Video02 Ads Removal Guide — How to Fix It?

Video02 pop-up notices may show up unexpectedly, covering the post of the page you visited or opening your web browser when you do not need it to be opened.

Clicking the Video02 promotion may cause the injection of various malware or unwanted programs. In this article, you will see the manual of Video02 popups clearing in multiple methods, and also examining your personal computer for extra malware existence.

What are Video02 pop-ups?

Video02 popups are a consequence of adware activity. Adware is a kind of malware that presents you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click promotions, which generates a massive volume of income for adware representatives. These advertisements might consist of explicit content, or have a web link to malevolent content/website, due to the fact that adware maintainers have no reason to examine the goodness of the content they are going to reveal – their single target is cash.

Video02 push notification.

Pop-up promotions itself is a good, affordable and also really productive advertising solution¹ It enables the vendor to attach the buyers’ attention to their website, and the customers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to buy. When the person will get a pop-up alert that the TV set he likes to purchase is provided at the online store he/she checked out earlier with a 15% price cut, one will definitely use this opportunity and get it. Considering 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 big online stores.

Nevertheless, such a rewarding system could not be missed by malware creators. Option to show the popup ads forcibly to the victims of malware attack is an excellent basis for evil-minded tricks with the popup advertisements. And Video02.live promotions is just one of hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a short details for the Video02

How have I got the Video02 virus?

There are a lot of ways of becoming contaminated by the adware that trigger the Video02 popups tornado. A lion’s part of this malware incidents is after the free software or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Free software may also be downloaded from the official site, and the adware is provided as a legitimate bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A lot of individuals often make use of the unreliable programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, different apps 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 Video02 malware under the guise of part of the license hacking script, or as a part of the self-made algoritm within the Windows optimization tool.

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

How can I get rid of Video02 pop-up advertisements?

The manual of Video02 adware clearing includes 2 parts. First, we need to get rid of the malware, and then take care of the effects of its action. The removal task is quite simple, because it can be performed even with the use of Microsoft Defender – security tool that is present on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. Nevertheless, because of its substantial resources consumption, as well as some bugs that can be critical for some kinds of users, Defender is oftentimes disabled by the users, so its use is likely impossible. In addition, different trojan viruses have the ability to disable the embedded antivirus. It is far better to use the separated program that will not have such weakness.

• 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 Video02 malware the default option is “Delete”. Press “Apply” to finish the malware removal.

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 ensure that your web browser will definitely be connected the correct DNS while connecting to the web page you want. Create a text file named “hosts” on your pc’s desktop, after that 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.

Nevertheless, there is one trouble that makes the things a lot more difficult to repair, particularly without the anti-malware software. A lot of adware versions that are used to show you the Video02 pop-up advertisements are adjusting the deep browser configurations, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to change your browser settings after your computer was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will collapse quickly. Sometimes, you will see no crash, however, large lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 secs, and then it will be back to the normal, until you attempt to open settings once more.

1. More about pop-up advertisements on Wikipedia.
2. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.