Remove Mosen.live Pop-up Virus — How to Remove?

Mosen.live pop-up notifications can show up out of the blue, covering the content of the site you went to or opening your browser when you don’t want it to be opened.

Clicking the Mosen.live advertisement can trigger the injection of other malware or unwanted programs. In this article, you will see the guide of Mosen.live popups removal in a couple of methods, and also inspecting your personal computer for additional viruses presence.

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What are Mosen.live pop-ups?

Mosen.live popups are an outcome of adware action. Adware is a sort of malware that suggests you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click promotions, which creates a massive amount of income for adware suppliers. These ads may have explicit information, or have a web link to malicious content/website, because adware maintainers have no reason to examine the goodness of the content they are going to show – their solitary target is cash.

Mosen.live push notification.

Pop-up promotions itself is a good, affordable and also very productive marketing tool¹. It allows the vendor to link the buyers’ interest to their website, as well as the buyers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to purchase. When the person will get a pop-up notification that the TV set he likes to purchase is available at the online shop he/she saw previously with a 15% price cut, one will surely use this chance and purchase it. Taking into consideration the incredibly low price for the popups and their targeting, such a marketing instrument is a favourite thing amongst the advertising departments of huge online sellers.

Nevertheless, such a profitable strategy could not be missed by virus creators. Potential to demonstrate the popup advertisements by force to the victims of malware invasion is a great basis for malevolent tricks with the popup promotions. And Mosen.live advertisements is just one of hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a short info for the Mosen.live

How have I got the Mosen.live virus?

There are a number of ways of getting contaminated by the adware that trigger the Mosen.live popups tornado. A lion’s part of this malware incidents is after the free software or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Freeware may also be downloaded from the official site, and the adware is presented as a legal bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A lot of people oftentimes utilize the dubious programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, different tools that are free of cost, and even hacked programs. Every one of these types of software are dangerous, due to the fact that it is very simple to build in a Mosen.live malware under the guise of part of the license hacking script, or as a component of the self-made algoritm inside of the Windows optimization tool.

Mosen.live popup malware can likewise be hidden in the advertisement somewhere on the odd website. Such sites are usually filled with intense and blinking ads, and their proprietors often permit any promotions to be published on their page. Therefore, clicking on such banners is a risky thing: only the advertisement provider realizes what will happen when you press this ad. 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 Mosen.live pop-up virus may cause a lot of different problems on your PC. Distracting is not the single problem – pop-ups can show you the banners, where you are offered to download another unknown application, or “a perfect anti-malware tool”. Scareware is often spread with the last slogun. Potentially undesirable applications, in turn, may have spyware functions. And it is very hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a legit one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and dubious antiviruses, popup-related promotions are also used as a distribution way by different trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such viruses is 100% unwanted, and can cost you several hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not clicking these banners, they may be clicked by someone who also makes use of your personal computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things may 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 applications as soon as possible.

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

The manual of Mosen.live adware removal consists of 2 parts. First, we need to eliminate the malware, and after that deal with the effects of its activity. The removal procedure is very simple, due to the fact that it may be performed even with the use of Microsoft Defender – anti-virus tool that is present on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. However, because of its substantial resources usage, along with some failures that can be crucial for some kinds of users, Defender is frequently disabled by the users, so its usage is likely impossible. Moreover, a wide range of trojan viruses are capable to turn off the embedded antivirus. It is better to use the separated program that will not have such exposures.

I would certainly advise you to utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven anti-malware device that will undoubtedly eliminate the malware from your PC and also make an impenetrable shield with a Proactive protection function. However, let’s take care of Mosen.live adware first.

Removing Mosen.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 Mosen.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 proper DNS while connecting to the website you want. Create a text file named “hosts” on your desktop, after that 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.

Nonetheless, there is one trouble that makes the things a lot harder to repair, particularly without the anti-malware program. The majority of adware versions that are used to show you the Mosen.live pop-up advertisements 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 collapse soon. Sometimes, 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 typical, up until you try to open settings 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 overview and also the reasons why I advise it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.