Last week, I saw a great deal of messages like “my browser shows me unwanted Fixems.live pop-up advertisements, is it a pc virus?” or “these Fixems.live pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me crazy, how to deal with them?”. According to the data for last months, computer virus distributors began a vast adware circulation campaign. Let me show you, how you can eliminate the computer viruses from your computer system, as well as forget about the bothersome Fixems.live pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Fixems.live) show you pop-up promotions. The message can contain something like “do you want to have notifications concerning the latest news?” or “allow notifications to be reported about recent discounts?”. Usually, such messages are riskless, and may only distract you with its sudden arrival. Moreover, it can be simply disabled, in case notifications from this website are no longer desired.
Pop-up alerts are rather an efficient marketing tool. If you have an interest in items of some type, you can enable pop-ups from the website where you can acquire this things, and also as quickly as these items are in stock again, or if you can have a discount – you will obtain the notice about this. The counterparty – online merchants, auto lending services, etc – will be in profit, too – buyer will definitely obtain a suggestion about the product he/she intended to pay for. As well as such an advertising and marketing approach is nearly cost-free – this element is very crucial for corporations.
| Site | Fixems.live |
| IP Address | 159.223.153.123 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | News-jurovo.cc, Fidems.live, News-yaxiwo.cc |
Fixems.live Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But in some cases pop-up promotions can show up without your confirmation, and with a text which is completely different from your existing attentions or search questions. And, besides unwanted Fixems.live pop-ups from the unknown website, you can simultaneously see a lot of promotions, consisting of ones on the web pages which originally have no advertisements whatsoever. Such a situation can be the trace of adware appearance.
Adware is the sort of malware which infiltrates into your PC, and then starts suggesting you numerous advertisements. Their subject often has no connection with your usual search queries. Besides banner promotions, your web browser can additionally demonstrate you a massive number of various Fixems.live pop-up advertisements, which show up in the lower right corner.
The model of adware use is very sly. The large pack of adware is distributed through trojan viruses, which are injected in your personal computer previously. Promotions, which are suggested to you by malicious app, are paid by their makers. In several weeks, all anti-malware programs began to stop these adware, for this reason, trojan loses in earnings. And to end up the user’s computer system, virus distributors begin ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer might continue to be affected by adware virus. A significant quantity of ads along with Fixems.live pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your regular work will be difficult to carry out in normal way.
How Can I Deal With Fixems.live Pop-Ups?
Concluding the text above: your computer, as well as your information, is in a major risk. To quit this virus, you need to use anti-virus tool. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to deal with Fixems.live pop-ups virus. Nonetheless, it can’t return the browser alterations which were applied by harmful program. An additional negative aspect of the anti-virus by Microsoft is its specific susceptability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender through the Group Policies after being infiltrated to your desktop.
To be 100% sure that your personal computer is clean of any malware now, and will be clean in future, I can advice you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and delete all malicious applications on your computer, including Fixems.live pop-ups virus, with GridinSoft Anti-Malware, it’s better to use Standard or Full scan. Quick Scan is not able to find all the malicious programs, because it scans only the most popular registry entries and directories.
You can observe the detected malware sorted by their possible hazard simultaneously with the scan process. But to perform any actions against malicious programs, you need to hold on until the scan is over, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for every spotted malicious or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected virus. By default, all malware will be moved to quarantine.
Reset browser settings to original ones
To revert your browser settings, you are required to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action is not able to be intercepted by Fixems.live malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be found in the Tools tab.
After pressing the Reset Browser Settings button, the menu will be displayed, where you can choose, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without utilizing third-party applications
Besides using antivirus software for browser recovery, you can choose the “Reset browser settings” function, which is usually embedded in all popular browsers.
Reset Microsoft Edge ⚙ Settings
- 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:
Reset Mozilla Firefox ⚙ Settings
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
After choosing this option, you will see the next message:
Reset Opera ⚙ Settings
Reset Google Chrome ⚙ Settings
As an afterword, I want to say that the time plays against you and your PC. The activity of browser hijacker Fixems.live must be stopped as soon as possible, because of possibility of other malware injection. This malware can be downloaded autonomously, or offered for you to download in one of the windows with advertisements, which are shown to you by the hijacker. You need to act as fast as you can.
