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

Rokens.live pop-up notices can show up unexpectedly, covering the post of the site you checked or opening your web browser when you do not want it to be opened.

Clicking the Rokens.live advertisement can result in the injection of various malware or unwanted programs. In this guide, you will see the tutorial of Rokens.live popups clearing in several ways, as well as examining your personal computer for additional malware presence.

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What are Rokens.live pop-ups?

Rokens.live popups are an effect of adware presence. Adware is a sort of malware that presents you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click ads, which produces a substantial amount of revenue for adware suppliers. These promotions might contain explicit content, or have a link to malicious content/website, due to the fact that adware maintainers have no purpose to examine the goodness of the web content they are going to show – their single target is money.

Rokens.live push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is a very good, cheap and also really efficient advertising tool¹. It allows the seller to link the customers’ attention to their site, as well as the customers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they want to purchase. When the person will receive a pop-up alert that the TV set he likes to purchase is available at the online shop he/she checked out previously with a 15% price cut, one will certainly use this chance and buy it. Taking into consideration the very low price for the popups and their targeting, such a marketing method is a favourite thing amongst the advertising teams of large internet sellers.

Nevertheless, such a rewarding scheme could not be missed by virus creators. Potential to show the popup advertisements forcibly to the people of malware attack is a great basis for malicious manipulations with the popup promotions. And Rokens.live advertisements is among hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a summary for the Rokens.live

How have I got the Rokens.live virus?

There are a number of ways of getting contaminated by the adware that create the Rokens.live popups storm. A lion’s part of this malware cases 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 offered as a legitimate bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A lot of people oftentimes use the uncertain programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, different tools that are free of cost, and even hacked programs. Every one of these kinds of applications are risky, due to the fact that it is very simple to include a Rokens.live malware under the guise of part of the license hacking script, or as a part of the self-made algoritm within the Windows optimization tool.

Rokens.live popup malware may additionally be concealed in the advertisement somewhere on the strange website. Such web pages are generally packed with bright and blinking ads, and their owners often approve any promos to be placed on their page. Therefore, clicking such banners is a risky thing: only the ad contractor knows what will happen when you click this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you can also receive something much 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 unwanted programs, like Rokens.live popup virus may cause a wide range of troubles on your PC. Distracting is not the single effect – pop-up notifications can show you the promotions, where you are offered to download one more strange application, or “a amazing security tool”. Scareware is often spread under the last slogun. Potentially undesirable applications, in turn, can have spyware functionality. And it is quite hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a good one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the potentially unwanted programs and dubious antiviruses, popup-related promotions are also used as a distribution way by various trojan viruses, for instance – 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 tapping these ads, 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 deal with it without data and money loss. It is recommended to eliminate the viruses with antivirus applications as soon as possible.

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

The guide of Rokens.live adware elimination includes 2 parts. First, we need to exterminate the malware, and after that deal with the effects of its activity. The elimination task is quite easy, because it can be executed even with using Microsoft Defender – anti-virus program that is present on all computers with Windows 8/10. However, due to its huge resources consumption, along with some errors that may be critical for some groups of individuals, Defender is often turned off by the users, so its utilization is probably impossible. Furthermore, a wide range of trojan viruses can shut off the embedded antivirus. It is better to use the separated program that will not have such weakness.

I would certainly recommend you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven antivirus tool that will definitely exterminate the viruses from your system and create an impenetrable shield with a Proactive protection feature. But let’s handle Rokens.live adware first.

Removing Rokens.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 Rokens.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 ensure that your web browser will definitely be connected the right DNS while connecting to the web page you want. Make a text file titled “hosts” on your pc’s desktop, after that open it and fill it with the following text³:

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.

Nonetheless, there is one issue that makes things much harder to restore, specifically without the anti-malware software. Most of adware versions that are used to show you the Rokens.live pop-up promotions are altering the deep browser setups, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to fix your browser settings after your computer was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will crash quickly. In some cases, you will see no crash, however, huge lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 secs, and after that it will be back to the normal, until you attempt to open settings once 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 suggest it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.