How To Remove Fixems.live Pop-ups

Fixems.live is not safe to visit, brings illicit scam pop-ups

Fixems.live is found to be a new rogue web channel meant to promote various scams to deceive users and their personal values. Mainly, it abuses push notification on browsers to show scamming pop ups on screen that might seem to be appealing, but redirects often to malicious content on web. This kind of problem is being reported by various global users. If you are one among those, we suggest you reading this article to learn some effective measures or guidelines to overcome such issues easily.

Threat Summary

Name: Fixems.live
Type: Browser hijacker, Redirect virus, Pop up virus
Symptoms: Changed homepage, new tab, search engine, proxy, etc
Distribution: Bundled software distribution, malicious links or advert campaigns, spam email campaigns, etc.
Removal: It’s suggested to scan and remove possible threats from your device soon using a trusted security tool

What is Fixems.live?

Fixems.live is discovered as a highly vicious computer infection or a domain name that is completely destructive due to its real attributes and goals. it’s actually developed by cyber crime master minds with sole intention to hijack all installed browser variants on computer. This hijacking is actually done through intrusive push notifications which appears on browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Opera,
Safari, Edge, and so on. As per the estimation, there’s a large number of computers nowadays are getting affected by Fixems.live like hijackers, leading to show users with various nasty pop up ads or banners while surfing the web.

In most of the instances, the problems caused by Fixems.live on a browser mostly starts with clicking on Allow button as the Fixems.live uses deceptive gimmicks to make users believe such traits to be true. Once a user interact with those, the hijacker easily gets permitted to show push notifications and it alters settings in browsers without any prior notice. In addition to push notifications, the Fixems.live also alters the default set values for homepage, new tab, and search engine defaults, and this affects the whole online sessions further due to frequent redirect issues or poisoned search results from illegitimate search engine.

In addition to these terrible issues or problems, Fixems.live can be even more drastic to users due to its abilities to track and reveal personal data or identity to hackers. It actually keeps a keen eye over all your details such as IP addresses, bank details, social medial login details, and so on without any prior notice. These collected information are saved within logs and criminals easily manage to access those to do more cyber crime tasks. Even such information can be sold in dark web internet for high profit.

How did Fixems.live install on computer?

In case if your system got infected by Fixems.live in current scenario, then you might have interacted with malicious web sources, freeware or shareware installer packages, illicit links or advertisements, spam email attachments, and so on. Actually, the hackers can embed their malicious code with a number of social engineering tricks, and such malicious traits are available all over the web. So, the users should be extremely cautious against such gimmicks available over web throughout the online sessions to prevent such things to happen on their own device. let’s discuss how to tackle down the issues caused by Fixems.live.

Antimalware Details And User Guide

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Important Note: This malware asks you to enable the web browser notifications. So, before you go the manual removal process, execute these steps.

Google Chrome (PC)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the Menu button
• Select “Settings”. Scroll the mouse downward to choose “Advanced” option
• Go to “Privacy and Security” section by scrolling downward and then select “Content settings” and then “Notification” option
• Find each suspicious URLs and click on three dots on the right side and choose “Block” or “Remove” option

Google Chrome (Android)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the menu button and then click on “Settings”
• Scroll down further to click on “site settings” and then press on “notifications” option
• In the newly opened window, choose each suspicious URLs one by one
• In the permission section, select “notification” and “Off” the toggle button

Mozilla Firefox

• On the right corner of the screen, you will notice three dots which is the “Menu” button
• Select “Options” and choose “Privacy and Security” in the toolbar present in the left side of the screen
• Slowly scroll down and go to “Permission” section then choose “Settings” option next to “Notifications”
• In the newly opened window, select all the suspicious URLs. Click on the drop-down menu and select “Block”

Internet Explorer

• In the Internet Explorer window, select the Gear button present on the right corner
• Choose “Internet Options”
• Select “Privacy” tab and then “Settings” under the “Pop-up Blocker” section
• Select all the suspicious URLs one by one and click on the “Remove” option

Microsoft Edge

• Open the Microsoft Edge and click on the three dots on the right corner of the screen to open the menu
• Scroll down and select “Settings”
• Scroll down further to choose “view advanced settings”
• In the “Website Permission” option, click on “Manage” option
• Click on switch under every suspicious URL

Safari (Mac):

• On the upper right side corner, click on “Safari” and then select “Preferences”
• Go to “website” tab and then choose “Notification” section on the left pane
• Search for the suspicious URLs and choose “Deny” option for each one of them

Manual Steps to Remove Fixems.live:

Remove the related items of Fixems.live using Control-Panel

Windows 7 Users

Click “Start” (the windows logo at the bottom left corner of the desktop screen), select “Control Panel”. Locate the “Programs” and then followed by clicking on “Uninstall Program”

Windows XP Users

Click “Start” and then choose “Settings” and then click “Control Panel”. Search and click on “Add or Remove Program’ option

Windows 10 and 8 Users:

Go to the lower left corner of the screen and right-click. In the “Quick Access” menu, choose “Control Panel”. In the newly opened window, choose “Program and Features”

Mac OSX Users

Click on “Finder” option. Choose “Application” in the newly opened screen. In the “Application” folder, drag the app to “Trash”. Right click on the Trash icon and then click on “Empty Trash”.

In the uninstall programs window, search for the PUAs. Choose all the unwanted and suspicious entries and click on “Uninstall” or “Remove”.

After you uninstall all the potentially unwanted program causing Fixems.live issues, scan your computer with an anti-malware tool for any remaining PUPs and PUAs or possible malware infection. To scan the PC, use the recommended the anti-malware tool.

How to Remove Adware (Fixems.live) from Internet Browsers

Delete malicious add-ons and extensions from IE

Click on the gear icon at the top right corner of Internet Explorer. Select “Manage Add-ons”. Search for any recently installed plug-ins or add-ons and click on “Remove”.

Additional Option

If you still face issues related to Fixems.live removal, you can reset the Internet Explorer to its default setting.

Windows XP users: Press on “Start” and click “Run”. In the newly opened window, type “inetcpl.cpl” and click on the “Advanced” tab and then press on “Reset”.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 Users: Press the Windows logo, type inetcpl.cpl in the start search box and press enter.  In the newly opened window, click on the “Advanced Tab” followed by “Reset” button.

For Windows 8 Users: Open IE and click on the “gear” icon. Choose “Internet Options”

Select the “Advanced” tab in the newly opened window

Press on “Reset” option

You have to press on the “Reset” button again to confirm that you really want to reset the IE

Remove Doubtful and Harmful Extension from Google Chrome

Go to menu of Google Chrome by pressing on three vertical dots and select on “More tools” and then “Extensions”. You can search for all the recently installed add-ons and remove all of them.

Optional Method

If the problems related to Fixems.live still persists or you face any issue in removing, then it is advised that your reset the Google Chrome browse settings. Go to three dotted points at the top right corner and choose “Settings”. Scroll down bottom and click on “Advanced”.

At the bottom, notice the “Reset” option and click on it.

In the next opened window, confirm that you want to reset the Google Chrome settings by click on the “Reset” button.

Remove Fixems.live plugins (including all other doubtful plug-ins) from Firefox Mozilla

Open the Firefox menu and select “Add-ons”. Click “Extensions”.  Select all the recently installed browser plug-ins.

Optional Method

If you face problems in Fixems.live removal then you have the option to rese the settings of Mozilla Firefox.

Open the browser (Mozilla Firefox) and click on the “menu” and then click on “Help”.

Choose “Troubleshooting Information”

In the newly opened pop-up window, click “Refresh Firefox” button

The next step is to confirm that really want to reset the Mozilla Firefox settings to its default by clicking on “Refresh Firefox” button.

Remove Malicious Extension from Safari

Open the Safari and go to its “Menu” and select “Preferences”.

Click on the “Extension” and select all the recently installed “Extensions” and then click on “Uninstall”.

Optional Method

Open the “Safari” and go menu. In the drop-down menu, choose “Clear History and Website Data”.

In the newly opened window, select “All History” and then press on “Clear History” option.

Delete Fixems.live (malicious add-ons) from Microsoft Edge

Open Microsoft Edge and go to three horizontal dot icons at the top right corner of the browser. Select all the recently installed extensions and right click on the mouse to “uninstall”

Optional Method

Open the browser (Microsoft Edge) and select “Settings”

Next steps is to click on “Choose what to clear” button

Click on “show more” and then select everything and then press on “Clear” button.

Conclusion

In most cases, the PUPs and adware gets inside the marked PC through unsafe freeware downloads. It is advised that you should only choose developers website only while downloading any kind of free applications.  Choose custom or advanced installation process so that you can trace the additional PUPs listed for installation along with the main program.