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

Gizers.live pop-up notices may show up unexpectedly, covering the subject of the site you checked or opening your browser when you don’t need it to be opened.

Clicking the Gizers.live ad may result in the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this post, you will see the guide of Gizers.live popups clearing in various manners, and also inspecting your computer for extra malware existence.

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What are Gizers.live pop-ups?

Gizers.live popups are a result of adware activity. Adware is a kind of malware that demonstrates to you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which creates a significant volume of earnings for adware suppliers. These advertisements might include explicit content, or have a link to malevolent content/website, because adware maintainers have no reason to examine the goodness of the material they are going to show – their single target is money.

Gizers.live push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is a very good, affordable and very efficient marketing method¹. It enables the vendor to attach the buyers’ attention to their website, as well as the buyers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they wish to purchase. When the person will get a pop-up notification that the TV set he wishes to buy is available at the online store he/she visited previously with a 15% price cut, one will certainly use this chance and purchase it. Taking into consideration the incredibly low price for the popups and their targeting, such a promotion and marketing method is a favourite thing amidst the advertising departments of large online sellers.

Nevertheless, such a successful strategy could not be missed by malware developers. Option to show the popup ads forcibly to the targets of malware invasion is a perfect basis for evil-minded adjustments with the popup promotions. And Gizers.live ads is just one of hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a details for the Gizers.live site

How have I got the Gizers.live virus?

There are a lot of ways of getting contaminated by the adware that create the Gizers.live popups tornado. A lion’s part of this computer virus cases is after the free software or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Freeware can likewise be downloaded from the main site, and the adware is supplied as a legal bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A plenty of people often use the dubious programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, a wide range of apps that are free of cost, or perhaps hacked programs. Every one of these kinds of programs are risky, due to the fact that it is very easy to build in a Gizers.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.

Gizers.live popup virus may likewise be hidden in the promotion somewhere on the strange web page. Such web pages are usually loaded with colorful and blinking ads, and their proprietors usually approve any promos to be posted on their web page. Thus, clicking on such banners is a risky thing: only the advertisement contractor realizes what will occur when you click this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you can likewise receive something a lot more risky, like ransomware or coin miner; the big share of coin miners distribution is exactly after the malicious advertisements.

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

Potentially unwanted programs, like Gizers.live pop-up virus can initiate a lot of different troubles on your PC. Distracting is not the only problem – pop-ups can show you the banners, where you are offered to get one more strange application, or “a amazing anti-malware tool”. Scareware is often distributed with the use of the last slogun. Potentially unwanted applications, in turn, can have spyware functionality. And it is quite hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a legit one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the potentially unwanted programs and pseudo antiviruses, popup-related advertisements are also used as a distribution way by various trojan viruses, for example – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such viruses is 100% unwanted, and can cost you hundreds or even thousands of dollars. And even if you are not interacting with these advertisements, they can be clicked by someone who also uses your PC – 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 get rid of the viruses with anti-malware programs as soon as possible.

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

The tutorial of Gizers.live adware removal consists of 2 parts. First, we need to exterminate the malware, and afterwards repair the consequences of its activity. The removal process is really easy, due to the fact that it can be done even with making use of Microsoft Defender – anti-malware software that is available on all computers with Windows 8/10. However, as a result of its large resources utilization, as well as some bugs that can be serious for some types of users, Defender is oftentimes disabled by the users, so its use is probably impossible. In addition, various trojan viruses can switch off the embedded antivirus. It is far better to use the separated program that will not have such exposures.

I’d advise you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven antivirus tool that will definitely wipe out the malware from your PC and also create an invulnerable cover with a Proactive protection function. However, let’s handle Gizers.live adware first.

Removing Gizers.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 Gizers.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 appropriate DNS while connecting to the website you want. Make a text file titled “hosts” on your computer’s desktop, after that open it and fill it with the following text³:

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 issue that makes the things much harder to repair, specifically without the anti-malware software. The majority of adware variants that are used to show you the Gizers.live pop-up promotions are adjusting the deep browser settings, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to fix your browser settings after your machine was infected by pop-up-related malware, your browser will crash quickly. In some cases, you will see no crash, however, significant lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 secs, and after that it will be back to the normal, until you attempt 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 review and the reasons why I advise it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.