How to Remove Lawsivo.ru Adware

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You must be sick and tired of seeing the Lawsivo.ru URL. This website is constantly reported for suspicious behavior. Yet, it is not the website that is the problem, it’s the adware behind it that causes your browser to behave oddly. Unfortunately, it is true, your device is no longer infection-free. You have the Lawsivo.ru adware on board. This parasite sneaks into its victims’ computers unnoticed and wreaks havoc. The parasite is programmed to generate ad-revenue through a pay-per-click mechanism. The scheme is quite simple. Every time you click on an advertisement provided by the adware, its owners get paid. And so, they’ve instructed their tool to bombard its victims with numerous adverts. The intruder injects various ads on every website you open. You must have noticed that websites that used to be ad-free are now covered in banners, hyperlinks and in-text adverts. Thank the adware for that. The parasite can also pause your online videos for commercial breaks and open pop-up windows. This intensive advertising, however, is not efficient enough. After all, you won’t click on just any advert, will you? To lure you into clicking, the adware must display appealing advertisements. The crooks have found a simple solution to this problem. They have programmed the adware to monitor your browser-related data and to base its ads on the collected information. In theory, if you type “sneakers” into a search engine, you will be presented with adverts for sports shoes. In practice, however, the parasite sells access to the information. Anyone willing to pay can use it to target you with customized marketing campaigns. All sorts of crooks do. The Lawsivo.ru adware is turning you into an easy target. Remove it before it lures into an online scam.

How did I get infected with?

The Lawsivo.ru adware did not appear out of the blue. This parasite has tricked you into installing it. That is right. Were you more vigilant, you wouldn’t have to deal with this infection. The adware hides in software bundles, torrents, spam emails, and fake updates. Be very careful what you are approving on board. This time you overlooked an adware parasite, you may not be that lucky the next time. All sorts of dangerous viruses use the same strategies to reach their victims. Therefore, always do your due diligence. Avoid using torrents. Download your software from reputable sources only. When you start an installation process, opt for the Advanced option. Every time you start the installation wizard of a software bundle, you will be asked to choose a setup option. There are only two types of installation: a Standard/Fast one and an Advanced/Custom option. Which one do you prefer? If your answer is the Standard, change your habits. This process is completely automatic. Once started, you lose control over it. The wizard installs all additional programs that have been attached to the bundle. Under the Advanced, however, you will be able to deselect all unwanted programs. Make sure you know what you are giving your approval to. Read the Terms and Conditions/End User License Agreement (EULA). If you spot anything out of the ordinary, abort the installation immediately.

Why is this dangerous?

The Lawsivo.ru adware is like a pain in the neck. The more you tolerate it, the worse it becomes. This parasite will drown you a sea of advertisements. With each passing day, it displays more and more advertisements. Your poor browser won’t be able to keep up with the intensive advertising campaign. It will start to freeze and crash frequently. You won’t be able to finish a simple task without being interrupted. Pop-ups and pop-unders will open at the most inappropriate times. Your browser will get automatically redirected to questionable websites. And on top of all this, your online videos will get paused for long commercial breaks. You will hate the experience. But do not focus on these issues. Something much worse is happening behind your back. The Lawsivo.ru adware is spying on you. It collects information about your online habits and sells access to it. Numerous crooks use this utility to target potential victims. They prepare custom marking campaigns and use the adware to push them on its victims. Bear this in mind the next time you see an irresistible offer. With the adware on board, you are far more likely to be presented with misleading and false adverts than with legitimate ones. Some of these ads may be even malicious. Be careful. Countless dodgy websites pay hefty sums for their advert to be spread. What is worse, scam pages are also often promoted with adware applications. The Lawsivo.ru adware is turning you into a target. Do not let this continue a minute longer. Remove the nasty parasite for good!

How to Remove Lawsivo.ru virus

The Lawsivo.ru infection is specifically designed to make money to its creators one way or another. The specialists from various antivirus companies like Bitdefender, Kaspersky, Norton, Avast, ESET, etc. advise that there is no harmless virus.

If you perform exactly the steps below you should be able to remove the Lawsivo.ru infection. Please, follow the procedures in the exact order. Please, consider to print this guide or have another computer at your disposal. You will NOT need any USB sticks or CDs.

STEP 1: Track down Lawsivo.ru in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Lawsivo.ru startup location

STEP 3: Delete Lawsivo.ru traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

STEP 1: Track down Lawsivo.ru in the computer memory

• Open your Task Manager by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ESC keys simultaneously
• Carefully review all processes and stop the suspicious ones.

• Write down the file location for later reference.

Step 2: Locate Lawsivo.ru startup location

Reveal Hidden Files

• Open any folder
• Click on “Organize” button
  
• Choose “Folder and Search Options”
• Select the “View” tab
• Select “Show hidden files and folders” option
• Uncheck “Hide protected operating system files”
• Click “Apply” and “OK” button

Clean Lawsivo.ru virus from the windows registry

• Once the operating system loads press simultaneously the Windows Logo Button and the R key.

• A dialog box should open. Type “Regedit”

• WARNING! be very careful when editing the Microsoft Windows Registry as this may render the system broken.

Depending on your OS (x86 or x64) navigate to:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] or
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] or
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]

• and delete the display Name: [RANDOM]

• Then open your explorer and navigate to: %appdata% folder and delete the malicious executable.

Clean your HOSTS file to avoid unwanted browser redirection

Navigate to %windir%/system32/Drivers/etc/host

If you are hacked, there will be foreign IPs addresses connected to you at the bottom. Take a look below:

STEP 3 : Clean Lawsivo.ru traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

• Open Google Chrome

• In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
• Remove the Lawsivo.ru by clicking on the little recycle bin
• Reset Google Chrome by Deleting the current user to make sure nothing is left behind

• Open Mozilla Firefox

• Press simultaneously Ctrl+Shift+A
• Disable the unwanted Extension
• Go to Help
• Then Troubleshoot information
• Click on Reset Firefox

• Open Internet Explorer

• On the Upper Right Corner Click on the Gear Icon
• Click on Internet options
• go to Toolbars and Extensions and disable the unknown extensions
• Select the Advanced tab and click on Reset

• Restart Internet Explorer

Step 4: Undo the damage done by Lawsivo.ru

This particular Virus may alter your DNS settings.

Attention! this can break your internet connection. Before you change your DNS settings to use Google Public DNS for Lawsivo.ru, be sure to write down the current server addresses on a piece of paper.

To fix the damage done by the virus you need to do the following.

• Click the Windows Start button to open the Start Menu, type control panel in the search box and select Control Panel in the results displayed above.
• go to Network and Internet
• then Network and Sharing Center
• then Change Adapter Settings
• Right-click on your active internet connection and click properties. Under the Networking tab, find Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4). Left click on it and then click on properties. Both options should be automatic! By default it should be set to “Obtain an IP address automatically” and the second one to “Obtain DNS server address automatically!” If they are not just change them, however if you are part of a domain network you should contact your Domain Administrator to set these settings, otherwise the internet connection will break!!!

You must clean all your browser shortcuts as well. To do that you need to

• Right click on the shortcut of your favorite browser and then select properties.

• in the target field remove Lawsivo.ru argument and then apply the changes.
• Repeat that with the shortcuts of your other browsers.
• Check your scheduled tasks to make sure the virus will not download itself again.

How to Permanently Remove Lawsivo.ru Virus (automatic) Removal Guide

Please, have in mind that once you are infected with a single virus, it compromises your system and let all doors wide open for many other infections. To make sure manual removal is successful, we recommend to use a free scanner of any professional antimalware program to identify possible registry leftovers or temporary files.