How to remove News-wapuji.cc pop-ups? — Fix Guide

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?

Brief summary of the News-wapuji.cc pop-up ads:

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.

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.

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.

How to remove News-wapuji.cc pop-ups?

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 manually

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 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:

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

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).

1. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.