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

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?

Brief summary of the Wedger.live pop-ups:

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.

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.

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.

How to remove Wedger.live pop-ups?

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 manually

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 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:

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

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).

1. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.