News-wapuji.cc pop-up notifications appear when you do not expect, bothering and irritating you. However, they are slightly more than simple pop-ups – their origins is purely malicious, and they may bring other malware to your system. In this post, I will show you how to remove News-wapuji.cc pop-up advertisements and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any time you interact with News-wapuji.cc pop-ups will be ineffective at best. At worst, the web pages it can open can introduce malware to your system. These pop-up advertisements may 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-wapuji.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 notifications and News-wapuji.cc pop-ups is the malignant origins of the latter. Normal pop-ups are offered for you to enable on different sites with a understandable purpose – notify you 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 price.
Brief summary of the News-wapuji.cc pop-up ads:
| Name | News-wapuji.cc |
| Hosting | AS63023 GTHost Germany, Frankfurt am Main |
| IP Address | 193.108.117.220 |
| Malware type | Adware1 |
| Effect | Unwanted pop-up advertisements |
| Hazard level | Medium |
| Malware source | Apps from third-party websites, ads on dubious websites |
| Similar behavior | Pakorg, Rihems, Romems |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
News-wapuji.cc pop-up ads, in contrast, have a deal with unlegit websites. You will commonly see the proposition to turn them on following the redirection from another website. There’s nothing bad in redirecting unless it throws you into such a dubious place. At that point, enabling pop-ups is served as the anti-bot check. In other cases, the websites can refuse to show you the contents unless you turn on these pop-up advertisements. These theses should already raise suspicion, as websites commonly have a less obscure anti-bot mechanism. Seeing this offer should be the reason to close the site right away. In some cases, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not see the web page – the sole page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-ups.
News-wapuji.cc push notification.
How does it work?
The majority of web browsers support enabling pop-ups from sites. Sites, on the other hand, can send out notifications with the content they like. It can be an advertisement of the product listed on this website, as well as a promotion of their partner page. As a result, you can see the push notification from site X, but interacting with it will redirect you to site Y – because a link to the latter was built in.
Cybercriminals rely on this feature in their approach to earn money using illegal advertising. They trick victims into allowing the pop-ups, and then just spread numerous banners of anyone they have a deal with. As you can suppose, no image-caring organisations will contract with fraudsters. All the News-wapuji.cc popups you may see lead to other untrustworthy sites. In some cases, the same victim may get into a trap of multiple pop-up spamming websites, and its web browser will turn into a complete mess.
The ads these rascals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It generally provides a miserable payment for one viewer, but when you can send ads to hundreds of users and make it hundreds of times every day – that is a much bigger sum. Despite most of these ads are ineffective, it may still bring all the parties a lot of profit.
Are News-wapuji.cc push notifications dangerous?
Yes, they are. At the surface, they may look harmless – just a colourful pop-up that appears from time to time. However, the things this window promotes differ sharply from what you generally see in pop-up ads. News-wapuji.cc website is controlled by crooks, who deliberately show tons of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any common sense and can launch sporadic push notifications into a storm of ads. For weak systems, that may be enough to make the system slower. But problems are not over at this point.
As with any other thing that touches illegal advertising, News-wapuji.cc pop-ups do not contain any legit offers. Even though hackers make the banners similar to ones from well-known retailers, the site these ads 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 push 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-wapuji.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-wapuji.cc pop-ups?
Fortunately, News-wapuji.cc push notifications removal is not very complicated. They reside in the web browser and can’t conceal themselves in the system. Nevertheless, as I told before, some pop-up ads can introduce malicious software to your system. It is hard to describe all cases, and manual malware removal is a poor idea. Thus, after disabling the pop-up advertisements it is recommended to use anti-malware software. I’d especially recommend that if you have never allowed pop-up advertisements, but they still appeared. This situation may point at malware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both system recovery and malware scanning purposes, because of its abilities of system recovery and superb detection system.
First of all, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to accomplish in both manual and automatic manner. The former, obviously, requires 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 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-wapuji.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-wapuji.cc Pop-ups?
Name: News-wapuji.cc
Description: News-wapuji.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-wapuji.cc push notifications?” or “why do News-wapuji.cc pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with News-wapuji.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.
