Last week, I saw a ton of messages like “my web browser displays me undesirable Message.liveplayingnow.com pop-up promotions, is it a virus?” or “these Message.liveplayingnow.com pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me crazy, how to manage them?”. According to the stats for last months, virus suppliers began a wide adware distribution project. Let me demonstrate you, how you can get rid of the pc virus from your personal computer, and forget about the irritating Message.liveplayingnow.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Message.liveplayingnow.com) show you pop-up promotions. The message can have something like “do you want to receive notices regarding the most up to date news?” or “permit notifications to be reported regarding recent discounts?”. Generally, such messages are safe, and can just sidetrack you with its abrupt appearing. And it can be quite easily disabled, in case alerts from this website are no longer needed.
Pop-up notices are quite an efficient advertising mechanism. If you are interested in goods of some kind, you can allow pop-ups from the internet site where you can buy this things, and as soon as these products are in stock again, or if you can have a discount – you will get the alert about this. The counterparty – online retailers, auto lending companies, etc – will remain in profit, too – buyer will definitely obtain a reminder about the product he/she intended to pay for. And also such a marketing method is nearly cost-free – this aspect is really essential for companies.
| Site | Message.liveplayingnow.com |
| IP Address | 104.24.127.49 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Mediacloud.casa, Dailyuploads.net, Mirod.pro |
Message.liveplayingnow.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But occasionally pop-up ads can come out without your permission, and with a content which is entirely different from your current cares or search queries. And, besides undesirable Message.liveplayingnow.com pop-ups from the unknown origin, you can simultaneously see a lot of ads, consisting of ones on the web pages which initially have no ads whatsoever. Such a situation can be the sign of adware presence.
Adware is the sort of computer virus which infiltrates into your PC, then begins displaying you various advertisements. Their subject often has no correlation with your normal search questions. Besides banner ads, your browser can likewise display you a significant quantity of various Message.liveplayingnow.com pop-up promotions, which show up in the bottom right corner.
The model of adware usage is really sly. The huge pack of adware is dispersed through trojan viruses, which are injected in your system previously. Advertisements, which are displayed to you by malware, are paid by their creators. In a couple of weeks, all antivirus programs began to block these adware, for this reason, trojan loses in profitability. And to dispatch the user’s computer, virus distributors begin ransomware distribution with these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your PC might still be affected by adware virus. A big number of promotions in addition to Message.liveplayingnow.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your common activities will certainly be impossible to do in common way.
How Can I Deal With Message.liveplayingnow.com Pop-Ups?
Assuming the paragraphs above: your desktop, along with your information, is in a major danger. To stop this infection, you need to utilize anti-malware tool. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to deal with Message.liveplayingnow.com pop-ups malware. However, it can’t revert the browser changes which were applied by malicious program. One more downside of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its certain susceptability: viruses 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 advice you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and delete all malicious applications on your PC, including Message.liveplayingnow.com 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 apps, because it checks only the most popular registry entries and directories.
You can observe the detected malicious apps sorted by their possible harm simultaneously with the scan process. But to perform any actions against malicious programs, you need to hold on until the scan is over, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for every detected malicious or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malware. By default, all malware will be removed to quarantine.
Reset browser settings to original ones
To revert your browser settings, you need to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action cannot be counteracted by Message.liveplayingnow.com virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be located in the Tools tab.
After choosing 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 programs
Besides using anti-malware programs for browser recovery, you can 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 Message.liveplayingnow.com 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.
