Last week, I saw a great deal of messages like “my browser demonstrates to me unwanted Gonger.live pop-up ads, is it a computer virus?” or “these Gonger.live pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me crazy, how to take care of them?”. According to the data for last months, virus suppliers started a vast adware circulation project. Let me demonstrate you, how you can eliminate the pc virus from your computer, as well as forget about the aggravating Gonger.live pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Gonger.live) show you pop-up advertisements. The message can contain something like “do you want to get notices about the most up to date information?” or “enable notifications to be reported about latest price cuts?”. Normally, such messages are trustworthy, and can only distract you with its unexpected appearance. Also it can be simply disabled, in case notices from this web site are no longer needed.
Pop-up notifications are quite an effective advertising tool. If you want goods of some sort, you can enable pop-ups from the web site where you can buy this stuff, and also as soon as these items are in stock again, or if you can have a discount – you will get the notification concerning this. The counterparty – online retailers, auto lending services, etc – will be in profit, too – purchaser will certainly get a suggestion concerning the product he/she planned to purchase. As well as such an advertising method is practically free of charge – this element is very important for corporations.
| Site | Gonger.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 | Sossiotron.com, Rupontihecliffsw.xyz, News-sunudu.cc |
Gonger.live Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But occasionally pop-up advertisements can show up without your confirmation, as well as with a material which is totally various from your existing interests or search questions. And, besides undesirable Gonger.live pop-ups from the unknown source, you can simultaneously see a great deal of ads, including ones on the web pages which originally have no advertisements at all. Such a situation can be the indication of adware appearance.
Adware is the kind of virus which infiltrates into your personal computer, then begins displaying you numerous ads. Their content often has no correlation with your normal search queries. Besides banner ads, your browser can also demonstrate you a substantial number of different Gonger.live pop-up ads, which appear in the lower right corner.
The model of adware use is very sly. The huge pack of adware is spread via trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your personal computer earlier. Promotions, which are displayed to you by malicious program, are paid by their makers. In a couple of weeks, all anti-malware programs began to catch these adware, for this reason, trojan sheds in profitability. And to ruin the user’s computer system, malware distributors start ransomware distribution via these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your PC might still be influenced by adware virus. A massive amount of ads together with Gonger.live pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your regular tasks will be difficult to carry out in usual way.
How Can I Deal With Gonger.live Pop-Ups?
Assuming the paragraphs above: your PC, and your information, is in a serious danger. To quit this infection, you require to use anti-malware program. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to deal with Gonger.live pop-ups virus. Nonetheless, it can not change the web browser changes which were implemented by malicious program. One more negative aspect of the antivirus by Microsoft is its specific vulnerability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender through the Group Policies after being infiltrated to your computer system.
To be 100% sure that your personal 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 remove all malicious applications on your desktop, including Gonger.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 directories.
You can spectate the detected malware sorted by their possible hazard till the scan process. But to perform any actions against the viruses, you need to wait until the scan is over, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for each spotted virus or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malicious program. By default, all malware will be moved to quarantine.
Reverting browser settings to original ones
To reset your browser settings, you need to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action cannot be intercepted by Gonger.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 making use of third-party applications
Besides using antivirus programs for browser restoration, you may pick 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:
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 Gonger.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.
