Personal-video.live Pop-ups - How to remove

Personal-video.live causes redirects to malicious and potentially dangerous sites and pop-up ads to spam your web browser. It affects personal computers and smartphones by abusing web browser notifications. The ads that Personal-video.live shows are low-quality, deceptive, and even dangerous. The solution is to block notifications from all untrustworthy sites, which is relatively easy to do yourself.

Don’t let Personal-video.live expose you to more malicious sites:

Type of threat	Adware, browser hijacker.
Dangers of Personal-video.live’s ads	Scams that try to steal money and personal details, malware and tech support scams, adult content with no warnings, distracting, relentless pop-ups.
How the pop-ups start	Fake download buttons, fake loading sites, and fake captchas are used to get people to unwittingly agree to receive notifications from Personal-video.live.
Stop Personal-video.live pop-up ads	Disable notifications from all unwanted websites, remove malware with the help of anti-malware tools (Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, etc.).

Personal-video.live pop-up ads

Personal-video.live is part of a family of malicious sites, along with Click-to-watch.live, Free-message.services, Private-show.live, 1000-dollar.cash, and others. These sites ave many versions of their own with various subdomains made of random characters, like “kjd5s.personal-video.live”. You might be redirected from one of these sites to another, on and on, as long as you subscribe to their notifications – and end up with dozens of sites sending you unwanted pop-up ads.

What the above sites do is advertise a bunch of websites that are too harmful or controversial for normal ad-networks to touch: scams, malware, adult content, etc:

• Ads that promise to help you get rich but lead to an investment scam.
• Fake warnings deliberately made to look as if they’re from a trusted company, such as Apple, push fake antivirus programs.
• Sites that push you to reveal your personal details (like by signing up to get a nonexistent free prize) which are then abused by cybercriminals.
• And more innocent ads, like for gambling sites and online shopping.

You get these links as pop-ups in your web browser. These pop-ups are labeled with the name of the site they were sent by. It must be good business – Personal-video.live doesn’t need to create any content of its own, only push out the ads.

Personal-video.live shows the ads via notifications. Upon visiting Personal-video.live, you’re prompted to allow the site to send you notifications. Thanks to some clever presentation, lots of people agree to allow the notifications without quite realizing what that means. And some people click the “Allow” button accidentally. All the people who allow notifications from Personal-video.live receive its pop-ups whenever new ones are pushed out. The way to stop that is to go into your browser settings and block notifications from all unwanted websites.

How Personal-video.live tricks people

The earlier mentioned sites are advertised by Special-offers.online, another dangerous notification spammer. But mostly, Personal-video.live pops up on media converter sites, torrenting sites, and free video websites, which ties into its manipulation.

Depending on which site you found Personal-video.live on, you will see a different page. Media converter sites show a fake “play or download” page. Video streaming sites show a picture of a loading video. Some sites ask you to prove that you’re not a robot. Personal-video.live pop-ups are designed to make it look like you’re still on the site that you were previously on.

To let you download your file/watch your video/continue using the website, Personal-video.live asks you to click “Allow”. The allow button is part of the notification pop-up and clicking it allows Personal-video.live to send you notification pop-ups, which it uses to flood you with ads. That’s how people are trick to unwittingly invite Personal-video.live to get a direct line to their browser.

Stop Personal-video.live ads and redirects

Notifications can be managed in web browser settings. This article has all the detailed instructions. But, in short, you need to go to your browser and find site settings and notification settings where you will see a list of the sites that are allowed to send you pop-ups. Next to personal-video.live’s URL there’s a menu that lets you choose to Block or Disable the notifications from this address.

Here’s how to find the list of the sites:

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

But this does not stop Personal-video.live or any other malicious site from appearing in your browser. You can use an antivirus program to block malicious websites – it’s not a perfect solution, but it helps. Remember also to scan your computer for malware regularly. Like I mentioned, Personal-video.live may advertise fake antivirus programs and other malware, so if you downloaded anything recently because a pop-up insisted that you do, grab a reliable anti-malware tool, such as Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, or another program that you trust, and have it check your device. Also, review your extensions for anything weird, as Personal-video.live and other spammers like to promote those, too.

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