Safes.live pop-up advertisements appear out of the blue, detracting and annoying you. Nonetheless, they are slightly more than just notifications – their nature is clearly malignant, and they may bring other malicious stuff to your computer. In this post, I will show you the guide how to remove Safes.live pop-ups and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any time you interact with Safes.live pop-up advertisements will be useless at best. At worst, the pages it can show you may introduce malware to your system. These pop-ups may also promote 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 Safes.live pop-up advertisements?
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 notifications and Safes.live pop-ups is the malignant origins of the latter. Common pop-ups are offered for you to enable with a straightforward purpose – notify you about the fresh publications, goods for sale and so on. It is a useful thing to help your website to retain visitors and help the interested visitors to have the best deal.
Short summary of the Safes.live pop-ups:
| Name | Safes.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 | Sodong, News, Silid |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
Safes.live pop-up ads, in contrast, are related to less legit sites. You will generally observe the proposition to turn them on after a redirection from another page. Redirects are OK unless it throws you to such a dubious place. At that point, turning on push notifications is offered under the guise of the anti-bot check. In other cases, the websites can deny showing you the contents unless you enable these pop-up advertisements. These demands should already be the red flag, as websites usually feature a less obscure anti-bot mechanism. Witnessing this offer should be the reason to close the website right away. Sometimes, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not get to the website – the only page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up ads.
Safes.live push notification.
How does this work?
The majority of web browsers support enabling push notifications from sites. Websites, on the other hand, may send notifications with the content they want. It may be a promotion of the product or a page posted on this particular site, as well as an ad of their partner page. As a result, you may see the push notification from site X, but opening it will throw you to site Y – because a referral link to the latter was embedded.
Crooks bear on this feature in their attempt to earn money through advertising. They trick victims into allowing the pop-ups, and after that just spread numerous banners of anyone they have a deal with. As you can suppose, no benevolent companies will have a deal with fraudsters. All the Safes.live notifications you may see lead to other untrustworthy sites. At some point, the same user can get into a trap of multiple pop-up spamming web pages, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.
The banners these criminals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It generally provides a negligible pay for one person, but when you can send ads to a huge number of users and make it hundreds of times every day – that is a way bigger sum. Despite the majority of these ads giving no result at all, it can still bring all the participants a lot of profit.
Are Safes.live pop-up ads dangerous?
Yes, they are. Initially, they may look safe – just a colourful window that appears from time to time. However, the things this window promotes differ sharply from what you used to see in pop-up notifications. Safes.live website is controlled by crooks, who intendedly throw tons of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any common sense and can launch sporadic pop-ups into a storm of promotions. For weak systems, that may be enough to make the system slower. But that is not all problems these pop-up advertisements carry.
As any other thing that touches illegal ads, Safes.live pop-ups don’t have legit deals to offer. Even though crooks make the ads looking similar to ones from Amazon, Walmart or Ebay, the site these banners 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-ups 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, Safes.live push notifications are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.
How to remove Safes.live pop-ups?
Fortunately, Safes.live pop-up ads removal is not very complicated. They sit in the web browser and can’t hide themselves among system files. Nonetheless, as I pointed out before, some pop-up advertisements can introduce malware to your system. It is nearly impossible to describe all cases, and manual malware removal is inconvenient. Thus, after disabling the pop-up ads it is recommended to use anti-malware software. That is especially recommended if you have never clicked “Allow” to pop-up ads, but they still appeared. This situation can be a sign of malware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both recovery and malware checkup purposes, because of its system recovery functionality and advanced detection system.
First of all, you should reset your browser settings. You can do that in manual or automated way. 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 Safes.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 Safes.live Pop-ups?
Name: Safes.live
Description: Safes.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 Safes.live push notifications?” or “why do Safes.live pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with Safes.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.
