News-vicopu.cc pop-up notifications appear when you do not expect, bothering and annoying you. Still, they are much more than just notifications – their origins is surely malignant, and they can bring other malicious stuff to your system. In this post, I will guide you on how to remove News-vicopu.cc pop-up advertisements and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any time you interact with News-vicopu.cc pop-up notifications will be ineffective at best. In worst case scenario, the web pages it can throw you to can introduce malware to your system. These push notifications can also advertise 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-vicopu.cc pop-ups?
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-vicopu.cc notifications is the malicious origins of the latter. Normal pop-up notifications are offered for you to enable with a straightforward purpose – keep you aware about the fresh articles, discounts and so on. It is an effective approach to help your site to retain visitors and help the interested visitors to have the best price.
Brief summary of the News-vicopu.cc pop-ups:
| Name | News-vicopu.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 | News, Valeuceplangka, Ubeliketheap |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
News-vicopu.cc pop-up ads, on the other hand, have a deal with less legit sites. You will commonly witness the proposition to turn them on following the redirection from another page. There’s nothing bad in redirecting unless it throws you to such a dubious place. In this case, turning on pop-up ads is served under the guise of the anti-bot check. Alternatively, the web pages can refuse to show you the content unless you apply these push notifications. These requirements should already raise suspicion, as websites generally have a less obscure anti-bot mechanism. Witnessing such an demand is a reason to close the page right away. Sometimes, even after clicking “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-vicopu.cc push notification.
How does this work?
The majority of web browsers support enabling push notifications from sites. Websites, on the other hand, may send out notifications with the content of their choice. It can be an advertisement of the product posted on this website, or an ad of their partner page. As a result, you can see the pop-up from site X, but interacting with it will direct you to site Y – because a referral link to that website was built in.
Crooks bear on this ability in their approach to earn money through advertising. They trick victims into turning on pop-ups, and after that just spread numerous promotions of other crooks they have a deal with. As you may suppose, no normal companies will contract with fraudsters. All the News-vicopu.cc push ads you may see lead to other fraudulent sites. At some point, the same user can be trapped by several pop-up spamming web pages, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.
The ads these rascals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It usually provides a miserable payment for one viewer, but when you have hundreds of users and make it hundreds of times each day – that is a much bigger sum. Despite most of such banners giving no result at all, it may still give all the participants a lot of money.
Are News-vicopu.cc pop-up notifications dangerous?
Yes, they are. Initially, they can look safe – just a blinking pop-up that appears from time to time. However, the things this window promotes differ sharply from what you used to see in pop-up notifications. News-vicopu.cc web page is ruled by fraudsters, who intentionally spread hundreds and thousands of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any common sense and can launch sporadic push notifications into a hurricane of ads. 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 that touches illegal ads, News-vicopu.cc pop-up ads do not contain any legit offers. Even though hackers 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 ads 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-vicopu.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-vicopu.cc pop-ups?
Fortunately, News-vicopu.cc pop-up notifications removal is not very complicated. They sit in the browser and can’t hide themselves on a disk. Nevertheless, as I pointed out before, some pop-up ads can introduce malicious programs to your computer. It is hard to describe all of the cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is a bad idea. For that reason, after removing the source of the pop-up ads the best option is to use anti-malware software. That is especially recommended if you have never clicked “Allow” to pop-up notifications, but they still appeared. That can be a sign of malware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both recovery and malware scanning purposes, because of its system recovery functionality and advanced detection system.
First of all, you should reset your browser settings. You can do that 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 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-vicopu.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-vicopu.cc Pop-ups?
Name: News-vicopu.cc
Description: News-vicopu.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-vicopu.cc push notifications?” or “why do News-vicopu.cc pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with News-vicopu.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.
