News-rodupe push notifications appear out of the blue, bothering and irritating you. However, that is way more than simple pop-ups – their nature is purely malicious, and they may bring other malware to your device. In this article, I will show you how to remove News-rodupe pop-up advertisements and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any time you interact with News-rodupe pop-up advertisements will be useless at best. At worst, the pages it can show you may introduce malware to your system. These push notifications may also promote fake shopping websites 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-rodupe 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-rodupe notifications is the malignant origins of the latter. Common pop-up notifications are offered for you to enable with a legitimate purpose – notify you about the fresh articles, discounts and so on. It is a useful tool to help your website to keep visitor’s attention and help the interested users to have the best deal.
Brief description of the News-rodupe.com pop-ups:
| Name | News-rodupe.com |
| Hosting | AS63023 GTHost Germany, Frankfurt am Main |
| IP Address | 193.108.118.54 |
| Malware type | Adware1 |
| Effect | Unwanted pop-up advertisements |
| Hazard level | Medium |
| Malware source | Apps from third-party websites, ads on dubious websites |
| Similar behavior | Selfarouck, Wuhol, Oretracker |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
News-rodupe pop-up ads, on the other hand, have a deal with untrustworthy web pages. You will commonly see 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 pop-up notifications is offered under the guise of the anti-DDoS check-up. In other cases, the web pages may deny showing you the contents unless you turn on these pop-up ads. These requirements should be the red flag, as websites generally have a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Seeing this demand should be the reason to leave the site doubtlessly. Sometimes, even when you click “Allow”, you will not get to the web page – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up notifications.
News-rodupe push notification.
How does this work?
Most of web browsers support enabling push notifications from sites. Websites, on the other hand, may send notifications with the content of their choice. It can be an advertisement of the product published on this website, as well as a promotion of their partner page. As a result, you can see the pop-up from site X, but clicking it will throw you to site Y – because a referral link to that website was built in.
Scoundrels rely on this ability in their approach to earn money using illegal advertising. They trick victims into allowing the pop-ups, and then just spread hundreds of promotions of other crooks they contract with. As you can suppose, no image-caring companies will contract with fraudsters. All the News-rodupe notifications you can see lead to other fraudulent sites. In some cases, the same victim may be trapped by multiple pop-up spamming sites, and its web browser will turn into a complete mess.
The promotions these crooks show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It generally provides a negligible pay for one view, but when you can send ads to hundreds of victims and make it hundreds of times each day – that is a much more significant sum. Even though the majority of these banners are ineffective, it can still give all the parties a lot of money.
Are News-rodupe pop-up ads dangerous?
Yes, they are. At the surface, they may look safe – just a blinking window that appears from time to time. However, the things this window promotes differ drastically from what you generally see in pop-ups. News-rodupe.com site is ruled by fraudsters, who intendedly throw tons of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any common sense and can make sporadic pop-ups into a storm of ads. For weak computers, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But that is not all troubles these pop-up ads carry.
As any other thing related to illegal ads, News-rodupe pop-up ads don’t have legit deals to offer. Even when crooks make the banners looking similar to ones from Amazon, Walmart or Ebay, the web page 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 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-rodupe 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-rodupe pop-ups?
Fortunately, News-rodupe pop-up ads removal is not very complicated. They reside in the web browser and cannot conceal themselves on a disk. Nevertheless, as I pointed out above, some pop-up ads may deliver malicious software to your system. It is nearly impossible to predict all of the cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is a bad idea. Thus, after removing the source of the pop-up advertisements the best option is to use anti-malware software. This step is especially recommended in the case when you have never allowed pop-up ads, and they still appeared. That may be a sign of malicious software activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both system recovery and malware scanning purposes, thanks to its abilities of system recovery and superb detection system.
First and foremost, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to accomplish in manual or automated way. The former, obviously, takes 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 web page 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-rodupe 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-rodupe Pop-ups?
Name: News-rodupe
Description: News-rodupe - 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-rodupe.com push notifications?” or “why do News-rodupe.com pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with News-rodupe 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.
