News-geyafa.cc pop-up advertisements appear out of the blue, detracting and irritating you. Still, they are way more than simple pop-ups – their origins is purely malignant, and they can bring other malware to your PC. In this post, I will show you how to remove News-geyafa.cc push notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any interaction with News-geyafa.cc pop-ups will be ineffective at best. In worst case scenario, the sites it can show you may introduce malware to your system. These push notifications can 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-geyafa.cc 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-up notifications and News-geyafa.cc notifications is the malicious origins of the latter. Normal pop-ups are offered for you to enable with a benevolent purpose – keep you aware about the fresh posts, discounts and so on. It is a useful thing to help your site to keep visitor’s attention and help the interested users to have the best price.
Brief description of the News-geyafa.cc pop-ups:
| Name | News-geyafa.cc |
| Hosting | AS63023 GTHost United Kingdom, London |
| IP Address | 149.7.16.236 |
| Malware type | Adware1 |
| Effect | Unwanted pop-up advertisements |
| Hazard level | Medium |
| Malware source | Apps from third-party websites, ads on dubious websites |
| Similar behavior | Uuksehinkitwku, Stonkstime, Tratbc |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
News-geyafa.cc pop-up notifications, on the other hand, have a deal with untrustworthy sites. You will generally observe the offer to enable them after a redirection from another page. It’s OK to see redirects unless it throws you to such a dubious place. In this case, enabling pop-ups is served as the anti-DDoS check. Alternatively, the websites may refuse to show you the content unless you enable these pop-up advertisements. These requirements should already be the red flag, as sites usually feature a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Witnessing such an offer should be the reason to leave the website doubtlessly. Sometimes, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not see the website – the only page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-ups.
News-geyafa.cc push notification.
How does it work?
The vast majority of web browsers support turning on pop-ups from sites. Websites, on the other hand, may send notifications with the content they want. It can be a promotion of the product or a page published on this website, or a promotion of the page of their partner. As a result, you may see the push notification from site X, but opening it will redirect you to website Y – because a link to the latter was built in.
Crooks bear on this feature in their attempt to gain money using illegal advertising. They trick users into allowing them to show the banners, and after that just spread numerous promotions of anyone they contract with. As you can suppose, no legit organisations will have a business with fraudsters. All the News-geyafa.cc push ads you can see lead to other untrustworthy sites. In some cases, the same victim can be trapped by multiple pop-up spamming websites, 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 miserable pay for one person, but when you can send ads to hundreds of victims and make it hundreds of times each day – that is a way bigger sum. Despite most of such ads giving no result at all, it may still give all the parties a lot of profit.
Are News-geyafa.cc pop-up advertisements dangerous?
Yes, they are. At the surface, they may look safe – just a colourful pop-up that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the things this window promotes differ drastically from what you generally see in push notifications. News-geyafa.cc website is ruled by crooks, who deliberately show hundreds and thousands of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any common sense and can launch sporadic pop-up notifications into a storm of banners. For weak computers, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But that is not all problems these pop-ups carry.
As any other thing that touches illegal ads, News-geyafa.cc push notifications do not contain any legit offers. Even though hackers make the ads similar to ones from Walmart or Amazon, the site 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-geyafa.cc 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-geyafa.cc pop-ups?
Fortunately, News-geyafa.cc push notifications removal is not very complicated. They parasite in the web browser and can’t hide themselves among system files. However, as I stated before, some pop-up ads can promote malicious software to your system. It is nearly impossible to describe all cases, and manual malware removal is a poor idea. Thus, after getting rid of the pop-up ads the best option is to use anti-malware software. That is especially recommended in the case when you have never clicked “Allow” to pop-up notifications, and they still appeared. This situation can point at malware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both recovery and malware checkup purposes, because of its abilities of system recovery and superb detection system.
First and foremost, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to accomplish 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-geyafa.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-geyafa.cc Pop-ups?
Name: News-geyafa.cc
Description: News-geyafa.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-geyafa.cc push notifications?” or “why do News-geyafa.cc pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with News-geyafa.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.
