Celeb Finance News Ads Removal Guide — Fix Push Notification

Celeb Finance News push notifications appear out of the blue, bothering and annoying you. Nonetheless, that is much more than just notifications – their essence is purely malignant, and they can introduce other malware to your system. In this article, I will show you the guide how to remove Celeb Finance News pop-up advertisements and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any interaction with Celeb Finance News push notifications will be useless at best. At worst, the web pages it can open can introduce malware to your system. These pop-ups can also promote fake online shopping sites 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 Finance News pop-ups?

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 Finance News notifications is the malicious origins of the latter. Common pop-ups are offered for you to enable on different sites with a benevolent purpose – notify you about the fresh articles, discounts and so on. It is an effective approach to help your website to keep visitor’s attention and help the interested ones to have the best price.

Brief summary of the Celebfinancenews.com pop-up ads:

Celeb Finance News pop-up notifications, on the other hand, have a deal with less legit websites. You will generally observe the proposition to turn them on following the redirection from another page. Redirects are OK unless it throws you into such a dubious place. At that point, turning on push notifications is served under the guise of the anti-DDoS check. In other cases, the web pages may refuse to show you the contents unless you turn on these pop-ups. These demands should already be the red flag, as websites usually have a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Spectating such an demand should be the reason to leave the page doubtlessly. Sometimes, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not get to the web page – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up advertisements.

Celeb Finance News push notification.

How does this work?

Most of browsers support enabling push notifications from websites. Websites, on the other hand, may send out notifications with the content they like. It can be a promotion of the page published on this particular website, as well as a promotion of the page of their partner. As a result, you may see the pop-up from site X, but interacting with it will throw you to website Y – because a referral link to that website was added.

Cyber burglars bear on this feature in their approach to gain money through advertising. They trick victims into allowing them to show the banners, and after that just spread numerous promotions of other crooks they have a deal with. As you may suppose, no normal organisations will contract with fraudsters. All the Celeb Finance News push ads you can see lead to other untrustworthy sites. In some cases, the same victim can get into a trap of multiple pop-up spamming sites, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.

The ads these criminals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It generally provides a negligible commission for one viewer, but when you can send ads to hundreds of users and show them hundreds of ads each day – that is a way bigger sum. Despite the majority of such banners giving no result at all, it can still give all the parties a lot of money.

Are Celeb Finance News pop-up notifications dangerous?

Yes, they are. Initially, they can look harmless – just a blinking window that appears from time to time. However, the contents of this window differ sharply from what you generally see in push notifications. Celebfinancenews.com web page is controlled by fraudsters, who deliberately throw hundreds of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any manners of advertising and can launch sporadic pop-ups into a storm of promotions. For weak computers, that may be enough to make the system slower. But that is not all troubles these push notifications carry.

As any other thing that touches illegal advertising, Celeb Finance News pop-up advertisements lack legit deals to offer. Even when crooks make the ads looking similar to ones from Amazon, Walmart or Ebay, the site these ads will throw you to are completely different. And these pages can 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-up ads 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 Finance News pop-ups are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Celeb Finance News pop-ups?

Fortunately, Celeb Finance News pop-up ads removal is pretty easy. They sit in the browser and can’t conceal themselves in the system. However, as I stated above, some pop-up ads may deliver malicious software to your computer. It is hard to describe all of the cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is inconvenient. Thus, after removing the source of the pop-up notifications it is recommended to use anti-malware software. I’d especially recommend that if you have never clicked “Allow” to pop-up ads, but they still appeared. That can be a sign of malware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both system recovery and malware scanning and removal purposes, because of its system recovery functionality and advanced detection system.

First and foremost, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to do in manual or automated way. The former, obviously, requires more time to complete and can 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 website 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 Finance 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.