News-posami.cc pop-up notifications appear when you do not expect, distracting and annoying you. However, they are much more than annoying notifications – their nature is surely malignant, and they may install other malicious stuff to your computer. In this post, I will show you how to remove News-posami.cc pop-up notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any time you interact with News-posami.cc push notifications will be ineffective at best. In worst case scenario, the sites 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-posami.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-up ads and News-posami.cc notifications is the malignant origins of the latter. Normal pop-up ads are offered for you to enable on different sites with a straightforward purpose – notify you about the latest articles, goods for sale and so on. It is a useful tool to help your website to retain visitors and help the interested visitors to have the best deal.
Brief summary of the News-posami.cc pop-up ads:
| Name | News-posami.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 | Ajorinryesoperty, Focumentact, Eprendens |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
News-posami.cc pop-up ads, on the other hand, are related to less legit sites. You will generally see the proposition to enable them following the redirection from another site. It’s OK to see redirects unless it throws you into such a questionable place. At that point, turning on pop-up advertisements is served as the anti-bot check-up. Alternatively, the web pages can refuse to show you the contents unless you enable these pop-up advertisements. These requirements should already be the red flag, as sites usually feature a less obscure anti-bot mechanism. Spectating this offer should be the reason to leave the page doubtlessly. In some cases, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not get to the web page – the sole page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up advertisements.
News-posami.cc push notification.
How does this work?
Most of browsers support turning on pop-ups from websites. Websites, on the other hand, can send out notifications with the content they like. It can be a promotion of the page published on this particular website, as well as a promotion of the page of their partner. As a result, you may see the push notification from site X, but clicking it will throw you to website Y – because a link to that website was embedded.
Crooks bear on this ability in their approach to earn money using illegal advertising. They trick victims into turning on pop-ups, and then just spread numerous ads of anyone they have a deal with. As you can suppose, no normal companies will have a business with fraudsters. All the News-posami.cc popups you may see lead to other untrustworthy sites. At some point, the same user can be trapped by multiple pop-up spamming web pages, and its web browser will turn into a complete mess.
The ads these criminals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It commonly provides a miserable commission for one person, but when you can send ads to a huge number of users and show them hundreds of ads every day – that is a much bigger sum. Despite most of these banners giving no result at all, it can still give all the parties a lot of profit.
Are News-posami.cc push notifications dangerous?
Yes, they are. At the surface, they can look harmless – just a colourful pop-up that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the things this window promotes differ sharply from what you used to see in pop-up advertisements. News-posami.cc website is ruled by crooks, who deliberately show hundreds of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any manners of advertising and can make sporadic pop-up ads into a storm of banners. For weak systems, that may be enough to make the system slower. But that is not all problems these push notifications carry.
As with any other thing related to illegal advertising, News-posami.cc pop-ups don’t have legit deals to offer. Even though hackers make the ads similar to ones from Walmart or Amazon, the site these banners 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-posami.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-posami.cc pop-ups?
Fortunately, News-posami.cc push notifications removal is pretty easy. They parasite in the web browser and cannot conceal themselves among system files. Nonetheless, as I stated above, some pop-up ads can introduce malicious programs to your system. It is hard to predict all of the cases, and manual malware removal is a poor idea. For that reason, after disabling the pop-ups the best option is to use anti-malware software. I would especially recommend that in the case when you have never allowed pop-ups, and they still appeared. This situation may be a sign of adware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both system recovery and malware removal purposes, because of its system recovery functionality and multi-component detection system.
First and foremost, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to accomplish 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 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-posami.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-posami.cc Pop-ups?
Name: News-posami.cc
Description: News-posami.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-posami.cc push notifications?” or “why do News-posami.cc pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with News-posami.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.
