Wednesday, May 28, 2014

How to Remove Lving.net Pop-up Ads (Virus Removal Guide)



The removal guide can help you get rid of Lving.net pop-up ads from your PC. If you can’t figure out a removal method, please follow the guide below.

The Description of Lving.net

Lving.net is classified as a nasty ads supported program that can attack Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. It is used as a tool to help sponsors collect ntwrok traffic and make profits. When it penetrates into your Windows system, it will pretend to be a browser extension and get itself installed into your browser. Subsequently, your browser will be in a mess, such as your homepage as well as search provider is changed. Numerous ads actively and frequently appear at your browser and always disturb you. Additionally, you are usually redirected to a plenty of suspicious and weird websites. 

In addition to interfering with your network activities, this Lving.net also generates many junk files to corrupt your machine. At the same time, you may find there are some unknown programs in the program control panel. Gradually, your computer will run slower and slower. And you would come across many computer problems. What’s worse, this Lving.net will use a shay way to collect your important data like online banking account and password.  It is not a good thing when your privacy is exposed to the Internet. If you want to suffer these bothersome troubles, you should try your best to get rid of Lving.net pop-up virus.

Guides to Get Rid of Lving.net Pop-up

Step 1: Restart the computer, keep pressing F8 till the option appears, and then use arrow keys to select Safe Mode with Networking.

Step 2: End related processes of Lving.net. Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete together to run Task Manager.

Step 3: Click Start menu, then Control Panel, and click Programs. Select malicious programs and right click Uninstall.

Step 4: Open Start Menu and then go to Control Panel. Use the search bar to look for Folder Option. Check Show hidden files and folders and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) in the View tab of Folder Option window.
%AppData%\.exe
%CommonAppData%\.exe
C:\Windows\Temp\.exe
%temp%\.exe
C:\Program Files\

Step 5: Remove dropped registry files of Lving.net. Hit Win+R to activate Run, and then type “regedit” and press OK. Find unfamiliar keys and click Delete.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\InternetExplorer\TabbedBrowsing "NewTabPageShow" = "1"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Start Page" = "
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Software
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\supWPM
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Wpm
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Default_Page_URL" = "http://www..com/?type=hp&ts=&from=tugs&uid="
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\InternetExplorer\TabbedBrowsing "NewTabPageShow" = "1"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\InternetExplorer\Main"StartPage"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes "DefaultScope"

Reset the settings of Internet Explorer

1. Open the IE, click the wrench icon and select Internet Options.
2. Move to Advance tab, click the Reset button.
3. Tick the Delete personal settings check-box and click Reset button.
4. In General tab, you can add a new URL on Home page box and set it as your default homepage.

Reset the settings of Google Chrome

1. Open the Chrome, click the three stripes icon and select Settings.
2. Scroll down to the end of the configuration page, search for Show advanced settings.
3. Look at Reset browser settings button and click it.
4. Reset browser settings via clicking the reset button.
5. Scroll down the page again and look for Open a specific page or set of pages, click on their Set Pages. Another window will show up. Here you will seethe bunch of URLs under “Set pages”. Delete all them and then enter only one which you want to use as your home page.

Reset the settings of Mozilla Firefox

1. Open Firefox, and click the Firefox button.
2. Select Help and click Troubleshooting Information.
3. Click the Reset Firefox button.