Recently, I saw a plenty of posts like “my internet browser demonstrates to me unwanted Mosen.live pop-up ads, is it a computer virus?” or “these Mosen.live pop-up advertisements in my Chrome making me crazy, how to handle them?”. Due to the stats for last months, pc virus suppliers started a broad adware delivery campaign. Let me show you, how you can erase the viruses from your personal computer, and forget about the annoying Mosen.live pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Mosen.live) use you pop-up advertisements. The message can include something like “do you want to receive notices relating to the most recent information?” or “permit notifications to be reported about recent price cuts?”. Typically, such messages are riskless, and can just sidetrack you with its abrupt showing up. Plus it can be simply disabled, in case notices from this online resource are no longer desired.
Pop-up notices are quite an effective marketing tool. If you want products of some kind, you can give a permission to the pop-ups from the website where you can buy this things, and also as quickly as these products are in store again, or if you can have a price cut – you will obtain the alert regarding this. The counterparty – online merchants, car lending services, etc – will certainly remain in profit, too – purchaser will definitely get a tip concerning the item he/she intended to buy. And also such an advertising technique is almost cost-free – this factor is really crucial for firms.
| Site | Mosen.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 | Tahirs.live, Sefaks.live, Sebags.live |
Mosen.live Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However in some cases pop-up advertisements can come out without your permission, and with a material which is completely various from your existing attentions or search queries. And, besides unwanted Mosen.live pop-ups from the unknown site, you can simultaneously see a great deal of ads, consisting of ones on the web pages which at first have no advertisements at all. Such a situation can be the proof of adware appearance.
Adware is the kind of malware which infiltrates into your PC, after that begins demonstrating to you different ads. Their content typically has no match with your ordinary search questions. Besides banner ads, your web browser can also display you a massive number of different Mosen.live pop-up promotions, which appear in the lower right area.
The model of adware use is extremely sly. The large pack of adware is distributed via trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your desktop earlier. Ads, which are suggested to you by malware, are paid by their makers. In a couple of weeks, all anti-malware programs began to stop these adware, thus, trojan sheds in productivity. And to terminate the user’s computer, malware distributors start ransomware distribution with these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer system may continue to be influenced by adware virus. A significant number of advertisements along with Mosen.live pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your normal work will certainly be difficult to execute in typical manner.
How Can I Deal With Mosen.live Pop-Ups?
Concluding the text above: your desktop, along with your information, is in a major risk. To stop this infection, you require to use security tool. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to handle Mosen.live pop-ups malware. Nevertheless, it can’t change the web browser alterations which were applied by malicious program. An additional drawback of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its certain susceptability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender through the Group Policies after being implanted to your computer system.
To be 100% sure that your system is clean of any viruses 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 computer, including Mosen.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 malicious apps, because it scans only the most popular registry entries and directories.
You can spectate the detected malicious apps sorted by their possible hazard simultaneously with the scan process. But to perform any actions against malicious programs, you need to hold on until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To set the action for every spotted 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 revert your browser settings, you are required to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action is not able to be counteracted by Mosen.live virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This option can be found in the Tools tab.
After pressing 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 making use of third-party software
Besides using antivirus software for browser recovery, you can choose the “Reset browser settings” option, 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 Mosen.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.
