CoolNews2 Pop-up Ads Removal — How to Fix Your Browser?

CoolNews2 push notifications appear when you do not expect, disturbing and irritating you. However, they are way more than annoying pop-ups – their origins is purely malignant, and they can introduce other malicious stuff to your PC. In this article, I will show you the guide how to remove CoolNews2 push notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any time you interact with CoolNews2 pop-up notifications will be useless at best. In worst case scenario, the web pages it can open can introduce malware to your system. These pop-ups may also advertise fake online 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.

What are CoolNews2 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 CoolNews2 notifications is the malignant origins of the latter. Normal push notifications are offered for you to enable with a straightforward purpose – notify you about the latest posts, discounts and so on. It is an effective approach to help your site to keep visitor’s attention and help the interested visitors to have the best deal.

Short summary of the Coolnews2.xyz pop-ups:

CoolNews2 pop-ups, on the other hand, have a deal with unlegit websites. You will commonly witness the offer to turn them on following the redirection from another website. Redirects are OK unless they throw you into such a dubious place. In this case, enabling pop-up notifications is served as the anti-DDoS check-up. In other cases, the sites can refuse to show you the contents unless you apply these pop-up ads. These theses should be the red flag, as sites generally feature a different anti-bot mechanism. Spectating such an demand should be the reason to leave the page doubtlessly. In some cases, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not get to the site – the only page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up notifications.

How does this work?

Most of web browsers support enabling pop-ups from websites. Websites, on the other hand, may send notifications with the content they like. It may be an advertisement of the page listed on this website, or a promotion of the page of their partner. As a result, you can see the pop-up from site X, but interacting with it will direct you to website Y – because a referral link to the latter was built in.

Cyber burglars rely on this ability in their approach to gain money through advertising. They trick users into allowing the pop-ups, and after that just spread hundreds of ads of other crooks they have a deal with. As you may suppose, no legit companies will have a business with fraudsters. All the CoolNews2 notifications you can see lead to other untrustworthy sites. At some point, the same victim can be trapped by several pop-up spamming websites, and its web browser will turn into a complete mess.

The banners these criminals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It generally provides a miserable commission for one viewer, but when you have hundreds of users and make it hundreds of times every day – that is a much bigger sum. Despite most of such ads are ineffective, it can still give all the participants a lot of money.

Are CoolNews2 pop-ups dangerous?

Yes, they are. At the surface, they may look safe – just a colourful pop-up that appears from time to time. However, the contents of this window differ drastically from what you used to see in push notifications. Coolnews2.xyz website is controlled by fraudsters, who deliberately spread tons of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any common sense and can launch sporadic push notifications into a hurricane of ads. For weak systems, that may be enough to make the system slower. But troubles are not over at this point.

As with any other thing that touches illegal ads, CoolNews2 pop-up advertisements don’t have legit offers. Even when hackers make the banners similar to ones from well-known retailers, the site these ads 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 push notifications 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, CoolNews2 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 CoolNews2 pop-ups?

First of all, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to accomplish in manual or automated way. 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 manually

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 web page 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

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. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.