Remove Komet.live Pop-up Ads — How to Fix Gude

Komet.live pop-up alerts can show up out of the blue, covering the subject of the site you explored or opening your web browser when you don’t desire it to be opened.

Clicking on the Komet.live advertisement may lead to the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this post, you will see the guideline of Komet.live popups clearing in multiple methods, as well as examining your system for additional viruses presence.

What are Komet.live pop-ups?

Komet.live popups are a result of adware presence. Adware is a kind of malware that demonstrates to you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click ads, which produces a major volume of income for adware distributors. These advertisements may have sometimes shocking composition, or have a web link to malevolent content/website, due to the fact that adware maintainers have no reason to examine the goodness of the web content they are going to show – their single target is cash.

Komet.live push notification.

Pop-up marketing itself is an excellent, low-priced and also really productive advertising solution¹. It allows the vendor to link the buyers’ interest to their website, as well as the customers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they want to purchase. 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 visited previously with a 15% price cut, one will definitely use this chance and buy it. Taking into consideration the very low cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising instrument is a favourite thing amongst the advertising teams of huge internet retailers.

However, such a successful system could not be missed by virus developers. Option to demonstrate the popup advertisements by force to the people of malware attack is a perfect basis for malicious manipulations with the popup advertisements. And Komet.live ads is one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a details for the Komet.live site

How have I got the Komet.live virus?

There are a number of ways of becoming infected by the adware that trigger the Komet.live popups tornado. A lion’s part of this virus instances is after the free software or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Freeware can also be downloaded from the official site, and the adware is delivered as a legal bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A lot of individuals frequently use the dubious programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, various utilities that are free, and even hacked programs. All of these kinds of programs are unsafe, due to the fact that it is quite easy to include a Komet.live malware under the cover of part of the license hacking script, or as a component of the self-made algoritm inside of the Windows optimization tool.

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

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

The manual of Komet.live adware removal contains 2 sections. Initially, we need to eliminate the malware, and then fix the consequences of its activity. The removal process is really simple, since it may be done even with making use of Microsoft Defender – anti-virus software that is present on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nonetheless, as a result of its significant resources utilization, as well as some bugs that may be crucial for some kinds of individuals, Defender is frequently turned off by the users, so its utilization is likely impossible. In addition, various trojan viruses are able to turn off the embedded antivirus. It is much better to use the separated program that will not have such vulnerabilities.

• 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 Komet.live malware the default option is “Delete”. Press “Apply” to finish the malware removal.

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 make sure that your web browser will definitely be connected the proper DNS while connecting to the site you want. Create a text file named “hosts” on your computer’s desktop, after that 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.

Nevertheless, there is one problem that makes the things a lot more difficult to restore, especially without the anti-malware program. A lot of adware variants that are used to show you the Komet.live pop-up ads are changing the deep browser configurations, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to change your browser settings after your computer was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will crash soon. Sometimes, you will see no crash, but significant lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 secs, and after that it will be back to the typical, up until you attempt to open settings one more time.

1. More about pop-up advertisements on Wikipedia.
2. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.