News-Magive pop-up notices may appear unexpectedly, covering the content of the site you explored or opening your web browser when you don’t need it to be opened.
Clicking on the News-Magive ad may result in the injection of other malware or unwanted programs. In this article, you will see the manual of News-Magive popups clearing in several ways, and also examining your computer for extra malware existence.
What are News-Magive pop-ups?
News-Magive popups are an outcome of adware presence. Adware is a type of malware that demonstrates to you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click advertisements, which produces a significant volume of income for adware representatives. These promotions might consist of sometimes shocking composition, or have a link to harmful content/website, considering that adware maintainers have no purpose to check the goodness of the web content they are going to reveal – their solitary target is cash.
Pop-up promotions itself is an excellent, low-priced and also extremely effective marketing instrument1. It permits the seller to attach the buyers’ attention to their site, and the buyers to receive the dynamic updates on the goods they want to purchase. When the customer will get a pop-up notification that the TV set he wishes to buy is offered at the online store he/she checked out earlier with a 15% discount, one will undoubtedly use this possibility and get it. Considering the very small cost for the popups and their targeting, such a marketing instrument is a favorite thing amidst the marketing departments of huge internet retail stores.
Nonetheless, such a successful system could not be missed by malware developers. Ability to show the popup ads by force to the people of malware attack is a perfect basis for evil-minded manipulations with the popup ads. And News-magive.cc promotions is just one of hundreds that are “employed” in this system.
Here is a short summary for the News-Magive site
Site | News-magive.cc |
Hosting | AS63023 GTHost United Kingdom, London |
Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
IP Address | 149.7.16.223 |
Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
Similar behavior | Vevdet, News, Zazter |
Fix Tool | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
How have I got the News-Magive virus?
There are a lot of ways of getting contaminated by the adware that cause the News-Magive popups storm. A lion’s part of this malware cases is after the free software or cracked programs, that are spread on the peering networks. Free software can likewise be downloaded from the main website, and the adware is supplied as a legitimate bundled program.
There is no need to blame yourself. A lot of people frequently work with the dubious programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, various apps that are free, or even hacked programs. Every one of these types of applications are risky, because it is extremely simple to include a News-Magive malware under the guise of part of the license hacking script, or as a part of the self-made algoritm inside of the Windows optimization tool.
News-Magive popup virus may likewise be hidden in the ad somewhere on the unusual website. Such sites are generally full of colorful and blinking advertisements, and their proprietors generally approve any promos to be posted on their web page. For this reason, clicking such banners is a risky thing: only the ad provider knows what will occur when you click this advertisement. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you may also receive something far more hazardous, like ransomware or coin miner; the large share of coin miners distribution is exactly after the malicious ads.
Potentially unwanted applications, like News-Magive pop-up virus can cause a variety of different troubles on your computer. Distracting is not the single effect – pop-ups may present you the banners, where you are offered to download another dubious program, or “a perfect anti-malware tool”. Scareware is usually spread with the last motto. Potentially unwanted programs, in turn, may have spyware functionality. And it is very hard to distinguish the undesirable app from a legit one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the potentially unwanted programs and fake antiviruses, popup-related banners are also used as a distribution way by different trojan viruses, for example – 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 interacting with these promotions, they can be clicked by whoever who also uses your computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the situation can become much more serious, and it will be much harder to solve it without information loss. It is recommended to wipe out the viruses with anti-malware applications as soon as possible.
How can I get rid of News-Magive pop-up advertisements?
The tutorial of News-Magive adware removal consists of 2 parts. Initially, we need to get rid of the malware, and after that deal with the results of its action. The removal process is pretty easy, since it may be executed even with using Microsoft Defender – anti-malware software that is present on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. Nonetheless, because of its huge resources usage, along with some bugs that may be serious for some types of users, Defender is oftentimes disabled by the users, so its use is likely impossible. Moreover, a wide range of trojan viruses are capable to turn off the embedded antivirus. It is much better to make use of the separated program that will not have such weakness.
I’d recommend you to utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware2 – a well-proven anti-malware device that will definitely wipe out the malware from your computer and create an impenetrable shield with a Proactive protection feature. However, let’s handle News-Magive adware first.
Removing News-Magive 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-Magive 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 make sure that your browser will connect the proper DNS while connecting to the website you want. Create a text file named “hosts” on your pc’s desktop, after that 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.
Nevertheless, there is one problem that makes things a lot harder to repair, particularly without the anti-malware program. Most of adware variations that are used to show you the News-Magive 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 computer was penetrated by pop-up-related malware, your browser will certainly collapse quickly. In certain cases, you will see no crash, however, significant lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop reacting for ~ 30 seconds, and then it will be back to the normal, up 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-Magive Pop-ups?
Name: News-Magive
Description: News-Magive - 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-magive.cc push notifications?” or “why do News-magive.cc pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with News-Magive 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 suggest it for malware elimination.
- Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.