Remove Life-change-about.me: Stop Annoying Ads

Life-change-about.me: Step-by-step Uninstall Guide

Life-change-about.me is a perilous website that forces its notifications on users. It does that by stating that they need to click on the “Allow” button to either play the video, continue to the site, confirm that they’re over 18 years old, prove that they’re not robots, and misleading prompts alike. Depending on your geolocation, they might differ. If you land on this shady domain, close it immediately. People who have accepted this page’s notifications have reported that ads started to show up directly to their systems’ screens. That’s one of the main purposes of this notorious site- display ads in the form of notifications, hence generating traffic to sponsored portals.

Life-change-about.me Redirects Triggered by PUP:

You could land on Life-change-about.me in four ways, by clicking on dubious ads, by entering the address manually, by mistyping a URL, or if you have adware or other potentially unwanted program (PUP) installed on your computer. When you accept alerts from legitimate pages like new site or your favorite web store, you get the latest updates straight away. But when you accept this push notification virus, instead of news or anything helpful, all you obtain is a bunch of malicious ads. As said earlier, these ads are displayed in the form of notifications.

Closing Life-change-about.me ads is very difficult as the “X” button in the right-upper corner either doesn’t do anything or opens a new browser tab with a sponsored page. That’s one of the tactics used by developers. The other one is called sudden reroutes. These redirects can be caused on-demand and can launch your browser and open a new tab with any of its affiliated domains. Therefore, you might be forced to visit websites with:

• tech support scams,
• porn,
• malware,
• push notification viruses,
• PUPs,
• gambling, etc.

Some of the pages that Life-change-about.me promotes could be safe, but some may have evil motives. They could try to infect your PC with malware through drive-by downloads, push to install PUPs, draw out personal data such as your credit card details, SSN, etc., entice you into gambling, and so on. Browser-based intruders like this are capable of monitoring victims’ web activities and gathering several personal and non-personal information which is then employed for customizing ads, making fraudulent transactions, and so forth. Thus, this notorious adware may lead to significant financial losses. So, you should not delay Life-change-about.me removal.

Software Bundling Triggers PUP Intrusion:

This nasty adware can infiltrate your computer in the same way as most of the potentially unwanted programs. To be more specific, it may travel bundled with another freeware, such as media player or download manager. People who tend to hurry the installation of freewares and keep clicking the ‘next’ button without reading anything, they often end up with infecting their devices with PUPs. It occurs when they download a free app from third-party site and then install it using the Quick or Recommended mode set.

If you do not want to repeat such situation in the future, you should start paying attention to the installation procedure. It’s suggested to read EULA, Privacy Policy, and other accessible details at first. After that, you should opt for Advanced or Custom installation option and cautiously observe what is given on every check box. Specifically look for suspicious plug-ins, add-ons, toolbars or extensions marked by default and make sure that you deselect all of them. But at the moment, you must remove Life-change-about.me from the PC as soon as possible.

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 Life-change-about.me:

Remove the related items of Life-change-about.me 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 Life-change-about.me 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 (Life-change-about.me) 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 Life-change-about.me 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 Life-change-about.me 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 Life-change-about.me 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 Life-change-about.me 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 Life-change-about.me (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.