Tuskep.live pop-ups appear out of the blue, disturbing and annoying you. Nonetheless, they are slightly more than simple pop-ups – their nature is clearly malicious, and they can bring other malware to your device. In this post, I will guide you on how to remove Tuskep.live pop-up notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any time you interact with Tuskep.live pop-ups will be useless at best. At worst, the web pages it can open may introduce malware to your system. These pop-up advertisements can also promote fake online shopping websites 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 Tuskep.live pop-up notifications?
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-up ads and Tuskep.live pop-ups is the malicious origins of the latter. Common pop-up ads are offered for you to enable with a understandable purpose – keep you aware about the fresh posts, discounts and so on. It is an effective approach to help your website to keep visitors and help the interested visitors to have the best deal.
Brief description of the Tuskep.live pop-up ads:
| Name | Tuskep.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 | Tuskef, Wedger, News |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
Tuskep.live pop-up ads, in contrast, have a deal with less legit web pages. You will commonly observe the proposition to turn them on after a redirection from another site. It’s OK to see redirects unless it throws you into such a dubious place. In this case, enabling pop-up notifications is served under the guise of the anti-bot filtering. Alternatively, the sites may deny showing you the contents unless you enable these pop-up notifications. These demands should already be the red flag, as sites commonly have a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Witnessing such an demand is a reason to leave the website doubtlessly. Sometimes, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not get to the web page – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up advertisements.
Tuskep.live push notification.
How does it work?
The vast majority of browsers support turning on push notifications from websites. Sites, on the other hand, may send out notifications with the content of their choice. It can be a promotion of the product listed on this site, or a promotion of the page of their partner. As a result, you can see the push notification from site X, but opening it will redirect you to site Y – because a link to that website was embedded.
Cybercriminals rely on this feature in their attempt to earn money using illegal advertising. They trick victims into allowing them to show the banners, and then just spread numerous promotions of anyone they have a deal with. As you may suppose, no image-caring organisations will have a business with fraudsters. All the Tuskep.live push ads you may see lead to other untrustworthy sites. At some point, the same victim can be trapped by multiple pop-up spamming web pages, and its web browser will turn into a complete mess.
The banners these crooks show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It generally provides a negligible payment for one view, but when you have hundreds of victims and make it hundreds of times each day – that is a much bigger sum. Even though most of such banners are ineffective, it can still give all the parties a lot of profit.
Are Tuskep.live pop-up advertisements dangerous?
Yes, they are. At the surface, they can look safe – just a blinking pop-up that appears from time to time. However, the contents of this window differ sharply from what you used to see in pop-up notifications. Tuskep.live web page is controlled by fraudsters, who intentionally throw hundreds of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any common sense and can launch sporadic push notifications into a hurricane of ads. 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 advertising, Tuskep.live pop-up notifications don’t have legit offers. Even though crooks make the banners looking similar to ones from Walmart or Amazon, the web page these ads 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 ads 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, Tuskep.live pop-up notifications are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.
How to remove Tuskep.live pop-ups?
Fortunately, Tuskep.live pop-up advertisements removal is not very complicated. They parasite in the browser and cannot conceal themselves on a disk. Nevertheless, as I stated above, some push notifications can promote malicious programs to your system. It is hard to describe all of the cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is inconvenient. Therefore, after getting rid of the pop-up advertisements the best option is to use anti-malware software. I would especially recommend that in the case when you have never allowed push notifications, and they still appeared. This situation may be a sign of adware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will perfectly fit both system recovery and malware removal purposes, because of its system recovery functionality and multi-component detection system.
First and foremost, you should reset your browser settings. You can do that in both manual and automatic manner. The former, obviously, takes more time to complete and can 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 website 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 Tuskep.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 Tuskep.live Pop-ups?
Name: Tuskep.live
Description: Tuskep.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 Tuskep.live push notifications?” or “why do Tuskep.live pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with Tuskep.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.
