Remove News-wifegu.cc Pop-up Virus — How to Remove?

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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 site 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.