News-netowu.cc pop-up advertisements appear when you do not expect, disturbing and annoying you. However, they are slightly more than just notifications – their origins is cleanly malicious, and they can bring other malware to your system. In this article, I will guide you on how to remove News-netowu.cc pop-ups and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any interaction with News-netowu.cc pop-ups will be useless at best. In worst case scenario, the sites it can show you can introduce malware to your system. These pop-up notifications can 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-netowu.cc pop-ups?
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-netowu.cc pop-ups is the malignant origins of the latter. Normal pop-up advertisements are offered for you to enable with a legitimate purpose – notify you about the new publications, discounts and so on. It is a useful tool to help your site to keep visitors and help the interested visitors to have the best deal.
Brief summary of the News-netowu.cc pop-ups:
| Name | News-netowu.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 | Poisakertwo, Misground, Ritingsynther |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
News-netowu.cc pop-ups, on the other hand, have a deal with unlegit websites. You will commonly see the proposition to turn them on following the redirection from another page. Redirects are OK unless they throw you into such a dubious place. In this case, turning on pop-up advertisements is served under the guise of the anti-DDoS check. Alternatively, the web pages can deny showing you the content unless you apply these push notifications. These requirements should be the red flag, as sites generally have a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Witnessing this offer is a reason to skip the site right away. Sometimes, even when you click “Allow”, you will not get to the site – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up ads.
News-netowu.cc push notification.
How does this work?
Most of web browsers support enabling pop-ups from websites. Websites, on the other hand, may send out notifications with the content they want. It may be an advertisement of the product or a page listed for sale on this particular website, as well as an ad of the page of their partner. As a result, you can see the pop-up from site X, but interacting with it will redirect you to website Y – because a link to that website was built in.
Scoundrels bear on this feature in their approach to earn money through advertising. They trick victims into allowing the pop-ups, and then just spread hundreds of ads of anyone they have a deal with. As you can suppose, no normal organisations will contract with fraudsters. All the News-netowu.cc push ads you may see lead to other untrustworthy sites. At some point, the same victim may get into a trap of multiple pop-up spamming web pages, and its web browser will turn into a complete mess.
The promotions these crooks show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It commonly provides a miserable payment for one view, but when you have hundreds of victims and show them hundreds of ads every day – that is a much bigger sum. Despite the majority of these ads are ineffective, it can still bring all the parties a lot of money.
Are News-netowu.cc pop-up advertisements dangerous?
Yes, they are. At the surface, they may look safe – just a colourful pop-up that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the things this window promotes differ sharply from what you generally see in push notifications. News-netowu.cc site is controlled by crooks, who deliberately spread hundreds of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any manners of advertising and can make sporadic pop-ups into a storm of banners. For weak computers, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But troubles are not over at this point.
As any other thing that touches illegal ads, News-netowu.cc push notifications lack legit offers. Even when hackers make the banners looking similar to ones from Walmart or Amazon, the web page 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 ads 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-netowu.cc pop-up ads are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.
How to remove News-netowu.cc pop-ups?
Fortunately, News-netowu.cc pop-up ads removal is not very complicated. They parasite in the browser and cannot conceal themselves among system files. Nevertheless, as I told before, some pop-up ads can deliver malicious programs to your computer. It is nearly impossible to show all of the cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is a poor idea. For that reason, after removing the source of the pop-up notifications it is recommended to use anti-malware software. I would especially recommend that in the case when you have never allowed pop-up notifications, but they still appeared. That may be a sign of adware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will perfectly fit both recovery and malware removal purposes, thanks to its system recovery functionality and multi-component detection system.
First of all, you should reset your browser settings. You can do that in manual or automated way. The former, obviously, takes 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-netowu.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-netowu.cc Pop-ups?
Name: News-netowu.cc
Description: News-netowu.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-netowu.cc push notifications?” or “why do News-netowu.cc pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with News-netowu.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.
