My-live-videos Ads Removal Guide — How to Fix It?

My-live-videos pop-up notices may show up out of the blue, covering the post of the website you visited or opening your web browser when you don’t wish it to be opened.

Clicking the My-live-videos promotion can trigger the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this guide, you will see the manual of My-live-videos popups removal in multiple methods, as well as checking your system for extra viruses existence.

What are My-live-videos pop-ups?

My-live-videos popups are an effect of adware presence. Adware is a type of malware that demonstrates to you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click promotions, which produces a major amount of income for adware representatives. These ads might have explicit composition, or have a web link to malicious content/website, due to the fact that adware maintainers have no reason to inspect the goodness of the content they are going to show – their solitary target is money.

My-live-videos push notification

My-live-videos push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is a good, low-cost and also extremely productive advertising solution1. It enables the vendor to link the buyers’ interest to their website, and the customers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to buy. When the person will get a pop-up alert that the TV set he wishes to buy is provided at the online store he/she checked out earlier with a 15% discount, one will definitely use this chance and buy it. Taking into consideration the extremely low cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising and marketing method is a favourite thing among the advertising departments of huge internet retailers.

Nonetheless, such a profitable scheme could not be missed by malware developers. Potential to demonstrate the popup advertisements by force to the people of malware invasion is a perfect basis for malevolent manipulations with the popup advertisements. And My-live-videos.com ads is one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a details for the My-live-videos
Site My-live-videos.com
Hosting AS60781 LeaseWeb Netherlands B.V.
Netherlands, The Hague
Infection Type Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads
IP Address 213.227.145.147
Symptoms Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner.
Similar behavior Woerkedwith, Nofmytime, Desktopdefendersurveys
Fix Tool
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How have I got the My-live-videos virus?

There are a lot of methods of getting contaminated by the adware that cause the My-live-videos popups storm. A lion’s part of this computer virus instances is after the free software or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Free software may additionally be downloaded from the main site, and the adware is presented as a legit bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A huge amount of users often make use of the unreliable programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, various apps that are free, or even hacked programs. All of these sorts of software are unsafe, since it is very simple to include a My-live-videos 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.

People dislike popups

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

How can I get rid of My-live-videos pop-up advertisements?

The tutorial of My-live-videos adware removal includes 2 parts. First, we need to deal with the malware, and afterwards take care of the consequences of its action. The removal procedure is quite easy, since it can be executed even with making use of Microsoft Defender – anti-malware program that is present on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. However, as a result of its huge resources usage, as well as some failures that may be crucial for some groups of users, Defender is often disabled by the users, so its usage is likely impossible. In addition, a variety of trojan viruses are capable to shut off the embedded antivirus. It is far better to use the separated program that will not have such exposures.

    Gridinsoft Anti-Malware during the scan process
  • 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.
  • GridinSoft Anti-Malware scan results
  • When the scan is over, you may choose the action for each detected virus. For all files of My-live-videos malware the default option is “Delete”. Press “Apply” to finish the malware removal.
  • GridinSoft Anti-Malware - After Cleaning

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. Reseting the Edge browser
  3. 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. The first step to revert Mozilla Firefox
  3. In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option :
  4. The second step of Firefox restoration
    After choosing this option, you will see the next message :
    The last step for Firefox
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 connect the correct DNS while connecting to the website you need. Make a text file named “hosts” on your pc’s desktop, after that open it and fill it with the following text3:

# Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a ‘#’ symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
# localhost name resolution is handle within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost

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 problem that makes things a lot more difficult to repair, especially without the anti-malware software. Most of adware variations that are utilized to show you the My-live-videos pop-up advertisements are changing the deep browser setups, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to change your browser settings after your PC was infected by pop-up-related malware, your browser will collapse soon. In some cases, you will see no crash, but significant lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 seconds, and afterwards it will be back to the typical, till you attempt to open settings once again.

References

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

About the author

Wilbur Woodham

Technical writer covering malware detections, unwanted programs, and browser-based threats. Wilbur turns research notes into step-by-step guides that Windows users can follow safely.

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