New.lightfoot.top Ads Removal Guide — How to Fix It?

New.lightfoot.top pop-up notices may appear out of the blue, covering the subject of the website you went to or opening your browser when you don’t want it to be opened.

Clicking on the New.lightfoot.top advertisement may cause the injection of various malware or unwanted programs. In this article, you will see the guideline of New.lightfoot.top popups clearing in a couple of ways, as well as inspecting your system for extra viruses presence.

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What are New.lightfoot.top pop-ups?

New.lightfoot.top popups are an outcome of adware action. Adware is a kind of malware that suggests you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click promotions, which generates a massive amount of income for adware suppliers. These advertisements may have explicit information, or have a link to harmful content/website, because adware maintainers have no reason to examine the goodness of the web content they are going to reveal – their solitary target is money.

New.lightfoot.top push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is an excellent, low-cost and extremely productive marketing solution¹. It allows the seller to attach the buyers’ interest to their site, as well as the customers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they wish to buy. When the person will receive a pop-up notification that the TV set he likes to buy is available at the online shop he/she checked out previously with a 15% price cut, one will surely use this chance and get it. Taking into consideration the incredibly small cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising and marketing tool is a favorite thing amidst the advertising teams of huge online sellers.

However, such a successful plan could not be missed by malware creators. Potential to demonstrate the popup advertisements by force to the people of malware invasion is a perfect basis for evil-minded tricks with the popup promotions. And New.lightfoot.top ads is one of hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a short summary for the New.lightfoot.top

How have I got the New.lightfoot.top virus?

There are a number of ways of getting infected by the adware that result in the New.lightfoot.top popups storm. A lion’s part of this computer virus instances is after the free software or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Free software may additionally be downloaded from the official web page, and the adware is delivered as a legitimate bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A lot of users frequently use the uncertain programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, different tools that are free of cost, or perhaps hacked programs. Every one of these sorts of programs are dangerous, since it is extremely simple to build in a New.lightfoot.top 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.

New.lightfoot.top popup malware can also be hidden in the promotion somewhere on the strange website. Such web pages are usually loaded with bright and blinking ads, and their owners generally accept any promotions to be posted on their page. Hence, clicking such banners is a shot in the dark: only the advertisement contractor realizes what will happen when you press this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you can additionally get something far more hazardous, like ransomware or coin miner; the big share of coin miners distribution is exactly after the malicious promotions.

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

Potentially unwanted applications, like New.lightfoot.top popup virus may cause a wide range of different problems on your computer. Distracting is not the single problem – pop-up notifications may present you the promotions, where you are offered to get another dubious program, or “a amazing anti-malware tool”. Scareware is usually spread with the use of the last slogun. Potentially unwanted programs, in turn, may have spyware functions. And it is very hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a good one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the potentially unwanted programs and pseudo antiviruses, popup-related advertisements are also used as a distribution method by various trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of activity of such viruses is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you hundreds or even thousands of dollars. And even if you are not tapping these ads, they can be clicked by someone who also uses your PC – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to deal with it without information loss. It is recommended to wipe out the viruses with anti-malware applications as soon as possible.

How can I get rid of New.lightfoot.top pop-up advertisements?

The manual of New.lightfoot.top adware clearing includes 2 sections. First, we need to eliminate the malware, and then correct the results of its activity. The removal procedure is very simple, since it may be executed even with using Microsoft Defender – anti-malware program that is available on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nevertheless, due to its substantial resources usage, as well as some defects that can be crucial for some kinds of users, Defender is frequently disabled by the users, so its use is most likely impossible. Furthermore, different trojan viruses have the ability to disable the embedded antivirus. It is much better to use the separated program that will not have such exposures.

I’d suggest you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven security tool that will undoubtedly wipe out the viruses from your personal computer and create an invulnerable shield with a Proactive protection function. However, let’s manage New.lightfoot.top adware initially.

Removing New.lightfoot.top 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 New.lightfoot.top 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 make sure that your web browser will definitely connect the proper DNS while connecting to the web page you want. Make a text file titled “hosts” on your pc’s desktop, then 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.

However, there is one issue that makes things much harder to repair, especially without the anti-malware program. A lot of adware variants that are utilized to show you the New.lightfoot.top pop-up promotions are modifying the deep browser settings, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you attempt to change your browser settings after your system was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will certainly collapse quickly. Sometimes, you will see no crash, however, significant lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 seconds, and then it will be back to the normal, up until you try to open settings one more time.

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 also the reasons why I advise it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.