News-fulifu push notifications appear out of the blue, distracting and annoying you. Still, they are slightly more than just notifications – their essence is surely malicious, and they may install other malware to your PC. In this article, I will show you how to remove News-fulifu pop-ups and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any time you interact with News-fulifu pop-up notifications will be useless at best. At worst, the pages it can throw you to may introduce malware to your system. These pop-ups may also promote fake 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.
What are News-fulifu 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-ups and News-fulifu notifications is the malignant origins of the latter. Common pop-up advertisements are offered for you to enable on different sites with a legitimate purpose – notify you about the fresh publications, goods for sale and so on. It is a useful tool to help your website to keep visitors and help the interested users to have the best deal.
Short summary of the News-fulifu.com pop-ups:
| Name | News-fulifu.com |
| Hosting | AS63023 GTHost United Kingdom, London |
| IP Address | 149.7.16.92 |
| Malware type | Adware1 |
| Effect | Unwanted pop-up advertisements |
| Hazard level | Medium |
| Malware source | Apps from third-party websites, ads on dubious websites |
| Similar behavior | Gokend, Sysbooster, Atm |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
News-fulifu pop-ups, as opposed, are related to less legit web pages. You will commonly observe the proposition to enable them after a redirection from another website. There’s nothing bad in redirecting unless they throw you into such a questionable place. At that point, enabling pop-ups is served under the guise of the anti-DDoS check. Alternatively, the websites may refuse to show you the content unless you enable these pop-up notifications. These theses should already be the red flag, as websites usually feature a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Witnessing this requirement is a reason to close the website doubtlessly. In some cases, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not get to the web page – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up notifications.
News-fulifu push notification.
How does this work?
Most of browsers support enabling pop-ups from websites. Websites, on the other hand, may send out notifications with the content they want. It may be an advertisement of the product or a page listed on this particular site, as well as an ad of their partner page. As a result, you can see the pop-up from site X, but interacting with it will direct you to website Y – because a link to the latter was embedded.
Crooks rely on this ability in their attempt to earn money through advertising. They trick victims into allowing the pop-ups, and after that just spread numerous banners of other crooks they contract with. As you may suppose, no normal companies will contract with fraudsters. All the News-fulifu popups you may see lead to other untrustworthy sites. In some cases, the same user can get into a trap of several pop-up spamming sites, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.
The promotions these crooks show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It usually provides a negligible payment for one view, but when you can send ads to hundreds of users and show them hundreds of ads each day – that is a much bigger sum. Despite most of these banners giving no result at all, it can still bring all the parties a lot of profit.
Are News-fulifu pop-up notifications dangerous?
Yes, they are. At the surface, they can look safe – just a colourful window that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the things this window promotes differ sharply from what you used to see in pop-ups. News-fulifu.com website is ruled by fraudsters, who deliberately spread hundreds of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any common sense and can make sporadic pop-ups into a storm of promotions. For weak systems, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But problems are not over at this point.
As with any other thing related to illegal advertising, News-fulifu push notifications do not contain any legit offers. Even when crooks make the ads looking similar to ones from Amazon, Walmart or Ebay, the web page these banners 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 push notifications 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-fulifu push notifications are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.
How to remove News-fulifu pop-ups?
Fortunately, News-fulifu push notifications removal is pretty easy. They parasite in the web browser and can’t hide themselves on a disk. Nevertheless, as I stated before, some pop-up advertisements can introduce malicious software to your system. It is hard to show all of the cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is a poor idea. Therefore, after getting rid of the pop-up ads it is recommended to use anti-malware software. I’d especially recommend that if you have never allowed pop-up notifications, and they still appeared. That may point at adware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will perfectly fit both system recovery and malware scanning purposes, thanks to its abilities of system recovery and multi-layer detection system.
Initially, you should reset your browser settings. You can do that in both manual and automatic manner. The former, obviously, requires more time to complete and can 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 may 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 website 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-fulifu 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-fulifu Pop-ups?
Name: News-fulifu
Description: News-fulifu - 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-fulifu.com push notifications?” or “why do News-fulifu.com pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with News-fulifu 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.
