Silid.live push notifications appear out of the blue, detracting and annoying you. Still, they are slightly more than simple pop-up ads – their essence is clearly malicious, and they may bring other malicious stuff to your device. In this post, I will show you the guide how to remove Silid.live push notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any time you interact with Silid.live pop-ups will be ineffective at best. In worst case scenario, the websites it can throw you to may introduce malware to your system. These pop-up advertisements can also advertise fake online 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 Silid.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 push notifications and Silid.live notifications is the malignant origins of the latter. Normal pop-up ads are offered for you to enable on different sites with a understandable purpose – keep you aware about the fresh posts, goods for sale and so on. It is a useful tool to help your site to keep visitors and help the interested ones to have the best price.
Brief summary of the Silid.live pop-up ads:
| Name | Silid.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 | Sagus, Oneettinlive, Covenantbulwark |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
Silid.live pop-up notifications, on the other hand, are related to unlegit sites. You will commonly see the offer to turn them on following the redirection from another page. Redirects are OK unless it throws you into such a questionable place. At that point, turning on pop-up ads is served under the guise of the anti-bot check-up. In other cases, the websites may deny showing you the content unless you turn on these pop-up advertisements. These requirements should already be the red flag, as sites generally feature a different anti-bot mechanism. Witnessing this requirement should be the reason to close the page right away. Sometimes, 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.
Silid.live push notification.
How does this work?
The majority of browsers support enabling push notifications from sites. Sites, on the other hand, may send notifications with the content they like. It may be an advertisement of the product published on this particular site, or an ad of the page of their partner. As a result, you can see the push notification from site X, but opening it will throw you to website Y – because a link to the latter was built in.
Cyber burglars rely on this ability in their attempt to gain money through advertising. They trick users into allowing the pop-ups, and after that just spread numerous ads of anyone they contract with. As you can suppose, no image-caring companies will have a business with fraudsters. All the Silid.live push ads you may see lead to other untrustworthy sites. At some point, the same victim may get into a trap of several pop-up spamming websites, 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 commission for one viewer, but when you can send ads to a huge number of victims and show them hundreds of ads every day – that is a way bigger sum. Even though most of these banners giving no result at all, it can still bring all the participants a lot of profit.
Are Silid.live pop-up advertisements dangerous?
Yes, they are. At the surface, they may look harmless – just a blinking pop-up that appears from time to time. However, the things this window promotes differ drastically from what you used to see in pop-up ads. Silid.live web page is ruled by fraudsters, who intendedly show tons of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any common sense and can launch sporadic push notifications into a storm of ads. For weak systems, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But that is not all problems these pop-ups carry.
As any other thing that touches illegal ads, Silid.live pop-ups don’t have legit deals to offer. Even when crooks make the banners looking similar to ones from well-known retailers, the website 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-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, Silid.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 Silid.live pop-ups?
Fortunately, Silid.live push notifications removal is not very complicated. They sit in the browser and can’t conceal themselves on a disk. However, as I pointed out above, some pop-up advertisements may introduce malicious software to your system. It is hard to show all of the cases, and manual malware removal is inconvenient. Thus, after removing the source of the pop-up notifications it is recommended to use anti-malware software. I would especially recommend that in the case when you have never clicked “Allow” to pop-up advertisements, and they still appeared. This situation may be a sign of adware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both recovery and malware scanning and removal purposes, because of its abilities of system recovery and multi-component detection system.
First and foremost, you should reset your browser settings. You can do that 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 can 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 website 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 Silid.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 Silid.live Pop-ups?
Name: Silid.live
Description: Silid.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 Silid.live push notifications?” or “why do Silid.live pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with Silid.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.
