News-jegazo.cc pop-up advertisements appear when you do not expect, disturbing and irritating you. Still, they are slightly more than annoying notifications – their nature is clearly malicious, and they can introduce other malware to your PC. In this article, I will guide you on how to remove News-jegazo.cc pop-ups and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any interaction with News-jegazo.cc push notifications will be useless at best. At worst, the websites it can throw you to may introduce malware to your system. These push notifications may also advertise 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-jegazo.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 advertisements and News-jegazo.cc pop-ups is the malicious origins of the latter. Normal pop-up notifications are offered for you to enable with a understandable purpose – keep you aware about the latest posts, discounts and so on. It is a useful tool to help your website to retain visitors and help the interested users to have the best price.
Short summary of the News-jegazo.cc pop-up ads:
| Name | News-jegazo.cc |
| Hosting | AS63023 GTHost Germany, Frankfurt am Main |
| IP Address | 193.108.117.220 |
| Malware type | Adware1 |
| Effect | Unwanted pop-up advertisements |
| Hazard level | Medium |
| Malware source | Apps from third-party websites, ads on dubious websites |
| Similar behavior | Got, Theextensionexpert, Garend |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
News-jegazo.cc pop-up advertisements, as opposed, are related to less legit websites. You will generally see the proposition to turn them on following the redirection from another page. It’s OK to see redirects unless it throws you into such a dubious place. In this case, turning on pop-up advertisements is served under the guise of the anti-bot check-up. In other cases, the web pages may deny showing you the content unless you turn on these pop-ups. These demands should raise suspicion, as websites usually have a different anti-bot mechanism. Witnessing such an demand should be the reason to leave the website doubtlessly. 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 ads.
News-jegazo.cc push notification.
How does this work?
Most of browsers support turning on pop-ups from sites. Sites, on the other hand, may send out notifications with the content they like. It can be an advertisement of the product published on this particular site, as well as a promotion of their partner page. As a result, you may see the pop-up from site X, but opening it will redirect you to website Y – because a referral link to that website was added.
Crooks bear on this ability in their attempt to gain money using illegal advertising. They trick victims into allowing them to show the banners, and then just spread hundreds of banners of anyone they contract with. As you may suppose, no image-caring companies will have a deal with fraudsters. All the News-jegazo.cc push ads you may see lead to other fraudulent sites. In some cases, the same victim may be trapped by multiple pop-up spamming sites, and its web 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 pay for one viewer, but when you have a huge number of victims and make it hundreds of times every 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-jegazo.cc pop-ups dangerous?
Yes, they are. Initially, they may look harmless – just a colourful pop-up that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the contents of this window differ drastically from what you used to see in pop-ups. News-jegazo.cc site is ruled by fraudsters, who intendedly show hundreds of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any common sense and can make sporadic push notifications into a hurricane of ads. For weak systems, 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 ads, News-jegazo.cc pop-up notifications lack legit offers. Even though crooks make the ads similar to ones from Amazon, Walmart or Ebay, the site 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-jegazo.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-jegazo.cc pop-ups?
Fortunately, News-jegazo.cc pop-up ads removal is pretty easy. They sit in the browser and cannot conceal themselves in the system. Nevertheless, as I told above, some pop-ups may deliver malicious programs to your computer. It is nearly impossible to predict all of the cases, and manual malware removal is a bad idea. For that reason, after getting rid of the pop-up ads it is recommended to use anti-malware software. That is especially recommended in the case when you have never clicked “Allow” to pop-up advertisements, and they still appeared. That can point at adware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both recovery and malware checkup purposes, thanks to 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, requires 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 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-jegazo.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-jegazo.cc Pop-ups?
Name: News-jegazo.cc
Description: News-jegazo.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-jegazo.cc push notifications?” or “why do News-jegazo.cc pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with News-jegazo.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.
