News-lidoya.cc Ads Removal Guide — How to Fix It?

News-lidoya.cc pop-up alerts may appear unexpectedly, covering the content of the page you went to or opening your web browser when you don’t wish it to be opened.

Clicking on the News-lidoya.cc advertisement may cause the injection of various malware or unwanted programs. In this guide, you will see the manual of News-lidoya.cc popups clearing in various manners, as well as examining your computer for other viruses existence.

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What are News-lidoya.cc pop-ups?

News-lidoya.cc popups are a consequence of adware activity. Adware is a type of malware that suggests you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click promotions, which produces a massive volume of profit for adware distributors. These advertisements might contain sometimes shocking information, or have a link to malicious 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 single target is cash.

News-lidoya.cc push notification.

Pop-up promotions itself is an excellent, affordable and extremely effective marketing instrument¹. It allows the vendor to attach the customers’ attention to their site, and the customers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they want to purchase. When the person will get a pop-up alert that the TV set he wishes to purchase is available at the online shop he/she visited earlier with a 15% discount, one will certainly use this possibility and buy it. Taking into consideration the very small cost for the popups and their targeting, such a marketing method is a favorite thing amidst the advertising departments of large internet retailers.

Nonetheless, such a successful strategy could not be missed by virus developers. Option to demonstrate the popup ads by force to the targets of malware attack is a perfect basis for malicious adjustments with the popup advertisements. And News-lidoya.cc ads is among hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Here is a short info for the News-lidoya.cc

How have I got the News-lidoya.cc virus?

There are a number of methods of getting contaminated by the adware that trigger the News-lidoya.cc popups storm. A lion’s part of this virus incidents is after the free software or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Free software can also be downloaded from the official site, and the adware is delivered as a legal bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A lot of people often use the unreliable programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, various tools that are free of cost, or even hacked programs. All of these sorts of applications are dangerous, since it is extremely simple to include a News-lidoya.cc malware under the cover of part of the license hacking script, or as a part of the self-made algoritm inside of the Windows optimization tool.

News-lidoya.cc popup malware can additionally be concealed in the ad somewhere on the strange site. Such web pages are typically loaded with bright and blinking advertisements, and their proprietors often permit any type of promotions to be published on their page. Hence, clicking such banners is a shot in the dark: only the ad contractor knows what will occur when you click this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or undesirable programs, you may also get something a lot more dangerous, like ransomware or coin miner; the substantial share of coin miners distribution is exactly after the malicious advertisements.

The statistic shows that people dislike popup advertising more than other types of promotions

Potentially undesirable programs, like News-lidoya.cc popup virus may cause a wide range of different troubles on your PC. Distracting is not the single effect – pop-ups can display you the advertisements, where you are offered to get one more unknown program, or “a effective anti-malware tool”. Scareware is usually spread under the last motto. Potentially undesirable applications, in turn, can have spyware functions. And it is very hard to distinguish the unwanted app from a good one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and pseudo antiviruses, popup-related advertisements are also used as a distribution way by different trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of activity of such viruses is 100% unpleasant, and can cost you several hundreds of dollars. And even if you are not tapping these ads, they may be clicked by someone who also makes use of your PC – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to deal with it without data and money loss. It is recommended to get rid of the viruses with anti-malware applications as soon as possible.

How can I get rid of News-lidoya.cc pop-up advertisements?

The tutorial of News-lidoya.cc adware removal contains 2 sections. Initially, we need to deal with the malware, and afterwards fix the consequences of its activity. The elimination procedure is really simple, because it can be executed even with using Microsoft Defender – anti-malware software that is available on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. Nonetheless, because of its large resources consumption, as well as some bugs that may be critical for some kinds of individuals, Defender is oftentimes turned off by the users, so its utilization is probably impossible. In addition, a wide range of trojan viruses have the ability to switch off the embedded antivirus. It is much better to use the separated program that will not have such exposures.

I would certainly advise you to use Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven antivirus device that will certainly remove the malware from your system and also make an invulnerable cover with a Proactive protection feature. However, let’s take care of News-lidoya.cc adware initially.

Removing News-lidoya.cc 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-lidoya.cc 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 :

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 web browser will connect the right DNS while connecting to the site you need. Make a text file named “hosts” on your computer’s desktop, after that open it and fill it with the following text³:

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 problem that makes the things much harder to restore, especially without the anti-malware program. A lot of adware variations that are used to show you the News-lidoya.cc pop-up advertisements are changing the deep browser settings, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you attempt to change your browser settings after your machine was infected by pop-up-related malware, your browser will collapse quickly. Sometimes, you will see no crash, but significant 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 attempt to open settings once again.

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.

1. More about pop-up advertisements on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware review and the reasons why I recommend it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.