Remove Likerus.click Pop-up Virus — How to Remove?

Likerus.click pop-up notices can appear unexpectedly, covering the post of the website you checked or opening your web browser when you do not want it to be opened.

Clicking on the Likerus.click promotion can cause the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this guide, you will see the tutorial of Likerus.click popups removal in several manners, and also inspecting your computer for additional malware existence.

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What are Likerus.click pop-ups?

Likerus.click popups are a result of adware activity. Adware is a type of malware that suggests you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which produces a significant amount of income for adware representatives. These ads may contain explicit information, or have a link to malevolent content/website, since adware maintainers have no reason to examine the goodness of the content they are going to show – their single target is money.

Likerus.click push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is a very good, low-cost and extremely efficient advertising instrument¹. It allows the seller to attach the customers’ attention to their site, as well as the customers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to purchase. When the customer will receive a pop-up alert that the TV set he wishes to buy is offered at the online shop he/she visited earlier with a 15% discount, one will undoubtedly use this opportunity and purchase it. Taking into consideration the very low cost for the popups and their targeting, such a promotion and marketing method is a much-loved thing amongst the marketing departments of large internet retailers.

Nevertheless, such a rewarding scheme could not be missed by malware creators. Potential to demonstrate the popup ads forcibly to the targets of malware invasion is an excellent basis for evil-minded manipulations with the popup promotions. And Likerus.click promotions is one of hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a short summary for the Likerus.click

How have I got the Likerus.click virus?

There are a plenty of ways of becoming contaminated by the adware that create the Likerus.click popups storm. A lion’s part of this virus cases is after the free software or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Freeware can likewise be downloaded from the main site, and the adware is presented as a legitimate bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A plenty of individuals frequently utilize the unreliable programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, different apps that are free of cost, or perhaps hacked programs. Every one of these kinds of programs are dangerous, since it is very simple to include a Likerus.click 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.

Likerus.click popup malware may additionally be concealed in the ad somewhere on the strange site. Such sites are generally loaded with bright and blinking ads, and their proprietors generally accept any promos to be placed on their page. For this reason, clicking on such banners is a risky thing: only the advertisement provider realizes what will happen when you click this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you can also receive something much more risky, like ransomware or coin miner; the substantial share of coin miners distribution is exactly after the malicious promotions.

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

Potentially unwanted programs, like Likerus.click pop-up virus may provoke a wide range of troubles on your personal computer. Distracting is not the only problem – pop-up notifications may show you the advertisements, where you are offered to download one more unknown program, or “a effective security tool”. Scareware is usually distributed with the last slogun. Potentially unwanted programs, in turn, can have spyware functions. And it is pretty hard to distinguish the undesirable app from a normal one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and dubious antiviruses, popup-related promotions are also chosen as a distribution method 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 tapping these ads, they can be clicked by someone who also makes use of your computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things may become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve it without data and money loss. It is recommended to wipe out the viruses with anti-malware programs as soon as possible.

How can I get rid of Likerus.click pop-up advertisements?

The tutorial of Likerus.click adware clearing includes 2 parts. Initially, we need to deal with the malware, and then repair the effects of its action. The elimination procedure is very easy, since it may be executed even with making use of Microsoft Defender – anti-malware program that is present on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. However, due to its substantial resources usage, as well as some bugs that can be critical for some types of users, Defender is oftentimes turned off by the users, so its use is most likely impossible. Additionally, different trojan viruses are able to turn off the embedded antivirus. It is much better to make use of the separated program that will not have such vulnerabilities.

I would certainly suggest you to utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven security tool that will surely erase the malware from your system and create an impenetrable cover with a Proactive protection function. However, let’s handle Likerus.click adware first.

Removing Likerus.click 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 Likerus.click 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 be connected the appropriate DNS while connecting to the website you need. Make a text file titled “hosts” on your 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.

Nonetheless, there is one trouble that makes the things much harder to fix, especially without the anti-malware program. A lot of adware variations that are used to show you the Likerus.click pop-up promotions are modifying the deep browser configurations, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you attempt to fix your browser settings after your PC was infected by pop-up-related malware, your browser will certainly collapse quickly. In some cases, you will see no crash, however, significant lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 secs, and after that it will be back to the typical, up until you attempt to open settings once more.

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 elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.