News-kehaf pop-up notifications appear when you do not expect, detracting and irritating you. However, that is way more than simple pop-ups – their nature is clearly malignant, and they may bring other malware to your computer. In this article, I will show you how to remove News-kehaf pop-up advertisements and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any interaction with News-kehaf pop-up notifications will be useless at best. At worst, the sites it can show you can introduce malware to your system. These push notifications may also promote 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-kehaf pop-up notifications?
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-kehaf pop-ups is the malicious origins of the latter. Normal pop-up ads are offered for you to enable on different sites with a straightforward purpose – notify you about the new posts, discounts and so on. It is a useful tool to help your website to keep visitors and help the interested users to have the best price.
Short summary of the News-kehafo.com pop-ups:
| Name | News-kehafo.com |
| 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 | Ourcommonwords, Qasforsalesrepr, Myrrhisunition |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
News-kehaf pop-up ads, as opposed, are related to unlegit websites. You will generally witness the offer to turn them on after a redirection from another page. Redirects are OK unless they throw you into such a questionable place. In this case, turning on pop-ups is served under the guise of the anti-DDoS check. Alternatively, the web pages may refuse to show you the content unless you enable these pop-up advertisements. These requirements should already be the red flag, as websites usually have a different anti-bot mechanism. Spectating such an requirement should be the reason to close the website doubtlessly. Sometimes, even when you click “Allow”, you will not see the website – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-ups.
News-kehaf push notification.
How does this work?
Most of web browsers support turning on push notifications from websites. Websites, on the other hand, can send notifications with the content they like. It may be a promotion of the page posted on this website, or a promotion of their partner page. As a result, you can see the pop-up from site X, but clicking it will redirect you to website Y – because a referral link to that website was embedded.
Cyber burglars bear on this feature in their attempt to gain money using illegal advertising. They trick victims into turning on pop-ups, and after that just spread numerous promotions of other crooks they have a deal with. As you can suppose, no legit organisations will have a business with fraudsters. All the News-kehaf push ads you may see lead to other untrustworthy sites. At some point, the same victim may be trapped by several pop-up spamming web pages, and its web browser will turn into a complete mess.
The banners these criminals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It commonly provides a miserable payment for one view, but when you have a huge number of victims and show them hundreds of ads every day – that is a much bigger sum. Despite the majority of such ads are ineffective, it can still bring all the parties a lot of money.
Are News-kehaf pop-up ads dangerous?
Yes, they are. Initially, they may look non-threatening – just a colourful pop-up that appears from time to time. However, the contents of this window differ drastically from what you used to see in pop-up ads. News-kehafo.com website is ruled by fraudsters, who intentionally spread hundreds of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any manners of advertising and can launch sporadic pop-ups into a hurricane of banners. For weak systems, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But troubles are not over at this point.
As any other thing that touches illegal advertising, News-kehaf pop-up ads do not contain any legit offers. Even though hackers make the ads similar to ones from Walmart or Amazon, the web page these banners will throw you to are completely different. And these pages may 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-ups 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-kehaf push notifications are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.
How to remove News-kehaf pop-ups?
Fortunately, News-kehaf pop-ups removal is not very complicated. They sit in the web browser and can’t conceal themselves among system files. However, as I pointed out before, some pop-up advertisements may deliver malicious programs to your computer. It is nearly impossible to describe all cases, and manual malware removal is inconvenient. For that reason, after disabling the push notifications the best option is to use anti-malware software. That is especially recommended in the case when you have never allowed pop-up notifications, and they still appeared. This situation can be a sign of malware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both system recovery and malware scanning purposes, thanks to its system recovery functionality and multi-component detection system.
First of all, you should reset your browser settings. You can do that in both manual and automatic manner. The former, obviously, requires 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 can 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-kehaf 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-kehaf Pop-ups?
Name: News-kehaf
Description: News-kehaf - 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-kehafo.com push notifications?” or “why do News-kehafo.com pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with News-kehaf 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.
