News-colaxa.cc pop-up notifications appear when you do not expect, distracting and annoying you. However, that is slightly more than annoying notifications – their essence is purely malignant, and they can install other malicious stuff to your system. In this post, I will show you the guide how to remove News-colaxa.cc pop-up advertisements and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any interaction with News-colaxa.cc push notifications will be useless at best. At worst, the web pages it can throw you to can introduce malware to your system. These pop-up advertisements may also advertise fake shopping websites which will take your money and payment info. The latter generally ends up with losing all the money you have on the exposed card.
What are News-colaxa.cc pop-ups?
As the pop-up definition goes, these are short and small advertisements that attract your attention to a product they promote. But the difference between regular pop-up notifications and News-colaxa.cc pop-ups is the malicious origins of the latter. Common pop-ups are offered for you to enable on different sites with a straightforward purpose – notify you about the new articles, goods for sale and so on. It is an effective approach to help your website to keep visitor’s attention and help the interested users to have the best price.
Short summary of the News-colaxa.cc pop-ups:
| Name | News-colaxa.cc |
| Hosting | AS63023 GTHost Germany, Frankfurt am Main |
| IP Address | 193.108.118.59 |
| Malware type | Adware1 |
| Effect | Unwanted pop-up advertisements |
| Hazard level | Medium |
| Malware source | Apps from third-party websites, ads on dubious websites |
| Similar behavior | Getdispadsshop, Gadscare, Gojogo |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
News-colaxa.cc pop-up ads, as opposed, are related to unlegit sites. You will commonly witness the offer to turn them on following the redirection from another page. Redirects are OK unless they throw you to such a questionable place. At that point, enabling pop-up advertisements is served as the anti-bot filtering. In other cases, the web pages can deny showing you the content unless you apply these push notifications. These theses should already be the red flag, as sites generally have a less obscure anti-bot mechanism. Spectating this offer should be the reason to close the site doubtlessly. In some cases, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not see the site – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the push notifications.
News-colaxa.cc push notification.
How does this work?
The majority of browsers support enabling push notifications from websites. Sites, on the other hand, may send out notifications with the content they like. It can be an advertisement of the product listed on this particular website, or an ad of their partner page. As a result, you can see the push notification from site X, but opening it will redirect you to website Y – because a referral link to that website was added.
Cyber burglars rely on this feature in their approach to earn money using illegal advertising. They trick victims into allowing the pop-ups, and after that just spread hundreds of banners of other crooks they contract with. As you may suppose, no benevolent organisations will have a deal with fraudsters. All the News-colaxa.cc popups you may see lead to other fraudulent sites. In some cases, the same victim may get into a trap of several pop-up spamming sites, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.
The ads these rascals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It generally provides a negligible commission for one view, but when you have hundreds of victims and make it hundreds of times every day – that is a much bigger sum. Even though most of such banners are ineffective, it may still bring all the parties a lot of money.
Are News-colaxa.cc pop-ups dangerous?
Yes, they are. Initially, they can look non-threatening – just a blinking pop-up that appears from time to time. However, the contents of this window differ sharply from what you used to see in pop-up ads. News-colaxa.cc website is controlled by fraudsters, who intentionally spread tons of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any manners of advertising and can make sporadic push notifications into a storm of ads. For weak systems, that may be enough to make the system slower. But troubles are not over at this point.
As with any other thing that touches illegal ads, News-colaxa.cc pop-up notifications don’t have legit deals to offer. Even though crooks make the ads similar to ones from well-known retailers, the web page these ads will throw you to are completely different. And these pages may offer you to turn on other pop-ups, install a “useful” program, or pay for a thing at a big discount and never receive it. Let’s leave aside the cases when pop-ups promote phishing pages or straightforward malware. There’s no way these pages will bring you any good, thus interacting with them is a very bad idea. For the same reason, News-colaxa.cc pop-ups are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.
How to remove News-colaxa.cc pop-ups?
Fortunately, News-colaxa.cc pop-up advertisements removal is not very complicated. They reside in the browser and can’t conceal themselves in the system. Nevertheless, as I stated before, some pop-up advertisements may deliver malicious software to your computer. It is nearly impossible to describe all of the cases, and manual malware removal is a bad idea. Therefore, after disabling the pop-up notifications the best option is to use anti-malware software. This step is especially recommended in the case when you have never clicked “Allow” to pop-up notifications, but they still appeared. That may point at malicious software activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will perfectly fit both recovery and malware scanning purposes, because of its abilities of system recovery and multi-component detection system.
Initially, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to do in both manual and automatic manner. The former, obviously, takes more time to complete and may be somewhat complicated if you have never done that. Automated supposes the use of anti-malware programs that can reset all browser settings at once.
Reset your browsers 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 options for each browser. By default, they are set up in a manner that 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 the latter is also able to reset the HOSTS file without any additional commands.
Reset your browsers manually
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 ensure that your browser will connect the right DNS while connecting to the web page you need. Create a text file titled “hosts” on your pc’s desktop, then open it and fill it with the following lines2:
# Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.
#
# 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.
Scan your system for possible viruses
After removing the News-colaxa.cc push notifications, it’s time to see if these pop-ups brought any threat to your system. Launch GridinSoft Anti-Malware, and then click on Standard scan. It will be enough in most cases to find and remove malware. The scan will last 5-10 minutes; you are free to use your system during that process.
Once the scan is complete, you will see the detections or a notification about a clean system. Proceed with pressing the Clean Up button (or OK when nothing is detected).
How to Remove News-colaxa.cc Pop-ups?
Name: News-colaxa.cc
Description: News-colaxa.cc - 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-colaxa.cc push notifications?” or “why do News-colaxa.cc pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with News-colaxa.cc 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 this malware type on GridinSoft Encyclopedia.
- Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.
