News-honixu.cc push notifications appear out of the blue, disturbing and irritating you. However, that is much more than simple pop-up ads – their origins is surely malicious, and they can bring other malicious stuff to your system. In this article, I will guide you on how to remove News-honixu.cc pop-ups and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any time you interact with News-honixu.cc pop-up advertisements will be ineffective at best. At worst, the websites it can open may introduce malware to your system. These pop-up advertisements can also advertise 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-honixu.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-honixu.cc pop-ups is the malignant origins of the latter. Common push notifications are offered for you to enable with a understandable purpose – keep you aware about the latest articles, goods for sale and so on. It is a useful thing to help your site to retain visitors and help the interested visitors to have the best deal.
Brief description of the News-honixu.cc pop-ups:
| Name | News-honixu.cc |
| Hosting | AS63023 GTHost Germany, Frankfurt am Main |
| IP Address | 193.108.118.14 |
| Malware type | Adware1 |
| Effect | Unwanted pop-up advertisements |
| Hazard level | Medium |
| Malware source | Apps from third-party websites, ads on dubious websites |
| Similar behavior | Reliablepcmatter, Eastfeukufunde, Goadslab |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
News-honixu.cc pop-up advertisements, in contrast, are related to less legit web pages. You will generally see the proposition to enable them after a redirection from another website. Redirects are OK unless they throw you to such a questionable place. In this case, turning on pop-up ads is served under the guise of the anti-bot check. In other cases, the web pages can deny showing you the contents unless you apply these pop-up notifications. These requirements should be the red flag, as websites generally have a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Seeing such an demand is a reason to leave the site right away. Sometimes, 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 pop-up notifications.
News-honixu.cc push notification.
How does this work?
The vast majority of browsers support turning on push notifications from sites. Websites, on the other hand, can send out notifications with the content they like. It can be a promotion of the product or a page published on this site, as well as an ad of their partner page. As a result, you may see the push notification from site X, but opening it will direct you to website Y – because a referral link to the latter was added.
Scoundrels rely on this ability in their approach to earn money through advertising. They trick users into allowing the pop-ups, and after that just spread numerous banners of anyone they have a deal with. As you may suppose, no legit organisations will have a deal with fraudsters. All the News-honixu.cc popups you can see lead to other fraudulent sites. In some cases, the same user may be trapped by multiple pop-up spamming sites, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.
The promotions these rascals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It generally provides a negligible pay for one person, but when you have a huge number of users and make it hundreds of times each day – that is a much bigger sum. Despite most of such ads giving no result at all, it can still bring all the participants a lot of profit.
Are News-honixu.cc pop-up ads dangerous?
Yes, they are. At the surface, they may look non-threatening – just a colourful window that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the contents of this window differ sharply from what you used to see in pop-up ads. News-honixu.cc web page is ruled by fraudsters, who intentionally throw tons of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any manners of advertising and can make sporadic pop-up advertisements into a storm of banners. For weak computers, that may be enough to make the system slower. But problems are not over at this point.
As with any other thing that touches illegal advertising, News-honixu.cc pop-up notifications do not contain any legit deals to offer. Even though crooks make the ads looking similar to ones from well-known retailers, 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 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-honixu.cc pop-up ads are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.
How to remove News-honixu.cc pop-ups?
Fortunately, News-honixu.cc pop-up advertisements removal is not very complicated. They parasite in the browser and can’t hide themselves in the system. Nonetheless, as I told above, some pop-up notifications can introduce malicious software to your computer. It is hard to show all of the cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is a poor idea. Thus, after removing the source of the pop-ups it is recommended to use anti-malware software. I would especially recommend that if you have never clicked “Allow” to pop-up advertisements, but they still appeared. This situation may point at malicious software activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both recovery and malware removal purposes, thanks to its system recovery functionality and superb 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 site 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-honixu.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-honixu.cc Pop-ups?
Name: News-honixu.cc
Description: News-honixu.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-honixu.cc push notifications?” or “why do News-honixu.cc pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with News-honixu.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.
