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

Drirer.live pop-up alerts can show up out of the blue, covering the material of the site you visited or opening your web browser when you do not need it to be opened.

Clicking the Drirer.live advertisement may lead to the injection of other malware or unwanted programs. In this article, you will see the tutorial of Drirer.live popups clearing in various manners, as well as examining your personal computer for other malware existence.

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What are Drirer.live pop-ups?

Drirer.live popups are an outcome of adware activity. Adware is a kind of malware that suggests you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click promotions, which produces a significant amount of earnings for adware representatives. These promotions may consist of sometimes shocking material, or have a link to harmful content/website, considering that adware maintainers have no purpose to examine the goodness of the web content they are going to reveal – their solitary target is money.

Drirer.live push notification.

Pop-up promotions itself is an excellent, low-cost and also very productive advertising method¹. It enables the vendor to attach the customers’ attention to their website, and the buyers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to purchase. When the customer will get a pop-up notification that the TV set he wishes to buy is offered at the online store he/she checked out previously with a 15% discount, one will undoubtedly use this opportunity and get it. Considering the very small cost for the popups and their targeting, such a promotion and marketing method is a much-loved thing amidst the marketing departments of large internet retail stores.

Nevertheless, such a successful system could not be missed by virus developers. Potential to demonstrate the popup advertisements by force to the victims of malware attack is an excellent basis for evil-minded tricks with the popup ads. And Drirer.live promotions is among hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a summary for the Drirer.live

How have I got the Drirer.live virus?

There are a plenty of methods of getting infected by the adware that trigger the Drirer.live popups storm. A lion’s part of this malware instances is after the free software or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Free software can likewise be downloaded from the main web page, and the adware is delivered as a legit bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A plenty of users regularly work with the unreliable programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, different tools that are free, or perhaps hacked programs. All of these kinds of programs are risky, due to the fact that it is very easy to build in a Drirer.live malware under the guise of part of the license hacking script, or as a component of the self-made algoritm within the Windows optimization tool.

Drirer.live popup malware can additionally be concealed in the ad somewhere on the strange website. Such sites are in most cases packed with bright and blinking advertisements, and their proprietors typically accept any type of promotions to be published on their page. Therefore, clicking such banners is a risky thing: only the advertisement provider knows what will occur when you click this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you can likewise receive something much more unsafe, like ransomware or coin miner; the substantial 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 undesirable programs, like Drirer.live pop-up virus may provoke a variety of different problems on your computer. Distracting is not the single problem – pop-ups may show you the advertisements, where you are offered to get one more dubious program, or “a perfect security tool”. Scareware is often spread under the last slogun. Potentially unwanted applications, in turn, may have spyware functionality. And it is quite hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a good one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the potentially unwanted programs and fake antiviruses, popup-related advertisements are also exploited as a distribution method by different trojan viruses, for example – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such viruses is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you several hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not tapping these banners, they may be clicked by whoever who also makes use of your personal computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things may become much more serious, and it will be much harder to deal with it without data and money loss. It is recommended to get rid of the viruses with antivirus programs as soon as possible.

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

The tutorial of Drirer.live adware removal includes 2 sections. Initially, we need to exterminate the malware, and afterwards correct the consequences of its activity. The elimination task is pretty simple, because it may be performed even with using Microsoft Defender – anti-virus software that is available on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. Nonetheless, because of its large resources usage, as well as some defects that may be pivotal for some types of individuals, Defender is often disabled by the users, so its use is probably impossible. Moreover, a wide range of trojan viruses have the ability to turn off the embedded antivirus. It is far better to make use of the separated program that will not have such weakness.

I’d advise you to utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven anti-malware device that will certainly erase the viruses from your PC and also create an impenetrable shield with a Proactive protection feature. But let’s handle Drirer.live adware initially.

Removing Drirer.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 Drirer.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 be connected the right DNS while connecting to the web page you want. Make a text file titled “hosts” on your pc’s 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.

Nevertheless, there is one trouble that makes the things a lot harder to fix, specifically without the anti-malware program. The majority of adware versions that are used to show you the Drirer.live pop-up promotions are changing the deep browser setups, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to fix your browser settings after your system was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will crash quickly. In some cases, you will see no crash, however, huge lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 secs, and after that it will be back to the typical, till you try to open settings 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 overview and the reasons why I advise it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.