Sodong.live pop-up advertisements appear when you do not expect, bothering and annoying you. However, they are much more than simple pop-ups – their origins is purely malicious, and they may bring other malware to your system. In this post, I will guide you on how to remove Sodong.live pop-up advertisements and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any time you interact with Sodong.live pop-up notifications will be ineffective at best. At worst, the websites it can throw you to can introduce malware to your system. These pop-up advertisements can also promote fake shopping sites which will take your money and payment info. The latter generally ends up with losing all the money you have on the exposed card.
What are Sodong.live pop-up advertisements?
As the pop-up definition goes, these are short and small advertisements that attract your attention to a product they promote. But the difference between regular pop-ups and Sodong.live pop-ups is the malicious origins of the latter. Normal pop-up ads are offered for you to enable with a understandable purpose – notify you about the fresh publications, goods for sale and so on. It is an effective approach to help your site to keep visitor’s attention and help the interested users to have the best deal.
Brief description of the Sodong.live pop-ups:
| Name | Sodong.live |
| Hosting | AS14061 DigitalOcean, LLC United States, North Bergen |
| IP Address | 157.230.4.182 |
| Malware type | Adware1 |
| Effect | Unwanted pop-up advertisements |
| Hazard level | Medium |
| Malware source | Apps from third-party websites, ads on dubious websites |
| Similar behavior | News, Silid, Sagus |
| Removal method |
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Sodong.live pop-up advertisements, on the other hand, have a deal with less legit web pages. You will commonly witness the proposition to enable them following the redirection from another page. It’s OK to see redirects unless they throw you to such a questionable place. At that point, enabling pop-up notifications is served as the anti-bot filtering. Alternatively, the web pages may deny showing you the content unless you apply these pop-up advertisements. These requirements should be the red flag, as websites usually have a less obscure anti-bot mechanism. Seeing such an offer is a reason to close the website right away. Sometimes, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not get to the site – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the push notifications.
Sodong.live push notification.
How does it work?
Most of web browsers support turning on push notifications from websites. Websites, on the other hand, can send notifications with the content of their choice. It may be an advertisement of the product or a page published on this website, as well as a promotion of their partner page. As a result, you can see the push notification from site X, but opening it will redirect you to website Y – because a referral link to the latter was built in.
Crooks rely on this ability in their approach to gain money through advertising. They trick victims into allowing them to show the banners, and after that just spread hundreds of promotions of other crooks they have a deal with. As you can suppose, no benevolent organisations will contract with fraudsters. All the Sodong.live notifications you can see lead to other fraudulent sites. At some point, the same user may get into a trap of multiple pop-up spamming sites, and its web browser will turn into a complete mess.
The banners these rascals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It generally provides a miserable pay for one viewer, but when you have hundreds of users and show them hundreds of ads every day – that is a much more significant sum. Even though the majority of such banners are ineffective, it can still bring all the parties a lot of money.
Are Sodong.live push notifications dangerous?
Yes, they are. Initially, they may look non-threatening – just a colourful window that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the contents of this window differ sharply from what you used to see in pop-up notifications. Sodong.live website is controlled by crooks, who deliberately spread tons of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any manners of advertising and can make sporadic pop-up ads into a storm of promotions. For weak systems, that may be enough to make the system slower. But troubles are not over at this point.
As with any other thing that touches illegal ads, Sodong.live push notifications lack legit deals to offer. Even when crooks make the ads similar to ones from well-known retailers, the site these banners will throw you to are completely different. And these pages can offer you to turn on other pop-ups, install a “useful” program, or pay for a thing at a big discount and never receive it. Let’s leave aside the cases when pop-up advertisements promote phishing pages or straightforward malware. There’s no way these pages will bring you any good, thus interacting with them is a very bad idea. For the same reason, Sodong.live pop-ups are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.
How to remove Sodong.live pop-ups?
Fortunately, Sodong.live push notifications removal is not very complicated. They parasite in the browser and cannot conceal themselves among system files. Nonetheless, as I stated before, some push notifications may promote malicious software to your computer. It is hard to predict all cases, and manual malware removal is inconvenient. For that reason, after getting rid of the push notifications the best option is to use anti-malware software. That is especially recommended in the case when you have never clicked “Allow” to pop-up ads, and they still appeared. This situation can be a sign of malware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both recovery and malware scanning purposes, because of its abilities of system recovery and multi-component detection system.
First and foremost, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to accomplish in both manual and automatic manner. The former, obviously, takes more time to complete and may be somewhat complicated if you have never done that. Automated supposes the use of anti-malware programs that can reset all browser settings at once.
Reset your browsers 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 options for each browser. By default, they are set up in a manner that 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 the latter is also able to reset the HOSTS file without any additional commands.
Reset your browsers manually
Manual method of browser reset
To reset Edge, do the following steps:
- Open “Settings and more” tab in upper right corner, then find here “Settings” button. In the appeared menu, choose “Reset settings” option:
- 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:
- Open Menu tab (three strips in upper right corner) and click the “Help” button. In the appeared menu choose “troubleshooting information”:
- In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option:
After choosing this option, you will see the next message:
If you use Google Chrome
- Open Settings tab, find the “Advanced” button. In the extended tab choose the “Reset and clean up” button:
- In the appeared list, click on the “Restore settings to their original defaults”:
- 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
- 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:
- 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 browser will connect the right DNS while connecting to the web page you need. Create a text file titled “hosts” on your pc’s desktop, then open it and fill it with the following lines2:
# Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
# localhost name resolution is handle within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost
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.
Scan your system for possible viruses
After removing the Sodong.live push notifications, it’s time to see if these pop-ups brought any threat to your system. Launch GridinSoft Anti-Malware, and then click on Standard scan. It will be enough in most cases to find and remove malware. The scan will last 5-10 minutes; you are free to use your system during that process.
Once the scan is complete, you will see the detections or a notification about a clean system. Proceed with pressing the Clean Up button (or OK when nothing is detected).
How to Remove Sodong.live Pop-ups?
Name: Sodong.live
Description: Sodong.live - a lot of users became a target for the pop-up advertisements. I have a lot of friends who literally bombed me with the questions like “how to remove Sodong.live push notifications?” or “why do Sodong.live pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with Sodong.live pop-ups, which may corrupt your browser’s correct performance, and create a lot of troubles while you are working.
Operating System: Windows
Application Category: Adware
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( votes)References
- More about this malware type on GridinSoft Encyclopedia.
- Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.
