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

Foceg.live pop-up notices may show up unexpectedly, covering the content of the page you explored or opening your web browser when you don’t wish it to be opened.

Clicking the Foceg.live promotion may result in the injection of other malware or unwanted programs. In this article, you will see the guide of Foceg.live popups removal in several ways, and also inspecting your personal computer for other malware presence.

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What are Foceg.live pop-ups?

Foceg.live popups are an effect of adware presence. Adware is a sort of malware that presents you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click ads, which generates a massive volume of income for adware distributors. These promotions may consist of sometimes shocking information, or have a web link to harmful content/website, because adware maintainers have no reason to check the goodness of the content they are going to reveal – their single target is money.

Foceg.live push notification.

Pop-up promotions itself is a very good, affordable and really productive marketing instrument¹. It permits the seller to attach the buyers’ attention to their site, as well as the customers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to buy. When the consumer will receive a pop-up alert that the TV set he likes to purchase is available at the online store he/she saw previously with a 15% price cut, one will undoubtedly use this possibility and buy it. Considering the extremely low price for the popups and their targeting, such a promotion and marketing instrument is a much-loved thing amongst the marketing teams of big internet sellers.

Nonetheless, such a rewarding plan could not be missed by malware developers. Option to show the popup advertisements forcibly to the victims of malware attack is a great basis for evil-minded tricks with the popup advertisements. And Foceg.live advertisements is among hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a short details for the Foceg.live

How have I got the Foceg.live virus?

There are a lot of ways of getting contaminated by the adware that trigger the Foceg.live popups storm. A lion’s part of this computer virus instances is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Free software can also 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 often make use of the uncertain programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, a wide range of utilities that are free, and even hacked programs. All of these types of applications are risky, because it is extremely simple to build in a Foceg.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.

Foceg.live popup malware may also be hidden in the ad somewhere on the odd web page. Such websites are generally full of bright and blinking advertisements, and their proprietors often accept any kind of promotions to be posted on their page. For this reason, clicking on such banners is a shot in the dark: only the advertisement provider realizes what will happen when you press this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you can likewise receive something a lot more unsafe, 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 Foceg.live popup virus may cause a wide range of problems on your PC. Distracting is not the only problem – pop-up notifications can present you the advertisements, where you are offered to download another unknown application, or “a effective anti-malware tool”. Scareware is often spread with the use of the last motto. Potentially undesirable programs, in turn, can have spyware functions. And it is pretty hard to distinguish the undesirable app from a good one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and dubious antiviruses, popup-related ads are also chosen as a distribution method by various trojan viruses, for example – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such viruses is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not clicking these ads, they may be clicked by someone who also makes use of your personal computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve it without data and money loss. It is recommended to get rid of the viruses with anti-malware applications as soon as possible.

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

The guide of Foceg.live adware clearing contains 2 parts. First, we need to eliminate the malware, and then take care of the consequences of its activity. The elimination process is quite 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. However, due to its large resources usage, as well as some defects that can be crucial for some groups of users, Defender is frequently turned off by the users, so its usage is probably impossible. What’s more, different trojan viruses can turn off the embedded antivirus. It is far better to make use of the separated program that will not have such vulnerabilities.

I’d advise you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven anti-malware device that will certainly erase the viruses from your system and create an impenetrable shield with a Proactive protection function. However, let’s handle Foceg.live adware initially.

Removing Foceg.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 Foceg.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 ensure that your web browser will definitely connect the appropriate DNS while connecting to the website 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.

Nevertheless, there is one trouble that makes the things much more difficult to fix, specifically without the anti-malware software. A lot of adware variants that are used to show you the Foceg.live pop-up ads are adjusting the deep browser configurations, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you attempt to fix your browser settings after your machine was infected by pop-up-related malware, your browser will collapse quickly. Sometimes, you will see no crash, however, significant lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 seconds, and afterwards it will be back to the normal, till you try 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 review and also the reasons why I recommend it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.