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

Robens.live pop-up notifications can show up out of the blue, covering the material of the page you explored or opening your web browser when you do not wish it to be opened.

Clicking on the Robens.live advertisement may lead to the injection of other malware or unwanted programs. In this article, you will see the manual of Robens.live popups removal in a couple of manners, and also examining your PC for extra viruses existence.

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What are Robens.live pop-ups?

Robens.live popups are an effect of adware action. Adware is a sort of malware that suggests you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click promotions, which generates a massive amount of income for adware representatives. These advertisements might consist of sometimes shocking content, or have a web link to malevolent content/website, considering that adware maintainers have no purpose to examine the goodness of the content they are going to reveal – their solitary target is cash.

Robens.live push notification.

Pop-up marketing itself is a very good, affordable and extremely efficient marketing solution¹. It enables the vendor to attach the customers’ interest to their website, and the buyers 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 offered at the online shop he/she saw earlier with a 15% discount, one will surely use this possibility and get it. Taking into consideration the incredibly small cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising and marketing instrument is a much-loved thing amidst the marketing departments of huge internet retailers.

Nevertheless, such a rewarding system could not be missed by malware creators. Potential to show the popup ads forcibly to the targets of malware invasion is an ideal basis for evil-minded tricks with the popup promotions. And Robens.live promotions is among hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a info for the Robens.live

How have I got the Robens.live virus?

There are a lot of ways of becoming contaminated by the adware that create the Robens.live popups tornado. A lion’s part of this virus instances is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Freeware may additionally be downloaded from the main site, and the adware is presented as a legal bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A lot of individuals often make use of the dubious programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, a wide range of tools that are free of cost, and even hacked programs. All of these types of programs are unsafe, since it is very simple to integrate a Robens.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.

Robens.live popup virus may also be concealed in the ad somewhere on the unusual website. Such web pages are typically packed with bright and blinking ads, and their owners often approve any kind of promos to be posted on their page. Hence, clicking on such banners is a shot in the dark: only the ad provider knows what will occur when you click this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you may likewise receive something far more damaging, like ransomware or coin miner; the large 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 programs, like Robens.live popup virus may initiate a wide range of different troubles on your computer. Distracting is not the single problem – pop-up notifications can display you the promotions, where you are offered to get one more dubious application, or “a amazing security tool”. Scareware is often spread with the use of the last slogun. Potentially unwanted applications, in turn, may have spyware functions. And it is quite hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a normal one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the potentially unwanted programs and pseudo antiviruses, popup-related advertisements are also chosen as a spreading method by different 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 clicking these banners, they may be clicked by someone who also uses 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 programs as soon as possible.

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

The tutorial of Robens.live adware clearing includes 2 parts. First, we need to deal with the malware, and afterwards fix the effects of its activity. The elimination task is really simple, because it may be performed even with making use of Microsoft Defender – anti-virus tool that is available on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. Nonetheless, as a result of its large resources consumption, as well as some defects that may be pivotal for some types of users, Defender is oftentimes disabled by the users, so its use is likely impossible. Additionally, a wide range of trojan viruses are able to shut off the embedded antivirus. It is much better to make use of the separated program that will not have such vulnerabilities.

I would certainly suggest you to utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven antivirus device that will surely remove the viruses from your PC and create an invulnerable shield with a Proactive protection function. But let’s take care of Robens.live adware initially.

Removing Robens.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 Robens.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 definitely be connected the right DNS while connecting to the website you want. Create a text file titled “hosts” on your 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.

Nevertheless, there is one issue that makes things much harder to repair, specifically without the anti-malware program. A lot of adware versions that are utilized to show you the Robens.live pop-up advertisements are adjusting the deep browser setups, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to change your browser settings after your computer was infected by pop-up-related malware, your browser will crash quickly. Sometimes, you will see no crash, however, 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.