News-majewe.cc pop-ups appear out of the blue, detracting and annoying you. Nonetheless, they are slightly more than just notifications – their nature is cleanly malicious, and they can bring other malicious stuff to your system. In this post, I will show you the guide how to remove News-majewe.cc pop-up notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any time you interact with News-majewe.cc pop-up notifications will be useless at best. In worst case scenario, the websites it can open can introduce malware to your system. These pop-up notifications can 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-majewe.cc pop-up advertisements?
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-ups and News-majewe.cc pop-ups is the malignant origins of the latter. Common push notifications are offered for you to enable on different sites with a understandable purpose – notify you about the new posts, discounts and so on. It is a useful thing to help your site to keep visitor’s attention and help the interested users to have the best price.
Brief summary of the News-majewe.cc pop-ups:
| Name | News-majewe.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 | Tophome24, Biserka, N |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
News-majewe.cc push notifications, on the other hand, have a deal with unlegit web pages. You will commonly witness the offer to enable them following the redirection from another page. Redirects are OK unless they throw you into such a questionable place. In this case, turning on pop-ups is served as the anti-bot check. Alternatively, the sites may deny showing you the content unless you apply these push notifications. These demands should already be the red flag, as websites commonly have a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Spectating such an requirement should be the reason to close the page doubtlessly. In some cases, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not see the web page – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up notifications.
News-majewe.cc push notification.
How does this work?
Most of browsers support enabling pop-ups from websites. Sites, on the other hand, can send out notifications with the content they want. It can be a promotion of the product listed for sale on this site, as well as a promotion of their partner page. As a result, you can see the push notification from site X, but opening it will throw you to site Y – because a referral link to the latter was embedded.
Cyber burglars rely on this feature in their attempt to earn money through advertising. They trick victims into turning on pop-ups, and then just spread numerous promotions of anyone they have a deal with. As you may suppose, no normal companies will have a deal with fraudsters. All the News-majewe.cc push ads you can see lead to other fraudulent sites. At some point, the same user may be trapped by several pop-up spamming websites, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.
The promotions these rascals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It commonly provides a miserable commission for one view, but when you have hundreds of victims and make it hundreds of times each day – that is a much bigger sum. Even though most of these banners are ineffective, it can still bring all the parties a lot of money.
Are News-majewe.cc pop-up notifications dangerous?
Yes, they are. At the surface, they can look non-threatening – just a blinking window that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the contents of this window differ sharply from what you used to see in pop-up ads. News-majewe.cc web page is controlled by fraudsters, who deliberately throw hundreds and thousands of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any manners of advertising and can make sporadic pop-up notifications into a storm of promotions. For weak systems, that may be enough to make the system slower. But that is not all problems these pop-up ads carry.
As with any other thing that touches illegal ads, News-majewe.cc push notifications do not contain any legit offers. Even though hackers make the ads similar to ones from Amazon, Walmart or Ebay, the site 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-majewe.cc pop-up notifications are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.
How to remove News-majewe.cc pop-ups?
Fortunately, News-majewe.cc pop-up ads removal is pretty easy. They reside in the browser and cannot hide themselves in the system. However, as I stated before, some push notifications may deliver malware to your system. It is hard to show all of the cases, and manual malware removal is a poor idea. Thus, after removing the source of the pop-up ads the best option is to use anti-malware software. I would especially recommend that if you have never allowed pop-up ads, and they still appeared. That may point at adware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will perfectly fit both system recovery and malware removal purposes, thanks to its abilities of system recovery and multi-component detection system.
First and foremost, you should reset your browser settings. You can do that in manual or automated way. The former, obviously, requires 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 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-majewe.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-majewe.cc Pop-ups?
Name: News-majewe.cc
Description: News-majewe.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-majewe.cc push notifications?” or “why do News-majewe.cc pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with News-majewe.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.
