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

Kopet.live pop-up notifications can show up unexpectedly, covering the content of the page you checked or opening your web browser when you do not need it to be opened.

Clicking on the Kopet.live advertisement can trigger the injection of various malware or unwanted programs. In this post, you will see the manual of Kopet.live popups removal in several manners, and also checking your computer for other malware presence.

What are Kopet.live pop-ups?

Kopet.live popups are an effect of adware presence. Adware is a type of malware that shows you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which generates a large volume of profit for adware representatives. These promotions may have sometimes shocking content, or have a web link to harmful content/website, due to the fact that adware maintainers have no reason to inspect the goodness of the web content they are going to show – their solitary target is money.

Kopet.live push notification.

Pop-up marketing itself is an excellent, low-priced and extremely successful advertising tool¹. It enables the seller to link the buyers’ interest to their site, and the buyers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to buy. When the consumer will get a pop-up notification that the TV set he wishes to buy is available at the online shop he/she checked out previously with a 15% discount, one will definitely use this opportunity and buy it. Taking into consideration the incredibly small cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising tool is a favorite thing amidst the marketing teams of big online retail stores.

Nonetheless, such a successful strategy could not be missed by malware developers. Ability to show the popup advertisements forcibly to the people of malware attack is an excellent basis for evil-minded tricks with the popup advertisements. And Kopet.live ads is one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a summary for the Kopet.live site

How have I got the Kopet.live virus?

There are a lot of ways of getting contaminated by the adware that create the Kopet.live popups tornado. A lion’s part of this computer virus cases is after the free software or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Free software may additionally be downloaded from the main web page, and the adware is presented as a legit bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A huge amount of people regularly utilize the dubious programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, different utilities that are free, or even hacked programs. All of these sorts of programs are risky, since it is extremely easy to integrate a Kopet.live malware under the guise of part of the license hacking script, or as a part 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 Kopet.live pop-up advertisements?

The guide of Kopet.live adware removal consists of 2 sections. First, we need to eliminate the malware, and afterwards fix the effects of its action. The elimination process is very easy, since it can be performed even with using Microsoft Defender – anti-malware program that is present on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. Nevertheless, as a result of its significant resources utilization, along with some errors that can be crucial for some types of users, Defender is often disabled by the users, so its utilization is likely impossible. In addition, a wide range of trojan viruses are able to shut off the embedded antivirus. It is better to use the separated program that will not have such exposures.

• 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 Kopet.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 be connected the right DNS while connecting to the site you want. Make a text file titled “hosts” on your 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.

However, there is one problem that makes things much more difficult to repair, particularly without the anti-malware software. A lot of adware variations that are used to show you the Kopet.live pop-up promotions are modifying the deep browser settings, 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 certainly crash soon. In certain cases, you will see no crash, however, large lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 seconds, and afterwards it will be back to the normal, until you attempt to open settings once more.

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