Chat-message.live Ad Spam - How to remove

Chat-message.live is a website whose purpose is to display ads in people’s browsers. Chat-message.live appears on file download, video streaming, and other sites as a pop-up and tries to trick visitors into subscribing to its notifications. If it’s successful, it starts sending out advertising spam. Some of the ads it shows are potentially dangerous.

Chat-message.live’s spam can be stopped by blocking its notifications in browser settings.

About Chat-message.live in short:

Threat type	Adware, browser hijacker.
Problems caused by Chat-message.live	Unwanted pop-up ads, ads that lead to potentially unsafe sites.
How it works	Chat-message.live shows misleading messages to get people to unwittingly subscribe to its ads, it is advertised with aggressive pop-up ads.
How to stop Chat-message.live ads	Block notifications from Chat-message.live and other unwanted sites, check your device for malicious programs and apps (Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, others), disable all notification prompts.

What kinds of ads Chat-message.live shows

Pop-up ads

Chat-message.live is a website whose main function is to catch users and show them advertisements.

Chat-message.live does this by using web push notifications, which are messages from websites to browsers. For example, an email site might use notifications to tell you about a new item in your inbox. An advertising site like Chat-message.live uses them to display ads. This is undoubtedly annoying, but Chat-message.live doesn’t care about pleasing its victims.

Links to potentially unsafe sites

While many of the ads that Chat-message.live shows are safe, others are a little dubious:

• Potentially unwanted programs like MacKeeper.
• Clickbait sites like Brainberries that can also use notifications to show ads.
• Potentially unwanted browser extensions, such as SMSfromBrowser.
• Malware in the form of fake updates and fake virus alerts.
• Diet pills, male enhancement pills, and various miracle cures.
• Get-rich-quick schemes.

It’s best to ignore the ads that come from Chat-message.live. Some of them lead to clickbait sites and waste your time, while others could result in a malware infection.

How sites take over notifications

Dishonestly presented notification prompts

Of course, you have to allow a website to send you notifications. The website shows a box saying it “wats to Show notifications” and you have to click “Allow”.

Chat-message.live does ask visitors to allow notifications by showing that same prompt that is built into web browsers. However, it lies about what clicking the “Allow” button does and hopes that people don’t read the prompt.

For example, Chat-message.live says that you have to click “Allow” to close the page, or to prove that you are not a robot, or to watch a video. It lies in order to trick people into subscribing to its ads. It’s a type of abusive notifications).

Advertised online

Chat-message.live is promoted on sites that already show a lot of dubious ads:

• Video streaming sites, the pirating kind.
• File hosting sites.
• Torrenting websites.
• Other advertising sites.

Some of these sites trigger ads seemingly randomly. There’s no doubt that some people saw Chat-message.live open in their browsers, thought that it was a legitimate site, and followed its instructions.

How to avoid notification hijackers

The proper way to deal with Chat-message.live is to close it and not interact with it.

Another thing you could do is disable notification prompts. Then, the only way for you to allow a site to send notifications would be to manually include it in your list of allowed sites. It’s a great way to avoid hijackers.

Ad blockers can also help you avoid sites like Chat-message.live.

How to stop Chat-message.live ads

First, disable browser notifications from Chat-message.live.

Open your notification settings:

• Chrome – type “chrome://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
• Edge (Chromium) – type “edge://settings/content/notifications” in the address box.
• Safari – in the Safari menu, choose Preferences, Websites, Notifications.
• Firefox – open Settings, Privacy & Security, scroll down to Permissions, and click on Settings next to Notifications.

Find Chat-message.live in the list (there might be multiple versions of Chat-message.live), open the drop-down, and select Block (Remove also works).

Alternatively, click the gear icon in an ad from Chat-message.live and choose to block notifications from that site.

Do this until you’ve blocked notifications from all the sites that were abusing them to spam you with ads. Besides Chat-message.live, there are many sites that do this, including Notifygear.com, Getupdats.com, Very-important.online.

Finally, check your device for malware. If you have a computer, scan it with an antivirus tool (Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, and others). If it was your phone that got infected with Chat-message.live ads, then check all of the apps that you have recently installed and remove those that are at all suspicious and those that you did not mean to install.

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