News-kalede Pop-up Virus — How to Remove Unwanted Ads?

Written by Wilbur Woodham
News-kalede pop-up advertisements appear out of the blue, distracting and annoying you. However, they are much more than simple pop-up ads – their origins is clearly malicious, and they can introduce other malicious stuff to your computer. In this post, I will show you the guide how to remove News-kalede push notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any interaction with News-kalede pop-up advertisements will be useless at best. At worst, the sites it can open may introduce malware to your system. These pop-up notifications can also advertise fake online 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.

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What are News-kalede 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-ups and News-kalede pop-ups is the malicious origins of the latter. Common pop-ups are offered for you to enable on different sites with a understandable purpose – notify you about the fresh posts, discounts and so on. It is a useful thing to help your site to keep visitors and help the interested ones to have the best price.

Brief description of the News-kalede.com pop-up ads:
NameNews-kalede.com
HostingAS63023 GTHost
Germany, Frankfurt am Main
IP Address193.108.118.59
Malware typeAdware1
EffectUnwanted pop-up advertisements
Hazard levelMedium
Malware sourceApps from third-party websites, ads on dubious websites
Similar behaviorMobiledevice, Re, Gotend
Removal method
To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC

News-kalede pop-up ads, as opposed, have a deal with less legit websites. You will generally see the offer to enable them following the redirection from another website. It’s OK to see redirects unless it throws you into such a dubious place. At that point, enabling pop-up advertisements is served as the anti-DDoS filtering. Alternatively, the websites can refuse to show you the contents unless you apply these push notifications. These theses should raise suspicion, as sites usually feature a different anti-bot mechanism. Seeing such an offer is a reason to skip the site right away. In some cases, even when you click “Allow”, you will not get to the web page – the sole page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the push notifications.

News-kalede push notification

News-kalede push notification.

How does this work?

Most of browsers support enabling push notifications from websites. Sites, on the other hand, may send notifications with the content they like. It may be a promotion of the product published on this site, as well as a promotion of their partner page. As a result, you can see the pop-up from site X, but opening it will redirect you to site Y – because a link to the latter was added.

Scoundrels rely on this feature in their approach to earn money using illegal advertising. They trick users into allowing the pop-ups, and then just spread numerous promotions of other crooks they contract with. As you can suppose, no benevolent companies will have a deal with fraudsters. All the News-kalede notifications you may see lead to other fraudulent sites. At some point, the same victim may get into a trap of multiple pop-up spamming web pages, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.

The promotions these crooks show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It commonly provides a miserable payment for one person, but when you can send ads to hundreds of victims and make it hundreds of times each day – that is a way bigger sum. Despite most of such ads are ineffective, it may still bring all the parties a lot of money.

Are News-kalede pop-ups dangerous?

Yes, they are. Initially, they may look safe – just a colourful pop-up that appears from time to time. However, the things this window promotes differ sharply from what you generally see in pop-ups. News-kalede.com web page is controlled by crooks, who intentionally spread hundreds and thousands of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any manners of advertising and can make sporadic pop-up advertisements into a storm of ads. For weak systems, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But that is not all troubles these pop-ups carry.

Why people dislike popups

As with any other thing related to illegal ads, News-kalede pop-up notifications lack legit deals to offer. Even when crooks make the ads similar to ones from well-known retailers, 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-kalede pop-up notifications are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove News-kalede pop-ups?

Fortunately, News-kalede pop-ups removal is not very complicated. They sit in the web browser and cannot hide themselves among system files. Nonetheless, as I stated above, some push notifications may promote malicious programs to your system. It is nearly impossible to describe all of the cases, and manual malware removal is a bad idea. For that reason, after getting rid of the pop-up advertisements the best option is to use anti-malware software. I’d especially recommend that if you have never allowed pop-up advertisements, and they still appeared. This situation can point at malware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both system recovery and malware scanning and removal purposes, because of its system recovery functionality and multi-layer detection system.

Initially, 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.

Tools tab in GridinSoft Anti-Malware

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.

Reset Browser Settings tab in GridinSoft Anti-Malware

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

  3. 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. The first step to revert Mozilla Firefox

  3. In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option:
  4. The second step of Firefox restoration
    After choosing this option, you will see the next message:
    The last step for Firefox
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:


# 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-kalede 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.

GridinSoft Anti-Malware during the scan 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).

GridinSoft scan finished

How to Remove News-kalede Pop-ups?

Name: News-kalede

Description: News-kalede - 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-kalede.com push notifications?” or “why do News-kalede.com pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with News-kalede 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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References

  1. More about this malware type on GridinSoft Encyclopedia.
  2. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.

About the author

Wilbur Woodham

I was a technical writer from early in my career, and consider IT Security one of my foundational skills. I’m sharing my experience here, and I hope you find it useful.

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