News-kogida.cc pop-ups appear when you do not expect, disturbing and annoying you. However, that is slightly more than annoying pop-ups – their nature is cleanly malignant, and they can introduce other malware to your system. In this article, I will show you how to remove News-kogida.cc pop-up advertisements and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any interaction with News-kogida.cc pop-up advertisements will be ineffective at best. In worst case scenario, the sites it can open may introduce malware to your system. These pop-up advertisements may also promote 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-kogida.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-kogida.cc pop-ups is the malicious origins of the latter. Common pop-up notifications are offered for you to enable with a legitimate purpose – keep you aware about the latest articles, discounts and so on. It is a useful tool to help your website to retain visitors and help the interested visitors to have the best price.
Brief summary of the News-kogida.cc pop-up ads:
| Name | News-kogida.cc |
| Hosting | AS63023 GTHost United Kingdom, London |
| IP Address | 149.7.16.92 |
| Malware type | Adware1 |
| Effect | Unwanted pop-up advertisements |
| Hazard level | Medium |
| Malware source | Apps from third-party websites, ads on dubious websites |
| Similar behavior | Opencapchahere, Kakimg, Wheekriesurvey |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
News-kogida.cc pop-ups, in contrast, are related to less legit sites. You will commonly see the proposition to turn them on after a redirection from another page. There’s nothing bad in redirecting unless they throw you into such a dubious place. At that point, enabling pop-up notifications is served as the anti-DDoS check-up. In other cases, the sites can refuse to show you the content unless you apply these pop-up notifications. These requirements should raise suspicion, as sites usually feature a different anti-bot mechanism. Spectating such an offer is a reason to leave the website right away. Sometimes, even when you click “Allow”, you will not get to the site – the only page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the push notifications.
News-kogida.cc push notification.
How does this work?
Most of web browsers support turning on pop-ups from websites. Websites, on the other hand, may send notifications with the content they want. It may be an advertisement of the product or a page listed for sale 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 direct you to site Y – because a referral link to the latter was embedded.
Scoundrels bear on this ability in their attempt to earn money through advertising. They trick victims into allowing them to show the banners, and after that just spread hundreds of ads of other crooks they contract with. As you may suppose, no image-caring organisations will contract with fraudsters. All the News-kogida.cc push ads you may see lead to other fraudulent sites. In some cases, the same user can be trapped by several pop-up spamming websites, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.
The promotions these criminals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It usually provides a miserable payment for one person, but when you have a huge number of victims and show them hundreds of ads 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 profit.
Are News-kogida.cc push notifications dangerous?
Yes, they are. At the surface, they may look non-threatening – just a colourful window that appears from time to time. However, the things this window promotes differ sharply from what you generally see in pop-ups. News-kogida.cc website is controlled by crooks, who intendedly throw hundreds of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any common sense and can launch sporadic pop-ups into a storm of promotions. For weak computers, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But that is not all troubles these pop-up advertisements carry.
As any other thing related to illegal advertising, News-kogida.cc pop-up advertisements don’t have legit deals to offer. Even when hackers make the banners looking similar to ones from Walmart or Amazon, the web page these banners 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-kogida.cc 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-kogida.cc pop-ups?
Fortunately, News-kogida.cc pop-up notifications removal is pretty easy. They sit in the browser and can’t conceal themselves on a disk. Nevertheless, as I stated above, some pop-up notifications may promote malware to your computer. It is nearly impossible to describe all cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is a bad idea. Therefore, after disabling the pop-ups it is recommended to use anti-malware software. This step is especially recommended if you have never clicked “Allow” to push notifications, and they still appeared. That can point at adware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both recovery and malware scanning purposes, thanks to its abilities of system recovery and superb detection system.
First and foremost, you should reset your browser settings. You can do that 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.
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 web page 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-kogida.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-kogida.cc Pop-ups?
Name: News-kogida.cc
Description: News-kogida.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-kogida.cc push notifications?” or “why do News-kogida.cc pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with News-kogida.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.
