Last week, I saw a huge amount of messages like “my internet browser demonstrates to me undesirable Sofid.live pop-up advertisements, is it a computer virus?” or “these Sofid.live pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me crazy, how to handle them?”. According to the data for last months, pc virus suppliers started a massive adware distribution project. Let me show you, how you can eliminate the viruses from your PC, and also forget about the aggravating Sofid.live pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Sofid.live) show you pop-up advertisements. The message can include something like “do you want to have alerts regarding the most recent news?” or “enable alerts to be reported regarding new price cuts?”. Usually, such messages are risk-free, and can just distract you with its sudden visual appeal. And it can be simply turned off, in case notices from this website are no longer wanted.
Pop-up notices are quite an efficient advertising mechanism. If you want goods of some type, you can enable pop-ups from the internet site where you can get this things, and also as quickly as these things are in stock again, or if you can have a discount – you will get the notification concerning this. The counterparty – online merchants, automobile lending services, etc – will certainly be in profit, too – purchaser will definitely obtain a pointer concerning the product he/she intended to buy. And also such an advertising and marketing approach is practically cost-free – this aspect is very vital for firms.
| Site | Sofid.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 | Appcloudcloud.com, G0wow.com, Zabanit.xyz |
Sofid.live Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But sometimes pop-up advertisements can appear without your approval, and with a content which is entirely various from your existing attentions or search queries. And also, besides unwanted Sofid.live pop-ups from the unknown source, you can at the same time see a lot of ads, consisting of ones on the web pages which primarily have no promotions at all. Such a scenario can be the signal of adware existence.
Adware is the type of malware which infiltrates into your PC, after that begins showing you different promotions. Their subject , in most cases, has no connection with your ordinary search questions. Besides banner advertisements, your browser can also suggest you a massive number of different Sofid.live pop-up ads, which come into view in the bottom right area.
The model of adware use is very sly. The big pack of adware is distributed through trojan viruses, which are injected in your system previously. Advertisements, which are demonstrated to you by virus, are paid by their makers. In a few weeks, all antivirus programs began to catch these adware, hence, trojan sheds in earnings. And to end up the user’s computer, malware distributors begin ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer may continue to be affected by adware virus. A huge amount of advertisements in addition to Sofid.live pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your common work will be difficult to perform in typical manner.
How Can I Deal With Sofid.live Pop-Ups?
Concluding the paragraphs above: your PC, as well as your data, is in a serious risk. To stop this infection, you require to make use of anti-malware software. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to handle Sofid.live pop-ups malware. Nevertheless, it can’t reset the browser changes which were put into effect by harmful program. Another drawback of the anti-virus by Microsoft is its specific susceptability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender with the Group Policies after being implanted to your PC.
To be 100% sure that your system is clean of any malicious programs now, and will be clean in future, I can offer you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and eliminate all malicious programs on your desktop, including Sofid.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 viruses, because it scans only the most popular registry entries and directories.
You can spectate the detected malware sorted by their possible hazard till the scan process. But to perform any actions against malicious programs, you need to wait until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To set the action for each spotted virus or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malware. By default, all the viruses will be removed to quarantine.
Reset browser settings to original ones
To reset your browser settings, you need to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action cannot be counteracted by Sofid.live virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be found 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 making use of third-party programs
Besides using anti-malware programs for browser recovery, you may choose 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 Sofid.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.
