Remove Dobin.live Pop-up Virus — How to Remove?

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

Clicking on the Dobin.live ad may result in the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this article, you will see the guideline of Dobin.live popups removal in various methods, and also checking your personal computer for additional malware presence.

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What are Dobin.live pop-ups?

Dobin.live popups are a result of adware presence. Adware is a sort of malware that demonstrates to you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click ads, which creates a substantial volume of profit for adware distributors. These ads may consist of sometimes shocking material, or have a web link to malicious content/website, considering that adware maintainers have no purpose to inspect the goodness of the content they are going to show – their single target is cash.

Dobin.live push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is a good, cheap and extremely successful advertising tool¹. It permits the seller to link the customers’ attention to their site, and the buyers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they want to purchase. When the consumer will get a pop-up notification that the TV set he wishes to purchase is available at the online shop he/she checked out earlier with a 15% discount, one will certainly use this possibility and buy it. Taking into consideration the extremely small cost for the popups and their targeting, such a promotion and marketing method is a much-loved thing among the advertising teams of large internet retailers.

However, such a successful scheme could not be missed by virus creators. Ability to demonstrate the popup ads by force to the victims of malware attack is an ideal basis for malevolent manipulations with the popup advertisements. And Dobin.live advertisements is one of hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a short details for the Dobin.live site

How have I got the Dobin.live virus?

There are a lot of ways of becoming contaminated by the adware that result in the Dobin.live popups tornado. A lion’s part of this malware incidents is after the free software or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Freeware can also be downloaded from the official website, and the adware is delivered as a legit bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A lot of people frequently use the unreliable programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, different apps that are free of cost, and even hacked programs. All of these kinds of software are dangerous, since it is very easy to include a Dobin.live malware under the guise of part of the license hacking script, or as a part of the self-made algoritm within the Windows optimization tool.

Dobin.live popup malware may also be hidden in the ad somewhere on the strange website. Such web pages are in most cases full of intense and blinking ads, and their owners generally accept any promotions to be posted on their web page. Therefore, clicking such banners is a shot in the dark: only the ad provider knows what will happen when you click this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you may additionally receive something a lot more dangerous, like ransomware or coin miner; the big share of coin miners circulation is exactly after the malicious ads.

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

Potentially unwanted programs, like Dobin.live popup virus can cause a variety of problems on your personal computer. Distracting is not the single problem – pop-up notifications can display you the ads, where you are offered to download one more dubious application, or “a amazing security tool”. Scareware is often distributed with the use of the last motto. Potentially undesirable programs, in turn, can have spyware functionality. And it is pretty hard to distinguish the undesirable app from a normal 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 way by different trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of activity of such viruses is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you hundreds or even thousands of dollars. And even if you are not interacting with these advertisements, they can be clicked by someone who also makes use of your PC – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to deal with it without information loss. It is recommended to wipe out the viruses with antivirus programs as soon as possible.

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

The guide of Dobin.live adware clearing includes 2 sections. First, we need to get rid of the malware, and afterwards repair the effects of its activity. The removal process is pretty simple, because it may be executed even with making use of Microsoft Defender – anti-malware tool that is available on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nonetheless, because of its substantial resources consumption, along with some defects that may be critical for some categories of individuals, Defender is frequently disabled by the users, so its utilization is likely impossible. Moreover, a wide range of trojan viruses are able to shut off the embedded antivirus. It is better to use the separated program that will not have such weakness.

I’d recommend you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven antivirus device that will certainly erase the malware from your PC and create an impenetrable shield with a Proactive protection feature. However, let’s manage Dobin.live adware initially.

Removing Dobin.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 Dobin.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 ensure that your web browser will be connected the accurate DNS while connecting to the site you need. Create a text file titled “hosts” on your desktop, then 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.

Nevertheless, there is one problem that makes the things a lot more difficult to restore, especially without the anti-malware software. Most of adware variants that are used to show you the Dobin.live pop-up advertisements are changing the deep browser configurations, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you attempt to fix your browser settings after your system was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will crash soon. In some cases, you will see no crash, however, large lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 seconds, and afterwards it will be back to the typical, until you try to open settings once again.

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 review and also the reasons why I advise it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.