Honext-News Ads Removal Guide — How to Fix It?

Honext-News pop-up notices may appear unexpectedly, covering the subject of the website you visited or opening your web browser when you don’t desire it to be opened.

Clicking on the Honext-News promotion may cause the injection of other malware or unwanted programs. In this article, you will see the guideline of Honext-News popups clearing in multiple manners, as well as checking your personal computer for additional malware presence.

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What are Honext-News pop-ups?

Honext-News popups are an effect of adware presence. Adware is a kind of malware that suggests you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click ads, which produces a large amount of profit for adware distributors. These ads might contain sometimes shocking content, or have a link to harmful content/website, because adware maintainers have no reason to check the goodness of the content they are going to reveal – their solitary target is cash.

Honext-News push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is a very good, affordable and very efficient advertising solution¹. It allows the seller to attach the buyers’ attention to their site, and the buyers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they wish to buy. When the person will get a pop-up alert that the TV set he desires to purchase is provided at the online store he/she visited previously with a 15% discount, one will certainly use this opportunity and buy it. Considering the very low price for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising instrument is a favorite thing among the advertising departments of huge internet stores.

However, such a rewarding system could not be missed by virus developers. Option to show the popup advertisements by force to the targets of malware attack is a great basis for evil-minded manipulations with the popup promotions. And Honext-news.xyz promotions is just one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a summary for the Honext-News site

How have I got the Honext-News virus?

There are a number of ways of getting contaminated by the adware that cause the Honext-News popups tornado. A lion’s part of this malware incidents is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Freeware may additionally be downloaded from the main website, and the adware is offered as a legit bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A lot of individuals regularly use the uncertain programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, a wide range of utilities that are free of cost, or even hacked programs. All of these kinds of software are dangerous, because it is extremely simple to integrate a Honext-News malware under the guise of part of the license hacking script, or as a component of the self-made algoritm inside of the Windows optimization tool.

Honext-News popup malware may also be hidden in the promotion somewhere on the odd site. Such websites are in most cases loaded with intense and blinking ads, and their owners typically permit any promos to be published on their page. Therefore, clicking such banners is a risky thing: only the ad contractor realizes what will happen when you press this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you can additionally receive something far more risky, like ransomware or coin miner; the substantial share of coin miners distribution is exactly after the malicious advertisements.

The statistic shows that people dislike popup advertising more than other types of promotions

Potentially undesirable programs, like Honext-News pop-up virus can initiate a variety of problems on your PC. Distracting is not the only effect – pop-up notifications may display you the advertisements, where you are offered to download one more unknown application, or “a effective anti-malware tool”. Scareware is usually spread under the last slogun. Potentially unwanted applications, in turn, may have spyware functions. And it is pretty hard to distinguish the undesirable app from a good one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the potentially unwanted programs and fake antiviruses, popup-related advertisements are also used as a distribution way by various trojan viruses, for example – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such malware is 100% unwanted, and can cost you several hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not clicking these promotions, they can be clicked by whoever who also uses your PC – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the situation can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve it without data and money loss. It is recommended to remove the viruses with anti-malware applications as soon as possible.

How can I get rid of Honext-News pop-up advertisements?

The tutorial of Honext-News adware elimination consists of 2 parts. Initially, we need to remove the malware, and afterwards deal with the effects of its action. The removal process is pretty easy, since it may be done even with using Microsoft Defender – security software that is available on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nonetheless, as a result of its huge resources utilization, as well as some defects that can be critical for some kinds of users, Defender is often turned off by the users, so its usage is most likely impossible. Furthermore, a wide range of trojan viruses are capable to turn off the embedded antivirus. It is better to make use of the separated program that will not have such weakness.

I would certainly recommend you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven security device that will definitely exterminate the viruses from your PC and also make an invulnerable shield with a Proactive protection function. But let’s take care of Honext-News adware first.

Removing Honext-News popup virus with GridinSoft Anti-Malware

• Download and install GridinSoft Anti-Malware. After the installation, you will be offered to perform the Standard Scan. Approve this action.

• Standard scan checks the logical disk where the system files are stored, together with the files of programs you have already installed. The scan lasts up to 6 minutes.

• When the scan is over, you may choose the action for each detected virus. For all files of Honext-News malware the default option is “Delete”. Press “Apply” to finish the malware removal.

Now, when the computer is clean of viruses, we can proceed to the browser reset. You can do this step manually, as well as with the use of GridinSoft Anti-Malware.

Reset browser settings to default

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 definitely be connected the appropriate DNS while connecting to the website you need. Create a text file titled “hosts” on your desktop, after that open it and fill it with the following content³:

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.

Nevertheless, there is one issue that makes things much more difficult to restore, particularly without the anti-malware program. A lot of adware variations that are utilized to show you the Honext-News pop-up promotions are altering the deep browser configurations, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to fix your browser settings after your computer was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will certainly crash soon. Sometimes, you will see no crash, but large lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 secs, and afterwards it will be back to the normal, until you attempt to open settings again.

Reset your browser settings 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 the options for each browser. By default, they are set up in the manner which 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 last is also able to reset the HOSTS file without any additional commands.

1. More about pop-up advertisements on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware overview and the reasons why I suggest it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.