Disans.live pop-up advertisements appear when you do not expect, detracting and annoying you. However, they are way more than simple pop-ups – their essence is cleanly malignant, and they may introduce other malicious stuff to your system. In this post, I will show you the guide how to remove Disans.live pop-up notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any time you interact with Disans.live pop-up advertisements will be ineffective at best. In worst case scenario, the sites it can show you can introduce malware to your system. These push notifications can also advertise fake online 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 Disans.live pop-ups?
As the pop-up definition goes, these are short and small advertisements that attract your attention to a product they promote. But the difference between regular pop-ups and Disans.live notifications is the malicious origins of the latter. Normal pop-up notifications are offered for you to enable on different sites with a understandable purpose – notify you about the new articles, discounts and so on. It is a useful thing to help your website to keep visitors and help the interested visitors to have the best price.
Brief description of the Disans.live pop-ups:
| Name | Disans.live |
| Hosting | AS14061 DigitalOcean, LLC United States, North Bergen |
| IP Address | 157.230.4.182 |
| Malware type | Adware1 |
| Effect | Unwanted pop-up advertisements |
| Hazard level | Medium |
| Malware source | Apps from third-party websites, ads on dubious websites |
| Similar behavior | Cigens, Cicens, Taitlastwebegan |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
Disans.live pop-up ads, on the other hand, are related to less legit web pages. You will generally observe the offer to enable them following the redirection from another page. Redirects are OK unless they throw you to such a dubious place. At that point, enabling pop-up advertisements is served under the guise of the anti-bot check. In other cases, the websites may refuse to show you the contents unless you apply these pop-up advertisements. These demands should raise suspicion, as websites commonly have a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Seeing such an offer is a reason to close the website right away. Sometimes, even when you click “Allow”, you will not get to the web page – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-ups.
Disans.live push notification.
How does it work?
The vast majority of web browsers support enabling pop-ups from sites. Websites, on the other hand, can send notifications with the content they like. It can be a promotion of the product or a page listed on this site, as well as an ad of the page of their partner. As a result, you can see the pop-up from site X, but clicking it will direct you to website Y – because a link to the latter was embedded.
Cybercriminals rely on this ability in their attempt to earn money through advertising. They trick victims into turning on pop-ups, and after that just spread numerous banners of other crooks they have a deal with. As you can suppose, no image-caring organisations will contract with fraudsters. All the Disans.live push ads you can see lead to other untrustworthy sites. At some point, the same victim may be trapped by multiple pop-up spamming web pages, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.
The promotions these rascals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It generally provides a negligible payment for one view, but when you can send ads to hundreds of victims and make it hundreds of times each day – that is a much more significant sum. Despite most of these banners are ineffective, it may still give all the participants a lot of money.
Are Disans.live pop-up advertisements dangerous?
Yes, they are. At the surface, they can look safe – just a blinking window that appears from time to time. However, the things this window promotes differ drastically from what you used to see in pop-up ads. Disans.live web page is controlled by fraudsters, who intentionally show hundreds and thousands of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any manners of advertising and can launch sporadic pop-up advertisements into a storm of ads. For weak systems, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But problems are not over at this point.
As any other thing related to illegal advertising, Disans.live pop-up ads lack legit offers. Even though crooks make the banners looking similar to ones from well-known retailers, the web page these ads will throw you to are completely different. And these pages can offer you to turn on other pop-ups, install a “useful” program, or pay for a thing at a big discount and never receive it. Let’s leave aside the cases when pop-up notifications promote phishing pages or straightforward malware. There’s no way these pages will bring you any good, thus interacting with them is a very bad idea. For the same reason, Disans.live pop-up advertisements are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.
How to remove Disans.live pop-ups?
Fortunately, Disans.live pop-up ads removal is pretty easy. They parasite in the browser and can’t conceal themselves among system files. Nevertheless, as I stated above, some push notifications can promote malware to your system. It is nearly impossible to predict all of the cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is inconvenient. Therefore, after disabling the pop-up ads the best option is to use anti-malware software. I’d especially recommend that if you have never allowed pop-ups, but they still appeared. This situation can be a sign of malware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will perfectly fit both system recovery and malware scanning and removal purposes, because of its system recovery functionality and multi-component detection system.
First of all, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to accomplish in manual or automated way. The former, obviously, takes 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 with GridinSoft Anti-Malware
To reset your browser with GridinSoft Anti-Malware, open the Tools tab, and click the “Reset browser settings” button.
You may see the list of options for each browser. By default, they are set up in a manner that fits the majority of users. Press the “Reset” button (lower right corner). In a minute your browser will be as good as new.
The browser reset is recommended to perform through the antivirus tool by GridinSoft, because the latter is also able to reset the HOSTS file without any additional commands.
Reset your browsers manually
Manual method of browser reset
To reset Edge, do the following steps:
- Open “Settings and more” tab in upper right corner, then find here “Settings” button. In the appeared menu, choose “Reset settings” option:
- 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:
- Open Menu tab (three strips in upper right corner) and click the “Help” button. In the appeared menu choose “troubleshooting information”:
- In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option:
After choosing this option, you will see the next message:
If you use Google Chrome
- Open Settings tab, find the “Advanced” button. In the extended tab choose the “Reset and clean up” button:
- In the appeared list, click on the “Restore settings to their original defaults”:
- 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
- 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:
- 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:
# Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
# localhost name resolution is handle within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost
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
After removing the Disans.live push notifications, it’s time to see if these pop-ups brought any threat to your system. Launch GridinSoft Anti-Malware, and then click on Standard scan. It will be enough in most cases to find and remove malware. The scan will last 5-10 minutes; you are free to use your system during that process.
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).
How to Remove Disans.live Pop-ups?
Name: Disans.live
Description: Disans.live - a lot of users became a target for the pop-up advertisements. I have a lot of friends who literally bombed me with the questions like “how to remove Disans.live push notifications?” or “why do Disans.live pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with Disans.live pop-ups, which may corrupt your browser’s correct performance, and create a lot of troubles while you are working.
Operating System: Windows
Application Category: Adware
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( votes)References
- More about this malware type on GridinSoft Encyclopedia.
- Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.
