News-cagube.cc Ads Removal Guide — How to Fix It?

News-cagube.cc pop-up alerts may appear unexpectedly, covering the post of the page you visited or opening your browser when you do not desire it to be opened.

Clicking on the News-cagube.cc ad may lead to the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this article, you will see the tutorial of News-cagube.cc popups removal in multiple methods, and also checking your personal computer for other viruses existence.

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What are News-cagube.cc pop-ups?

News-cagube.cc popups are a result of adware action. Adware is a type of malware that presents you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which produces a major volume of income for adware distributors. These ads may have explicit information, or have a web link to malicious content/website, since adware maintainers have no reason to check the goodness of the content they are going to show – their solitary target is money.

News-cagube.cc push notification.

Pop-up promotions itself is an excellent, cheap and extremely productive marketing method¹. It enables the vendor to attach the customers’ interest to their website, as well as the customers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they want to buy. When the customer will receive a pop-up notification that the TV set he desires to buy is available at the online store he/she saw previously with a 15% discount, one will surely use this possibility and purchase it. Considering the incredibly small cost for the popups and their targeting, such a marketing instrument is a favorite thing among the marketing teams of large internet retail stores.

Nevertheless, such a successful system could not be missed by malware developers. Ability to demonstrate the popup advertisements by force to the people of malware attack is a perfect basis for malicious tricks with the popup advertisements. And News-cagube.cc promotions is among hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a short info for the News-cagube.cc site

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

There are a number of ways of becoming contaminated by the adware that create the News-cagube.cc popups storm. A lion’s part of this malware incidents is after the freeware or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Free software can also be downloaded from the main site, and the adware is offered as a legitimate bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A lot of users oftentimes utilize the unreliable programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, different apps that are free, or even hacked programs. All of these kinds of programs are risky, due to the fact that it is very simple to build in a News-cagube.cc malware under the guise of part of the license hacking script, or as a part of the self-made algoritm inside of the Windows optimization tool.

News-cagube.cc popup malware may additionally be hidden in the promotion somewhere on the odd web page. Such web pages are generally packed with colorful and blinking advertisements, and their owners typically accept any promos to be placed on their page. Hence, clicking on such banners is a shot in the dark: only the advertisement provider realizes what will occur when you press this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you may additionally get something a lot more hazardous, 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 programs, like News-cagube.cc pop-up virus may initiate a wide range of troubles on your PC. Distracting is not the only problem – pop-up notifications can display you the banners, where you are offered to get another dubious program, or “a perfect security tool”. Scareware is usually spread under the last motto. Potentially unwanted applications, 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 PUPs and pseudo antiviruses, popup-related banners are also exploited as a distribution method by different trojan viruses, for instance – 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 advertisements, they can be clicked by someone who also makes use of your personal computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve 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-cagube.cc pop-up advertisements?

The manual of News-cagube.cc adware clearing includes 2 parts. Initially, we need to eliminate the malware, and afterwards take care of the results of its action. The removal task is pretty easy, since it may be done even with the use of Microsoft Defender – security tool that is available on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nonetheless, because of its large resources usage, as well as some defects that may be pivotal for some types of individuals, Defender is frequently disabled by the users, so its use is likely impossible. What’s more, different trojan viruses can disable the embedded antivirus. It is much better to make use of the separated program that will not have such exposures.

I would certainly recommend you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven antivirus device that will undoubtedly erase the viruses from your PC and also create an impenetrable shield with a Proactive protection feature. But let’s deal with News-cagube.cc adware first.

Removing News-cagube.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-cagube.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 ensure that your browser will connect the appropriate DNS while connecting to the website you want. Make a text file named “hosts” on your desktop, after that open it and fill it with the following lines³:

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 much more difficult to repair, especially without the anti-malware software. Most of adware variations that are utilized to show you the News-cagube.cc pop-up ads are altering the deep browser configurations, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to fix your browser settings after your PC was infected by pop-up-related malware, your browser will certainly crash quickly. In certain cases, you will see no crash, however, large lag spike after pressing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 secs, and then it will be back to the normal, up until you try 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 also the reasons why I advise it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.