Pakegs.live Ads Removal Guide — How to Fix It?

Pakegs.live pop-up alerts may appear unexpectedly, covering the content of the website you explored or opening your browser when you don’t need it to be opened.

Clicking the Pakegs.live ad may lead to the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this guide, you will see the guide of Pakegs.live popups removal in multiple methods, as well as examining your personal computer for other viruses presence.

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What are Pakegs.live pop-ups?

Pakegs.live popups are a result of adware action. Adware is a kind of malware that presents you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click ads, which creates a large volume of income for adware suppliers. These advertisements might include explicit content, or have a web link to harmful content/website, considering that adware maintainers have no purpose to inspect the goodness of the content they are going to reveal – their single target is cash.

Pakegs.live push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is a very good, low-priced and also really productive marketing tool¹. It allows the seller to attach the buyers’ attention to their site, as well as the customers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they wish to purchase. When the consumer will get a pop-up notification that the TV set he desires to buy is provided at the online shop he/she checked out earlier with a 15% discount, one will undoubtedly use this opportunity and buy it. Taking into consideration the extremely low cost for the popups and their targeting, such a marketing tool is a much-loved thing amidst the advertising teams of large internet retailers.

However, such a rewarding scheme could not be missed by virus creators. Ability to demonstrate the popup ads by force to the victims of malware attack is a great basis for evil-minded manipulations with the popup ads. And Pakegs.live advertisements is just one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a short info for the Pakegs.live

How have I got the Pakegs.live virus?

There are a lot of ways of becoming contaminated by the adware that cause the Pakegs.live popups storm. 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 also be downloaded from the main web page, and the adware is supplied as a legit bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A plenty of individuals frequently make use of the dubious programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, different tools that are free of cost, and even hacked programs. All of these types of applications are risky, because it is quite easy to integrate a Pakegs.live malware under the cover of part of the license hacking script, or as a part of the self-made algoritm inside of the Windows optimization tool.

Pakegs.live popup virus can likewise be concealed in the ad somewhere on the unusual site. Such sites are generally filled with bright and blinking ads, and their owners usually permit any kind of promotions to be posted on their web page. Therefore, clicking on such banners is a shot in the dark: only the ad contractor knows what will occur when you press this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you may also receive something far more threatening, like ransomware or coin miner; the big 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 undesirable programs, like Pakegs.live pop-up virus can cause a wide range of problems on your personal computer. Distracting is not the only effect – pop-ups can present you the ads, where you are offered to download another dubious application, or “a effective anti-malware tool”. Scareware is usually distributed with the use of the last motto. Potentially undesirable applications, in turn, can have spyware functionality. 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 ads are also used as a spreading method by various trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such malware is 100% unwanted, and can cost you hundreds or even thousands of dollars. And even if you are not clicking these ads, they may be clicked by whoever 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 eliminate the viruses with anti-malware programs as soon as possible.

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

The tutorial of Pakegs.live adware removal contains 2 sections. Initially, we need to deal with the malware, and afterwards take care of the results of its activity. The elimination procedure is really simple, due to the fact that it may be performed even with using Microsoft Defender – anti-malware software that is available on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. Nevertheless, due to its huge resources utilization, as well as some errors that can be critical for some categories of users, Defender is frequently disabled by the users, so its utilization is likely impossible. In addition, various trojan viruses are capable to switch off the embedded antivirus. It is better to make use of the separated program that will not have such exposures.

I would certainly suggest you to utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven security tool that will definitely remove the malware from your PC and also create an invulnerable cover with a Proactive protection function. But let’s manage Pakegs.live adware initially.

Removing Pakegs.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 Pakegs.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 make sure that your browser will definitely be connected the appropriate DNS while connecting to the web page you need. Create a text file named “hosts” on your desktop, then 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.

However, there is one issue that makes things much more difficult to restore, especially without the anti-malware program. Most of adware versions that are used to show you the Pakegs.live pop-up ads are adjusting the deep browser setups, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you attempt to change your browser settings after your PC was infected 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 seconds, and then it will be back to the typical, till you attempt to open settings once 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 ads on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware review and also the reasons why I advise it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.