found in the Tools tab.
After pressing the Reset Browser Settings option, the menu will be displayed, where you can choose, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without using third-party software
Besides using anti-malware programs for browser reset, 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 Fiten.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.
