Sodong.live Ads Removal Guide — How to Fix It?

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?

Brief description of the Sodong.live pop-ups:

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.

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.

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.

How to remove Sodong.live pop-ups?

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 manually

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 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:

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

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).

1. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.