Remove Hobirs.live Virus — How to Fix Guide

Hobirs.live pop-up notifications may show up out of the blue, covering the post of the website you went to or opening your web browser when you don’t need it to be opened.

Clicking on the Hobirs.live advertisement can result in the injection of other malware or unwanted programs. In this article, you will see the guide of Hobirs.live popups clearing in several methods, and also inspecting your personal computer for extra malware existence.

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What are Hobirs.live pop-ups?

Hobirs.live popups are a result of adware activity. Adware is a kind of malware that suggests you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click ads, which generates a significant volume of earnings for adware distributors. These ads might include sometimes shocking material, or have a link to malicious content/website, because adware maintainers have no reason to check the goodness of the material they are going to show – their solitary target is money.

Hobirs.live push notification.

Pop-up marketing itself is a very good, affordable and extremely effective advertising solution¹. It permits the vendor to attach the buyers’ attention to their website, and the buyers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they want to purchase. When the person will receive a pop-up alert that the TV set he likes to buy is provided at the online store he/she checked out earlier with a 15% price cut, one will undoubtedly use this possibility and get it. Considering the exceptionally low cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising tool is a much-loved thing amongst the advertising teams of huge internet sellers.

Nonetheless, such a profitable scheme could not be missed by virus creators. Ability to demonstrate the popup advertisements by force to the targets of malware invasion is a perfect basis for malicious manipulations with the popup ads. And Hobirs.live ads is among hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a short details for the Hobirs.live

How have I got the Hobirs.live virus?

There are a number of methods of becoming infected by the adware that result in the Hobirs.live popups tornado. A lion’s part of this malware cases is after the free software or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Free software can additionally be downloaded from the main site, and the adware is supplied as a legal bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A huge amount of individuals regularly utilize the uncertain programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, a wide range of utilities that are free, and even hacked programs. Every one of these sorts of programs are unsafe, since it is quite easy to build in a Hobirs.live malware under the guise of part of the license hacking script, or as a part of the self-made algoritm within the Windows optimization tool.

Hobirs.live popup malware may also be concealed in the ad somewhere on the strange website. Such websites are in most cases full of intense and blinking advertisements, and their proprietors typically approve any promos to be published on their page. Hence, clicking on such banners is a risky thing: only the advertisement provider knows what will occur when you click this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you may additionally get something much more unsafe, like ransomware or coin miner; the substantial share of coin miners circulation is exactly after the malicious promotions.

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

Potentially unwanted applications, like Hobirs.live pop-up virus can provoke a lot of problems on your computer. Distracting is not the only effect – pop-up notifications can show you the ads, where you are offered to download another unknown program, or “a amazing anti-malware tool”. Scareware is often spread with the last slogun. Potentially unwanted applications, 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 potentially unwanted programs and fake antiviruses, popup-related advertisements are also used as a spreading way by different trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such malware is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you several hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not tapping these ads, they may be clicked by whoever who also uses your computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to deal with it without data loss. It is recommended to get rid of the viruses with antivirus applications as soon as possible.

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

The tutorial of Hobirs.live adware removal consists of 2 sections. Initially, we need to get rid of the malware, and then take care of the consequences of its action. The removal process is quite easy, because it may be performed even with using Microsoft Defender – security software that is available on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nevertheless, because of its substantial resources usage, along with some errors that may be pivotal for some kinds of users, Defender is often turned off by the users, so its use is most likely impossible. Moreover, different trojan viruses are able to shut off the embedded antivirus. It is much better to use the separated program that will not have such exposures.

I’d recommend you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven anti-malware tool that will surely exterminate the viruses from your computer and also create an impenetrable cover with a Proactive protection function. But let’s manage Hobirs.live adware initially.

Removing Hobirs.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 Hobirs.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 accurate DNS while connecting to the site you want. Create a text file named “hosts” on your computer’s desktop, then 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 trouble that makes the things much harder to repair, particularly without the anti-malware software. The majority of adware variants that are utilized to show you the Hobirs.live pop-up advertisements are modifying the deep browser setups, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you attempt to fix your browser settings after your system was infected by pop-up-related malware, your browser will collapse quickly. In certain cases, you will see no crash, but significant lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 secs, and afterwards 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 advertisements on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware review and also the reasons why I suggest it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.