How to remove Derimg.live pop-ups? — Fix Guide

Derimg.live pop-up notices may appear unexpectedly, covering the post of the page you checked or opening your web browser when you don’t desire it to be opened.

Clicking on the Derimg.live ad may trigger the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this post, you will see the guide of Derimg.live popups clearing in a couple of manners, and also inspecting your PC for additional viruses existence.

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What are Derimg.live pop-ups?

Derimg.live popups are an outcome of adware action. Adware is a type of malware that presents you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click promotions, which generates a massive volume of revenue for adware representatives. These promotions may contain sometimes shocking composition, or have a web link to harmful content/website, considering that adware maintainers have no reason to examine the goodness of the content they are going to reveal – their solitary target is cash.

Derimg.live push notification.

Pop-up promotions itself is an excellent, cheap and also really effective advertising tool¹. It allows the seller to attach the buyers’ interest to their website, and the customers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to purchase. When the person will receive a pop-up alert that the TV set he desires to buy is provided at the online shop he/she visited previously with a 15% price cut, one will surely use this possibility and buy it. Taking into consideration the very low cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising and marketing method is a favorite thing amidst the marketing teams of big internet retailers.

However, such a profitable scheme could not be missed by virus developers. Option to show the popup ads forcibly to the victims of malware attack is a perfect basis for evil-minded adjustments with the popup advertisements. And Derimg.live advertisements is among hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a short details for the Derimg.live

How have I got the Derimg.live virus?

There are a lot of methods of becoming contaminated by the adware that create the Derimg.live popups storm. A lion’s part of this computer virus incidents is after the free software or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Freeware can additionally be downloaded from the main site, and the adware is provided as a legit bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A huge amount of users oftentimes make use of the unreliable programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, a wide range of tools that are free of cost, or even hacked programs. Every one of these kinds of software are unsafe, since it is quite easy to integrate a Derimg.live malware under the guise of part of the license hacking script, or as a component of the self-made algoritm inside of the Windows optimization tool.

Derimg.live popup malware can additionally be hidden in the promotion somewhere on the strange site. Such web pages are in most cases loaded with bright and blinking ads, and their owners usually approve any type of promotions to be posted on their web page. Thus, clicking such banners is a risky thing: only the advertisement contractor knows what will happen when you press this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you can additionally get something far more risky, 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 undesirable applications, like Derimg.live pop-up virus may cause a variety of different troubles on your computer. Distracting is not the single effect – pop-ups can display you the advertisements, where you are offered to get another unknown application, or “a perfect anti-malware tool”. Scareware is often spread with the last motto. Potentially undesirable applications, in turn, may have spyware functions. And it is pretty hard to distinguish the undesirable app from a legit one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the potentially unwanted programs and fake antiviruses, popup-related promotions are also chosen as a spreading method by various trojan viruses, for example – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such malware is 100% unwanted, and can cost you hundreds or even thousands of dollars. And even if you are not clicking these advertisements, they can be clicked by someone who also makes use of your PC – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the situation can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to deal with it without data loss. It is recommended to eliminate the viruses with antivirus applications as soon as possible.

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

The manual of Derimg.live adware removal consists of 2 parts. Initially, we need to eliminate the malware, and afterwards take care of the effects of its action. The elimination task is quite simple, because it can be performed even with making use of Microsoft Defender – security program that is available on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nonetheless, due to its significant resources utilization, as well as some bugs that can be serious for some groups of users, Defender is frequently turned off by the users, so its usage is likely impossible. What’s more, a wide range of trojan viruses are able to turn off the embedded antivirus. It is better to make use of the separated program that will not have such weakness.

I’d recommend you to utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven anti-malware tool that will undoubtedly wipe out the viruses from your computer and also make an impenetrable shield with a Proactive protection function. However, let’s take care of Derimg.live adware initially.

Removing Derimg.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 Derimg.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 web browser will definitely connect the correct DNS while connecting to the site you need. Create a text file named “hosts” on your desktop, after that open it and fill it with the following content³:

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.

However, there is one problem that makes the things much more difficult to fix, particularly without the anti-malware program. Most of adware versions that are used to show you the Derimg.live pop-up promotions are modifying the deep browser settings, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to fix your browser settings after your system was infected by pop-up-related malware, your browser will certainly collapse quickly. In certain cases, you will see no crash, however, significant lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 seconds, and after that it will be back to the normal, till you try 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 also the reasons why I advise it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.