Remove Gavist.live Virus — How to Fix Guide

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

Clicking the Gavist.live promotion can cause the injection of various malware or unwanted programs. In this article, you will see the guide of Gavist.live popups clearing in several manners, and also checking your PC for other malware existence.

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What are Gavist.live pop-ups?

Gavist.live popups are an effect of adware presence. Adware is a sort of malware that demonstrates to you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click ads, which generates a major amount of profit for adware distributors. These promotions may contain explicit composition, or have a link to malevolent content/website, since adware maintainers have no reason to check the goodness of the web content they are going to reveal – their single target is money.

Gavist.live push notification.

Pop-up marketing itself is a good, cheap and very efficient marketing instrument¹. It enables the seller to attach the customers’ attention to their website, and the customers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they wish to purchase. When the customer will get a pop-up notification that the TV set he likes to buy is provided at the online store he/she saw previously with a 15% discount, one will definitely use this opportunity and get it. Taking into consideration the extremely low price for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising and marketing tool is a much-loved thing among the marketing departments of big online retailers.

Nonetheless, such a successful system could not be missed by malware creators. Potential to demonstrate the popup ads forcibly to the people of malware invasion is a great basis for malicious adjustments with the popup promotions. And Gavist.live advertisements is just one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a short info for the Gavist.live site

How have I got the Gavist.live virus?

There are a huge amount of methods of becoming contaminated by the adware that create the Gavist.live popups tornado. A lion’s part of this virus incidents is after the free software or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Freeware may likewise be downloaded from the official site, and the adware is offered as a legitimate bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A number of individuals regularly work with the unreliable programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, different utilities that are free, and even hacked programs. All of these types of applications are risky, because it is very simple to include a Gavist.live malware under the cover of part of the license hacking script, or as a component of the self-made algoritm within the Windows optimization tool.

Gavist.live popup virus can also be hidden in the advertisement somewhere on the strange website. Such web pages are generally loaded with colorful and blinking ads, and their owners generally approve any promotions to be published on their web page. Thus, clicking on such banners is a risky thing: only the ad provider knows what will happen when you press this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you can additionally get something far more risky, like ransomware or coin miner; the large share of coin miners distribution is exactly after the malicious ads.

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

Potentially undesirable applications, like Gavist.live popup virus may initiate a lot of different problems on your PC. Distracting is not the single effect – pop-ups may show you the banners, where you are offered to get one more dubious application, or “a amazing anti-malware tool”. Scareware is usually distributed with the last slogun. Potentially undesirable programs, in turn, may have spyware functionality. And it is very hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a legit one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the potentially unwanted programs and dubious antiviruses, popup-related ads are also chosen as a distribution way by various trojan viruses, for example – coin miners. The consequences of actions 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 ads, they can be clicked by someone who also uses your computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things may become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve it without data loss. It is recommended to get rid of the viruses with anti-malware programs as soon as possible.

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

The tutorial of Gavist.live adware elimination consists of 2 sections. Initially, we need to remove the malware, and then deal with the results of its activity. The removal task is pretty simple, because it can be done even with making use of Microsoft Defender – anti-malware program that is available on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nevertheless, as a result of its large resources consumption, along with some problems that may be critical for some groups of individuals, Defender is frequently disabled by the users, so its use is probably impossible. Furthermore, different trojan viruses can turn off the embedded antivirus. It is better to make use of the separated program that will not have such weakness.

I would certainly suggest you to utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven antivirus device that will surely remove the viruses from your PC and create an impenetrable shield with a Proactive protection function. However, let’s manage Gavist.live adware initially.

Removing Gavist.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 Gavist.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 browser will definitely be connected the proper DNS while connecting to the site you need. Make a text file titled “hosts” on your computer’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.

Nevertheless, there is one issue that makes things a lot harder to fix, specifically without the anti-malware software. The majority of adware variants that are used to show you the Gavist.live pop-up promotions are altering the deep browser setups, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to change 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, but large lag spike after pushing 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 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 ads on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware review and the reasons why I recommend it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.