Last week, I saw a huge amount of messages like “my internet browser demonstrates to me undesirable Sodong.live pop-up promotions, is it a pc virus?” or “these Sodong.live pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me crazy, how to manage them?”. According to the statistics for last months, pc virus suppliers started a massive adware delivery campaign. Let me demonstrate you, how you can eliminate the viruses from your computer, and also forget about the irritating Sodong.live pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Sodong.live) use you pop-up advertisements. The message can contain something like “do you want to receive alerts about the latest news?” or “allow alerts to be reported about new price cuts?”. Normally, such messages are trustworthy, and may only sidetrack you with its abrupt showing up. And it can be easily disabled, in case notices from this online resource are no longer required.
Pop-up notifications are fairly an efficient marketing instrument. If you are interested in products of some kind, you can enable pop-ups from the web site where you can purchase this stuff, and also as quickly as these things are in inventory again, or if you can have a price cut – you will certainly obtain the notice regarding this. The counterparty – online sellers, car lending services, etc – will be in profit, too – customer will definitely get a suggestion concerning the item he/she meant to buy. And also such an advertising and marketing method is almost free – this aspect is really essential for companies.
| Site | Sodong.live |
| IP Address | 157.230.4.182 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | News-davuce.cc, Silid.live, Sagus.live |
Sodong.live Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However occasionally pop-up promotions can come out without your approval, and also with a material which is completely various from your existing cares or search queries. And also, besides undesirable Sodong.live pop-ups from the unknown site, you can simultaneously see a lot of ads, consisting of ones on the pages which primarily have no advertisements whatsoever. Such a situation can be the indication of adware appearance.
Adware is the kind of malware which injects into your computer, and then begins demonstrating you different promotions. Their content usually has no match with your typical search queries. Besides banner ads, your browser can also show you a substantial quantity of different Sodong.live pop-up advertisements, which come into view in the lower right corner.
The model of adware use is very sly. The big pack of adware is spread via trojan viruses, which are injected in your personal computer earlier. Advertisements, which are suggested to you by malicious app, are paid by their makers. In several weeks, all antivirus programs began to stop these adware, hence, trojan loses in earnings. And to rub out the user’s personal computer, virus distributors begin ransomware distribution with these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer can still be impacted by adware virus. A massive quantity of promotions in addition to Sodong.live pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your regular jobs will certainly be difficult to do in normal manner.
How Can I Deal With Sodong.live Pop-Ups?
Thinking the paragraphs above: your computer, as well as your data, is in a major risk. To quit this virus, you require to utilize anti-virus tool. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to take care of Sodong.live pop-ups virus. Nevertheless, it can not change the browser changes which were implemented by harmful program. Another disadvantage of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its certain susceptability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender through the Group Policies after being injected to your computer.
To be 100% sure that your computer is clean of any viruses now, and will be clean in future, I can advice you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and delete all unwanted applications on your desktop, including Sodong.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 programs, because it scans only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can observe the detected viruses sorted by their possible harm during the scan process. But to choose any actions against malicious programs, you need to wait until the scan is over, 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 app. By default, all the viruses will be removed 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 cannot be intercepted by Sodong.live malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This option can be located in the Tools tab.
After choosing the Reset Browser Settings button, the menu will be displayed, where you can choose, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without making use of third-party software
Besides using anti-malware tools for browser reset, you can pick 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 Sodong.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.
