News-lemasu pop-up notifications can show up unexpectedly, covering the subject of the page you explored or opening your browser when you do not want it to be opened.
Clicking on the News-lemasu advertisement can lead to the injection of other malware or unwanted programs. In this post, you will see the guideline of News-lemasu popups removal in several ways, and also inspecting your PC for additional viruses presence.
What are News-lemasu pop-ups?
News-lemasu popups are a consequence of adware action. Adware is a sort of malware that demonstrates to you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click promotions, which generates a major amount of revenue for adware distributors. These ads might have sometimes shocking composition, or have a link to harmful content/website, due to the fact that adware maintainers have no purpose to inspect the goodness of the material they are going to show – their solitary target is cash.
Pop-up advertising itself is a very good, low-cost and really effective advertising method1. It makes it possible for the seller to link the customers’ attention to their website, and the buyers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they intend to purchase. When the person will get a pop-up notification that the TV set he likes to purchase is offered at the online shop he/she saw earlier with a 15% price cut, one will certainly use this chance and buy it. Taking into consideration the exceptionally low price for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising tool is a much-loved thing among the advertising teams of big internet sellers.
Nevertheless, such a profitable scheme could not be missed by malware creators. Potential to show the popup advertisements forcibly to the targets of malware attack is a great basis for evil-minded tricks with the popup promotions. And News-lemasu.com ads is one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.
Here is a details for the News-lemasu
Site | News-lemasu.com |
Hosting | AS63023 GTHost United Kingdom, London |
Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
IP Address | 149.7.16.221 |
Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
Similar behavior | Bhrnkw, Silenthill24, Watchvideo |
Fix Tool | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
How have I got the News-lemasu virus?
There are a plenty of ways of becoming contaminated by the adware that trigger the News-lemasu popups tornado. A lion’s part of this computer virus instances is after the free software or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Freeware can also be downloaded from the official website, and the adware is provided as a legit bundled program.
There is no need to blame yourself. A number of individuals often utilize the unreliable programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, various tools that are free of cost, and even hacked programs. Every one of these sorts of programs are unsafe, due to the fact that it is extremely easy to include a News-lemasu malware under the cover of part of the license hacking script, or as a part of the self-made algoritm within the Windows optimization tool.
News-lemasu popup malware may additionally be concealed in the advertisement somewhere on the odd website. Such web pages are in most cases full of bright and blinking advertisements, and their owners often permit any promos to be posted on their page. Therefore, clicking such banners is a shot in the dark: only the advertisement contractor realizes what will occur when you click this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you may also receive something a lot more unsafe, like ransomware or coin miner; the substantial share of coin miners circulation is exactly after the malicious ads.
Potentially undesirable applications, like News-lemasu pop-up virus may initiate a lot of problems on your computer. Distracting is not the only effect – pop-ups can present you the advertisements, where you are offered to get another dubious program, or “a perfect security tool”. Scareware is often distributed under the last slogun. Potentially unwanted programs, in turn, can have spyware functionality. And it is quite hard to distinguish the undesirable app from a good one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and dubious antiviruses, popup-related ads are also chosen as a distribution way by different trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such malware is 100% unwanted, and can cost you hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not clicking these ads, they can be clicked by someone who also makes use of your PC – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the situation may become much more serious, and it will be much harder to deal with it without information loss. It is recommended to remove the viruses with antivirus programs as soon as possible.
How can I get rid of News-lemasu pop-up advertisements?
The tutorial of News-lemasu adware elimination consists of 2 parts. Initially, we need to remove the malware, and then repair the results of its action. The removal process is quite easy, since it may be performed even with using Microsoft Defender – anti-malware tool that is available on all computers with Windows 8/10. Nonetheless, due to its significant resources usage, as well as some failures that can be critical for some groups of individuals, Defender is often turned off by the users, so its use is likely impossible. Moreover, various trojan viruses can shut off the embedded antivirus. It is better to use the separated program that will not have such weakness.
I would certainly recommend you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware2 – a well-proven anti-malware device that will undoubtedly erase the viruses from your system and also make an impenetrable cover with a Proactive protection function. But let’s take care of News-lemasu adware initially.
Removing News-lemasu 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-lemasu 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 :
- 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 definitely connect the appropriate DNS while connecting to the website you want. Create a text file named “hosts” on your desktop, then open it and fill it with the following lines3:
#
# 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.
Nonetheless, there is one issue that makes the things much harder to fix, especially without the anti-malware software. Most of adware versions that are utilized to show you the News-lemasu pop-up advertisements are modifying the deep browser configurations, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you attempt to change your browser settings after your system was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will certainly collapse quickly. Sometimes, you will see no crash, but large lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 secs, and then it will be back to the typical, until you try to open settings once more.
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.
How to Remove News-lemasu Pop-ups?
Name: News-lemasu
Description: News-lemasu - 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-lemasu.com push notifications?” or “why do News-lemasu.com pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with News-lemasu 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 pop-up advertisements on Wikipedia.
- GridinSoft Anti-Malware overview and the reasons why I recommend it for malware removal.
- Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.