Recently, I saw a great deal of messages like “my browser displays me unwanted Ribbeemood.live pop-up ads, is it a computer virus?” or “these Ribbeemood.live pop-up ads in my Chrome making me crazy, how to manage them?”. According to the stats for last months, computer virus suppliers started a broad adware distribution project. Let me show you, how you can get rid of the computer viruses from your PC, and forget about the aggravating Ribbeemood.live pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Ribbeemood.live) offer you pop-up promotions. The message can have something like “do you want to have notifications about the most recent news?” or “permit notifications to be reported about recent price cuts?”. Typically, such messages are trustworthy, and may just sidetrack you with its sudden appearing. Also it can be quite easily turned off, in case notifications from this web page are no longer required.
Pop-up notifications are fairly an efficient advertising and marketing mechanism. If you have an interest in goods of some type, you can give a permission to the pop-ups from the website where you can get this stuff, and also as quickly as these items are in store again, or if you can have a discount – you will certainly obtain the notification concerning this. The counterparty – online sellers, auto lending services, etc – will remain in profit, too – customer will definitely get a reminder about the product he/she intended to pay for. As well as such an advertising method is almost free of charge – this element is very important for firms.
| Site | Ribbeemood.live |
| IP Address | 54.36.116.88 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | N1gopush.com, Shopblack2.xyz, Wadescoch.com |
Ribbeemood.live Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However in some cases pop-up ads can show up without your confirmation, and with a content which is completely different from your existing attentions or search questions. And, besides undesirable Ribbeemood.live pop-ups from the unknown website, you can at the same time see a great deal of advertisements, consisting of ones on the pages which at first have no advertisements at all. Such a situation can be the trace of adware appearance.
Adware is the sort of computer virus which infiltrates into your system, after that begins demonstrating to you numerous promotions. Their subject usually has no match with your typical search questions. Besides banner promotions, your web browser can also demonstrate to you a significant amount of various Ribbeemood.live pop-up promotions, which show up in the bottom right area.
The model of adware usage is extremely sly. The large pack of adware is spread through trojan viruses, which are injected in your system earlier. Promotions, which are suggested to you by malicious program, are paid by their creators. In a few weeks, all antivirus programs began to stop these adware, thus, trojan loses in earnings. And to dispatch the user’s personal computer, virus distributors begin ransomware distribution with these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your desktop may continue to be influenced by adware virus. A massive number of promotions in addition to Ribbeemood.live pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your normal jobs will be difficult to do in common manner.
How Can I Deal With Ribbeemood.live Pop-Ups?
Assuming the text above: your PC, and your information, is in a severe risk. To quit this virus, you need to use security software. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to deal with Ribbeemood.live pop-ups virus. Nonetheless, it can’t revert the browser alterations which were put into effect by malicious program. One more negative aspect of the antivirus by Microsoft is its specific vulnerability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender via the Group Policies after being injected to your PC.
To be 100% sure that your 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 erase all unwanted programs on your PC, including Ribbeemood.live 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 programs, because it checks only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can spectate the detected malicious apps sorted by their possible harm till the scan process. But to choose any actions against malware, you need to wait until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for every spotted virus or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malicious program. By default, all the viruses 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 is not able to be intercepted by Ribbeemood.live virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be located in the Tools tab.
After choosing the Reset Browser Settings option, the menu will be displayed, where you can choose, 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 Ribbeemood.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.
