Sahes.live Ads – How to remove?

Written by Valdis Koks

Sahes.live search hijacker is a kind of malware that squeezes into your personal computer, and after that switches the browser search engine configurations in your browser to one which it is paid for. It also makes different undesirable changes that may result in personal information leaks, as well as to other malware injection. In this article, you will see the guideline of Sahes.live hijacker removal in several techniques, as well as also the solution of making your browser just as good as new.

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Sahes.live Info

Name Sahes.live extension
Type Browser hijacker1
Short Description The unwanted software that amends important browser settings without the user’s permission.
Symptoms The Sahes.live hijacker replaces the browser parameters set by the users and replaces these settings with its own values.
Distribution Method Bundling with Freeware or Shareware, misleading pop-up ads produced by adware.
Detection Tool Inspect If Your System Has Been Affected by the Sahes.live hijacker.

The ways of injection of Sahes.live search hijackers are different. Most of them come from the malware spreading via the malvertising or malicious links of various web sites. Frequently, your system may be contaminated with this malware through the trojan-downloader, which is used to disperse various other malware. There is a solitary form of this unwanted program – web browser plugin that may build into any type of web browser which supports the add-on installation2.

You will not likely setup this plugin on your own, due to the fact that their names are really uncertain, and also the functionality is very controversial. The “developers” of Sahes.live hijacker generally mention that it can save the .doc/.docx documents from the web pages already to .pdf format, or to download the entire site on your disk. It is very difficult to imagine if somebody can be needed in such operations in 2023, when the Web access is not time-limited as well as every system is able to start the needed .docx files at Google Docs.

Nevertheless, besides their impracticality, they can simply be spotted in the Chrome Web Store. Of course, virus experts sound the alarm about such spam right into the legit source of browser extensions, requiring the Google reaction – removing these extensions from their site. But they are still not hurrying to fix that safety issue.

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Is the Sahes.live virus?

At the first sight, you may believe that these redirects are only bothersome, but not risky. Due to this reason a number of users are simply playing for time rather than eliminating this malware, getting increasingly more possibilities of being infected with various other malware, which are far more severe than Sahes.live is.

Besides the changed search engine or search engine result, you may also see different advertisements even on those sites that do not have any advertisements on it by default. And you can easily misclick while closing the promotion, and begin the downloading of an unidentified file, which can be a virus, or a potentially unwanted program, or perhaps ransomware – whatever the maintainers of this hijacker desire.

If your browser is damaged due to the Azorult trojan task, the system can begin malfunctioning in a short time – this symptome is just one of the most common in case of trojan injection.

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How to remove Sahes.live?

First, let me say several words about prevention the Sahes.live malware penetration. It is extremely simple to refer to the methods of securing your system from such irritating things as browser hijackers, however, it is very easy to be caught on this lure even being a professional user. As it was discussed above, this unwanted program can hide after the attractive (at the first sight) promotion, or in packs with various other adware you can get in dozens of methods. But no matter the common complexity of the injection approaches, it is really simple to prevent the Sahes.live hijacker appearance in your system:

  • Do not follow the dubious links;
  • Restrict the usage of pseudo-free software (one which is offered as free, but has an additional unwanted programs in its pack);
  • Leave the habit of clicking advertisements on the web. If you need to buy something, it is better to google it;
  • Avoid downloading the files from dubious sources, like forums or file sharing websites.

Preparation before removing Sahes.live.

Before starting the actual uninstall procedure, we recommend that you do the following introductory milestones.

  • Ensure you have this manual tutorial constantly prepared to use.
  • Execute a back-up of all of your data, consisting of the kept logins, passwords as well as various other credentials. You need to support your information with a cloud backup option and also make sure your files are safeguarded from any kind of loss, also from one of the most severe infections.
  • Wait up until the lasting back-up procedure mores than.

Step 1: Uninstall Sahes.live and related software from Windows

Right here is a method in couple of very easy steps that must be able to uninstall most applications. Either you use Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista or XP, these milestones will work well. Moving the app or its folder to the Trash can be a very wrong idea. In case you do that, remnants of the app may remain, and that can cause the unstable performance of your system, malfunctions with the file type associations and other unpleasant behavior. The effective solution to get an app off your device is to remove it manually. To do that:

1. Keep holding the Windows Logo Button and “R” on your keyboard. A Pop-up window will soon arrive.

Windows keyboard R

2. In the field that appeared, type in “appwiz.cpl” -1  and choose OK – 2.

Run appwiz.cpl

 

3. This will open a window with all the apps available on the device. Choose the app that you want to get rid of, then choose “Uninstall

Follow the steps above and you will successfully get rid of most unwanted apps.

Step 2: Get rid of Sahes.live from all your available browsers.

Mozilla FirefoxGoogle ChromeInternet ExplorerMicrosoft Edge

1. Launch Mozilla Firefox. Go to its menu window

2. Choose the “Add-ons” icon in the menu.

3. Find the unwanted extension and select “Remove

Mozilla Firefox Add-ons Remove

4. Upon deleting the extension, reload Mozilla Firefox, closing it with the help of a red “X” button in the upper right corner and start it again.

1. Launch Google Chrome and go to its drop menu

Google Chrome drop menu click

2. Click on “Tools” and then in the extended menu select “Extensions

Google Chrome Tools select Extensions

3. In the “Extensions” menu find the unwanted extension and apply the “Remove” button related to it.

Google Chrome Extensions Remove

4. As soon as the extension is deleted, reload Google Chrome by closing it by means of the red “X” button at the top right corner and launch it again.

1. Launch Internet Explorer

2. Click on the gear icon marked ‘Tools’ to open the drop menu and choose ‘Manage Add-ons’

Manage-add-ons

3. In the “Manage Add-ons” window, locate the extension you want to delete and then click “Remove”. A pop-up window will come up to inform you that you are about to delete the selected extension, and some more add-ons might be disabled as well. Leave all the boxes checked, and choose “Remove”.

Internet Explorer extension removal

4. Once the unwanted extension is deleted, reload Internet Explorer by shutting it down from the red “X” button located at the top right corner and launch it again.

1. Launch Edge

2. Access the drop menu by clicking on the icon at the top right corner.

3. From the drop menu choose “Extensions”.

Microsoft Edge menu Extensions

4. Locate the suspected dangerous extension you want to delete and then click on the Remove button.

Microsoft Edge Extensions Remove

Step 3: Clean any registries that could be added by Sahes.live on your device.

The usually attacked registries of Windows machines are the following:

  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce

You can access them by going to the Windows registry editor and getting rid of any values added by Sahes.live. Follow the steps below:

  1. Start the Run Window command once again, type “regedit” and click OK.Window command regedit
  2. As soon as you open it, you can freely go to the Run and RunOnce keys, whose locations are displayed above.Window command Run and RunOnce keys
  3. You can delete the value of the virus by right-clicking on it and deleting it.Window command regedit delete the value virus

Tip: To locate a virus-created value, you can right-click on it and select “Modify” to find which file it is set to run. If this is the malware file location, delete the value.

Step 4: Scan for Sahes.live with Loaris Trojan Remover

1. Click on the “Download” button to proceed to Loaris Trojan Remover download.

It is recommended to run a scan before purchasing the full version of the software to make sure that the current version of the malware can be detected by Trojan Remover. Click on the corresponding links to check License AgreementPrivacy Policy.

2. Click “Install” to start.

Loaris Trojan Remover Install

There were 4 scan types suggested:

  • Standard Scan.
  • Full Scan.
  • Custom Scan.
  • Removable Scan.

 

3. After the installed has finished, click on the ‘Scan’ tab. Click on ‘Full Scan’.

Loaris Trojan Remover Full Scan

4. Once the scanning is started, Loaris will initiate the thorough analysis of your device and may soon identify specific threats currently slowing down the performance of your system. Make sure to wait until the scanning is completed to let the software fully evaluate the safety of your workstation.

Loaris Trojan Remover - scan in process

5. After Loaris Trojan Remover has finished scanning your PC for any files of the associated threat and found them, you can try to get them removed automatically and permanently by clicking on the ‘Apply’ button. There were options to move the files to quarantine, ignore or delete them.

Loaris Trojan Remover - show viruses

If any threats have been removed, it is highly recommended to restart your PC.

 

  1. About browser hijackers on Wikipedia
  2. Possible danger of free browser extensions

About the author

Valdis Koks

Security engineer, reverse engineering and memory forensics

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