Remove News-dufuye.cc Pop-up Virus — How to Remove?

News-dufuye.cc pop-up notifications may appear unexpectedly, covering the material of the site you went to or opening your web browser when you don’t want it to be opened.

Clicking the News-dufuye.cc promotion may result in the injection of various malware or unwanted programs. In this post, you will see the tutorial of News-dufuye.cc popups clearing in multiple manners, and also examining your personal computer for other malware presence.

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What are News-dufuye.cc pop-ups?

News-dufuye.cc popups are an effect of adware presence. Adware is a type of malware that suggests you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click ads, which creates a large volume of revenue for adware suppliers. These promotions might have sometimes shocking information, or have a web link to harmful content/website, due to the fact that adware maintainers have no reason to examine the goodness of the web content they are going to reveal – their solitary target is money.

News-dufuye.cc push notification.

Pop-up marketing itself is a very good, affordable and also extremely efficient advertising instrument¹. It allows the vendor to link the buyers’ interest to their site, and the customers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to buy. When the customer will receive a pop-up notification that the TV set he wishes to purchase is provided at the online store he/she checked out earlier with a 15% price cut, one will surely use this opportunity and buy it. Taking into consideration the extremely small cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising and marketing instrument is a much-loved thing among the marketing teams of large internet retail stores.

However, such a successful strategy could not be missed by virus developers. Option to demonstrate the popup ads by force to the victims of malware attack is a perfect basis for evil-minded manipulations with the popup ads. And News-dufuye.cc ads is among hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a info for the News-dufuye.cc

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

There are a plenty of ways of becoming infected by the adware that result in the News-dufuye.cc popups storm. A lion’s part of this computer virus cases is after the free software or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Free software can also be downloaded from the main site, and the adware is delivered as a legit bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A huge amount of users regularly use the dubious programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, a wide range of tools that are free of cost, and even hacked programs. Every one of these sorts of software are risky, since it is very simple to integrate a News-dufuye.cc malware under the cover of part of the license hacking script, or as a component of the self-made algoritm within the Windows optimization tool.

News-dufuye.cc popup malware may also be hidden in the advertisement somewhere on the unusual site. Such websites are typically full of bright and blinking advertisements, and their proprietors typically approve any kind of promotions to be published on their web page. For this reason, clicking on such banners is a shot in the dark: only the advertisement contractor knows what will happen when you press this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you can likewise get something far more unsafe, like ransomware or coin miner; the substantial share of coin miners circulation is exactly after the malicious ads.

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

Potentially undesirable applications, like News-dufuye.cc popup virus can cause a lot of problems on your PC. Distracting is not the single effect – pop-up notifications can display you the banners, where you are offered to download another strange program, or “a amazing security tool”. Scareware is often distributed with the use of the last slogun. Potentially undesirable programs, in turn, can have spyware functionality. 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 chosen as a spreading method by various trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such malware is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not interacting with these promotions, they may be clicked by whoever who also makes use of your personal computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things may become much more serious, and it will be much harder to deal with it without information loss. It is recommended to eliminate the viruses with antivirus applications as soon as possible.

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

The tutorial of News-dufuye.cc adware clearing includes 2 parts. First, we need to exterminate the malware, and afterwards correct the results of its activity. The elimination procedure is quite simple, because it can be executed even with the use of Microsoft Defender – security tool that is present on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nevertheless, due to its substantial resources utilization, along with some errors that can be critical for some groups of users, Defender is oftentimes disabled by the users, so its usage is probably impossible. In addition, various trojan viruses have the ability to turn off the embedded antivirus. It is far better to make use of the separated program that will not have such vulnerabilities.

I would certainly suggest you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven anti-malware tool that will undoubtedly exterminate the malware from your computer and make an invulnerable cover with a Proactive protection feature. But let’s handle News-dufuye.cc adware first.

Removing News-dufuye.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-dufuye.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 web browsers are reset, you need to ensure that your browser will be connected the accurate DNS while connecting to the site you want. Create a text file named “hosts” on your desktop, then 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.

Nevertheless, there is one issue that makes the things much harder to restore, especially without the anti-malware program. The majority of adware versions that are utilized to show you the News-dufuye.cc pop-up ads are altering the deep browser configurations, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to change your browser settings after your PC was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will collapse quickly. In certain cases, you will see no crash, however, huge lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 secs, and afterwards it will be back to the normal, till you attempt to open settings 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.

1. More about pop-up advertisements on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware overview and also the reasons why I suggest it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.