Remove News-fakozu.cc Virus — How to Fix Guide

News-fakozu.cc pop-up notices may show up unexpectedly, covering the subject of the website you visited or opening your web browser when you don’t want it to be opened.

Clicking on the News-fakozu.cc promotion can trigger the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this article, you will see the manual of News-fakozu.cc popups clearing in multiple ways, as well as examining your computer for extra malware presence.

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What are News-fakozu.cc pop-ups?

News-fakozu.cc popups are an outcome of adware activity. Adware is a type of malware that suggests you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click promotions, which produces a significant volume of revenue for adware suppliers. These ads may include explicit content, or have a link to malevolent content/website, since adware maintainers have no reason to inspect the goodness of the web content they are going to reveal – their solitary target is money.

News-fakozu.cc push notification.

Pop-up marketing itself is an excellent, low-cost and really effective marketing tool¹. It makes it possible for the vendor to link the customers’ interest to their website, and the buyers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they wish to purchase. When the customer will receive a pop-up notification that the TV set he likes to buy is provided at the online shop he/she checked out previously with a 15% discount, one will surely use this chance and purchase it. Considering the incredibly low price for the popups and their targeting, such a promotion and marketing tool is a favourite thing among the advertising teams of big internet retail stores.

Nevertheless, such a rewarding system could not be missed by malware developers. Potential to demonstrate the popup advertisements by force to the victims of malware attack is an ideal basis for evil-minded manipulations with the popup promotions. And News-fakozu.cc promotions is just one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.

Here is a short details for the News-fakozu.cc

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

There are a huge amount of ways of becoming contaminated by the adware that create the News-fakozu.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 official website, and the adware is delivered as a legitimate bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A huge amount of people regularly use the dubious programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, various apps that are free of cost, or even hacked programs. Every one of these types of applications are dangerous, because it is extremely simple to build in a News-fakozu.cc malware under the guise of part of the license hacking script, or as a component of the self-made algoritm within the Windows optimization tool.

News-fakozu.cc popup malware may additionally be hidden in the promotion somewhere on the strange website. Such web pages are typically filled with intense and blinking advertisements, and their owners generally approve any promos to be placed on their web page. Thus, clicking such banners is a shot in the dark: only the advertisement contractor realizes what will occur when you press this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you can likewise get something far more unsafe, like ransomware or coin miner; the big 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 unwanted applications, like News-fakozu.cc pop-up virus can initiate a variety of problems on your computer. Distracting is not the single problem – pop-ups can show you the advertisements, where you are offered to get another dubious application, or “a perfect security tool”. Scareware is often distributed under the last slogun. Potentially unwanted programs, in turn, may have spyware functionality. And it is very hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a normal one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the potentially unwanted programs and dubious antiviruses, popup-related advertisements are also used as a spreading method by different trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such viruses is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not clicking these banners, they may be clicked by whoever who also uses your PC – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to deal with it without data and money loss. It is recommended to eliminate the viruses with antivirus applications as soon as possible.

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

The tutorial of News-fakozu.cc adware clearing consists of 2 sections. Initially, we need to deal with the malware, and afterwards repair the consequences of its activity. The elimination procedure is quite simple, due to the fact that it can be done even with the use of Microsoft Defender – anti-virus software that is present on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nevertheless, because of its significant resources usage, as well as some problems that can be serious for some kinds of users, Defender is oftentimes disabled by the users, so its use is most likely impossible. What’s more, different trojan viruses are capable to switch off the embedded antivirus. It is better to use the separated program that will not have such exposures.

I’d advise you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven anti-malware device that will surely remove the viruses from your system and also make an invulnerable shield with a Proactive protection feature. However, let’s manage News-fakozu.cc adware first.

Removing News-fakozu.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-fakozu.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 make sure that your web browser will be connected the accurate DNS while connecting to the site you want. Make a text file titled “hosts” on your pc’s 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 problem that makes things much harder to repair, specifically without the anti-malware program. A lot of adware variants that are used to show you the News-fakozu.cc pop-up ads are altering the deep browser configurations, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you attempt to change your browser settings after your computer was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will collapse quickly. In some cases, you will see no crash, but huge lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 secs, and then it will be back to the typical, up until 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 review and the reasons why I suggest it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.