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

Driser.live pop-up notifications can appear out of the blue, covering the content of the page you explored or opening your web browser when you don’t wish it to be opened.

Clicking on the Driser.live promotion may cause the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this post, you will see the manual of Driser.live popups clearing in a couple of ways, as well as examining your computer for other malware presence.

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What are Driser.live pop-ups?

Driser.live popups are an outcome of adware presence. Adware is a kind of malware that shows you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click promotions, which creates a significant volume of profit for adware suppliers. These advertisements may include sometimes shocking composition, or have a web link to harmful content/website, since adware maintainers have no reason to inspect the goodness of the web content they are going to reveal – their solitary target is cash.

Driser.live push notification.

Pop-up promotions itself is a very good, cheap and also very productive marketing method¹. It permits the seller to link the buyers’ interest to their website, as well as the customers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they want to buy. When the customer will get a pop-up notification that the TV set he wishes to purchase is offered at the online shop he/she checked out previously with a 15% price cut, one will definitely use this chance and get it. Taking into consideration the incredibly low price for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising method is a much-loved thing among the marketing teams of huge online stores.

However, such a profitable strategy could not be missed by virus developers. Option to demonstrate the popup ads forcibly to the victims of malware attack is a perfect basis for evil-minded tricks with the popup advertisements. And Driser.live promotions is just one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a info for the Driser.live

How have I got the Driser.live virus?

There are a number of ways of becoming infected by the adware that trigger the Driser.live popups tornado. A lion’s part of this computer virus incidents is after the free software or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Free software can also be downloaded from the main web page, and the adware is provided as a legitimate bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A lot of users often use the uncertain programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, a wide range of tools that are free of cost, or perhaps hacked programs. All of these types of applications are unsafe, since it is extremely easy to integrate a Driser.live malware under the cover of part of the license hacking script, or as a part of the self-made algoritm within the Windows optimization tool.

Driser.live popup malware can also be hidden in the advertisement somewhere on the odd website. Such sites are typically packed with colorful and blinking advertisements, and their proprietors often approve any kind of promotions to be published on their page. Hence, clicking such banners is a risky thing: only the ad contractor realizes what will happen when you click this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you can additionally receive something a lot more threatening, like ransomware or coin miner; the substantial 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 undesirable programs, like Driser.live pop-up virus can cause a lot of problems on your PC. Distracting is not the single problem – pop-up notifications may show you the promotions, where you are offered to get another dubious application, or “a amazing anti-malware tool”. Scareware is often spread with the last slogun. Potentially unwanted applications, in turn, may have spyware functionality. And it is pretty hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a normal one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the potentially unwanted programs and pseudo antiviruses, popup-related ads are also exploited as a distribution way by various trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of activity of such malware is 100% unwanted, and can cost you hundreds or even thousands of dollars. And even if you are not clicking these ads, they may be clicked by someone who also makes use of your computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things may become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve it without information loss. It is recommended to eliminate the viruses with anti-malware programs as soon as possible.

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

The guide of Driser.live adware elimination contains 2 sections. Initially, we need to deal with the malware, and afterwards take care of the effects of its action. The removal task is pretty simple, since it may be done even with using Microsoft Defender – anti-malware tool that is available on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nonetheless, due to its huge resources usage, as well as some errors that can be critical for some groups of users, Defender is oftentimes disabled by the users, so its utilization is likely impossible. Additionally, different trojan viruses are able to shut off the embedded antivirus. It is far better to use the separated program that will not have such vulnerabilities.

I’d advise you to utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven antivirus device that will definitely exterminate the viruses from your system and also make an impenetrable cover with a Proactive protection function. But let’s handle Driser.live adware initially.

Removing Driser.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 Driser.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 correct DNS while connecting to the web page you need. Make 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.

Nonetheless, there is one trouble that makes things a lot harder to fix, especially without the anti-malware program. The majority of adware variants that are utilized to show you the Driser.live pop-up ads are modifying the deep browser setups, 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 quickly. In certain cases, you will see no crash, however, huge lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 seconds, and after that it will be back to the normal, up until you attempt 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 the reasons why I suggest it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.