News-sixuz Pop-up Virus — How to Remove Unwanted Ads?

News-sixuz pop-up notifications appear when you do not expect, disturbing and annoying you. Nonetheless, they are way more than annoying pop-ups – their essence is surely malicious, and they can introduce other malware to your computer. In this article, I will show you how to remove News-sixuz pop-up notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any time you interact with News-sixuz pop-up notifications will be useless at best. At worst, the pages it can show you may introduce malware to your system. These pop-ups can 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.

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What are News-sixuz 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-ups and News-sixuz notifications is the malignant origins of the latter. Common pop-ups are offered for you to enable with a understandable purpose – notify you about the new articles, 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 price.

Short summary of the News-sixuzo.com pop-ups:

News-sixuz pop-up advertisements, on the other hand, are related to less legit websites. You will generally observe the offer to turn them on following the redirection from another site. There’s nothing bad in redirecting unless they throw you to such a questionable place. At that point, enabling pop-up notifications is offered under the guise of the anti-bot filtering. In other cases, the websites can deny showing you the contents unless you enable these pop-up advertisements. These demands should already raise suspicion, as sites usually feature a less obscure anti-bot mechanism. Witnessing this demand should be the reason to skip the website doubtlessly. Sometimes, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not get to the site – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the push notifications.

News-sixuz push notification.

How does this work?

The vast majority of browsers support enabling push notifications from websites. Sites, on the other hand, may send out notifications with the content of their choice. It can be an advertisement of the product or a page posted on this particular site, or an ad of the page of their partner. As a result, you can see the push notification from site X, but interacting with it will direct you to site Y – because a referral link to the latter was added.

Cybercriminals bear on this ability in their attempt to earn money using illegal advertising. They trick users into turning on pop-ups, and then just spread numerous ads of other crooks they have a deal with. As you may suppose, no legit companies will have a deal with fraudsters. All the News-sixuz push ads you can see lead to other fraudulent sites. At some point, the same victim can be trapped by several pop-up spamming web pages, and its web browser will turn into a complete mess.

The banners these criminals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It generally provides a negligible pay for one person, but when you can send ads to a huge number of users and show them hundreds of ads each day – that is a much more significant sum. Even though the majority of these banners giving no result at all, it may still give all the participants a lot of money.

Are News-sixuz push notifications dangerous?

Yes, they are. Initially, they can look non-threatening – just a blinking window that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the things this window promotes differ sharply from what you generally see in pop-up notifications. News-sixuzo.com web page is ruled by crooks, who deliberately throw tons of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any manners of advertising and can launch sporadic pop-ups into a storm of promotions. For weak computers, that may be enough to make the system slower. But that is not all troubles these pop-up ads carry.

As with any other thing related to illegal ads, News-sixuz pop-up notifications lack legit deals to offer. Even when hackers make the ads looking similar to ones from well-known retailers, the website 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 pop-ups 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-sixuz pop-up advertisements are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove News-sixuz pop-ups?

Fortunately, News-sixuz push notifications removal is pretty easy. They reside in the web browser and cannot conceal themselves among system files. Nonetheless, as I pointed out above, some pop-up ads can promote malicious software to your system. It is hard to show all of the cases, and manual malware removal 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 if you have never clicked “Allow” to pop-ups, but they still appeared. That can be a sign of adware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will perfectly fit both recovery and malware removal purposes, because of its abilities of system recovery and advanced 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:

1. Open “Settings and more” tab in upper right corner, then find here “Settings” button. In the appeared menu, choose “Reset settings” option:

2. 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:

1. Open Menu tab (three strips in upper right corner) and click the “Help” button. In the appeared menu choose “troubleshooting information”:

2. In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option:

After choosing this option, you will see the next message:

If you use Google Chrome

1. Open Settings tab, find the “Advanced” button. In the extended tab choose the “Reset and clean up” button:

2. In the appeared list, click on the “Restore settings to their original defaults”:

3. 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

1. 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:


2. 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:

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-sixuz 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-sixuz Pop-ups?

Name: News-sixuz

Description: News-sixuz - 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-sixuzo.com push notifications?” or “why do News-sixuzo.com pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with News-sixuz 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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1. More about this malware type on GridinSoft Encyclopedia.
2. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.