News-lulifo.cc pop-up advertisements appear when you do not expect, detracting and irritating you. However, they are slightly more than simple pop-ups – their nature is cleanly malignant, and they can install other malicious stuff to your PC. In this article, I will show you how to remove News-lulifo.cc pop-up advertisements and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any interaction with News-lulifo.cc pop-up advertisements will be ineffective at best. At worst, the web pages it can open can introduce malware to your system. These push notifications may also promote 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.
What are News-lulifo.cc push 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 push notifications and News-lulifo.cc notifications is the malicious origins of the latter. Common pop-up notifications are offered for you to enable on different sites with a legitimate purpose – notify you about the fresh publications, goods for sale and so on. It is a useful tool to help your website to retain visitors and help the interested users to have the best deal.
Brief description of the News-lulifo.cc pop-up ads:
| Name | News-lulifo.cc |
| Hosting | AS63023 GTHost Germany, Frankfurt am Main |
| IP Address | 193.108.118.106 |
| Malware type | Adware1 |
| Effect | Unwanted pop-up advertisements |
| Hazard level | Medium |
| Malware source | Apps from third-party websites, ads on dubious websites |
| Similar behavior | Gerbins, Sensiblemoth, Brorofyou1v |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
News-lulifo.cc push notifications, as opposed, have a deal with less legit web pages. You will generally witness the offer to turn them on following the redirection from another website. Redirects are OK unless they throw you into such a questionable place. In this case, turning on pop-up advertisements is served under the guise of the anti-bot filtering. Alternatively, the websites can refuse to show you the contents unless you apply these pop-up ads. These demands should be the red flag, as websites commonly have a different anti-bot mechanism. Witnessing such an demand is a reason to leave the website doubtlessly. In some cases, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not get to the website – the sole page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the push notifications.
News-lulifo.cc push notification.
How does it work?
The vast majority of browsers support turning on push notifications from sites. Sites, on the other hand, can send notifications with the content they want. It may be a promotion of the product or a page listed for sale on this site, as well as an ad of the page of their partner. As a result, you may see the push notification from site X, but opening it will throw you to site Y – because a link to that website was added.
Scoundrels rely on this feature in their attempt to gain money through advertising. They trick victims into turning on pop-ups, and then just spread hundreds of ads of other crooks they have a deal with. As you can suppose, no legit organisations will have a deal with fraudsters. All the News-lulifo.cc push ads you can see lead to other fraudulent sites. In some cases, the same user may be trapped by several pop-up spamming web pages, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.
The ads these rascals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It generally provides a miserable pay for one person, but when you can send ads to hundreds of victims and make it hundreds of times each day – that is a much more significant sum. Despite most of these ads are ineffective, it may still bring all the participants a lot of money.
Are News-lulifo.cc pop-up notifications dangerous?
Yes, they are. Initially, they can look safe – just a blinking pop-up that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the contents of this window differ drastically from what you generally see in pop-up ads. News-lulifo.cc website is ruled by crooks, who intentionally spread hundreds and thousands of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any manners of advertising and can make sporadic pop-up ads into a hurricane of promotions. For weak computers, that may be enough to make the system slower. But troubles are not over at this point.
As any other thing that touches illegal advertising, News-lulifo.cc pop-ups don’t have legit deals to offer. Even though hackers make the banners looking similar to ones from Amazon, Walmart or Ebay, 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 push notifications 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-lulifo.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-lulifo.cc pop-ups?
Fortunately, News-lulifo.cc push notifications removal is not very complicated. They reside in the browser and can’t conceal themselves among system files. Nevertheless, as I stated before, some pop-up advertisements may promote malicious software to your system. It is nearly impossible to show all of the cases, and manual malware removal is inconvenient. Therefore, after getting rid of the pop-up notifications the best option is to use anti-malware software. That is especially recommended if you have never clicked “Allow” to pop-up ads, and they still appeared. This situation can be a sign of adware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will perfectly fit both system recovery and malware checkup purposes, thanks to its system recovery functionality and superb detection system.
First of all, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to accomplish in both manual and automatic manner. The former, obviously, takes more time to complete and may 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 site 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-lulifo.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-lulifo.cc Pop-ups?
Name: News-lulifo.cc
Description: News-lulifo.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-lulifo.cc push notifications?” or “why do News-lulifo.cc pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with News-lulifo.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.
