News-hixumu.cc push notifications appear out of the blue, bothering and irritating you. Nonetheless, they are slightly more than annoying pop-ups – their origins is surely malicious, and they may install other malicious stuff to your PC. In this post, I will show you how to remove News-hixumu.cc pop-ups and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any interaction with News-hixumu.cc pop-ups will be ineffective at best. In worst case scenario, the websites it can throw you to may introduce malware to your system. These pop-up notifications can also advertise fake online 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-hixumu.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-ups and News-hixumu.cc notifications is the malicious origins of the latter. Common pop-up advertisements are offered for you to enable with a understandable purpose – keep you aware about the new publications, discounts and so on. It is a useful tool to help your site to keep visitors and help the interested users to have the best price.
Brief description of the News-hixumu.cc pop-up ads:
| Name | News-hixumu.cc |
| Hosting | AS63023 GTHost Germany, Frankfurt am Main |
| IP Address | 193.108.118.54 |
| Malware type | Adware1 |
| Effect | Unwanted pop-up advertisements |
| Hazard level | Medium |
| Malware source | Apps from third-party websites, ads on dubious websites |
| Similar behavior | Finishedwarmth, Gosteadyplaymate, Gosteadybuddy |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
News-hixumu.cc pop-up advertisements, on the other hand, are related to less legit web pages. You will commonly observe the offer to turn them on after a redirection from another page. It’s OK to see redirects unless they throw you to such a questionable place. In this case, turning on push notifications is offered under the guise of the anti-bot check. In other cases, the websites may refuse to show you the contents unless you enable these pop-ups. These demands should already be the red flag, as sites usually have a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Spectating this offer is a reason to skip the website right away. In some cases, even when you click “Allow”, you will not get to the website – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the push notifications.
News-hixumu.cc push notification.
How does this work?
The majority of web browsers support enabling push notifications from sites. Websites, on the other hand, can send notifications with the content of their choice. It can be a promotion of the product or a page posted on this site, or a promotion of the page of their partner. As a result, you can see the pop-up from site X, but opening it will direct you to website Y – because a link to the latter was built in.
Cybercriminals bear on this feature in their attempt to earn money using illegal advertising. They trick users into allowing the pop-ups, and after that just spread numerous promotions of other crooks they have a deal with. As you can suppose, no normal organisations will have a business with fraudsters. All the News-hixumu.cc popups you may see lead to other fraudulent sites. In some cases, the same victim may be trapped by several 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 users and show them hundreds of ads each day – that is a much more significant sum. Despite most of such ads are ineffective, it may still bring all the parties a lot of profit.
Are News-hixumu.cc pop-ups dangerous?
Yes, they are. Initially, they can look harmless – just a colourful window that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the things this window promotes differ sharply from what you generally see in pop-up advertisements. News-hixumu.cc website is controlled by crooks, who intentionally spread hundreds and thousands of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any common sense and can make sporadic pop-up ads 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 any other thing related to illegal ads, News-hixumu.cc pop-ups lack legit deals to offer. Even though crooks make the banners looking similar to ones from Amazon, Walmart or Ebay, the web page 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-ups 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-hixumu.cc pop-up advertisements are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.
How to remove News-hixumu.cc pop-ups?
Fortunately, News-hixumu.cc pop-up ads removal is not very complicated. They sit in the browser and cannot hide themselves on a disk. However, as I stated above, some pop-ups can introduce malicious programs to your computer. It is hard to show all cases, and manual malware removal is inconvenient. Therefore, after disabling the push notifications it is recommended to use anti-malware software. This step is especially recommended if you have never clicked “Allow” to pop-up advertisements, and they still appeared. This situation can point at adware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will perfectly fit both system recovery and malware removal 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 manual or automated way. The former, obviously, takes 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.
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.
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 web page 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-hixumu.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-hixumu.cc Pop-ups?
Name: News-hixumu.cc
Description: News-hixumu.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-hixumu.cc push notifications?” or “why do News-hixumu.cc pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with News-hixumu.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.
