News-nuvolu.cc push notifications appear out of the blue, disturbing and irritating you. Nonetheless, they are much more than simple pop-ups – their essence is surely malicious, and they can install other malware to your system. In this post, I will guide you on how to remove News-nuvolu.cc push notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any interaction with News-nuvolu.cc pop-up advertisements will be ineffective at best. At worst, the pages it can throw you to can introduce malware to your system. These pop-up advertisements may also advertise 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-nuvolu.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 pop-ups and News-nuvolu.cc pop-ups is the malicious origins of the latter. Normal push notifications are offered for you to enable on different sites with a understandable purpose – notify you about the fresh posts, goods for sale and so on. It is a useful thing to help your site to keep visitor’s attention and help the interested ones to have the best deal.
Short summary of the News-nuvolu.cc pop-ups:
| Name | News-nuvolu.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 | Totadblock, Tydevelelasti, Bioxe |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
News-nuvolu.cc push notifications, in contrast, are related to untrustworthy websites. You will commonly witness the proposition to enable them following the redirection from another website. There’s nothing bad in redirecting unless it throws you to such a dubious place. In this case, turning on push notifications is served as the anti-DDoS filtering. Alternatively, the websites may deny showing you the contents unless you turn on these pop-up ads. These theses should already be the red flag, as websites usually have a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Spectating this offer should be the reason to skip the page right away. In some cases, even when you click “Allow”, you will not see the website – the only page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the push notifications.
News-nuvolu.cc push notification.
How does it work?
Most of web browsers support enabling push notifications from websites. Websites, on the other hand, can send out notifications with the content they like. It may be an advertisement of the product or a page listed on this site, as well as an ad of their partner page. As a result, you can see the pop-up from site X, but interacting with it will throw you to site Y – because a referral link to that website was embedded.
Scoundrels bear on this feature in their approach to earn money using illegal advertising. They trick victims into allowing them to show the banners, and after that just spread numerous promotions of anyone they contract with. As you can suppose, no benevolent companies will contract with fraudsters. All the News-nuvolu.cc notifications you may see lead to other untrustworthy sites. In some cases, the same victim may get into a trap of multiple pop-up spamming websites, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.
The promotions these crooks show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It commonly provides a negligible pay for one viewer, but when you can send ads to a huge number of users and show them hundreds of ads every day – that is a much more significant sum. Despite the majority of such banners are ineffective, it may still bring all the participants a lot of profit.
Are News-nuvolu.cc pop-up notifications dangerous?
Yes, they are. Initially, they may look non-threatening – just a colourful pop-up that appears from time to time. However, the contents of this window differ drastically from what you generally see in pop-up advertisements. News-nuvolu.cc site is controlled by fraudsters, who deliberately spread tons of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any manners of advertising and can make sporadic pop-up advertisements into a hurricane of banners. For weak computers, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But problems are not over at this point.
As with any other thing that touches illegal ads, News-nuvolu.cc pop-up ads don’t have legit deals to offer. Even though hackers make the ads looking similar to ones from well-known retailers, the website these ads will throw you to are completely different. And these pages may 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-nuvolu.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-nuvolu.cc pop-ups?
Fortunately, News-nuvolu.cc pop-up advertisements removal is pretty easy. They parasite in the browser and cannot hide themselves on a disk. Nevertheless, as I pointed out before, some pop-up advertisements can promote malicious software to your system. It is hard to predict all cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is inconvenient. For that reason, after disabling the pop-ups it is recommended to use anti-malware software. I’d especially recommend that in the case when you have never allowed push notifications, but they still appeared. This situation may point at malware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will perfectly fit both recovery and malware checkup purposes, thanks to its abilities of system recovery and multi-component detection system.
First of all, you should reset your browser settings. You can do that in both manual and automatic manner. 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 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-nuvolu.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-nuvolu.cc Pop-ups?
Name: News-nuvolu.cc
Description: News-nuvolu.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-nuvolu.cc push notifications?” or “why do News-nuvolu.cc pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with News-nuvolu.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.
