Last week, I saw a plenty of messages like “my web browser displays me undesirable Gazist.live pop-up advertisements, is it a computer virus?” or “these Gazist.live pop-up advertisements in my Chrome making me crazy, how to manage them?”. Due to the stats for last months, pc virus distributors started a vast adware circulation project. Let me show you, how you can remove the computer viruses from your PC, and also forget about the annoying Gazist.live pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a Gazist.live) show you pop-up advertisements. The message can have something like “do you want to have notices relating to the most up to date news?” or “enable notifications to be reported regarding recent discounts?”. Usually, such messages are risk-free, and can just distract you with its unexpected arrival. Plus it can be quickly turned off, in case notices from this web site are no longer desired.
Pop-up alerts are quite an efficient marketing instrument. If you are interested in items of some sort, you can allow pop-ups from the website where you can get this stuff, and as quickly as these items are in store again, or if you can have a price cut – you will get the notification concerning this. The counterparty – online merchants, vehicle lending companies, etc – will be in profit, too – customer will undoubtedly get a tip regarding the item he/she planned to pay for. And such an advertising and marketing method is practically free of charge – this aspect is really essential for corporations.
| Site | Gazist.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 | Gizers.live, Utilitysafegrid.vip, Rabist.live |
Gazist.live Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But sometimes pop-up ads can come out without your confirmation, as well as with an information which is entirely different from your current interests or search questions. And, besides unwanted Gazist.live pop-ups from the unknown site, you can simultaneously see a lot of advertisements, including ones on the web pages which at first have no promotions whatsoever. Such a scenario can be the trace of adware presence.
Adware is the type of computer virus which infiltrates into your PC, after that starts displaying you various advertisements. Their content usually has no connection with your usual search questions. Besides banner promotions, your browser can also display you a huge amount of different Gazist.live pop-up promotions, which come into view in the lower right area.
The model of adware usage is very sly. The big pack of adware is dispersed through trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your desktop earlier. Ads, which are displayed to you by virus, are paid by their creators. In a couple of weeks, all anti-malware programs began to block these adware, for this reason, trojan loses in productivity. And to rub out the user’s desktop, malware distributors start ransomware distribution with these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your PC might continue to be affected by adware virus. A substantial number of advertisements along with Gazist.live pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your common work will be difficult to do in typical manner.
How Can I Deal With Gazist.live Pop-Ups?
Concluding the text above: your personal computer, and your information, is in a significant risk. To stop this infection, you require to use anti-malware program. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to deal with Gazist.live pop-ups malware. Nonetheless, it can’t reset the web browser alterations which were put into effect by harmful program. One more drawback of the anti-virus by Microsoft is its certain vulnerability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender via the Group Policies after being injected to your desktop.
To be 100% sure that your personal computer is clean of any malware now, and will be clean in future, I can advice you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and erase all unwanted programs on your PC, including Gazist.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 apps, because it checks only the most popular registry entries and directories.
You can see the detected viruses sorted by their possible harm simultaneously with the scan process. But to choose any actions against the viruses, you need to hold on until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for each 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 need to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action cannot be intercepted by Gazist.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 displayed, where you can choose, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without utilizing third-party software
Besides using antivirus programs for browser recovery, you can 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 Gazist.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.
