Celeb Common News Pop-up Virus — How to Remove Unwanted Ads?

Celeb Common News pop-ups appear when you do not expect, bothering and annoying you. Still, that is slightly more than annoying notifications – their essence is cleanly malignant, and they may bring other malicious stuff to your device. In this article, I will show you how to remove Celeb Common News pop-up advertisements and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any interaction with Celeb Common News pop-up notifications will be ineffective at best. At worst, the web pages it can throw you to may introduce malware to your system. These push notifications can also promote fake shopping websites which will take your money and payment info. The latter generally ends up with losing all the money you have on the exposed card.

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What are Celeb Common News pop-up notifications?

As the pop-up definition goes, these are short and small advertisements that attract your attention to a product they promote. But the difference between regular pop-up ads and Celeb Common News notifications is the malignant origins of the latter. Common push notifications are offered for you to enable with a benevolent purpose – notify you about the latest posts, goods for sale and so on. It is a useful tool to help your website to keep visitors and help the interested ones to have the best deal.

Brief summary of the Celebcommonnews.com pop-ups:

Celeb Common News pop-up notifications, as opposed, have a deal with untrustworthy sites. You will generally see the proposition to enable them after a redirection from another site. There’s nothing bad in redirecting unless it throws you to such a questionable place. In this case, turning on push notifications is served under the guise of the anti-bot check-up. Alternatively, the sites may refuse to show you the content unless you turn on these pop-up ads. These demands should raise suspicion, as sites usually feature a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Witnessing such an offer should be the reason to leave the page doubtlessly. In some cases, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not get to the site – the sole page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up advertisements.

Celeb Common News push notification.

How does it work?

The vast majority of web browsers support enabling pop-ups from websites. Sites, on the other hand, may send out notifications with the content they want. It can be a promotion of the product published on this particular website, or a promotion of their partner page. As a result, you can see the push notification from site X, but opening it will direct you to site Y – because a referral link to the latter was built in.

Scoundrels rely on this ability in their attempt to earn money using illegal advertising. They trick victims into allowing the pop-ups, and after that just spread numerous promotions of anyone they have a deal with. As you may suppose, no normal organisations will have a business with fraudsters. All the Celeb Common News popups you may see lead to other untrustworthy sites. In some cases, the same victim can be trapped by multiple pop-up spamming websites, and its web browser will turn into a complete mess.

The promotions these crooks show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It usually provides a negligible commission for one view, but when you can send ads to a huge number of users and show them hundreds of ads every day – that is a much more significant sum. Even though most of these ads giving no result at all, it can still bring all the parties a lot of profit.

Are Celeb Common News push notifications dangerous?

Yes, they are. At the surface, they can look harmless – just a colourful pop-up that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the things this window promotes differ sharply from what you generally see in pop-up ads. Celebcommonnews.com website is ruled by fraudsters, who intendedly show tons of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any common sense and can make sporadic pop-up notifications into a hurricane of banners. For weak systems, that may be enough to make the system slower. But problems are not over at this point.

As with any other thing that touches illegal advertising, Celeb Common News pop-up ads don’t have legit deals to offer. Even when crooks make the banners looking similar to ones from well-known retailers, the web page these banners will throw you to are completely different. And these pages may offer you to turn on other pop-ups, install a “useful” program, or pay for a thing at a big discount and never receive it. Let’s leave aside the cases when pop-ups promote phishing pages or straightforward malware. There’s no way these pages will bring you any good, thus interacting with them is a very bad idea. For the same reason, Celeb Common News pop-up ads are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Celeb Common News pop-ups?

Fortunately, Celeb Common News push notifications removal is pretty easy. They reside in the web browser and can’t hide themselves among system files. Nonetheless, as I pointed out before, some pop-up notifications may promote malicious programs to your system. It is nearly impossible to predict all of the cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is a poor idea. Thus, after disabling the pop-up ads it is recommended to use anti-malware software. I would especially recommend that in the case when you have never clicked “Allow” to pop-up ads, but they still appeared. This situation can be a sign of malware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both recovery and malware removal purposes, because of its abilities of system recovery and multi-component detection system.

First and foremost, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to do in both manual and automatic manner. The former, obviously, requires more time to complete and may be somewhat complicated if you have never done that. Automated supposes the use of anti-malware programs that can reset all browser settings at once.

Reset your browsers with GridinSoft Anti-Malware

To reset your browser with GridinSoft Anti-Malware, open the Tools tab, and click the “Reset browser settings” button.

You can see the list of options for each browser. By default, they are set up in a manner that fits the majority of users. Press the “Reset” button (lower right corner). In a minute your browser will be as good as new.

The browser reset is recommended to perform through the antivirus tool by GridinSoft, because the latter is also able to reset the HOSTS file without any additional commands.

Reset your browsers manually

Manual method of browser reset

To reset Edge, do the following steps:

1. Open “Settings and more” tab in upper right corner, then find here “Settings” button. In the appeared menu, choose “Reset settings” option:

2. After picking the Reset Settings option, you will see the following menu, stating about the settings which will be reverted to original:

For Mozilla Firefox, do the next actions:

1. Open Menu tab (three strips in upper right corner) and click the “Help” button. In the appeared menu choose “troubleshooting information”:

2. In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option:

After choosing this option, you will see the next message:

If you use Google Chrome

1. Open Settings tab, find the “Advanced” button. In the extended tab choose the “Reset and clean up” button:

2. In the appeared list, click on the “Restore settings to their original defaults”:

3. Finally, you will see the window, where you can see all the settings which will be reset to default:

Opera can be reset in the next way

1. Open Settings menu by pressing the gear icon in the toolbar (left side of the browser window), then click “Advanced” option, and choose “Browser” button in the drop-down list. Scroll down, to the bottom of the settings menu. Find there “Restore settings to their original defaults” option:


2. After clicking the “Restore settings…” button, you will see the window, where all settings, which will be reset, are shown:

When the browsers are reset, you need to ensure that your browser will connect the right DNS while connecting to the site you need. Create a text file titled “hosts” on your pc’s desktop, then open it and fill it with the following lines²:

Find the hosts.txt file in C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc directory. Rename this file to “hosts.old.txt” (to distinguish it from the new one), and then move the file you created on the desktop to this folder. Remove the hosts.old from this folder. Now you have your hosts file as good as new.

Scan your system for possible viruses

After removing the Celeb Common News push notifications, it’s time to see if these pop-ups brought any threat to your system. Launch GridinSoft Anti-Malware, and then click on Standard scan. It will be enough in most cases to find and remove malware. The scan will last 5-10 minutes; you are free to use your system during that process.

Once the scan is complete, you will see the detections or a notification about a clean system. Proceed with pressing the Clean Up button (or OK when nothing is detected).

1. More about this malware type on GridinSoft Encyclopedia.
2. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.