Remove "LIVETAB-LIVE-STREAMS-IN-Y" virus (Removal Guide)

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What is LIVETAB-LIVE-STREAMS-IN-Y?

LIVETAB-LIVE-STREAMS-IN-Y detected as livetab-live-streams-in-y.
The main purpose of LIVETAB-LIVE-STREAMS-IN-Y is to display ads on your PC and to hijack your browser by changing its settings.
Today we will find out what is LIVETAB-LIVE-STREAMS-IN-Y, how it works and how to delete LIVETAB-LIVE-STREAMS-IN-Y from your computer.

LIVETAB-LIVE-STREAMS-IN-Y usually infiltrates your computer while being downloaded in a bundle with a popular hacked programs or while being included in downloaded file with a bunch of other trojans.

LIVETAB-LIVE-STREAMS-IN-Y causes the great problems for you, such as replacing your browser starting page with malicious one, browser search redirecting, changing security settings and allowing popup advertisements to show up.

LIVETAB-LIVE-STREAMS-IN-Y virus accomplishes this tasks by registering virus process in startup or by automatically launching malicious sites.

You have 2 ways to remove LIVETAB-LIVE-STREAMS-IN-Y:

You have 2 ways

1. Remove Automatically.
2. Remove Manually.

Why I recommend you to use an automatic way?

You know only one virus name: "LIVETAB-LIVE-STREAMS-IN-Y", but usually you have infected by a bunch of viruses.
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Here’s how to remove LIVETAB-LIVE-STREAMS-IN-Y virus automatically:

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How to remove LIVETAB-LIVE-STREAMS-IN-Y manually:

STEP 1: Check all shortcuts of your browsers on your desktop, taskbar and in the Start menu. Right click on your shortcut and change it's properties.

http://…

You can see LIVETAB-LIVE-STREAMS-IN-Y or another web site at the end of shortcut target (command line). Remove it and save changes.

In addition, check this command line for fake browser's trick.
For example, if a shortcut points to Google Chrome, it must have the path:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe.
Fake browser may be: …\Appdata\Roaming\HPReyos\ReyosStarter3.exe.
Also the file name may be: “chromium.exe” instead of chrome.exe.

STEP 2: Investigate the list of installed programs and uninstall all unknown recently installed programs.

check installed programs to uninstall

STEP 3: Open Task Manager and close all processes, related to LIVETAB-LIVE-STREAMS-IN-Y in their description. Discover the directories where such processes start. Search for random or strange file names.

Remove LIVETAB-LIVE-STREAMS-IN-Y virus from running processes

STEP 4: Inspect the Windows services. Press Win+R, type in: services.msc and press OK.

Remove LIVETAB-LIVE-STREAMS-IN-Y virus from Windows services

Disable the services with random names or contains LIVETAB-LIVE-STREAMS-IN-Y in it's name or description.

STEP 5: After that press Win+R, type in: taskschd.msc and press OK to open Windows Task Scheduler.
Remove LIVETAB-LIVE-STREAMS-IN-Y from scheduled task list.