News-wifegu.cc pop-up advertisements appear out of the blue, detracting and annoying you. Nonetheless, they are much more than simple pop-up ads – their origins is purely malicious, and they can bring other malicious stuff to your device. In this post, I will show you how to remove News-wifegu.cc pop-up advertisements and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any interaction with News-wifegu.cc push notifications will be ineffective at best. At worst, the pages it can open may introduce malware to your system. These push notifications may also advertise 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-wifegu.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-wifegu.cc notifications is the malignant origins of the latter. Common pop-up ads are offered for you to enable on different sites with a benevolent purpose – notify you about the latest publications, 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-wifegu.cc pop-up ads:
| Name | News-wifegu.cc |
| Hosting | AS63023 GTHost United Kingdom, London |
| IP Address | 149.7.16.92 |
| Malware type | Adware1 |
| Effect | Unwanted pop-up advertisements |
| Hazard level | Medium |
| Malware source | Apps from third-party websites, ads on dubious websites |
| Similar behavior | Tuskep, Tuskef, Wedger |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
News-wifegu.cc pop-ups, as opposed, are related to untrustworthy websites. You will generally witness the offer to enable them after a redirection from another website. It’s OK to see redirects unless they throw you to such a questionable place. In this case, turning on pop-ups is offered as the anti-bot check-up. Alternatively, the websites may refuse to show you the content unless you apply these pop-up ads. These demands should raise suspicion, as websites usually have a less obscure anti-bot mechanism. Spectating such an requirement is a reason to close the site doubtlessly. In some cases, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not get to the web page – the sole page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the push notifications.
News-wifegu.cc push notification.
How does this work?
Most of browsers support enabling pop-ups from websites. Sites, on the other hand, can send out notifications with the content of their choice. It may be a promotion of the product or a page listed for sale on this particular site, or a promotion of the page of their partner. As a result, you may see the pop-up from site X, but opening it will redirect you to website Y – because a link to that website was embedded.
Cybercriminals bear on this feature in their approach to gain money through advertising. They trick victims into allowing them to show the banners, and then just spread hundreds of banners of other crooks they contract with. As you may suppose, no benevolent organisations will contract with fraudsters. All the News-wifegu.cc popups you may see lead to other untrustworthy sites. At some point, the same user can be trapped by multiple pop-up spamming sites, and its web browser will turn into a complete mess.
The ads these crooks show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It usually provides a miserable pay for one view, but when you can send ads to a huge number of users and show them hundreds of ads each day – that is a way bigger sum. Even though most of these banners are ineffective, it can still bring all the parties a lot of profit.
Are News-wifegu.cc pop-up notifications dangerous?
Yes, they are. Initially, they may look safe – just a colourful window that appears from time to time. However, the contents of this window differ drastically from what you used to see in pop-up advertisements. News-wifegu.cc website is controlled by fraudsters, who deliberately spread hundreds and thousands of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any common sense and can make sporadic push notifications into a storm of ads. For weak computers, that may be enough to make the system slower. But problems are not over at this point.
As with any other thing related to illegal ads, News-wifegu.cc pop-up advertisements do not contain any legit offers. Even when crooks make the ads similar to ones from Walmart or Amazon, the website 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-wifegu.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-wifegu.cc pop-ups?
Fortunately, News-wifegu.cc pop-up advertisements removal is not very complicated. They reside in the browser and cannot hide themselves among system files. Nonetheless, as I stated before, some pop-up notifications can deliver malware to your system. It is hard to describe all cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is a poor idea. Therefore, after removing the source of the push notifications it is recommended to use anti-malware software. That is especially recommended if you have never allowed pop-up ads, and they still appeared. This situation may point at malicious software activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will perfectly fit both system recovery and malware checkup purposes, thanks to its system recovery functionality and multi-layer detection system.
First and foremost, you should reset your browser settings. You can do that in manual or automated way. 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 site 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-wifegu.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-wifegu.cc Pop-ups?
Name: News-wifegu.cc
Description: News-wifegu.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-wifegu.cc push notifications?” or “why do News-wifegu.cc pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with News-wifegu.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.
