Remove Tenams.live Pop-up Virus — How to Remove?

Tenams.live pop-up notices can appear unexpectedly, covering the content of the page you visited or opening your web browser when you don’t desire it to be opened.

Clicking on the Tenams.live advertisement may lead to the injection of various malware or unwanted programs. In this guide, you will see the guideline of Tenams.live popups clearing in several methods, as well as examining your computer for extra malware presence.

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What are Tenams.live pop-ups?

Tenams.live popups are a consequence of adware action. Adware is a kind of malware that suggests you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which generates a significant amount of earnings for adware representatives. These promotions may have sometimes shocking content, or have a web link to malevolent content/website, due to the fact that adware maintainers have no purpose to inspect the goodness of the material they are going to reveal – their solitary target is money.

Tenams.live push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is an excellent, low-cost and extremely effective advertising tool¹. It enables the vendor to link the customers’ attention to their website, and the buyers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they wish to buy. When the consumer will receive a pop-up notification that the TV set he wishes to buy is provided at the online store he/she checked out earlier with a 15% price cut, one will undoubtedly use this chance and buy it. Considering the extremely low cost for the popups and their targeting, such a promotion and marketing instrument is a much-loved thing amidst the advertising departments of large internet sellers.

Nonetheless, such a profitable plan could not be missed by malware developers. Option to demonstrate the popup ads forcibly to the people of malware invasion is an excellent basis for evil-minded manipulations with the popup promotions. And Tenams.live promotions is just one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a short details for the Tenams.live site

How have I got the Tenams.live virus?

There are a huge amount of methods of getting infected by the adware that create the Tenams.live popups tornado. A lion’s part of this malware cases is after the free software or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Freeware may likewise be downloaded from the official site, and the adware is delivered as a legal bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A plenty of individuals regularly utilize the uncertain programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, various apps that are free, or even hacked programs. Every one of these types of programs are risky, because it is very easy to integrate a Tenams.live malware under the cover of part of the license hacking script, or as a part of the self-made algoritm within the Windows optimization tool.

Tenams.live popup virus may likewise be hidden in the advertisement somewhere on the unusual site. Such sites are generally full of bright and blinking advertisements, and their owners typically accept any type of promotions to be published on their web page. For this reason, clicking on such banners is a shot in the dark: only the advertisement provider knows what will happen when you click this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you may also get something much more risky, like ransomware or coin miner; the substantial 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 applications, like Tenams.live popup virus may initiate a wide range of different troubles on your personal computer. Distracting is not the only effect – pop-up notifications can display you the banners, where you are offered to download one more strange program, or “a perfect security tool”. Scareware is often spread under the last slogun. Potentially undesirable applications, in turn, may have spyware functionality. 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 dubious antiviruses, popup-related promotions are also chosen as a distribution way by various trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such malware is 100% unwanted, and can cost you hundreds or even thousands of dollars. And even if you are not tapping these banners, they may be clicked by someone who also uses 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 anti-malware applications as soon as possible.

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

The manual of Tenams.live adware clearing includes 2 sections. Initially, we need to get rid of the malware, and afterwards correct the effects of its activity. The elimination task is really simple, because it may be performed even with using Microsoft Defender – anti-virus software that is available on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. Nevertheless, as a result of its large resources consumption, as well as some defects that can be serious for some categories of users, Defender is often turned off by the users, so its use is most likely impossible. What’s more, various trojan viruses have the ability to disable the embedded antivirus. It is much better to use the separated program that will not have such vulnerabilities.

I’d advise you to utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven security tool that will definitely wipe out the malware from your personal computer and also create an invulnerable cover with a Proactive protection feature. But let’s deal with Tenams.live adware first.

Removing Tenams.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 Tenams.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 connect the appropriate DNS while connecting to the site you want. Make a text file titled “hosts” on your pc’s 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.

Nevertheless, there is one issue that makes the things much harder to fix, particularly without the anti-malware program. Most of adware versions that are used to show you the Tenams.live pop-up promotions are changing the deep browser configurations, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to change your browser settings after your system was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will crash soon. In some cases, you will see no crash, however, large lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 secs, and after that it will be back to the normal, till you try 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 the reasons why I recommend it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.