Last week, I saw a lot of posts like “my internet browser presents me undesirable Life-change-about.me pop-up ads, is it a computer virus?” or “these Life-change-about.me pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me mad, how to deal with them?”. According to the stats for last months, pc virus distributors started a massive adware circulation campaign. Let me demonstrate you, how you can get rid of the computer viruses from your PC, as well as forget about the frustrating Life-change-about.me pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a Life-change-about.me) offer you pop-up advertisements. The message can contain something like “do you want to get notices about the most up to date news?” or “allow alerts to be reported about new price cuts?”. Typically, such messages are safe, and may just distract you with its unexpected appearing. Plus it can be easily disabled, in case alerts from this site are no longer required.
Pop-up notices are rather an reliable advertising and marketing instrument. If you have an interest in products of some sort, you can allow pop-ups from the internet site where you can acquire this things, and also as soon as these things are in stock again, or if you can have a price cut – you will obtain the notification about this. The counterparty – online retailers, vehicle lending companies, etc – will certainly remain in profit, too – customer will undoubtedly obtain a reminder regarding the item he/she planned to buy. And such a marketing method is practically free – this factor is very vital for corporations.
| Site | Life-change-about.me |
| IP Address | 213.227.145.147 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Vibilitieesov.space, Mutigue.com, Abeenexap.space |
Life-change-about.me Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But often pop-up advertisements can come out without your permission, and also with a text which is completely different from your existing cares or search questions. And also, besides undesirable Life-change-about.me pop-ups from the unknown resource, you can simultaneously see a lot of promotions, including ones on the web pages which at first have no ads whatsoever. Such a situation can be the signal of adware existence.
Adware is the type of computer virus which infiltrates into your personal computer, and then begins demonstrating you various advertisements. Their subject often has no match with your regular search questions. Besides banner advertisements, your web browser can likewise demonstrate to you a massive amount of different Life-change-about.me pop-up ads, which show up in the lower right area.
The model of adware usage is really sly. The large pack of adware is dispersed with trojan viruses, which are injected in your personal computer earlier. Advertisements, which are suggested to you by malicious program, are paid by their creators. In a few weeks, all antivirus programs began to catch these adware, for this reason, trojan sheds in profitability. And to rub out the user’s computer, malware distributors start ransomware distribution via these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer system can still be affected by adware virus. A substantial quantity of ads together with Life-change-about.me pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your common work will certainly be impossible to carry out in usual manner.
How Can I Deal With Life-change-about.me Pop-Ups?
Thinking the text above: your desktop, and your information, is in a severe danger. To stop this virus, you need to use anti-virus software. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to deal with Life-change-about.me pop-ups virus. Nonetheless, it can’t return the browser alterations which were implemented by malicious program. One more downside of the antivirus by Microsoft is its particular susceptability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender through the Group Policies after being injected to your PC.
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 remove all malicious applications on your desktop, including Life-change-about.me pop-ups virus, with GridinSoft Anti-Malware, it’s better to utilize Standard or Full scan. Quick Scan is not able to find all the viruses, because it checks only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can see the detected malicious apps sorted by their possible harm till the scan process. But to perform any actions against malicious programs, you need to wait until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for each spotted malicious or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malicious app. By default, all the viruses will be moved to quarantine.
Reset browser settings to original ones
To reset your browser settings, you need to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action cannot be counteracted by Life-change-about.me malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be found in the Tools tab.
After choosing the Reset Browser Settings option, the menu will be displayed, where you can specify, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without making use of third-party applications
Besides using anti-malware programs for browser restoration, you may 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 Life-change-about.me 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.
