News-vodapu.cc pop-ups appear out of the blue, distracting and annoying you. Nonetheless, that is much more than simple pop-up ads – their essence is purely malicious, and they may bring other malicious stuff to your system. In this article, I will show you the guide how to remove News-vodapu.cc pop-up notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any time you interact with News-vodapu.cc pop-ups will be ineffective at best. At worst, the web pages it can show you can introduce malware to your system. These pop-ups can also promote fake 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-vodapu.cc 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 notifications and News-vodapu.cc pop-ups is the malicious origins of the latter. Normal pop-up advertisements are offered for you to enable on different sites with a legitimate purpose – keep you aware about the latest articles, discounts and so on. It is an effective approach to help your site to keep visitor’s attention and help the interested visitors to have the best deal.
Brief description of the News-vodapu.cc pop-ups:
| Name | News-vodapu.cc |
| Hosting | AS63023 GTHost United Kingdom, London |
| IP Address | 149.7.16.236 |
| 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, Getitallsurvey24, Antifreevirus |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
News-vodapu.cc pop-up notifications, in contrast, have a deal with unlegit sites. You will commonly witness the proposition to turn them on after a redirection from another website. It’s OK to see redirects unless it throws you to such a dubious place. In this case, turning on pop-up advertisements is served under the guise of the anti-bot check-up. In other cases, the sites can deny showing you the content unless you turn on these pop-up advertisements. These requirements should already be the red flag, as sites commonly have a different anti-bot mechanism. Seeing this offer should be the reason to skip the site doubtlessly. In some cases, even when you click “Allow”, you will not get to the website – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the push notifications.
News-vodapu.cc push notification.
How does this work?
The vast majority of browsers support turning on push notifications from sites. Websites, on the other hand, may send notifications with the content they want. It can be a promotion of the page published on this particular site, as well as an ad of their partner page. As a result, you can see the push notification from site X, but clicking it will direct you to website Y – because a link to that website was embedded.
Crooks rely on this feature in their attempt to gain money through advertising. They trick victims into allowing them to show the banners, and after that just spread numerous ads of anyone they contract with. As you may suppose, no legit companies will contract with fraudsters. All the News-vodapu.cc popups you may see lead to other untrustworthy sites. In some cases, the same user may get into a trap of multiple pop-up spamming sites, and its web browser will turn into a complete mess.
The banners these crooks show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It generally provides a miserable commission for one person, but when you can send ads to hundreds of victims 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 parties a lot of profit.
Are News-vodapu.cc pop-up advertisements dangerous?
Yes, they are. At the surface, they can look harmless – just a blinking pop-up that appears from time to time. However, the things this window promotes differ sharply from what you generally see in pop-up notifications. News-vodapu.cc website is controlled by crooks, who deliberately throw hundreds and thousands of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also never 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 that is not all problems these push notifications carry.
As with any other thing related to illegal ads, News-vodapu.cc pop-up ads lack legit deals to offer. Even though 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 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-vodapu.cc 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-vodapu.cc pop-ups?
Fortunately, News-vodapu.cc pop-ups removal is pretty easy. They sit in the web browser and cannot hide themselves in the system. However, as I told above, some pop-ups can introduce malicious software to your system. It is nearly impossible to show all of the cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is a bad idea. Therefore, after getting rid of the pop-ups the best option is to use anti-malware software. That is especially recommended if you have never allowed pop-up advertisements, and they still appeared. This situation can point at adware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both system recovery and malware scanning purposes, thanks to its system recovery functionality and multi-component detection system.
First of all, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to do 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 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 website 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-vodapu.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-vodapu.cc Pop-ups?
Name: News-vodapu.cc
Description: News-vodapu.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-vodapu.cc push notifications?” or “why do News-vodapu.cc pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with News-vodapu.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.
