How to remove News-bogana.cc pop-ups? — Fix Guide

News-bogana.cc pop-up notices may show up unexpectedly, covering the content of the website you visited or opening your web browser when you do not wish it to be opened.

Clicking the News-bogana.cc advertisement can result in the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this article, you will see the guide of News-bogana.cc popups clearing in a couple of methods, as well as inspecting your computer for other viruses presence.

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What are News-bogana.cc pop-ups?

News-bogana.cc popups are an effect of adware presence. Adware is a sort of malware that suggests you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which produces a large amount of profit for adware distributors. These promotions might consist of explicit content, or have a link to malicious content/website, considering that adware maintainers have no purpose to inspect the goodness of the material they are going to show – their solitary target is money.

News-bogana.cc push notification.

Pop-up promotions itself is an excellent, cheap and also extremely effective marketing solution¹. It allows the vendor to link the customers’ interest to their site, and the buyers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to buy. When the customer will get a pop-up alert that the TV set he wishes to purchase is provided at the online shop he/she checked out earlier with a 15% price cut, one will definitely use this opportunity and purchase it. Considering the exceptionally low price for the popups and their targeting, such a promotion and marketing tool is a favorite thing among the advertising teams of big online sellers.

Nonetheless, such a rewarding strategy could not be missed by virus creators. Potential to demonstrate the popup advertisements forcibly to the targets of malware attack is a perfect basis for malicious tricks with the popup advertisements. And News-bogana.cc advertisements is just one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

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How have I got the News-bogana.cc virus?

There are a lot of methods of getting contaminated by the adware that trigger the News-bogana.cc popups tornado. A lion’s part of this computer virus incidents is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Free software may likewise be downloaded from the official web page, and the adware is supplied as a legit bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A huge amount of users frequently use the unreliable programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, a wide range of apps that are free of cost, and even hacked programs. Every one of these sorts of applications are unsafe, due to the fact that it is quite easy to build in a News-bogana.cc malware under the cover of part of the license hacking script, or as a part of the self-made algoritm within the Windows optimization tool.

News-bogana.cc popup virus may additionally be concealed in the promotion somewhere on the odd site. Such sites are in most cases full of bright and blinking advertisements, and their owners usually permit any promotions to be published on their page. Therefore, clicking on such banners is a risky thing: only the ad provider knows what will happen when you click this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you may additionally receive something a lot more threatening, like ransomware or coin miner; the large 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 News-bogana.cc pop-up virus can provoke a variety of different troubles on your PC. Distracting is not the single effect – pop-up notifications can display you the advertisements, where you are offered to get one more dubious program, or “a effective anti-malware tool”. Scareware is often spread under the last slogun. Potentially undesirable applications, in turn, may have spyware functions. And it is quite hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a normal one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and dubious antiviruses, popup-related advertisements are also chosen as a distribution way by various trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of activity of such viruses is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you several hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not clicking these banners, they can be clicked by someone who also uses your computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things may become much more serious, and it will be much harder to deal with it without data and money loss. It is recommended to get rid of the viruses with antivirus programs as soon as possible.

How can I get rid of News-bogana.cc pop-up advertisements?

The tutorial of News-bogana.cc adware removal includes 2 sections. First, we need to deal with the malware, and after that correct the consequences of its action. The elimination task is pretty simple, since it may be performed even with making use of Microsoft Defender – anti-malware software that is present on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. However, as a result of its large resources usage, along with some errors that can be pivotal for some groups of users, Defender is often turned off by the users, so its usage is probably impossible. Moreover, different trojan viruses have the ability to switch off the embedded antivirus. It is far better to make use of the separated program that will not have such weakness.

I’d recommend you to utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven security device that will definitely remove the viruses from your computer and make an impenetrable shield with a Proactive protection function. But let’s take care of News-bogana.cc adware first.

Removing News-bogana.cc 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 News-bogana.cc 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 connect the right DNS while connecting to the website you need. Make a text file titled “hosts” on your desktop, after that open it and fill it with the following text³:

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 trouble that makes things a lot more difficult to restore, particularly without the anti-malware software. Most of adware versions that are utilized to show you the News-bogana.cc pop-up ads are changing the deep browser settings, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to change your browser settings after your machine was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will collapse soon. Sometimes, you will see no crash, but huge lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 seconds, and afterwards it will be back to the typical, until you attempt to open settings once more.

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 review and the reasons why I recommend it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.