Desirs.live Ads Removal Guide — How to Fix It?

Desirs.live pop-up alerts can appear unexpectedly, covering the subject of the site you checked or opening your web browser when you don’t need it to be opened.

Clicking the Desirs.live advertisement may lead to the injection of other malware or unwanted programs. In this post, you will see the guide of Desirs.live popups removal in several ways, and also checking your computer for extra malware presence.

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What are Desirs.live pop-ups?

Desirs.live popups are an effect of adware activity. Adware is a sort of malware that demonstrates to you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click ads, which creates a major amount of income for adware representatives. These advertisements may consist of explicit material, or have a web link to harmful content/website, because adware maintainers have no purpose to check the goodness of the content they are going to show – their solitary target is cash.

Desirs.live push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is an excellent, low-priced and also really successful marketing method¹. It permits the seller to attach the buyers’ attention to their site, as well as the buyers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they wish to buy. When the customer will get a pop-up notification that the TV set he wishes to buy is available at the online shop he/she checked out earlier with a 15% discount, one will certainly use this possibility and purchase it. Taking into consideration the very small cost for the popups and their targeting, such a promotion and marketing instrument is a much-loved thing amidst the advertising departments of large internet stores.

Nonetheless, such a rewarding plan could not be missed by malware developers. Potential to show the popup advertisements forcibly to the targets of malware attack is a great basis for evil-minded adjustments with the popup advertisements. And Desirs.live promotions is just one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a short summary for the Desirs.live site

How have I got the Desirs.live virus?

There are a huge amount of ways of becoming infected by the adware that lead to the Desirs.live popups storm. A lion’s part of this malware instances is after the free software or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Freeware may likewise be downloaded from the main site, and the adware is offered as a legitimate bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A huge amount of people frequently utilize the uncertain programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, a wide range of apps that are free of cost, or even hacked programs. All of these sorts of software are risky, because it is extremely simple to integrate a Desirs.live malware under the cover of part of the license hacking script, or as a component of the self-made algoritm inside of the Windows optimization tool.

Desirs.live popup malware may additionally be concealed in the ad somewhere on the odd site. Such sites are generally full of bright and blinking advertisements, and their proprietors usually permit any kind of promos to be posted on their page. Hence, clicking on such banners is a shot in the dark: only the ad provider realizes what will occur when you press this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you can additionally receive something a lot more threatening, like ransomware or coin miner; the big share of coin miners circulation is exactly after the malicious advertisements.

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

Potentially unwanted programs, like Desirs.live popup virus can provoke a variety of different troubles on your personal computer. Distracting is not the only problem – pop-ups may display you the promotions, where you are offered to get another strange application, or “a perfect anti-malware tool”. Scareware is usually distributed under the last motto. Potentially unwanted applications, in turn, can have spyware functionality. And it is very hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a normal one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and pseudo antiviruses, popup-related promotions are also chosen as a spreading way by various trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of activity of such malware is 100% unwanted, and can cost you several hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not clicking these promotions, they can be clicked by whoever who also uses your computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the situation can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve it without information loss. It is recommended to wipe out the viruses with antivirus applications as soon as possible.

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

The tutorial of Desirs.live adware elimination consists of 2 sections. Initially, we need to get rid of the malware, and then deal with the consequences of its activity. The removal process is really easy, because it can be done even with making use of Microsoft Defender – anti-malware software that is available on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. Nevertheless, as a result of its huge resources consumption, as well as some failures that may be critical for some types of users, Defender is oftentimes disabled by the users, so its use is probably impossible. In addition, various trojan viruses are capable to switch off the embedded antivirus. It is much better to use the separated program that will not have such weakness.

I’d recommend you to utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven security device that will certainly eliminate the malware from your system and create an impenetrable shield with a Proactive protection function. But let’s deal with Desirs.live adware first.

Removing Desirs.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 Desirs.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 web browsers are reset, you need to make sure that your web browser will definitely 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 lines³:

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 issue that makes the things much more difficult to restore, especially without the anti-malware program. Most of adware variants that are utilized to show you the Desirs.live pop-up promotions are adjusting 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 collapse soon. In certain cases, you will see no crash, but large lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 secs, and after that it will be back to the normal, until you attempt to open settings once more.

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 advertisements on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware overview and the reasons why I advise it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.