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

Tevams.live pop-up notifications may appear unexpectedly, covering the material of the website you checked or opening your web browser when you don’t desire it to be opened.

Clicking on the Tevams.live ad may cause the injection of various malware or unwanted programs. In this post, you will see the guideline of Tevams.live popups clearing in several methods, and also inspecting your system for additional viruses presence.

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What are Tevams.live pop-ups?

Tevams.live popups are an outcome of adware activity. Adware is a sort of malware that demonstrates to you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click promotions, which creates a substantial amount of income for adware distributors. These ads may have sometimes shocking material, or have a link to harmful content/website, due to the fact that adware maintainers have no reason to inspect the goodness of the content they are going to show – their solitary target is money.

Tevams.live push notification.

Pop-up marketing itself is a good, low-priced and also really effective marketing instrument¹. It allows the seller to link the buyers’ interest to their website, and the customers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they wish to purchase. When the customer will receive a pop-up notification that the TV set he likes to purchase is provided at the online store he/she visited previously with a 15% price cut, one will undoubtedly use this possibility and get it. Taking into consideration the very low cost for the popups and their targeting, such a promotion and marketing tool is a favorite thing amongst the advertising teams of large online retail stores.

However, such a profitable strategy could not be missed by virus creators. Ability to demonstrate the popup ads forcibly to the people of malware invasion is an ideal basis for evil-minded manipulations with the popup advertisements. And Tevams.live advertisements is just one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a short info for the Tevams.live site

How have I got the Tevams.live virus?

There are a plenty of methods of becoming infected by the adware that result in the Tevams.live popups storm. A lion’s part of this malware instances is after the free software or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Free software can likewise be downloaded from the main site, and the adware is delivered as a legal bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A number of users often use the unreliable programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, a wide range of apps that are free, or perhaps hacked programs. Every one of these kinds of software are dangerous, because it is quite simple to build in a Tevams.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.

Tevams.live popup virus can likewise be hidden in the promotion somewhere on the odd website. Such web pages are generally loaded with intense and blinking advertisements, and their owners typically accept any promotions to be posted on their page. Hence, clicking on such banners is a risky thing: only the ad provider realizes what will happen when you click this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you can likewise get something far more risky, like ransomware or coin miner; the large 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 undesirable programs, like Tevams.live pop-up virus may initiate a wide range of troubles on your computer. Distracting is not the only problem – pop-up notifications can display you the advertisements, where you are offered to download one more unknown application, or “a effective anti-malware tool”. Scareware is usually spread with the use of the last motto. Potentially undesirable applications, in turn, can have spyware functions. And it is very hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a legit one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the potentially unwanted programs and dubious antiviruses, popup-related advertisements are also exploited as a distribution way by various trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such malware is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you several hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not clicking these promotions, they may be clicked by whoever who also uses your personal computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the situation can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to deal with it without data loss. It is recommended to eliminate the viruses with anti-malware applications as soon as possible.

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

The tutorial of Tevams.live adware clearing consists of 2 sections. Initially, we need to deal with the malware, and then deal with the effects of its action. The removal procedure is very easy, because it can be executed even with the use of Microsoft Defender – security tool that is present on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. However, as a result of its huge resources consumption, as well as some failures that may be serious for some categories of users, Defender is oftentimes disabled by the users, so its usage is likely impossible. Furthermore, various trojan viruses can disable the embedded antivirus. It is far better to make use of the separated program that will not have such exposures.

I would certainly advise you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven security tool that will surely exterminate the malware from your PC and also make an invulnerable cover with a Proactive protection feature. But let’s manage Tevams.live adware initially.

Removing Tevams.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 Tevams.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 web browsers are reset, you need to make sure that your browser will be connected the accurate DNS while connecting to the web page you want. Create a text file titled “hosts” on your pc’s desktop, then open it and fill it with the following lines³:

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 issue that makes the things much harder to restore, especially without the anti-malware software. The majority of adware variations that are utilized to show you the Tevams.live pop-up advertisements are changing the deep browser configurations, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you attempt to change your browser settings after your system was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will certainly collapse quickly. Sometimes, you will see no crash, but large lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 seconds, and then it will be back to the typical, until you attempt 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 advise it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.