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

Pipors.live pop-up notices can appear unexpectedly, covering the post of the site you went to or opening your browser when you don’t wish it to be opened.

Clicking the Pipors.live advertisement may result in the injection of various malware or unwanted programs. In this article, you will see the guideline of Pipors.live popups removal in a couple of ways, and also checking your computer for extra viruses existence.

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What are Pipors.live pop-ups?

Pipors.live popups are a result of adware activity. Adware is a sort of malware that suggests you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click promotions, which generates a large volume of earnings for adware suppliers. These advertisements might have sometimes shocking information, or have a link to harmful content/website, considering that adware maintainers have no reason to examine the goodness of the material they are going to reveal – their solitary target is cash.

Pipors.live push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is an excellent, low-cost and very productive advertising instrument¹. It allows the vendor to attach the buyers’ attention to their website, and the customers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to purchase. When the consumer will receive a pop-up notification that the TV set he desires to buy is provided at the online store he/she saw earlier with a 15% price cut, one will surely use this possibility and buy it. Considering the very low cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising and marketing method is a favourite thing amidst the advertising departments of big online retailers.

Nonetheless, such a successful plan could not be missed by malware developers. Potential to show the popup advertisements by force to the targets of malware invasion is a great basis for evil-minded tricks with the popup promotions. And Pipors.live ads is just one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a summary for the Pipors.live

How have I got the Pipors.live virus?

There are a plenty of methods of becoming infected by the adware that trigger the Pipors.live popups tornado. A lion’s part of this malware cases is after the free software or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Freeware may likewise be downloaded from the main web page, and the adware is presented as a legal bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A plenty of users frequently make use of the unreliable programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, a wide range of tools that are free, or even hacked programs. Every one of these kinds of software are dangerous, because it is quite easy to build in a Pipors.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.

Pipors.live popup malware may also be hidden in the ad somewhere on the strange web page. Such web pages are in most cases loaded with intense and blinking ads, and their proprietors often permit any promotions to be placed on their page. Therefore, clicking on such banners is a risky thing: only the ad contractor realizes what will occur when you click this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you may also receive something far 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 undesirable applications, like Pipors.live popup virus can provoke a wide range of troubles on your personal computer. Distracting is not the single problem – pop-up notifications may present you the promotions, where you are offered to get one more unknown application, or “a perfect anti-malware tool”. Scareware is usually distributed with the use of the last slogun. Potentially unwanted applications, in turn, can have spyware functions. And it is quite hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a legit one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the potentially unwanted programs and pseudo antiviruses, popup-related promotions are also used as a distribution method by various trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of activity of such malware is 100% unwanted, and can cost you hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not interacting with these advertisements, they may be clicked by someone who also uses your personal computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the situation may become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve it without information loss. It is recommended to get rid of the viruses with antivirus applications as soon as possible.

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

The tutorial of Pipors.live adware elimination includes 2 parts. Initially, we need to eliminate the malware, and after that deal with the results of its action. The removal task is very simple, since it can be executed even with making use of Microsoft Defender – security software that is present on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. Nonetheless, as a result of its significant resources consumption, as well as some errors that can be crucial for some types of individuals, Defender is frequently turned off by the users, so its usage is most likely impossible. In addition, a wide range of trojan viruses are able to disable the embedded antivirus. It is much better to make use of the separated program that will not have such exposures.

I’d advise you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven anti-malware tool that will certainly exterminate the malware from your system and create an impenetrable cover with a Proactive protection feature. However, let’s manage Pipors.live adware initially.

Removing Pipors.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 Pipors.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 web browsers are reset, you need to make sure that your web browser will be connected the correct DNS while connecting to the web page you want. Make a text file titled “hosts” on your pc’s 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.

Nevertheless, there is one issue that makes things much harder to restore, specifically without the anti-malware software. Most of adware variations that are used to show you the Pipors.live pop-up advertisements are changing the deep browser configurations, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you attempt to fix your browser settings after your computer was infected by pop-up-related malware, your browser will collapse soon. Sometimes, you will see no crash, but huge lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 seconds, and then 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 review and also the reasons why I advise it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.