News-topena.cc pop-up notifications appear out of the blue, bothering and irritating you. However, that is much more than annoying notifications – their nature is cleanly malignant, and they may install other malicious stuff to your device. In this post, I will guide you on how to remove News-topena.cc pop-ups and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any interaction with News-topena.cc push notifications will be useless at best. In worst case scenario, the sites it can open may introduce malware to your system. These push notifications 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.
What are News-topena.cc 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-topena.cc notifications is the malignant origins of the latter. Normal push notifications are offered for you to enable on different sites with a understandable purpose – keep you aware about the new posts, discounts and so on. It is a useful tool to help your website to keep visitor’s attention and help the interested visitors to have the best deal.
Short summary of the News-topena.cc pop-up ads:
| Name | News-topena.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 | Online, Securecaptcha, Checkrobotpage |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
News-topena.cc pop-ups, in contrast, are related to untrustworthy websites. You will generally see the proposition to turn them on following the redirection from another site. Redirects are OK unless they throw you into such a questionable place. In this case, enabling push notifications is served as the anti-bot filtering. Alternatively, the sites may refuse to show you the content unless you enable these pop-up ads. These demands should raise suspicion, as sites generally feature a less obscure anti-bot mechanism. Spectating such an demand should be the reason to leave the page right away. Sometimes, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not get to the web page – the only page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up notifications.
News-topena.cc push notification.
How does this work?
Most of web browsers support turning on push notifications from sites. Sites, on the other hand, can send notifications with the content they like. It can be an advertisement of the page listed on this particular 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 website Y – because a referral link to that website was embedded.
Cybercriminals rely on this feature in their attempt to earn money through advertising. They trick users into allowing the pop-ups, and then just spread numerous banners of other crooks they have a deal with. As you can suppose, no image-caring organisations will have a business with fraudsters. All the News-topena.cc popups you may see lead to other fraudulent sites. At some point, the same victim may get into a trap of several pop-up spamming websites, and its web 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 commission 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 most of these ads giving no result at all, it may still bring all the parties a lot of profit.
Are News-topena.cc pop-up advertisements dangerous?
Yes, they are. At the surface, they can look non-threatening – just a blinking 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 push notifications. News-topena.cc website is ruled by fraudsters, who deliberately spread tons of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any manners of advertising and can launch sporadic pop-up notifications into a hurricane of ads. For weak systems, that may be enough to make the system slower. But problems are not over at this point.
As any other thing related to illegal advertising, News-topena.cc pop-ups lack legit offers. Even though hackers make the banners similar to ones from Walmart or Amazon, the website 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 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-topena.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-topena.cc pop-ups?
Fortunately, News-topena.cc pop-up advertisements removal is pretty easy. They parasite in the web browser and cannot conceal themselves in the system. Nonetheless, as I pointed out above, some pop-up ads can introduce malware to your system. It is nearly impossible to describe all of the cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is a poor idea. Therefore, after removing the source of the pop-up ads the best option is to use anti-malware software. This step is especially recommended in the case when you have never allowed pop-ups, but they still appeared. This situation can point at malware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will perfectly fit both recovery and malware checkup purposes, thanks to its system recovery functionality and multi-layer 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 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 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-topena.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-topena.cc Pop-ups?
Name: News-topena.cc
Description: News-topena.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-topena.cc push notifications?” or “why do News-topena.cc pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with News-topena.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.
