News-gepepe.cc pop-up advertisements appear out of the blue, detracting and annoying you. Nonetheless, they are much more than annoying notifications – their essence is cleanly malignant, and they can install other malware to your system. In this article, I will show you the guide how to remove News-gepepe.cc push notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any time you interact with News-gepepe.cc pop-ups will be useless at best. At worst, the sites it can throw you to can introduce malware to your system. These pop-up advertisements can also promote 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-gepepe.cc pop-up advertisements?
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 advertisements and News-gepepe.cc notifications is the malicious origins of the latter. Common pop-up advertisements are offered for you to enable on different sites with a benevolent purpose – notify you about the fresh articles, goods for sale and so on. It is a useful thing to help your website to keep visitors and help the interested ones to have the best deal.
Brief summary of the News-gepepe.cc pop-ups:
| Name | News-gepepe.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 | Your, Hazzbonew, Viiguqam |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
News-gepepe.cc push notifications, in contrast, are related to less legit web pages. You will generally observe the proposition to enable them after a redirection from another website. There’s nothing bad in redirecting unless they throw you to such a dubious place. At that point, enabling pop-up advertisements is served under the guise of the anti-DDoS check. In other cases, the web pages may deny showing you the contents unless you apply these push notifications. These demands should already be the red flag, as sites commonly feature a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Seeing this offer should be the reason to close the website doubtlessly. Sometimes, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not get to the site – the sole page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up ads.
News-gepepe.cc push notification.
How does it work?
Most of web browsers support enabling push notifications from websites. Websites, on the other hand, may send out notifications with the content of their choice. It may be an advertisement of the product or a page listed on this particular website, or a promotion of their partner page. As a result, you can see the push notification from site X, but clicking it will direct you to website Y – because a referral link to the latter was built in.
Cybercriminals rely on this feature in their approach to gain money through advertising. They trick victims into allowing them to show the banners, and then just spread numerous promotions of anyone they have a deal with. As you can suppose, no image-caring organisations will have a business with fraudsters. All the News-gepepe.cc push ads you can see lead to other fraudulent sites. At some point, the same user can get into a trap of multiple pop-up spamming web pages, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.
The ads these criminals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It generally provides a negligible payment for one viewer, but when you can send ads to a huge number of victims and show them hundreds of ads every day – that is a way bigger sum. Despite most of such ads giving no result at all, it can still give all the parties a lot of money.
Are News-gepepe.cc pop-up notifications dangerous?
Yes, they are. At the surface, they may look harmless – just a colourful pop-up that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the things this window promotes differ drastically from what you used to see in pop-up advertisements. News-gepepe.cc site is controlled by fraudsters, who deliberately throw hundreds and thousands of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any manners of advertising and can launch sporadic pop-up notifications into a hurricane of banners. For weak computers, 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 advertising, News-gepepe.cc push notifications do not contain any legit deals to offer. Even when hackers make the banners looking similar to ones from well-known retailers, the website these ads 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 advertisements 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-gepepe.cc pop-up notifications are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.
How to remove News-gepepe.cc pop-ups?
Fortunately, News-gepepe.cc pop-up ads removal is pretty easy. They sit in the web browser and can’t hide themselves on a disk. Nevertheless, as I pointed out above, some pop-ups may deliver malware to your system. It is nearly impossible to predict all cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is a poor idea. Thus, after disabling the pop-up notifications the best option is to use anti-malware software. This step is especially recommended if you have never clicked “Allow” to pop-up notifications, and they still appeared. That may be a sign of malicious software activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both recovery and malware scanning purposes, because of its system recovery functionality and multi-layer detection system.
First and foremost, 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 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-gepepe.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-gepepe.cc Pop-ups?
Name: News-gepepe.cc
Description: News-gepepe.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-gepepe.cc push notifications?” or “why do News-gepepe.cc pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with News-gepepe.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.
