Last week, I saw a plenty of messages like “my internet browser displays me undesirable Foceg.live pop-up advertisements, is it a virus?” or “these Foceg.live pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me crazy, how to manage them?”. According to the data for last months, computer virus distributors began a wide adware delivery project. Let me demonstrate you, how you can eliminate the computer viruses from your personal computer, and also forget about the irritating Foceg.live pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Foceg.live) offer you pop-up promotions. The message can contain something like “do you want to get alerts relating to the current information?” or “enable notifications to be reported regarding recent discounts?”. Typically, such messages are safe, and can just sidetrack you with its sudden appearance. Moreover, it can be quite easily turned off, in case alerts from this site are no longer needed.
Pop-up notices are rather an reliable advertising tool. If you are interested in products of some type, you can allow pop-ups from the web site where you can buy this things, and also as soon as these products are in inventory again, or if you can have a price cut – you will certainly obtain the notice about this. The counterparty – online stores, vehicle lending companies, etc – will remain in profit, too – customer will definitely get a reminder about the product he/she planned to buy. And such an advertising technique is practically free of charge – this aspect is very important for companies.
| Site | Foceg.live |
| IP Address | 157.230.4.182 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Nowcaptchahere.top, News-xuvoha.cc, Hapex.live |
Foceg.live Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However often pop-up advertisements can show up without your approval, and with an information which is completely different from your present interests or search questions. And also, besides unwanted Foceg.live pop-ups from the unknown site, you can at the same time see a great deal of promotions, including ones on the pages which originally have no promotions whatsoever. Such a scenario can be the indication of adware presence.
Adware is the type of pc virus which infiltrates into your PC, then starts demonstrating you different promotions. Their content typically has no correlation with your normal search questions. Besides banner promotions, your browser can likewise show you a massive amount of various Foceg.live pop-up ads, which come into view in the lower right corner.
The model of adware usage is extremely sly. The big pack of adware is dispersed with trojan viruses, which are injected in your computer earlier. Advertisements, which are displayed to you by malicious program, are paid by their makers. In a few weeks, all antivirus programs began to catch these adware, thus, trojan loses in profitability. And to terminate the user’s PC, 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 massive number of ads along with Foceg.live pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your normal tasks will certainly be impossible to do in normal manner.
How Can I Deal With Foceg.live Pop-Ups?
Presuming the paragraphs above: your computer, as well as your information, is in a serious danger. To stop this virus, you need to make use of virus removal tool. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to take care of Foceg.live pop-ups virus. Nonetheless, it can’t change the browser changes which were applied by harmful program. Another disadvantage of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its certain vulnerability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender through the Group Policies after being implanted to your computer system.
To be 100% sure that your PC 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 eliminate all unwanted programs on your PC, including Foceg.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 malware, because it scans only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can spectate the detected malicious apps sorted by their possible hazard till the scan process. But to choose any actions against malicious programs, you need to hold on until the scan is finished, 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 virus. By default, all the viruses will be removed 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 counteracted by Foceg.live malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This option can be located in the Tools tab.
After choosing the Reset Browser Settings option, the menu will be shown, where you can specify, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without using third-party programs
Besides using anti-malware programs for browser recovery, you can choose 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 Foceg.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.
