News-wezepo.cc pop-up advertisements appear when you do not expect, bothering and annoying you. Nonetheless, they are slightly more than annoying notifications – their essence is clearly malicious, and they can bring other malicious stuff to your computer. In this post, I will guide you on how to remove News-wezepo.cc pop-ups and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any time you interact with News-wezepo.cc push notifications will be ineffective at best. At worst, the sites it can show you may introduce malware to your system. These pop-up advertisements 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-wezepo.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 advertisements and News-wezepo.cc notifications is the malicious origins of the latter. Normal pop-up notifications are offered for you to enable on different sites with a legitimate purpose – keep you aware about the fresh posts, discounts and so on. It is a useful thing to help your site to retain visitors and help the interested ones to have the best price.
Brief summary of the News-wezepo.cc pop-up ads:
| Name | News-wezepo.cc |
| Hosting | AS63023 GTHost Germany, Frankfurt am Main |
| 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 | Notrobot, Findlovedating, Ringawedoes |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
News-wezepo.cc pop-ups, in contrast, are related to less legit sites. You will commonly see the proposition to enable them following the redirection from another website. It’s OK to see redirects unless they throw you into such a questionable place. In this case, turning on pop-up advertisements is served under the guise of the anti-bot check. Alternatively, the sites can deny showing you the content unless you turn on these pop-up notifications. These requirements should already raise suspicion, as sites commonly have a different anti-bot mechanism. Witnessing this requirement should be the reason to leave the page right away. Sometimes, 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 push notifications.
News-wezepo.cc push notification.
How does it work?
Most of browsers support turning on pop-ups from websites. Sites, on the other hand, may send notifications with the content they want. It can be a promotion of the product listed on this website, or a promotion of their partner page. As a result, you can see the push notification from site X, but clicking it will direct you to site Y – because a link to the latter was embedded.
Scoundrels rely on this feature in their approach to gain money using illegal advertising. They trick victims into allowing them to show the banners, and after that just spread hundreds of promotions of other crooks they have a deal with. As you may suppose, no benevolent organisations will have a deal with fraudsters. All the News-wezepo.cc popups you may see lead to other fraudulent sites. In some cases, the same user may get into a trap of multiple pop-up spamming websites, and its 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 commission for one person, but when you can send ads to 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 bring all the parties a lot of money.
Are News-wezepo.cc pop-up ads dangerous?
Yes, they are. Initially, they may look harmless – just a colourful window that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the things this window promotes differ drastically from what you generally see in pop-up notifications. News-wezepo.cc web page is controlled by fraudsters, who intendedly show hundreds and thousands of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any common sense and can make sporadic pop-up advertisements into a hurricane of promotions. For weak computers, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But that is not all troubles these pop-up ads carry.
As with any other thing related to illegal advertising, News-wezepo.cc pop-up advertisements lack legit deals to offer. Even though crooks make the banners similar to ones from well-known retailers, the site 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 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-wezepo.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-wezepo.cc pop-ups?
Fortunately, News-wezepo.cc push notifications removal is not very complicated. They sit in the browser and cannot conceal themselves on a disk. Nonetheless, as I pointed out above, some pop-ups may introduce malicious software to your system. It is hard to describe all of the cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is inconvenient. Therefore, after removing the source of the pop-up ads it is recommended to use anti-malware software. This step is especially recommended if you have never clicked “Allow” to push notifications, but they still appeared. That may be a sign of malware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will perfectly fit both system recovery and malware scanning purposes, because of its abilities of system recovery and multi-layer detection system.
First of all, you should reset your browser settings. You can do that 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 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-wezepo.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-wezepo.cc Pop-ups?
Name: News-wezepo.cc
Description: News-wezepo.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-wezepo.cc push notifications?” or “why do News-wezepo.cc pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with News-wezepo.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.
