News-Bojezo pop-up notices may appear unexpectedly, covering the content of the page you visited or opening your web browser when you do not want it to be opened.
Clicking on the News-Bojezo ad may trigger the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this post, you will see the manual of News-Bojezo popups removal in multiple ways, and also checking your PC for other malware presence.
What are News-Bojezo pop-ups?
News-Bojezo popups are a consequence of adware action. Adware is a type of malware that shows you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which produces a large amount of income for adware distributors. These ads might contain explicit material, or have a link to harmful content/website, because adware maintainers have no purpose to check the goodness of the web content they are going to show – their single target is cash.
Pop-up marketing itself is an excellent, low-priced and also extremely successful marketing method1. It makes it possible for the seller to link the customers’ interest to their website, and the customers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they wish to buy. When the consumer will receive a pop-up alert that the TV set he wishes to buy is provided at the online store he/she saw previously with a 15% price cut, one will certainly use this chance and buy it. Taking into consideration the exceptionally low cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising method is a favourite thing amongst the advertising departments of huge online stores.
Nonetheless, such a rewarding plan could not be missed by virus creators. Potential to show the popup advertisements by force to the people of malware invasion is an excellent basis for evil-minded tricks with the popup ads. And News-bojezo.cc advertisements is one of hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.
Here is a summary for the News-Bojezo
Site | News-bojezo.cc |
Hosting | AS61003 GlobalTeleHost Corp. Germany, Frankfurt am Main |
Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
IP Address | 193.108.117.37 |
Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
Similar behavior | Totaltopfeed, News, Hedesignofi |
Fix Tool | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
How have I got the News-Bojezo virus?
There are a lot of methods of becoming contaminated by the adware that cause the News-Bojezo popups tornado. A lion’s part of this computer virus instances is after the free software or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Freeware can additionally be downloaded from the official website, and the adware is provided as a legitimate bundled program.
There is no need to blame yourself. A huge amount of individuals oftentimes work with the unreliable programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, a wide range of apps that are free, or perhaps hacked programs. All of these sorts of applications are unsafe, since it is quite simple to include a News-Bojezo malware under the guise of part of the license hacking script, or as a part of the self-made algoritm within the Windows optimization tool.
News-Bojezo popup virus can likewise be hidden in the advertisement somewhere on the strange site. Such websites are typically full of colorful and blinking ads, and their owners usually permit any promotions to be placed on their page. For this reason, clicking such banners is a risky thing: only the advertisement provider knows what will occur when you click this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you can also get something far more dangerous, like ransomware or coin miner; the big share of coin miners circulation is exactly after the malicious advertisements.
Potentially unwanted applications, like News-Bojezo popup virus may cause a wide range of problems on your computer. Distracting is not the single problem – pop-up notifications may display you the banners, where you are offered to download one more unknown application, or “a amazing anti-malware tool”. Scareware is often spread with the use of the last motto. Potentially undesirable programs, in turn, may have spyware functionality. And it is quite hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a normal one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the potentially unwanted programs and fake antiviruses, popup-related ads are also chosen as a distribution method by different trojan viruses, for example – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such viruses is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you hundreds or even thousands of dollars. And even if you are not clicking these banners, they can be clicked by whoever who also uses your computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the situation can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to deal with it without information loss. It is recommended to remove the viruses with antivirus programs as soon as possible.
How can I get rid of News-Bojezo pop-up advertisements?
The guide of News-Bojezo adware elimination contains 2 sections. First, we need to remove the malware, and afterwards correct the consequences of its action. The elimination process is quite simple, because it may be performed even with making use of Microsoft Defender – security tool that is present on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. Nevertheless, due to its huge resources consumption, as well as some bugs that can be critical for some groups of individuals, Defender is frequently disabled by the users, so its use is most likely impossible. Furthermore, different trojan viruses have the ability to shut off the embedded antivirus. It is better to use the separated program that will not have such weakness.
I’d suggest you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware2 – a well-proven antivirus tool that will certainly remove the malware from your system and also make an invulnerable cover with a Proactive protection function. However, let’s take care of News-Bojezo adware initially.
Removing News-Bojezo 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-Bojezo 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 :
- Open “Settings and more” tab in upper right corner, then find here “Settings” button. In the appeared menu, choose “Reset settings” option :
- 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 :
- Open Menu tab (three strips in upper right corner) and click the “Help” button. In the appeared menu choose “troubleshooting information” :
- In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option :
After choosing this option, you will see the next message :
If you use Google Chrome
- Open Settings tab, find the “Advanced” button. In the extended tab choose the “Reset and clean up” button :
- In the appeared list, click on the “Restore settings to their original defaults” :
- 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
- 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 :
- 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 browser will connect the right DNS while connecting to the web page you need. Make a text file named “hosts” on your computer’s desktop, then open it and fill it with the following content3:
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a ‘#’ symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
# localhost name resolution is handle within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost
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 problem that makes the things a lot more difficult to fix, especially without the anti-malware program. A lot of adware variants that are utilized to show you the News-Bojezo pop-up promotions are adjusting the deep browser setups, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to fix your browser settings after your PC was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will collapse soon. Sometimes, you will see no crash, however, large lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 secs, and then it will be back to the typical, until you attempt to open settings once 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.
How to Remove News-Bojezo Pop-ups?
Name: News-Bojezo
Description: News-Bojezo - a lot of users became a target for the pop-up advertisements. I have a lot of friends who literally bombed me with the questions like “how to remove News-bojezo.cc push notifications?” or “why do News-bojezo.cc pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with News-Bojezo pop-ups, which may corrupt your browser’s correct performance, and create a lot of troubles while you are working.
Operating System: Windows
Application Category: Adware
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( votes)References
- More about pop-up advertisements on Wikipedia.
- GridinSoft Anti-Malware review and also the reasons why I suggest it for malware removal.
- Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.