How to remove Video01.live pop-up ads

Tips for Video01.live pop-up virus removal

 Video01.live is a rogue program that shows additional contents and pushes notifications from foreign pages. The intruder is categorized as a potentially unwanted application because of its stealthy intrusion behavior and relation to third party content creators.  It aims to deliver pop-up ads and cause more redirect to commercial sites. The pop-up ads, shady content appears in the form of banners, in-text ads and those redirects frustrate the users. Also, they can lead users to various suspicious, phishing, scams, and deceptive, malicious and dangerous sites.

The Video01.live pop-up uses social engineering technique to make users subscribe to the third party notification service. These notifications appear directly to the desktop screen once the computer is rebooted and there is no need to turn on the web browsers installed to be on and running. While these notifications seem to be delivered from the installed web browsers, this is not the browser-related issue. The browsing session will significantly get diminished because of commercial content that fills up the screen and redirects to potentially malicious pages. Additionally, the Video01.live pop-up virus has the following features:

• Displaying ads on each site that the users visit,
• Changing the browsers’ appearance such as homepage and new tab page options,
• Redirecting to questionable pages,
• Installing unwanted applications, and also various suspicious browser extensions, toolbars that appear out of nowhere

You should remove Video01.live pop-up soon you notice any such symptoms. Besides the symptoms you spot, there are lot of changes and processes that are running on the background. The adware as all other potentially unwanted applications can track users’ browsing session and collect the data related to their web browsing activities. To avoid any big issues like the issues related to privacy, identity exposure and other severe ones, immediately remove Video01.live pop-up virus from the system. You will find complete guide on how this is to be done just below the article. Both manual as well as automatic guides are provided to you – choose the one that you think the best.

Additionally, you need to check for all suspicious extensions and plug-ins and change the notification preferences on your Chrome and other web browsers. You can back those settings to the normal by the following steps:

• Go to the browser settings,
• Choose Advanced,
• Find Content Setting or Site settings,
• Select Notifications,
• Search for Video01.live pop-up and other suspicious site,
• Choose Block or Remove button.

Adware often get bundled with regular software

Malicious programs like browser hijacker, adware or other potentially unwanted applications are distributed by bundled them with some regular software such as freeware as extras. When you get such software or any other apps from questionable pages, you risk installing some unwanted apps. The process is automatic because the additional software is hidden behind the download/ installation setups of regular software. When you choose Custom/Advanced option, you can de-select the unwanted apps but while skipping it the program will automatically get installed on the device without users’ permission.

Antimalware Details And User Guide

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Important Note: This malware asks you to enable the web browser notifications. So, before you go the manual removal process, execute these steps.

Google Chrome (PC)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the Menu button
• Select “Settings”. Scroll the mouse downward to choose “Advanced” option
• Go to “Privacy and Security” section by scrolling downward and then select “Content settings” and then “Notification” option
• Find each suspicious URLs and click on three dots on the right side and choose “Block” or “Remove” option

Google Chrome (Android)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the menu button and then click on “Settings”
• Scroll down further to click on “site settings” and then press on “notifications” option
• In the newly opened window, choose each suspicious URLs one by one
• In the permission section, select “notification” and “Off” the toggle button

Mozilla Firefox

• On the right corner of the screen, you will notice three dots which is the “Menu” button
• Select “Options” and choose “Privacy and Security” in the toolbar present in the left side of the screen
• Slowly scroll down and go to “Permission” section then choose “Settings” option next to “Notifications”
• In the newly opened window, select all the suspicious URLs. Click on the drop-down menu and select “Block”

Internet Explorer

• In the Internet Explorer window, select the Gear button present on the right corner
• Choose “Internet Options”
• Select “Privacy” tab and then “Settings” under the “Pop-up Blocker” section
• Select all the suspicious URLs one by one and click on the “Remove” option

Microsoft Edge

• Open the Microsoft Edge and click on the three dots on the right corner of the screen to open the menu
• Scroll down and select “Settings”
• Scroll down further to choose “view advanced settings”
• In the “Website Permission” option, click on “Manage” option
• Click on switch under every suspicious URL

Safari (Mac):

• On the upper right side corner, click on “Safari” and then select “Preferences”
• Go to “website” tab and then choose “Notification” section on the left pane
• Search for the suspicious URLs and choose “Deny” option for each one of them

Manual Steps to Remove Video01.live pop-up:

Remove the related items of Video01.live pop-up using Control-Panel

Windows 7 Users

Click “Start” (the windows logo at the bottom left corner of the desktop screen), select “Control Panel”. Locate the “Programs” and then followed by clicking on “Uninstall Program”

Windows XP Users

Click “Start” and then choose “Settings” and then click “Control Panel”. Search and click on “Add or Remove Program’ option

Windows 10 and 8 Users:

Go to the lower left corner of the screen and right-click. In the “Quick Access” menu, choose “Control Panel”. In the newly opened window, choose “Program and Features”

Mac OSX Users

Click on “Finder” option. Choose “Application” in the newly opened screen. In the “Application” folder, drag the app to “Trash”. Right click on the Trash icon and then click on “Empty Trash”.

In the uninstall programs window, search for the PUAs. Choose all the unwanted and suspicious entries and click on “Uninstall” or “Remove”.

After you uninstall all the potentially unwanted program causing Video01.live pop-up issues, scan your computer with an anti-malware tool for any remaining PUPs and PUAs or possible malware infection. To scan the PC, use the recommended the anti-malware tool.

How to Remove Adware (Video01.live pop-up) from Internet Browsers

Delete malicious add-ons and extensions from IE

Click on the gear icon at the top right corner of Internet Explorer. Select “Manage Add-ons”. Search for any recently installed plug-ins or add-ons and click on “Remove”.

Additional Option

If you still face issues related to Video01.live pop-up removal, you can reset the Internet Explorer to its default setting.

Windows XP users: Press on “Start” and click “Run”. In the newly opened window, type “inetcpl.cpl” and click on the “Advanced” tab and then press on “Reset”.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 Users: Press the Windows logo, type inetcpl.cpl in the start search box and press enter. In the newly opened window, click on the “Advanced Tab” followed by “Reset” button.

For Windows 8 Users: Open IE and click on the “gear” icon. Choose “Internet Options”

Select the “Advanced” tab in the newly opened window

Press on “Reset” option

You have to press on the “Reset” button again to confirm that you really want to reset the IE

Remove Doubtful and Harmful Extension from Google Chrome

Go to menu of Google Chrome by pressing on three vertical dots and select on “More tools” and then “Extensions”. You can search for all the recently installed add-ons and remove all of them.

Optional Method

If the problems related to Video01.live pop-up still persists or you face any issue in removing, then it is advised that your reset the Google Chrome browse settings. Go to three dotted points at the top right corner and choose “Settings”. Scroll down bottom and click on “Advanced”.

At the bottom, notice the “Reset” option and click on it.

In the next opened window, confirm that you want to reset the Google Chrome settings by click on the “Reset” button.

Remove Video01.live pop-up plugins (including all other doubtful plug-ins) from Firefox Mozilla

Open the Firefox menu and select “Add-ons”. Click “Extensions”. Select all the recently installed browser plug-ins.

Optional Method

If you face problems in Video01.live pop-up removal then you have the option to rese the settings of Mozilla Firefox.

Open the browser (Mozilla Firefox) and click on the “menu” and then click on “Help”.

Choose “Troubleshooting Information”

In the newly opened pop-up window, click “Refresh Firefox” button

The next step is to confirm that really want to reset the Mozilla Firefox settings to its default by clicking on “Refresh Firefox” button.

Remove Malicious Extension from Safari

Open the Safari and go to its “Menu” and select “Preferences”.

Click on the “Extension” and select all the recently installed “Extensions” and then click on “Uninstall”.

Optional Method

Open the “Safari” and go menu. In the drop-down menu, choose “Clear History and Website Data”.

In the newly opened window, select “All History” and then press on “Clear History” option.

Delete Video01.live pop-up (malicious add-ons) from Microsoft Edge

Open Microsoft Edge and go to three horizontal dot icons at the top right corner of the browser. Select all the recently installed extensions and right click on the mouse to “uninstall”

Optional Method

Open the browser (Microsoft Edge) and select “Settings”

Next steps is to click on “Choose what to clear” button

Click on “show more” and then select everything and then press on “Clear” button.

Conclusion

In most cases, the PUPs and adware gets inside the marked PC through unsafe freeware downloads. It is advised that you should only choose developers website only while downloading any kind of free applications. Choose custom or advanced installation process so that you can trace the additional PUPs listed for installation along with the main program.