News-siwufe push notifications appear out of the blue, disturbing and annoying you. Nonetheless, that is slightly more than just notifications – their nature is surely malicious, and they may bring other malware to your device. In this article, I will guide you on how to remove News-siwufe pop-up notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any time you interact with News-siwufe pop-up notifications will be ineffective at best. In worst case scenario, the sites it can show you may 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-siwufe 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 advertisements and News-siwufe pop-ups is the malicious origins of the latter. Common pop-up advertisements are offered for you to enable with a benevolent purpose – keep you aware about the latest publications, goods for sale and so on. It is an effective approach to help your site to keep visitor’s attention and help the interested ones to have the best deal.
Brief description of the News-siwufe.com pop-ups:
| Name | News-siwufe.com |
| 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 | Updaterenewals, Onlinesly, Datingkoen |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
News-siwufe pop-up notifications, as opposed, are related to untrustworthy web pages. You will generally observe the proposition to turn them on after a redirection from another website. It’s OK to see redirects unless it throws you into such a questionable place. In this case, turning on pop-up notifications is offered under the guise of the anti-DDoS check. In other cases, the sites can refuse to show you the content unless you apply these pop-up advertisements. These requirements should be the red flag, as sites usually feature a different anti-bot mechanism. Spectating such an offer should be the reason to leave the site right away. Sometimes, even when you click “Allow”, you will not get to the site – the sole page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up ads.
News-siwufe push notification.
How does it work?
Most of browsers support turning on push notifications from sites. Websites, on the other hand, can send out notifications with the content of their choice. It can be an advertisement of the product or a page listed for sale on this website, or an ad of the page of their partner. As a result, you can see the push notification from site X, but opening it will redirect you to site Y – because a link to the latter was added.
Cybercriminals rely on this feature in their approach to earn money through advertising. They trick victims into allowing them to show the banners, and after that just spread hundreds of promotions of other crooks they have a deal with. As you can suppose, no legit organisations will contract with fraudsters. All the News-siwufe popups you may see lead to other fraudulent sites. At some point, the same user can get into a trap of multiple pop-up spamming websites, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.
The banners these criminals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It usually provides a negligible payment for one view, but when you have a huge number of users and show them hundreds of ads each day – that is a much more significant sum. Despite most of such banners giving no result at all, it may still give all the parties a lot of money.
Are News-siwufe pop-up ads dangerous?
Yes, they are. Initially, they may look non-threatening – just a blinking pop-up that appears from time to time. However, the contents of this window differ sharply from what you generally see in pop-ups. News-siwufe.com website is controlled by fraudsters, who intendedly throw hundreds of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any manners of advertising and can launch sporadic pop-up notifications into a storm of banners. 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-siwufe pop-ups do not contain any legit offers. Even when crooks make the ads looking similar to ones from Amazon, Walmart or Ebay, 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 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-siwufe 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-siwufe pop-ups?
Fortunately, News-siwufe pop-up advertisements removal is not very complicated. They parasite in the browser and can’t conceal themselves in the system. Nonetheless, as I stated above, some push notifications can deliver malicious programs to your system. It is nearly impossible to describe all cases, and manual malware removal is a bad idea. Thus, after removing the source of the pop-up ads the best option is to use anti-malware software. This step is especially recommended if you have never allowed push notifications, but they still appeared. That can be a sign of malicious software activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will perfectly fit both recovery and malware scanning purposes, thanks to its abilities of system recovery and advanced detection system.
First and foremost, you should reset your browser settings. You can do that in manual or automated way. The former, obviously, requires 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 may 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-siwufe 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-siwufe Pop-ups?
Name: News-siwufe
Description: News-siwufe - 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-siwufe.com push notifications?” or “why do News-siwufe.com pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with News-siwufe 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.
