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

Tapips.live pop-up alerts can appear out of the blue, covering the post of the website you explored or opening your browser when you do not want it to be opened.

Clicking on the Tapips.live ad may cause the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this article, you will see the manual of Tapips.live popups removal in a couple of methods, as well as checking your personal computer for other malware existence.

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What are Tapips.live pop-ups?

Tapips.live popups are an outcome of adware activity. Adware is a sort of malware that presents you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which produces a major amount of income for adware distributors. These promotions may consist of explicit information, or have a link to malevolent content/website, because adware maintainers have no reason to examine the goodness of the web content they are going to reveal – their single target is cash.

Tapips.live push notification.

Pop-up marketing itself is an excellent, low-priced and also extremely successful marketing instrument¹. It permits the vendor to link the customers’ interest to their site, as well as the buyers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they want to purchase. When the person will get a pop-up notification that the TV set he likes to buy is offered at the online store he/she checked out earlier with a 15% discount, one will definitely use this chance and get it. Taking into consideration the incredibly low cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising and marketing instrument is a much-loved thing amongst the marketing teams of big online retailers.

Nonetheless, such a successful plan could not be missed by virus developers. Potential to show the popup ads by force to the targets of malware attack is an ideal basis for evil-minded manipulations with the popup ads. And Tapips.live ads is just one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a short summary for the Tapips.live

How have I got the Tapips.live virus?

There are a plenty of ways of getting infected by the adware that cause the Tapips.live popups storm. A lion’s part of this virus instances is after the free software or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Freeware can also be downloaded from the main website, and the adware is delivered as a legal bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A huge amount of people oftentimes work with the unreliable programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, a wide range of tools that are free of cost, or even hacked programs. All of these types of applications are dangerous, since it is very easy to build in a Tapips.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.

Tapips.live popup malware can also be concealed in the advertisement somewhere on the strange web page. Such web pages are generally loaded with colorful and blinking advertisements, and their owners typically permit any kind of promotions to be placed on their web page. For this reason, clicking on such banners is a risky thing: only the advertisement provider realizes what will happen when you click this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you may likewise receive something a lot more risky, like ransomware or coin miner; the substantial share of coin miners distribution is exactly after the malicious ads.

The statistic shows that people dislike popup advertising more than other types of promotions

Potentially unwanted applications, like Tapips.live popup virus can provoke a wide range of troubles on your PC. Distracting is not the single problem – pop-ups may present you the advertisements, where you are offered to get another unknown program, or “a effective security tool”. Scareware is usually distributed with the last motto. Potentially unwanted applications, in turn, may have spyware functions. And it is very 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 used as a distribution way by different trojan viruses, for example – coin miners. The consequences of activity of such viruses is 100% unwanted, and can cost you hundreds or even thousands of dollars. And even if you are not clicking these ads, they can be clicked by whoever who also uses your computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the situation can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve it without data and money loss. It is recommended to remove the viruses with antivirus programs as soon as possible.

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

The tutorial of Tapips.live adware clearing includes 2 sections. First, we need to get rid of the malware, and then take care of the effects of its action. The removal process is pretty simple, since it can be performed even with making use of Microsoft Defender – anti-virus tool that is present on all computers with Windows 8/10. However, as a result of its huge resources consumption, as well as some failures that may be crucial for some kinds of users, Defender is frequently turned off by the users, so its utilization is most likely impossible. In addition, a variety of trojan viruses are capable to shut off the embedded antivirus. It is better to make use of the separated program that will not have such exposures.

I would certainly advise you to utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven security tool that will definitely erase the malware from your system and also create an impenetrable shield with a Proactive protection function. However, let’s deal with Tapips.live adware first.

Removing Tapips.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 Tapips.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 web browser will definitely connect the correct DNS while connecting to the web page you want. Create a text file titled “hosts” on your desktop, then 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 trouble that makes the things much more difficult to fix, especially without the anti-malware program. A lot of adware variations that are utilized to show you the Tapips.live pop-up promotions are altering the deep browser settings, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to fix your browser settings after your PC was infected by pop-up-related malware, your browser will certainly crash soon. Sometimes, you will see no crash, but significant lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 secs, and then it will be back to the normal, 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 also the reasons why I recommend it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.