Recently, I saw a huge amount of posts like “my browser presents me undesirable Gongor.live pop-up promotions, is it a computer virus?” or “these Gongor.live pop-up ads in my Chrome making me crazy, how to take care of them?”. Due to the stats for last months, computer virus suppliers started a wide adware distribution campaign. Let me demonstrate you, how you can eliminate the computer viruses from your computer system, as well as forget about the aggravating Gongor.live pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Gongor.live) use you pop-up promotions. The message can include something like “do you want to get alerts about the most recent news?” or “permit alerts to be reported regarding recent discounts?”. Typically, such messages are trustworthy, and may just distract you with its abrupt showing up. Plus it can be quite easily turned off, in case notices from this site are no longer required.
Pop-up alerts are quite an efficient advertising and marketing mechanism. If you want goods of some kind, you can give a permission to the pop-ups from the website where you can purchase this stuff, and also as quickly as these products are in stock again, or if you can have a price cut – you will certainly get the alert regarding this. The counterparty – online merchants, automobile lending companies, etc – will certainly be in profit, too – purchaser will certainly obtain a reminder concerning the product he/she planned to pay for. And such an advertising and marketing approach is practically cost-free – this element is really crucial for firms.
| Site | Gongor.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 | News-rijegi.cc, Buyrekavdnow.com, Chefishoani.com |
Gongor.live Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However sometimes pop-up advertisements can show up without your approval, as well as with a text which is entirely various from your current attentions or search queries. And also, besides unwanted Gongor.live pop-ups from the unknown origin, you can simultaneously see a great deal of advertisements, consisting of ones on the web pages which primarily have no ads at all. Such a situation can be the indication of adware existence.
Adware is the sort of virus which injects into your personal computer, and then starts demonstrating to you different ads. Their material , in most cases, has no connection with your ordinary search queries. Besides banner advertisements, your browser can additionally display you a huge number of various Gongor.live pop-up ads, which show up in the lower right corner.
The model of adware use is extremely sly. The big pack of adware is spread with trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your personal computer earlier. Promotions, which are demonstrated to you by virus, are paid by their makers. In a few weeks, all antivirus programs began to catch these adware, for this reason, trojan sheds in productivity. And to end up the user’s desktop, virus distributors start ransomware distribution via these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer system might continue to be influenced by adware virus. A massive quantity of advertisements together with Gongor.live pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your normal tasks will be difficult to perform in typical way.
How Can I Deal With Gongor.live Pop-Ups?
Concluding the paragraphs above: your computer, along with your data, is in a significant risk. To quit this virus, you require to utilize anti-virus program. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to handle Gongor.live pop-ups malware. Nevertheless, it can not change the web browser alterations which were applied by malicious program. One more disadvantage of the antivirus by Microsoft is its certain vulnerability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender with the Group Policies after being infiltrated to your PC.
To be 100% sure that your desktop 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 programs on your personal computer, including Gongor.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 observe the detected malware sorted by their possible harm till the scan process. But to choose any actions against the viruses, you need to wait until the scan is over, or to stop the scan.
To set the action for each detected 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.
Reverting browser settings to original ones
To revert your browser settings, you need to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action is not able to be counteracted by Gongor.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 shown, 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 recovery, you can pick the “Reset browser settings” function, which is usually embedded in all popular web 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 Gongor.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.
