Remove News-jigala Virus — How to Fix Guide

News-jigala pop-up alerts may appear out of the blue, covering the content of the page you explored or opening your browser when you do not need it to be opened.

Clicking the News-jigala ad may cause the injection of other malware or unwanted programs. In this article, you will see the guide of News-jigala popups clearing in several methods, as well as inspecting your PC for extra malware existence.

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What are News-jigala pop-ups?

News-jigala popups are a result of adware presence. Adware is a kind of malware that presents you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which creates a large volume of income for adware representatives. These ads may contain sometimes shocking composition, or have a web link to harmful content/website, because adware maintainers have no purpose to check the goodness of the web content they are going to show – their single target is money.

News-jigala push notification.

Pop-up advertising itself is a very good, low-cost and also extremely effective marketing solution¹. It makes it possible for the seller to attach the buyers’ attention to their website, and the customers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to buy. When the customer will receive a pop-up alert that the TV set he wishes to purchase is provided at the online shop he/she saw previously with a 15% price cut, one will undoubtedly use this chance and purchase it. Taking into consideration the very low cost for the popups and their targeting, such a promotion and marketing tool is a favorite thing among the advertising departments of large internet retailers.

Nevertheless, such a rewarding plan could not be missed by malware developers. Option to demonstrate the popup advertisements forcibly to the people of malware invasion is an excellent basis for malicious tricks with the popup advertisements. And News-jigala.com promotions is among hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a short info for the News-jigala site

How have I got the News-jigala virus?

There are a lot of ways of getting infected by the adware that trigger the News-jigala popups tornado. A lion’s part of this malware instances is after the free software or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Free software can additionally be downloaded from the official website, and the adware is supplied as a legal bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A plenty of individuals oftentimes use the uncertain programs from untrusted providers: abandonware, various utilities that are free of cost, and even hacked programs. Every one of these types of software are unsafe, due to the fact that it is quite simple to include a News-jigala malware under the cover of part of the license hacking script, or as a part of the self-made algoritm inside of the Windows optimization tool.

News-jigala popup virus may likewise be hidden in the advertisement somewhere on the strange website. Such websites are in most cases full of bright and blinking ads, and their proprietors often accept any promotions to be published on their web page. Hence, clicking such banners is a risky thing: only the advertisement provider realizes what will happen when you press this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you can likewise get something a lot more hazardous, like ransomware or coin miner; the substantial share of coin miners circulation is exactly after the malicious advertisements.

The statistic shows that people dislike popup advertising more than other types of promotions

Potentially unwanted programs, like News-jigala pop-up virus may provoke a variety of problems on your computer. Distracting is not the single effect – pop-up notifications can display you the banners, where you are offered to download one more unknown application, or “a effective anti-malware tool”. Scareware is usually distributed under the last motto. Potentially undesirable programs, in turn, can have spyware functions. And it is pretty hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a legit one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and dubious antiviruses, popup-related banners are also used as a spreading way by different trojan viruses, for example – coin miners. The consequences of activity of such malware is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not tapping these banners, they can be clicked by someone who also uses your personal computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the situation can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve it without data and money loss. It is recommended to get rid of the viruses with anti-malware programs as soon as possible.

How can I get rid of News-jigala pop-up advertisements?

The tutorial of News-jigala adware clearing contains 2 sections. First, we need to eliminate the malware, and then repair the consequences of its action. The elimination task is very simple, because it can be performed even with making use of Microsoft Defender – anti-virus program that is present on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nevertheless, because of its large resources usage, along with some failures that may be pivotal for some groups of individuals, Defender is often disabled by the users, so its utilization is probably impossible. In addition, various trojan viruses have the ability to shut off the embedded antivirus. It is far better to use the separated program that will not have such weakness.

I would certainly suggest you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven security tool that will undoubtedly remove the malware from your personal computer and also create an invulnerable cover with a Proactive protection function. However, let’s manage News-jigala adware initially.

Removing News-jigala popup virus with GridinSoft Anti-Malware

• Download and install GridinSoft Anti-Malware. After the installation, you will be offered to perform the Standard Scan. Approve this action.

• Standard scan checks the logical disk where the system files are stored, together with the files of programs you have already installed. The scan lasts up to 6 minutes.

• When the scan is over, you may choose the action for each detected virus. For all files of News-jigala malware the default option is “Delete”. Press “Apply” to finish the malware removal.

Now, when the computer is clean of viruses, we can proceed to the browser reset. You can do this step manually, as well as with the use of GridinSoft Anti-Malware.

Reset browser settings to default

Manual method of browser reset

To reset Edge, do the following steps :

1. Open “Settings and more” tab in upper right corner, then find here “Settings” button. In the appeared menu, choose “Reset settings” option :

2. 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 :

1. Open Menu tab (three strips in upper right corner) and click the “Help” button. In the appeared menu choose “troubleshooting information” :

2. In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option :

After choosing this option, you will see the next message :

If you use Google Chrome

1. Open Settings tab, find the “Advanced” button. In the extended tab choose the “Reset and clean up” button :

2. In the appeared list, click on the “Restore settings to their original defaults” :

3. 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

1. 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 :


2. After clicking the “Restore settings…” button, you will see the window, where all settings, which will be reset, are shown :

When the web browsers are reset, you need to make sure that your browser will connect the proper DNS while connecting to the web page you want. Make a text file named “hosts” on your computer’s desktop, after that open it and fill it with the following text³:

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.

Nonetheless, there is one issue that makes things much harder to fix, particularly without the anti-malware software. A lot of adware variations that are utilized to show you the News-jigala pop-up advertisements are modifying the deep browser settings, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you try to change your browser settings after your machine was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will certainly crash soon. Sometimes, you will see no crash, however, huge lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 seconds, and afterwards it will be back to the normal, till you try to open settings again.

Reset your browser settings 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 the options for each browser. By default, they are set up in the manner which 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 last is also able to reset the HOSTS file without any additional commands.

1. More about pop-up ads on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware overview and also the reasons why I suggest it for malware elimination.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.