Remove News-jowenu.cc Virus — How to Fix Guide

News-jowenu.cc pop-ups appear out of the blue, detracting and annoying you. Still, they are much more than simple pop-up ads – their origins is clearly malicious, and they may introduce other malicious stuff to your system. In this article, I will show you how to remove News-jowenu.cc push notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any interaction with News-jowenu.cc pop-up notifications will be ineffective at best. In worst case scenario, the pages it can open may introduce malware to your system. These pop-ups can 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-jowenu.cc push notifications?

Brief description of the News-jowenu.cc pop-up ads:

News-jowenu.cc pop-ups, on the other hand, have a deal with less legit sites. You will generally see the proposition to enable them following the redirection from another page. There’s nothing bad in redirecting unless they throw you into such a questionable place. In this case, turning on pop-up advertisements is offered as the anti-DDoS filtering. Alternatively, the web pages may deny showing you the contents unless you turn on these push notifications. These theses should be the red flag, as websites usually have a less obscure anti-bot mechanism. Spectating such an requirement is a reason to close the page doubtlessly. Sometimes, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not get to the website – the sole page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the push notifications.

How does this work?

The majority of browsers support enabling push notifications from sites. Sites, on the other hand, may send notifications with the content of their choice. It may be an advertisement of the page listed for sale on this website, as well as a promotion of the page of their partner. As a result, you may see the pop-up from site X, but clicking it will direct you to website Y – because a referral link to that website was embedded.

The banners these criminals 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 users and make it hundreds of times each day – that is a much bigger sum. Despite the majority of these ads giving no result at all, it may still bring all the participants a lot of profit.

Are News-jowenu.cc pop-up advertisements dangerous?

Yes, they are. Initially, they can look non-threatening – just a blinking pop-up that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the things this window promotes differ drastically from what you used to see in pop-up notifications. News-jowenu.cc web page is controlled by fraudsters, who intentionally spread hundreds of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any manners of advertising and can launch sporadic push notifications into a hurricane of promotions. For weak computers, that may be enough to make the system slower. But troubles are not over at this point.

How to remove News-jowenu.cc pop-ups?

First of all, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to accomplish in both manual and automatic manner. 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 manually

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 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:

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

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).

1. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.