Wedger.live pop-up notifications appear out of the blue, detracting and annoying you. Still, they are much more than just notifications – their essence is surely malignant, and they may introduce other malware to your PC. In this post, I will guide you on how to remove Wedger.live pop-ups and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any time you interact with Wedger.live pop-up advertisements will be ineffective at best. At worst, the websites it can throw you to can introduce malware to your system. These push notifications can also promote fake 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 Wedger.live pop-up advertisements?
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-ups and Wedger.live notifications is the malicious origins of the latter. Normal pop-up advertisements are offered for you to enable on different sites with a understandable purpose – notify you about the fresh publications, discounts and so on. It is a useful tool to help your site to keep visitor’s attention and help the interested visitors to have the best deal.
Brief summary of the Wedger.live pop-ups:
| Name | Wedger.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 | News, Smalk, Tuskel |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
Wedger.live pop-up advertisements, as opposed, have a deal with unlegit sites. You will generally witness the offer to enable them following the redirection from another site. Redirects are OK unless it throws you into such a questionable place. In this case, enabling pop-up notifications is offered as the anti-DDoS check. In other cases, the web pages may refuse to show you the contents unless you enable these push notifications. These theses should already be the red flag, as websites commonly feature a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Witnessing such an offer is a reason to leave the site doubtlessly. Sometimes, even when you click “Allow”, you will not see the site – the sole page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up ads.
Wedger.live push notification.
How does it work?
The vast majority of browsers support turning on pop-ups from websites. Websites, on the other hand, can send out notifications with the content of their choice. It can be a promotion of the product posted on this particular site, or a promotion of their partner page. As a result, you can see the pop-up from site X, but opening it will throw you to site Y – because a referral link to the latter was built in.
Scoundrels rely on this feature in their attempt to earn money through advertising. They trick victims into allowing them to show the banners, and after that just spread numerous ads of other crooks they contract with. As you can suppose, no benevolent companies will have a deal with fraudsters. All the Wedger.live push ads you can see lead to other fraudulent sites. In some cases, the same user can be trapped by several pop-up spamming websites, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.
The promotions these crooks show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It usually provides a negligible pay for one viewer, but when you have a huge number of users and make it hundreds of times each day – that is a much more significant sum. Despite the majority of such banners are ineffective, it may still bring all the participants a lot of profit.
Are Wedger.live pop-ups dangerous?
Yes, they are. At the surface, they may look harmless – just a colourful pop-up that appears from time to time. However, the things this window promotes differ sharply from what you generally see in pop-up advertisements. Wedger.live web page is controlled by fraudsters, who intendedly spread tons of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any manners of advertising and can make sporadic pop-up advertisements into a hurricane of banners. For weak systems, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But troubles are not over at this point.
As with any other thing that touches illegal ads, Wedger.live push notifications don’t have legit deals to offer. Even though crooks make the banners looking similar to ones from Walmart or Amazon, the website these ads will throw you to are completely different. And these pages may 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, Wedger.live pop-ups are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.
How to remove Wedger.live pop-ups?
Fortunately, Wedger.live pop-up advertisements removal is pretty easy. They parasite in the browser and can’t hide themselves on a disk. However, as I pointed out before, some pop-up ads can introduce malicious software to your system. It is nearly impossible to describe all cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is inconvenient. Therefore, after removing the source of the push notifications the best option is to use anti-malware software. I would especially recommend that if you have never clicked “Allow” to pop-ups, and they still appeared. That may be a sign of malicious software activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will perfectly fit both system recovery and malware scanning and removal purposes, thanks to its abilities of system recovery and superb detection system.
Initially, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to accomplish in both manual and automatic manner. The former, obviously, requires 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 may 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 site 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 Wedger.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 Wedger.live Pop-ups?
Name: Wedger.live
Description: Wedger.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 Wedger.live push notifications?” or “why do Wedger.live pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with Wedger.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.
