Dixans.live pop-up advertisements appear out of the blue, distracting and irritating you. However, that is way more than just notifications – their origins is cleanly malicious, and they can introduce other malware to your device. In this article, I will guide you on how to remove Dixans.live pop-up notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any time you interact with Dixans.live pop-up notifications will be ineffective at best. At worst, the websites it can throw you to may introduce malware to your system. These pop-ups 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 Dixans.live push notifications?
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-up advertisements and Dixans.live pop-ups is the malicious origins of the latter. Normal push notifications are offered for you to enable on different sites with a legitimate purpose – keep you aware about the fresh articles, discounts and so on. It is a useful tool to help your website to retain visitors and help the interested ones to have the best deal.
Brief summary of the Dixans.live pop-up ads:
| Name | Dixans.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 | Mecor, News, Reianter |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
Dixans.live pop-up advertisements, on the other hand, are related to untrustworthy web pages. You will commonly witness the proposition to enable them after a redirection from another page. It’s OK to see redirects unless it throws you to such a dubious place. At that point, turning on pop-up advertisements is served as the anti-bot check. Alternatively, the sites may refuse to show you the contents unless you turn on these pop-up ads. These requirements should be the red flag, as sites commonly feature a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Witnessing such an offer is a reason to skip the page doubtlessly. In some cases, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not see the website – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the push notifications.
Dixans.live push notification.
How does this work?
The vast majority of browsers support turning on push notifications from sites. Sites, on the other hand, may send out notifications with the content they want. It can be a promotion of the product or a page listed for sale on this website, or an ad of the page of their partner. As a result, you can see the pop-up from site X, but interacting with it will redirect you to site Y – because a referral link to the latter was built in.
Scoundrels rely on this ability in their approach to gain money using illegal advertising. They trick victims into allowing them to show the banners, and then just spread hundreds of banners of anyone they have a deal with. As you can suppose, no legit companies will have a deal with fraudsters. All the Dixans.live push ads you may see lead to other fraudulent sites. In some cases, the same user can be trapped by multiple pop-up spamming web pages, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.
The promotions these crooks show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It commonly provides a negligible payment for one view, but when you have hundreds of victims and make it hundreds of times every day – that is a much more significant sum. Despite the majority of such banners giving no result at all, it can still bring all the participants a lot of money.
Are Dixans.live pop-up notifications dangerous?
Yes, they are. At the surface, they can look safe – just a colourful pop-up that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the contents of this window differ drastically from what you generally see in pop-up advertisements. Dixans.live website is ruled by fraudsters, who deliberately throw hundreds and thousands of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any common sense and can launch sporadic pop-up advertisements into a hurricane of banners. For weak systems, that may be enough to make the system slower. But problems are not over at this point.
As any other thing related to illegal advertising, Dixans.live pop-up notifications lack legit offers. Even when crooks make the banners looking similar to ones from Amazon, Walmart or Ebay, the website these ads will throw you to are completely different. And these pages may 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 ads 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, Dixans.live pop-ups are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.
How to remove Dixans.live pop-ups?
Fortunately, Dixans.live push notifications removal is pretty easy. They reside in the web browser and can’t hide themselves among system files. Nonetheless, as I told before, some pop-up advertisements can promote malicious programs to your system. It is hard to describe all cases, and manual malware removal is inconvenient. Therefore, after disabling the push notifications it is recommended to use anti-malware software. This step is especially recommended in the case when you have never clicked “Allow” to pop-up notifications, and they still appeared. This situation may point at malicious software activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both recovery and malware scanning purposes, thanks to its abilities of system recovery and multi-component detection system.
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 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 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 Dixans.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 Dixans.live Pop-ups?
Name: Dixans.live
Description: Dixans.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 Dixans.live push notifications?” or “why do Dixans.live pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with Dixans.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.
