How to remove Rewoks.live pop-ups? — Fix Guide

Rewoks.live pop-up notifications can show up out of the blue, covering the content of the page you visited or opening your browser when you do not want it to be opened.

Clicking on the Rewoks.live promotion may trigger the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this guide, you will see the tutorial of Rewoks.live popups clearing in a couple of manners, and also checking your PC for other viruses existence.

It is better to prevent, than repair and repent!

Removing Rewoks.live manually may take hours and may damage your PC in the process. I recommend you to download GridinSoft Anti-Malware for threats removal. Allows to complete scan and cure your PC during the trial period.

DOWNLOAD NOW

Gridinsoft Anti-Malware 6-day trial available.
EULA | Privacy Policy | 10% Off Coupon

Subscribe to our Telegram channel to be the first to know about news and our exclusive materials on information security.

What are Rewoks.live pop-ups?

Rewoks.live popups are a result of adware activity. Adware is a kind of malware that suggests you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which generates a major volume of revenue for adware representatives. These ads might have explicit material, or have a link to harmful content/website, considering that adware maintainers have no reason to check the goodness of the material they are going to reveal – their single target is cash.

Rewoks.live push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is an excellent, cheap and very efficient marketing solution¹. It enables the seller to link the customers’ attention to their site, as well as the buyers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to buy. When the customer will receive a pop-up alert that the TV set he wishes to purchase is available at the online shop he/she checked out earlier with a 15% discount, one will surely use this chance and buy it. Considering the exceptionally low cost for the popups and their targeting, such a promotion and marketing tool is a favorite thing amongst the advertising departments of large internet stores.

Nonetheless, such a rewarding plan could not be missed by virus developers. Ability to demonstrate the popup advertisements by force to the victims of malware attack is an excellent basis for evil-minded adjustments with the popup advertisements. And Rewoks.live promotions is among hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a short info for the Rewoks.live

How have I got the Rewoks.live virus?

There are a lot of ways of getting contaminated by the adware that cause the Rewoks.live popups storm. A lion’s part of this virus cases is after the free software or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Freeware can 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 lot of users oftentimes make use of the dubious programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, a wide range of utilities that are free of cost, or even hacked programs. Every one of these kinds of software are risky, due to the fact that it is extremely simple to integrate a Rewoks.live malware under the guise of part of the license hacking script, or as a part of the self-made algoritm inside of the Windows optimization tool.

Rewoks.live popup virus can likewise be concealed in the ad somewhere on the unusual web page. Such websites are usually full of bright and blinking ads, and their proprietors often accept any type of promos to be posted on their page. Thus, clicking such banners is a shot in the dark: only the ad provider knows what will occur when you click this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you can additionally receive something far more unsafe, 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 unwanted programs, like Rewoks.live popup virus may initiate a wide range of different problems on your personal computer. Distracting is not the single effect – pop-up notifications may present you the advertisements, where you are offered to download another strange program, or “a perfect security tool”. Scareware is often spread under the last motto. Potentially unwanted applications, in turn, can have spyware functions. And it is very hard to distinguish the undesirable app from a legit one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and fake antiviruses, popup-related ads are also used as a spreading way by various trojan viruses, for example – coin miners. The consequences of activity of such viruses is 100% unwanted, and can cost you hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not interacting with these banners, they can be clicked by whoever who also makes use of your personal computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve it without data loss. It is recommended to eliminate the viruses with antivirus applications as soon as possible.

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

The tutorial of Rewoks.live adware clearing contains 2 parts. First, we need to get rid of the malware, and after that fix the effects of its activity. The removal process is really simple, since it may be done even with the use of Microsoft Defender – security tool that is present on all computers with Windows 8/10. However, because of its large resources usage, as well as some errors that can be critical for some categories of individuals, Defender is often turned off by the users, so its usage is most likely impossible. Furthermore, a variety of trojan viruses have the ability to switch off the embedded antivirus. It is much better to use the separated program that will not have such vulnerabilities.

I’d advise you to utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven antivirus tool that will surely exterminate the viruses from your system and also create an impenetrable cover with a Proactive protection function. But let’s take care of Rewoks.live adware initially.

Removing Rewoks.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 Rewoks.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 right DNS while connecting to the site you want. Create a text file named “hosts” on your computer’s desktop, after that 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.

However, there is one problem that makes things a lot more difficult to fix, specifically without the anti-malware software. A lot of adware variants that are used to show you the Rewoks.live pop-up promotions are altering the deep browser configurations, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to change your browser settings after your computer was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will crash soon. In certain cases, you will see no crash, but huge lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 secs, and after that it will be back to the typical, until you try 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 ads on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware review and the reasons why I suggest it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.