News-duwexu Pop-up Ads Removal — How to Fix Your Browser?

Written by Wilbur Woodham
News-duwexu push notifications appear out of the blue, disturbing and annoying you. However, that is slightly more than simple pop-ups – their origins is cleanly malignant, and they can install other malware to your PC. In this article, I will show you the guide how to remove News-duwexu pop-up advertisements and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any interaction with News-duwexu push notifications will be ineffective at best. At worst, the websites it can throw you to may introduce malware to your system. These push notifications can also advertise fake online shopping sites which will take your money and payment info. The latter generally ends up with losing all the money you have on the exposed card.

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What are News-duwexu pop-up notifications?

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-duwexu pop-ups is the malignant origins of the latter. Common pop-up advertisements are offered for you to enable with a straightforward purpose – notify you about the latest articles, discounts and so on. It is an effective approach to help your website to keep visitors and help the interested visitors to have the best deal.

Brief description of the News-duwexu.com pop-ups:
NameNews-duwexu.com
HostingAS63023 GTHost
Germany, Frankfurt am Main
IP Address193.108.118.106
Malware typeAdware1
EffectUnwanted pop-up advertisements
Hazard levelMedium
Malware sourceApps from third-party websites, ads on dubious websites
Similar behaviorTreasureprize, News, Treasurepize
Removal method
To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC

News-duwexu pop-ups, on the other hand, have a deal with unlegit websites. You will generally observe the offer to enable them following the redirection from another page. There’s nothing bad in redirecting unless it throws you to such a questionable place. In this case, enabling pop-ups is served under the guise of the anti-bot check-up. In other cases, the websites may refuse to show you the content unless you turn on these pop-up ads. These requirements should already raise suspicion, as sites generally feature a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Seeing this demand should be the reason to close the page doubtlessly. In some cases, even when you click “Allow”, you will not get to the site – the only page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up notifications.

News-duwexu push notification

News-duwexu push notification.

How does it work?

The majority of browsers support turning on push notifications from sites. Sites, on the other hand, may send notifications with the content of their choice. It can be a promotion of the page posted on this site, as well as an ad of the page of their partner. As a result, you can see the push notification from site X, but interacting with it will direct you to site Y – because a referral link to the latter was added.

Cyber burglars rely on this feature in their attempt to earn money through advertising. They trick users into allowing the pop-ups, and then just spread numerous promotions of other crooks they have a deal with. As you may suppose, no benevolent organisations will have a deal with fraudsters. All the News-duwexu push ads you may see lead to other untrustworthy sites. In some cases, the same victim can get into a trap of several pop-up spamming websites, and its web browser will turn into a complete mess.

The banners these rascals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It usually provides a miserable pay for one view, but when you can send ads to a huge number of victims and make it hundreds of times every day – that is a way bigger sum. Even though most of such banners giving no result at all, it can still give all the participants a lot of money.

Are News-duwexu pop-ups dangerous?

Yes, they are. Initially, they can look safe – just a blinking pop-up that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the things this window promotes differ sharply from what you used to see in pop-up advertisements. News-duwexu.com web page is ruled by crooks, who intentionally throw hundreds and thousands of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any manners of advertising and can make sporadic push notifications into a hurricane of promotions. For weak computers, that may be enough to make the system slower. But problems are not over at this point.

Why people dislike popups

As with any other thing that touches illegal ads, News-duwexu push notifications lack legit offers. Even when hackers make the banners similar to ones from Amazon, Walmart or Ebay, the website these banners will throw you to are completely different. And these pages can 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-up ads 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-duwexu 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-duwexu pop-ups?

Fortunately, News-duwexu pop-up ads removal is pretty easy. They sit in the web browser and can’t conceal themselves on a disk. However, as I told before, some pop-up notifications can deliver malicious software to your system. It is hard to predict all of the cases, and manual malware removal is a poor idea. Therefore, after getting rid of the pop-ups it is recommended to use anti-malware software. This step is especially recommended if you have never clicked “Allow” to push notifications, but they still appeared. This situation may be a sign of malware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will perfectly fit both recovery and malware scanning purposes, because of its system recovery functionality and superb detection system.

First and foremost, you should reset your browser settings. You can do that in manual or automated way. The former, obviously, requires 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.

Tools tab in GridinSoft Anti-Malware

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.

Reset Browser Settings tab in GridinSoft Anti-Malware

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:
  1. Open “Settings and more” tab in upper right corner, then find here “Settings” button. In the appeared menu, choose “Reset settings” option:
  2. Reseting the Edge browser

  3. 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. The first step to revert Mozilla Firefox

  3. In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option:
  4. The second step of Firefox restoration
    After choosing this option, you will see the next message:
    The last step for Firefox
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 right DNS while connecting to the site 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-duwexu 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.

GridinSoft Anti-Malware during the scan 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).

GridinSoft scan finished

How to Remove News-duwexu Pop-ups?

Name: News-duwexu

Description: News-duwexu - 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-duwexu.com push notifications?” or “why do News-duwexu.com pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with News-duwexu 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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References

  1. More about this malware type on GridinSoft Encyclopedia.
  2. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.

About the author

Wilbur Woodham

I was a technical writer from early in my career, and consider IT Security one of my foundational skills. I’m sharing my experience here, and I hope you find it useful.

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