How to uninstall unwanted apps designed to promote personal-video.live

What is personal-video[.]live?

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ypically, people do not visit pages such as personal-video[.]live intentionally - they are opened through deceptive ads, other dubious websites, or potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) installed on the system. Note that PUAs are often designed to promote websites such as personal-video[.]live and also to collect information relating to browsing activities.

They are categorized as PUAs, since users often download and install them unintentionally.

When visited, pages such as personal-video[.]live display dubious content or open (2-3) dubious websites. These actions depend on visitors' geolocations. In any case, neither personal-video[.]live nor pages that it promotes can be trusted.

Note that personal-video[.]live asks visitors for permission to show notifications using a 'clickbait' technique - it suggests that visitors need to click the "Allow" button to watch a video. In fact, this grants the website permission to show notifications. Typically, pages such as personal-video[.]live display notifications that contain dubious ads, promote bogus addresses, etc.

Therefore, personal-video[.]live and other sites of this kind should not be allowed to show notifications. As mentioned, browsers often open rogue web pages due to installed PUAs.

Commonly, these apps also gather data. In most cases, they target browsing-related information such as, for example, IP addresses, geolocations, entered search queries, URLs of visited websites. Furthermore, PUAs might record personal, sensitive data as well.

The information is sold to third parties (potentially, cyber criminals) who misuse it to generate revenue in other ways. Therefore, users who have these apps installed on browsers and/or computers might become victims of identity theft, experience problems relating to online privacy, browsing safety, and other issues. Therefore, you should remove all PUAs immediately.

Threat Summary:

Name	Ads by personal-video.live
Threat Type	Push notifications ads, Unwanted ads, Pop-up ads.
Detection Names	ESET (Suspicious), Full List Of Detections (VirusTotal).
Serving IP Address	213.227.145.147
Observed Domains	fidvt.personal-video[.]live, ui0n7.personal-video[.]live, 1j56c.personal-video[.]live, wdwzy.personal-video[.]live, ka2r1.personal-video[.]live, uooke.personal-video[.]live, z3a2n.personal-video[.]live, nl9c8.personal-video[.]live
Symptoms	Seeing advertisements not originating from the sites you are browsing. Intrusive pop-up ads. Decreased internet browsing speed.
Distribution Methods	Deceptive pop-up ads, potentially unwanted applications (adware).
Damage	Decreased computer performance, browser tracking - privacy issues, possible additional malware infections.
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Note that PUAs are often advertised as supposedly providing quick access to various websites, improving the browsing experience, including various features, etc. In fact, they are designed only to help the developers to generate revenue, and do not function as advertised. PUAs can cause serious problems.

How did adware install on my computer?

PUAs are often installed through deceptive ads, mainly through those that appear on untrusted websites or when developers include them into the set-ups of other programs. This latter distribution method is known as "bundling".

Generally, additionally-included apps are mentioned in "Custom", "Advanced" and other similar settings of the set-ups, however, many users fail to check and change these settings - this allows PUAs to be downloaded and installed with other, required software. If clicked, deceptive ads can cause unwanted downloads and installations when they execute certain scripts.

How to avoid installation of potentially unwanted applications

You are advised to download software only from official pages and through direct links. Peer-to-Peer networks such as torrent clients, eMule, third party downloaders, installers, unofficial websites, free file hosting pages, etc., should not be to download or install software. Commonly, they are used to distribute PUAs or even malicious software.

Check set-ups that include "Custom", "Advanced" and other settings, and decline offers to download or install additionally-included apps. Do not click advertisements that are displayed on untrusted websites, since they can redirect to untrusted pages or even allow the ads to cause download/installation of unwanted apps.

Remove any unwanted, suspicious extensions, add-ons and plug-ins installed on the browser, and programs of this kind installed on the operating system. If your computer is already infected with rogue applications, we recommend running a scan with Combo Cleaner Antivirus for Windows to automatically eliminate them.

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Quick menu:

• What is Ads by personal-video.live?
• STEP 1. Remove spam notifications from Google Chrome
• STEP 2. Remove spam notifications from Google Chrome (Android)
• STEP 3. Remove spam notifications from Mozilla Firefox
• STEP 4. Remove spam notifications from Microsoft Edge
• STEP 5. Remove spam notifications from Safari (macOS)

Disable unwanted browser notifications:

Video showing how to disable web browser notifications:

Remove spam notifications from Google Chrome:

Click the Menu button (three dots) on the right upper corner of the screen and select "Settings". In the opened window select "Privacy and security", then click on "Site Settings" and choose "Notifications".

In the "Allowed to send notifications" list search for websites that you want to stop receiving notifications from. Click on the three dots icon near the website URL and click "Block" or "Remove" (if you click "Remove" and visit the malicious site once more, it will ask to enable notifications again).

Remove spam notifications from Google Chrome (Android):

Tap the Menu button (three dots) on the right upper corner of the screen and select "Settings". Scroll down, tap on "Site settings" and then "Notifications".

In the opened window, locate all suspicious URLs and tap on them one-by-one. Once the pop-up shows up, select either "Block" or "Remove" (if you tap "Remove" and visit the malicious site once more, it will ask to enable notifications again).

Remove spam notifications from Mozilla Firefox:

Click the Menu button (three bars) on the right upper corner of the screen. Select "Settings" and click on "Privacy & Security" in the toolbar on the left hand side of the screen. Scroll down to the "Permissions" section and click the "Settings" button next to "Notifications".

In the opened window, locate all suspicious URLs and block them using the drop-down menu or either remove them by clicking "Remove Website" at the bottom of the window (if you click "Remove Website" and visit the malicious site once more, it will ask to enable notifications again).

Remove spam notifications from Microsoft Edge:

Click the menu button (three dots) on the right upper corner of the Edge window and select "Settings". Click on "Cookies and site permissions" in the toolbar on the left hand side of the screen and select "Notifications".

Click three dots on the right hand side of each suspicious URL under "Allow" section and click "Block" or "Remove" (if you click "Remove" and visit the malicious site once more, it will ask to enable notifications again).

Remove spam notifications from Safari (macOS):

Click "Safari" button on the left upper corner of the screen and select "Preferences...". Select the "Websites" tab and then select "Notifications" section on the left pane.

Check for suspicious URLs and apply the "Deny" option using the drop-down menu or either remove them by clicking "Remove" at the bottom of the window (if you click "Remove" and visit the malicious site once more, it will ask to enable notifications again)

How to avoid browser notification spam?

Internet users should be very skeptical when being asked to allow notifications. While this is a useful feature that allows you to receive timely news from websites you like, deceptive marketers frequently abuse it.

Only allow notifications from websites that you fully trust. For added security - use an anti-malware application with a real-time web browsing monitor to block shady websites that tries to trick you into allowing spam notifications. We recommend using Combo Cleaner Antivirus for Windows.

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