Remove Abwiswry.live Pop-up Ads — How to Fix Gude

Abwiswry.live pop-up notices may appear out of the blue, covering the post of the page you went to or opening your web browser when you do not wish it to be opened.

Clicking the Abwiswry.live ad can cause the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this guide, you will see the manual of Abwiswry.live popups clearing in multiple ways, and also examining your computer for extra viruses presence.

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What are Abwiswry.live pop-ups?

Abwiswry.live popups are a consequence of adware presence. Adware is a kind of malware that demonstrates to you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which creates a substantial volume of profit for adware representatives. These advertisements might contain sometimes shocking composition, or have a link to malicious content/website, considering that adware maintainers have no reason to examine the goodness of the material they are going to reveal – their single target is cash.

Abwiswry.live push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is a very good, affordable and really efficient marketing tool¹. It allows the seller to attach the customers’ attention to their site, and the customers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to buy. When the person will get a pop-up notification that the TV set he wishes to purchase is available at the online shop he/she visited earlier with a 15% discount, one will undoubtedly use this possibility and get it. Taking into consideration the incredibly small cost for the popups and their targeting, such a promotion and marketing method is a much-loved thing among the advertising teams of huge internet retailers.

Nonetheless, such a profitable strategy could not be missed by malware creators. Ability to show the popup ads forcibly to the targets of malware invasion is a great basis for evil-minded adjustments with the popup advertisements. And Abwiswry.live ads is among hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

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How have I got the Abwiswry.live virus?

There are a huge amount of methods of getting infected by the adware that trigger the Abwiswry.live popups tornado. A lion’s part of this virus cases is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Freeware may likewise be downloaded from the official website, and the adware is presented as a legitimate bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A number of users often make use of the unreliable programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, different tools that are free of cost, or perhaps hacked programs. All of these types of programs are unsafe, because it is quite simple to integrate a Abwiswry.live malware under the cover of part of the license hacking script, or as a part of the self-made algoritm inside of the Windows optimization tool.

Abwiswry.live popup virus may also be concealed in the promotion somewhere on the strange website. Such web pages are in most cases full of colorful and blinking ads, and their proprietors usually accept any type of promos to be posted on their page. Therefore, clicking on such banners is a shot in the dark: only the advertisement provider realizes what will happen when you click this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you may additionally get something far more damaging, like ransomware or coin miner; the substantial share of coin miners distribution is exactly after the malicious promotions.

The statistic shows that people dislike popup advertising more than other types of promotions

Potentially unwanted applications, like Abwiswry.live pop-up virus may provoke a wide range of different troubles on your PC. Distracting is not the only effect – pop-up notifications can present you the ads, where you are offered to get another unknown program, or “a perfect security tool”. Scareware is usually spread with the use of the last slogun. Potentially undesirable applications, in turn, may have spyware functionality. And it is very hard to distinguish the undesirable app from a legit one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and pseudo antiviruses, popup-related banners are also used as a distribution way by different trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such viruses is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not clicking these advertisements, they can be clicked by someone who also uses your PC – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things may become much more serious, and it will be much harder to deal with it without data loss. It is recommended to get rid of the viruses with anti-malware applications as soon as possible.

How can I get rid of Abwiswry.live pop-up advertisements?

The tutorial of Abwiswry.live adware clearing contains 2 sections. Initially, we need to deal with the malware, and then deal with the effects of its activity. The removal task is really easy, since it can be executed even with the use of Microsoft Defender – anti-malware program that is available on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. Nonetheless, due to its huge resources utilization, as well as some problems that may be critical for some types of individuals, Defender is frequently disabled by the users, so its utilization is probably impossible. Moreover, a wide range of trojan viruses are capable to turn off the embedded antivirus. It is far better to make use of the separated program that will not have such vulnerabilities.

I’d suggest you to utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven antivirus device that will surely erase the viruses from your computer and also create an invulnerable shield with a Proactive protection feature. However, let’s deal with Abwiswry.live adware initially.

Removing Abwiswry.live popup virus with GridinSoft Anti-Malware

• Download and install GridinSoft Anti-Malware. After the installation, you will be offered to perform the Standard Scan. Approve this action.

• Standard scan checks the logical disk where the system files are stored, together with the files of programs you have already installed. The scan lasts up to 6 minutes.

• When the scan is over, you may choose the action for each detected virus. For all files of Abwiswry.live malware the default option is “Delete”. Press “Apply” to finish the malware removal.

Now, when the computer is clean of viruses, we can proceed to the browser reset. You can do this step manually, as well as with the use of GridinSoft Anti-Malware.

Reset browser settings to default

Manual method of browser reset

To reset Edge, do the following steps :

1. Open “Settings and more” tab in upper right corner, then find here “Settings” button. In the appeared menu, choose “Reset settings” option :

2. After picking the Reset Settings option, you will see the following menu, stating about the settings which will be reverted to original :

For Mozilla Firefox, do the next actions :

1. Open Menu tab (three strips in upper right corner) and click the “Help” button. In the appeared menu choose “troubleshooting information” :

2. In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option :

After choosing this option, you will see the next message :

If you use Google Chrome

1. Open Settings tab, find the “Advanced” button. In the extended tab choose the “Reset and clean up” button :

2. In the appeared list, click on the “Restore settings to their original defaults” :

3. Finally, you will see the window, where you can see all the settings which will be reset to default :

Opera can be reset in the next way

1. 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 :


2. After clicking the “Restore settings…” button, you will see the window, where all settings, which will be reset, are shown :

When the browsers are reset, you need to make sure that your browser will be connected the proper DNS while connecting to the web page you need. Make a text file titled “hosts” on your pc’s desktop, after that open it and fill it with the following text³:

Find the hosts.txt file in C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc directory. Rename this file to “hosts.old.txt” (to distinguish it from the new one), and then move the file you created on the desktop to this folder. Remove the hosts.old from this folder. Now you have your hosts file as good as new.

Nonetheless, there is one trouble that makes things a lot more difficult to fix, especially without the anti-malware program. A lot of adware variations that are used to show you the Abwiswry.live pop-up promotions are modifying the deep browser configurations, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to fix your browser settings after your PC was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will crash quickly. In some cases, you will see no crash, however, significant lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 secs, and then it will be back to the typical, until you attempt to open settings one more time.

Reset your browser settings with GridinSoft Anti-Malware

To reset your browser with GridinSoft Anti-Malware, open the Tools tab, and click the “Reset browser settings” button.

You can see the list of the options for each browser. By default, they are set up in the manner which fits the majority of users. Press the “Reset” button (lower right corner). In a minute your browser will be as good as new.

The browser reset is recommended to perform through the antivirus tool by GridinSoft, because last is also able to reset the HOSTS file without any additional commands.

1. More about pop-up ads on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware review and the reasons why I advise it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.