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

Hewtubi.live pop-up alerts can show up unexpectedly, covering the content of the site you visited or opening your web browser when you don’t need it to be opened.

Clicking the Hewtubi.live advertisement can lead to the injection of various malware or unwanted programs. In this post, you will see the manual of Hewtubi.live popups removal in various ways, and also examining your personal computer for additional viruses existence.

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What are Hewtubi.live pop-ups?

Hewtubi.live popups are a result of adware activity. Adware is a sort of malware that presents you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click promotions, which produces a significant volume of profit for adware distributors. These advertisements might have sometimes shocking information, or have a web link to malicious content/website, because adware maintainers have no purpose to examine the goodness of the material they are going to reveal – their solitary target is money.

Hewtubi.live push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is a good, low-cost and also very effective marketing solution¹. It permits the seller to attach the customers’ attention to their website, as well as the buyers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they want to buy. When the person will receive a pop-up alert that the TV set he desires to buy is available at the online shop he/she visited earlier with a 15% discount, one will certainly use this opportunity and buy it. Taking into consideration the very small cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising and marketing tool is a much-loved thing amongst the marketing teams of huge internet sellers.

However, such a successful plan could not be missed by virus creators. Option to demonstrate the popup ads by force to the victims of malware invasion is an excellent basis for malevolent tricks with the popup ads. And Hewtubi.live ads is just one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a short info for the Hewtubi.live

How have I got the Hewtubi.live virus?

There are a huge amount of methods of getting contaminated by the adware that lead to the Hewtubi.live popups tornado. A lion’s part of this computer virus instances is after the free software or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Free software can likewise be downloaded from the main website, and the adware is presented as a legit bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A number of people frequently make use of the uncertain programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, different tools that are free of cost, and even hacked programs. All of these sorts of programs are risky, since it is quite easy to integrate a Hewtubi.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.

Hewtubi.live popup malware may likewise be hidden in the advertisement somewhere on the strange site. Such web pages are in most cases packed with bright and blinking advertisements, and their owners usually approve any promos to be published on their web page. Therefore, clicking such banners is a risky thing: only the ad provider knows what will occur when you press this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you may also receive something a lot more damaging, like ransomware or coin miner; the big 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 applications, like Hewtubi.live popup virus may initiate a variety of troubles on your PC. Distracting is not the only problem – pop-up notifications may present you the banners, where you are offered to get another strange program, or “a effective anti-malware tool”. Scareware is usually distributed under the last slogun. Potentially undesirable programs, in turn, may have spyware functions. And it is pretty hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a normal one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and dubious antiviruses, popup-related banners are also exploited as a spreading method by various trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of activity of such viruses is 100% unwanted, and can cost you hundreds or even thousands of dollars. And even if you are not clicking these advertisements, they can be clicked by whoever who also makes use of your computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the situation can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve it without data loss. It is recommended to wipe out the viruses with anti-malware programs as soon as possible.

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

The manual of Hewtubi.live adware removal consists of 2 parts. Initially, we need to deal with the malware, and afterwards correct the consequences of its activity. The removal procedure is quite easy, since it can be executed even with making use of Microsoft Defender – anti-malware tool that is available on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. Nonetheless, due to its substantial resources consumption, along with some errors that may be critical for some categories of individuals, Defender is oftentimes turned off by the users, so its use is probably impossible. What’s more, a wide range of trojan viruses are able to turn off the embedded antivirus. It is much better to use the separated program that will not have such exposures.

I’d advise you to utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven security device that will surely exterminate the malware from your computer and also create an impenetrable shield with a Proactive protection function. But let’s deal with Hewtubi.live adware initially.

Removing Hewtubi.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 Hewtubi.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 web browser will definitely connect the appropriate DNS while connecting to the website you need. Create a text file titled “hosts” on your computer’s desktop, then 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.

Nevertheless, there is one trouble that makes things much more difficult to repair, particularly without the anti-malware program. A lot of adware variants that are utilized to show you the Hewtubi.live pop-up promotions are adjusting the deep browser configurations, 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 certainly crash soon. In some cases, you will see no crash, but huge lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 secs, and after that it will be back to the typical, 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 review and also the reasons why I advise it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.