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

Gidens.live pop-up notifications can appear unexpectedly, covering the post of the site you explored or opening your web browser when you do not want it to be opened.

Clicking the Gidens.live ad may trigger the injection of various malware or unwanted programs. In this post, you will see the guide of Gidens.live popups removal in multiple ways, as well as checking your personal computer for extra malware presence.

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What are Gidens.live pop-ups?

Gidens.live popups are a consequence of adware action. Adware is a sort of malware that presents you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click ads, which creates a large amount of revenue for adware suppliers. These ads might consist of sometimes shocking material, or have a link to harmful content/website, because adware maintainers have no reason to inspect the goodness of the web content they are going to reveal – their single target is money.

Gidens.live push notification.

Pop-up promotions itself is an excellent, low-cost and really productive marketing method¹. It permits the vendor to link the buyers’ attention to their site, as well as the customers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they wish to buy. When the consumer will get a pop-up notification that the TV set he wishes to buy is available at the online store he/she saw earlier with a 15% price cut, one will certainly use this opportunity and purchase it. Considering the extremely low price for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising tool is a much-loved thing amidst the advertising teams of huge online retail stores.

Nevertheless, such a profitable plan could not be missed by virus developers. Option to demonstrate the popup ads forcibly to the victims of malware invasion is an ideal basis for evil-minded adjustments with the popup ads. And Gidens.live advertisements is one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a short details for the Gidens.live site

How have I got the Gidens.live virus?

There are a huge amount of methods of getting contaminated by the adware that trigger the Gidens.live popups tornado. A lion’s part of this malware instances is after the free software or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Free software may likewise be downloaded from the official website, and the adware is provided as a legit bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A number of people frequently make use of the dubious programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, various utilities that are free, and even hacked programs. All of these sorts of programs are dangerous, due to the fact that it is extremely simple to integrate a Gidens.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.

Gidens.live popup virus may likewise be hidden in the ad somewhere on the strange website. Such sites are in most cases packed with colorful and blinking ads, and their proprietors usually accept any kind of promos to be placed on their web page. Therefore, clicking on such banners is a shot in the dark: only the advertisement contractor knows what will occur when you press this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you can additionally receive something a lot more threatening, 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 Gidens.live popup virus can cause a variety of different problems on your computer. Distracting is not the only effect – pop-ups can display you the advertisements, where you are offered to get another dubious application, or “a amazing anti-malware tool”. Scareware is usually spread under the last slogun. Potentially undesirable applications, in turn, can have spyware functions. And it is very hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a legit one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and pseudo antiviruses, popup-related advertisements are also exploited as a distribution method by different trojan viruses, for example – coin miners. The consequences of activity of such viruses is 100% unwanted, and can cost you hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not tapping these banners, they may be clicked by someone who also uses your PC – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve it without information loss. It is recommended to wipe out the viruses with antivirus applications as soon as possible.

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

The manual of Gidens.live adware clearing consists of 2 parts. First, we need to remove the malware, and then take care of the results of its activity. The removal task is quite easy, due to the fact that it can be executed even with using Microsoft Defender – anti-virus tool that is available on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. Nonetheless, because of its substantial resources usage, along with some defects that may be pivotal for some kinds of individuals, Defender is oftentimes turned off by the users, so its use is most likely impossible. Moreover, a variety of trojan viruses are capable to switch off the embedded antivirus. It is far better to make use of the separated program that will not have such weakness.

I would certainly recommend you to utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven security tool that will surely erase the viruses from your system and also make an invulnerable shield with a Proactive protection function. But let’s manage Gidens.live adware initially.

Removing Gidens.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 Gidens.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 make sure that your browser will be connected the proper DNS while connecting to the site you need. Create a text file titled “hosts” on your pc’s desktop, then 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 problem that makes the things much more difficult to fix, especially without the anti-malware program. A lot of adware versions that are used to show you the Gidens.live pop-up advertisements are modifying the deep browser setups, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you attempt to change your browser settings after your system was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will collapse soon. Sometimes, you will see no crash, however, large lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 secs, and afterwards it will be back to the normal, up until you try to open settings one more time.

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 recommend it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.