Remove Rabist.live Virus — How to Fix Guide

Rabist.live pop-up alerts can show up unexpectedly, covering the subject of the site you visited or opening your web browser when you don’t wish it to be opened.

Clicking the Rabist.live ad can lead to the injection of other malware or unwanted programs. In this post, you will see the guideline of Rabist.live popups removal in several ways, and also inspecting your system for other malware presence.

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What are Rabist.live pop-ups?

Rabist.live popups are an outcome of adware presence. Adware is a kind of malware that shows you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which produces a massive amount of earnings for adware representatives. These advertisements may contain sometimes shocking information, or have a link to harmful content/website, considering that adware maintainers have no purpose to examine the goodness of the content they are going to reveal – their single target is money.

Rabist.live push notification.

Pop-up promotions itself is a very good, low-priced and very productive advertising solution¹. It enables the vendor to link the buyers’ interest to their site, and the customers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they want to buy. When the person will receive a pop-up notification that the TV set he likes to buy is provided at the online shop he/she saw previously with a 15% price cut, one will undoubtedly use this chance and purchase it. Taking into consideration the very low cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising and marketing method is a much-loved thing among the advertising departments of big online stores.

However, such a successful system could not be missed by malware developers. Option to demonstrate the popup ads forcibly to the targets of malware invasion is an ideal basis for malevolent tricks with the popup promotions. And Rabist.live advertisements is just one of hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a info for the Rabist.live

How have I got the Rabist.live virus?

There are a plenty of methods of getting infected by the adware that lead to the Rabist.live popups storm. A lion’s part of this malware incidents is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Free software can also be downloaded from the main site, and the adware is presented as a legitimate bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A huge amount of people frequently make use of the unreliable programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, different tools that are free of cost, or even hacked programs. Every one of these kinds of programs are risky, since it is extremely easy to build in a Rabist.live malware under the cover of part of the license hacking script, or as a part of the self-made algoritm within the Windows optimization tool.

Rabist.live popup malware may additionally be hidden in the advertisement somewhere on the unusual web page. Such sites are in most cases full of bright and blinking ads, and their proprietors usually approve any promos to be placed on their page. For this reason, clicking such banners is a shot in the dark: only the ad contractor realizes what will occur when you click this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you can also receive something a lot more risky, 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 Rabist.live pop-up virus may initiate a lot of troubles on your PC. Distracting is not the single problem – pop-up notifications can present you the promotions, where you are offered to download another strange program, or “a amazing anti-malware tool”. Scareware is often distributed with the use of the last motto. Potentially unwanted applications, in turn, may 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 chosen as a distribution way by various trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of activity of such malware is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you hundreds or even thousands of dollars. And even if you are not clicking these advertisements, they can be clicked by whoever who also uses your computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things may become much more serious, and it will be much harder to deal with it without data and money loss. It is recommended to remove the viruses with anti-malware applications as soon as possible.

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

The tutorial of Rabist.live adware elimination contains 2 parts. Initially, we need to get rid of the malware, and then correct the results of its activity. The elimination procedure is very easy, due to the fact that it can be executed even with making use of Microsoft Defender – anti-malware tool that is available on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nevertheless, as a result of its significant resources consumption, along with some defects that may be critical for some kinds of users, Defender is often disabled by the users, so its usage is most likely impossible. What’s more, different trojan viruses can turn off the embedded antivirus. It is far better to make use of the separated program that will not have such vulnerabilities.

I would certainly advise you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven security tool that will definitely eliminate the viruses from your system and make an invulnerable shield with a Proactive protection function. However, let’s manage Rabist.live adware initially.

Removing Rabist.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 Rabist.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 web browser will be connected the correct DNS while connecting to the web page you want. Create a text file named “hosts” on your computer’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 problem that makes things a lot harder to restore, particularly without the anti-malware software. The majority of adware variants that are used to show you the Rabist.live pop-up ads are adjusting the deep browser setups, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to fix your browser settings after your system was infected by pop-up-related malware, your browser will collapse soon. In certain cases, you will see no crash, but huge lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 secs, and after that it will be back to the typical, up until you attempt to open settings once more.

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 suggest it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.