Remove Productlifesoft Pop-up Virus — How to Remove?

Productlifesoft pop-up notices may appear unexpectedly, covering the subject of the site you checked or opening your browser when you don’t need it to be opened.

Clicking the Productlifesoft advertisement can result in the injection of other malware or unwanted programs. In this article, you will see the tutorial of Productlifesoft popups clearing in a couple of ways, as well as inspecting your PC for extra viruses presence.

It is better to prevent, than repair and repent!

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What are Productlifesoft pop-ups?

Productlifesoft popups are a consequence of adware presence. Adware is a type of malware that demonstrates to you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click promotions, which creates a major amount of income for adware representatives. These promotions may include explicit composition, or have a link to malicious content/website, because adware maintainers have no reason to inspect the goodness of the material they are going to show – their single target is cash.

Productlifesoft push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is a very good, low-cost and also really productive marketing method¹. It makes it possible for the vendor to link the customers’ attention to their site, as well as the buyers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to purchase. When the customer will get a pop-up notification that the TV set he likes to buy is offered at the online store he/she saw previously with a 15% discount, one will definitely use this possibility and purchase it. Taking into consideration the very low cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising instrument is a favorite thing amongst the marketing teams of large internet sellers.

However, such a rewarding scheme could not be missed by malware creators. Potential to show the popup ads forcibly to the targets of malware attack is an excellent basis for evil-minded manipulations with the popup advertisements. And Productlifesoft.com advertisements is among hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a short summary for the Productlifesoft site

How have I got the Productlifesoft virus?

There are a lot of methods of getting contaminated by the adware that trigger the Productlifesoft popups storm. A lion’s part of this virus cases is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Freeware may likewise be downloaded from the main web page, and the adware is supplied as a legitimate bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A number of users regularly utilize the uncertain programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, different tools that are free, or perhaps hacked programs. Every one of these types of programs are dangerous, due to the fact that it is quite easy to build in a Productlifesoft 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.

Productlifesoft popup virus may likewise be concealed in the advertisement somewhere on the unusual website. Such websites are usually filled with bright and blinking advertisements, and their owners usually accept any promotions to be published on their page. Hence, clicking on such banners is a shot in the dark: only the ad contractor realizes what will happen when you click this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you can also get something much more hazardous, like ransomware or coin miner; the big share of coin miners distribution is exactly after the malicious advertisements.

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

Potentially undesirable programs, like Productlifesoft pop-up virus can initiate a wide range of different troubles on your personal computer. Distracting is not the only problem – pop-ups can display you the ads, where you are offered to download one more dubious application, or “a effective security tool”. Scareware is often distributed with the last motto. Potentially undesirable programs, in turn, can have spyware functions. And it is pretty hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a normal one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and pseudo antiviruses, popup-related promotions are also chosen as a distribution way by different trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of activity of such viruses is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you several hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not clicking these advertisements, 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 get rid of the viruses with antivirus applications as soon as possible.

How can I get rid of Productlifesoft pop-up advertisements?

The manual of Productlifesoft adware clearing consists of 2 sections. First, we need to eliminate the malware, and afterwards correct the consequences of its action. The removal task is pretty easy, since it can be executed even with using Microsoft Defender – security tool that is available on all computers with Windows 8/10. However, because of its substantial resources utilization, along with some errors that can be crucial for some types of users, Defender is frequently turned off by the users, so its use is likely impossible. In addition, various trojan viruses have the ability to disable the embedded antivirus. It is better to make use of the separated program that will not have such exposures.

I would certainly advise you to utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven security tool that will surely remove the malware from your system and create an impenetrable cover with a Proactive protection feature. However, let’s manage Productlifesoft adware first.

Removing Productlifesoft 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 Productlifesoft 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 accurate DNS while connecting to the site you want. Make a text file named “hosts” on your pc’s 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.

However, there is one trouble that makes things much more difficult to repair, specifically without the anti-malware program. The majority of adware versions that are utilized to show you the Productlifesoft pop-up promotions are modifying 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 crash quickly. In some cases, you will see no crash, however, large lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 seconds, and after that it will be back to the normal, up until you attempt 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 ads on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware overview and also the reasons why I advise it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.