Remove Cigens.live Virus — How to Fix Guide

Cigens.live pop-up advertisements appear when you do not expect, disturbing and annoying you. Still, they are slightly more than annoying notifications – their origins is surely malicious, and they can bring other malware to your system. In this article, I will show you the guide how to remove Cigens.live pop-up notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any time you interact with Cigens.live push notifications will be useless at best. At worst, the pages it can open can introduce malware to your system. These pop-up advertisements can also promote fake shopping sites 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 Cigens.live pop-up advertisements?

Brief summary of the Cigens.live pop-ups:

Cigens.live pop-ups, on the other hand, have a deal with less legit web pages. You will commonly see the offer to enable them following the redirection from another site. There’s nothing bad in redirecting unless they throw you into such a questionable place. At that point, enabling push notifications is offered as the anti-bot check-up. Alternatively, the sites may refuse to show you the content unless you turn on these pop-up ads. These theses should already be the red flag, as websites usually have a different anti-bot mechanism. Witnessing such an demand is a reason to leave the site doubtlessly. Sometimes, even when you click “Allow”, you will not get to the website – the only page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the push notifications.

How does this work?

The majority of browsers support enabling push notifications from websites. Websites, on the other hand, can send out notifications with the content they want. It can be a promotion of the product or a page listed on this particular site, or an ad of their partner page. As a result, you can see the pop-up from site X, but interacting with it will throw you to website Y – because a referral link to the latter was embedded.

The banners these crooks show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It usually provides a miserable payment for one view, but when you can send ads to a huge number of users and show them hundreds of ads each day – that is a much bigger sum. Even though the majority of these banners giving no result at all, it may still bring all the participants a lot of profit.

Are Cigens.live pop-ups dangerous?

Yes, they are. At the surface, they can look safe – just a colourful pop-up that appears from time to time. However, the contents of this window differ sharply from what you generally see in push notifications. Cigens.live website is controlled by crooks, who deliberately spread hundreds and thousands of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any manners of advertising and can make sporadic pop-ups into a hurricane of ads. For weak systems, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But problems are not over at this point.

How to remove Cigens.live pop-ups?

Initially, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to do in manual or automated way. The former, obviously, takes more time to complete and may 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 site 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.