Recently, I saw a plenty of messages like “my browser demonstrates to me unwanted Stay-notified.live pop-up ads, is it a computer virus?” or “these Stay-notified.live pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me insane, how to handle them?”. According to the statistics for last months, computer virus creators began a large adware circulation project. Let me show you, how you can delete the viruses from your PC, as well as forget about the aggravating Stay-notified.live pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Stay-notified.live) use you pop-up ads. The message can include something like “do you want to have alerts about the most up to date information?” or “enable notifications to be reported regarding latest price cuts?”. Usually, such messages are safe, and may only distract you with its abrupt visual appeal. Also it can be quite easily disabled, in case notices from this website are no longer desired.
Pop-up notices are quite an effective advertising instrument. If you want products of some kind, you can enable pop-ups from the web site where you can purchase this stuff, and as quickly as these things are in store again, or if you can have a price cut – you will obtain the notice regarding this. The counterparty – online retailers, car lending companies, etc – will certainly remain in profit, too – buyer will undoubtedly obtain a pointer about the item he/she planned to purchase. And also such an advertising method is practically cost-free – this element is extremely important for companies.
| Site | Stay-notified.live |
| IP Address | 167.71.46.14 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Omothert.fun, Worldlifestylez.com, Willgetitfr.fun |
Stay-notified.live Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But occasionally pop-up promotions can appear without your confirmation, and with an information which is entirely various from your current cares or search questions. And also, besides undesirable Stay-notified.live pop-ups from the unknown site, you can simultaneously see a lot of ads, consisting of ones on the pages which initially have no promotions at all. Such a situation can be the sign of adware presence.
Adware is the type of virus which injects into your PC, then starts displaying you numerous promotions. Their content often has no match with your normal search questions. Besides banner ads, your web browser can likewise suggest you a huge amount of various Stay-notified.live pop-up advertisements, which appear in the lower right corner.
The model of adware use is really sly. The big pack of adware is dispersed through trojan viruses, which are injected in your system previously. Promotions, which are suggested to you by malicious program, are paid by their makers. In several weeks, all anti-malware programs began to stop these adware, for this reason, trojan sheds in productivity. And to dispatch the user’s PC, virus distributors start ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer system may continue to be affected by adware virus. A big quantity of advertisements in addition to Stay-notified.live pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your normal work will be difficult to execute in common way.
How Can I Deal With Stay-notified.live Pop-Ups?
Thinking the text above: your desktop, along with your data, is in a major danger. To stop this virus, you require to use virus removal program. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to deal with Stay-notified.live pop-ups malware. However, it can not return the web browser changes which were put into effect by harmful program. An additional downside of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its certain susceptability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender with the Group Policies after being infiltrated to your computer.
To be 100% sure that your system is clean of any malware now, and will be clean in future, I can offer you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and remove all unwanted programs on your personal computer, including Stay-notified.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 folders.
You can observe the detected malicious programs sorted by their possible hazard during the scan process. But to perform any actions against malicious apps, you need to wait until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for each detected virus or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malicious program. By default, all the viruses will be moved to quarantine.
Reset browser settings to original ones
To reset your browser settings, you need to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action is not able to be intercepted by Stay-notified.live virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This option can be found in the Tools tab.
After choosing the Reset Browser Settings button, the menu will be displayed, where you can specify, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without using third-party software
Besides using antivirus tools for browser recovery, you may 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 Stay-notified.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.
