How to remove Cicens.live pop-ups? — Fix Guide

Cicens.live pop-up advertisements appear out of the blue, bothering and annoying you. Nonetheless, they are much more than simple pop-ups – their origins is cleanly malignant, and they can bring other malicious stuff to your system. In this post, I will show you how to remove Cicens.live pop-up advertisements and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any interaction with Cicens.live pop-up advertisements will be useless at best. In worst case scenario, the websites it can throw you to may introduce malware to your system. These push notifications can also advertise 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 Cicens.live pop-up notifications?

Brief description of the Cicens.live pop-up ads:

Cicens.live pop-up ads, on the other hand, have a deal with unlegit websites. You will commonly witness the offer to enable them after a redirection from another site. It’s OK to see redirects unless it throws you to such a dubious place. At that point, enabling pop-up advertisements is offered as the anti-DDoS check-up. Alternatively, the websites can refuse to show you the content unless you turn on these pop-up ads. These demands should be the red flag, as sites usually feature a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Seeing such an offer is a reason to close the page doubtlessly. Sometimes, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not see the website – the only page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up advertisements.

How does it work?

The vast majority of web browsers support turning on pop-ups from sites. Sites, on the other hand, may send notifications with the content they like. It may be a promotion of the product or a page posted on this site, as well as a promotion of their partner page. As a result, you can see the push notification from site X, but opening it will redirect you to site Y – because a referral link to that website was embedded.

The promotions these crooks show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It generally provides a miserable pay for one person, but when you have hundreds of victims and show them hundreds of ads each day – that is a way bigger sum. Even though most of these ads are ineffective, it can still bring all the participants a lot of profit.

Are Cicens.live pop-ups dangerous?

Yes, they are. At the surface, they may look harmless – just a blinking pop-up that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the things this window promotes differ drastically from what you used to see in push notifications. Cicens.live site is controlled by crooks, who intendedly show hundreds of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any manners of advertising and can launch sporadic push notifications into a hurricane of promotions. For weak systems, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But that is not all problems these pop-ups carry.

How to remove Cicens.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 website 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.