News-maposa.cc pop-up notifications appear out of the blue, detracting and annoying you. Nonetheless, that is much more than simple pop-up ads – their nature is surely malignant, and they can install other malicious stuff to your computer. In this article, I will show you the guide how to remove News-maposa.cc pop-up advertisements and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any time you interact with News-maposa.cc pop-ups will be useless at best. In worst case scenario, the websites it can show you can introduce malware to your system. These push notifications can also advertise 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-maposa.cc pop-up 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 pop-up ads and News-maposa.cc notifications is the malignant origins of the latter. Normal push notifications are offered for you to enable on different sites with a understandable purpose – notify you about the latest publications, goods for sale and so on. It is a useful tool to help your site to retain visitors and help the interested users to have the best price.
Brief summary of the News-maposa.cc pop-ups:
| Name | News-maposa.cc |
| Hosting | AS63023 GTHost Germany, Frankfurt am Main |
| IP Address | 193.108.117.220 |
| Malware type | Adware1 |
| Effect | Unwanted pop-up advertisements |
| Hazard level | Medium |
| Malware source | Apps from third-party websites, ads on dubious websites |
| Similar behavior | Slimona, News, Getdispadsshop |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
News-maposa.cc pop-ups, in contrast, are related to untrustworthy web pages. You will generally observe the offer to enable them following the redirection from another website. It’s OK to see redirects unless they throw you to such a questionable place. In this case, turning on pop-up ads is served as the anti-DDoS check-up. In other cases, the websites may refuse to show you the contents unless you enable these pop-up notifications. These requirements should be the red flag, as sites commonly have a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Witnessing this requirement should be the reason to leave the page right away. Sometimes, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not see the website – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up notifications.
News-maposa.cc push notification.
How does this work?
The majority of web browsers support enabling pop-ups from websites. Sites, on the other hand, can send out notifications with the content of their choice. It may be an advertisement of the product or a page listed on this particular website, or a promotion of their partner page. As a result, you can see the pop-up from site X, but opening it will redirect you to site Y – because a link to the latter was built in.
Crooks bear on this ability in their attempt to earn money through advertising. They trick victims into allowing them to show the banners, and after that just spread numerous ads of anyone they contract with. As you may suppose, no normal organisations will have a deal with fraudsters. All the News-maposa.cc notifications you may see lead to other fraudulent sites. In some cases, the same user can get into a trap of multiple pop-up spamming web pages, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.
The banners these criminals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It generally provides a miserable payment for one view, but when you can send ads to hundreds of users and show them hundreds of ads each day – that is a much more significant sum. Despite most of these banners giving no result at all, it can still give all the participants a lot of money.
Are News-maposa.cc pop-up notifications dangerous?
Yes, they are. At the surface, they can look safe – just a colourful window that appears from time to time. However, the things this window promotes differ sharply from what you used to see in pop-up advertisements. News-maposa.cc site is controlled by fraudsters, who deliberately throw hundreds of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any manners of advertising and can launch sporadic pop-ups into a storm of ads. For weak systems, that may be enough to make the system slower. But problems are not over at this point.
As any other thing that touches illegal advertising, News-maposa.cc pop-up ads do not contain any legit offers. Even when crooks make the banners looking similar to ones from well-known retailers, the website 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-maposa.cc pop-ups are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.
How to remove News-maposa.cc pop-ups?
Fortunately, News-maposa.cc push notifications removal is not very complicated. They parasite in the browser and cannot hide themselves on a disk. Nevertheless, as I stated before, some pop-up ads may introduce malicious software to your computer. It is nearly impossible to describe all of the cases, and manual malware removal is a poor idea. Thus, after removing the source of the push notifications it is recommended to use anti-malware software. I’d especially recommend that if you have never clicked “Allow” to pop-up advertisements, but they still appeared. This situation can be a sign of malicious software activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best 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. It is possible to do in both manual and automatic manner. The former, obviously, requires 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 website 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-maposa.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-maposa.cc Pop-ups?
Name: News-maposa.cc
Description: News-maposa.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-maposa.cc push notifications?” or “why do News-maposa.cc pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with News-maposa.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.
