News-wivoli.cc pop-up advertisements appear out of the blue, distracting and irritating you. However, they are much more than just notifications – their origins is clearly malicious, and they can bring other malware to your computer. In this article, I will guide you on how to remove News-wivoli.cc push notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any interaction with News-wivoli.cc push notifications will be ineffective at best. In worst case scenario, the sites it can open can introduce malware to your system. These pop-ups can 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-wivoli.cc pop-ups?
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 push notifications and News-wivoli.cc pop-ups is the malignant origins of the latter. Common push notifications are offered for you to enable with a benevolent purpose – keep you aware about the latest posts, discounts and so on. It is an effective approach to help your site to retain visitors and help the interested visitors to have the best deal.
Brief description of the News-wivoli.cc pop-up ads:
| Name | News-wivoli.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 | Humordog, Kagos, Igailsoxsurvey |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
News-wivoli.cc push notifications, in contrast, are related to untrustworthy websites. You will generally witness the proposition to enable them following the redirection from another page. There’s nothing bad in redirecting unless they throw you into such a dubious place. In this case, turning on pop-up advertisements is served as the anti-bot check-up. In other cases, the sites can deny showing you the content unless you apply these push notifications. These demands should raise suspicion, as websites commonly have a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Spectating such an demand is a reason to close the page right away. In some cases, even when you click “Allow”, you will not get to the web page – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up ads.
News-wivoli.cc push notification.
How does this work?
The vast majority of web browsers support turning on push notifications from websites. Sites, on the other hand, can send notifications with the content of their choice. It can be a promotion of the page listed on this particular site, or an ad of the page of their partner. As a result, you can see the pop-up from site X, but clicking it will redirect you to website Y – because a link to the latter was built in.
Crooks bear on this feature in their attempt to earn money using illegal advertising. They trick users into allowing the pop-ups, and then just spread hundreds of promotions of anyone they contract with. As you may suppose, no legit organisations will contract with fraudsters. All the News-wivoli.cc popups you may see lead to other untrustworthy sites. At some point, the same victim may be trapped by several pop-up spamming web pages, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.
The banners these crooks show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It generally provides a miserable payment 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. Despite the majority of such banners are ineffective, it may still bring all the parties a lot of profit.
Are News-wivoli.cc pop-up notifications dangerous?
Yes, they are. Initially, they can look non-threatening – just a blinking pop-up that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the things this window promotes differ drastically from what you generally see in pop-ups. News-wivoli.cc web page is controlled by fraudsters, who intentionally throw tons of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any manners of advertising and can make sporadic pop-up ads into a hurricane of promotions. For weak computers, that may be enough to make the system slower. But that is not all troubles these pop-ups carry.
As any other thing that touches illegal advertising, News-wivoli.cc pop-up advertisements don’t have legit offers. Even though crooks make the ads looking similar to ones from well-known retailers, the web page 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-wivoli.cc pop-up notifications are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.
How to remove News-wivoli.cc pop-ups?
Fortunately, News-wivoli.cc pop-ups removal is not very complicated. They reside in the browser and cannot hide themselves on a disk. However, as I told before, some pop-up advertisements can promote malicious software to your system. It is hard to show all cases, and manual malware removal is inconvenient. For that reason, after getting rid of the pop-up advertisements the best option is to use anti-malware software. This step is especially recommended if you have never allowed pop-up ads, but they still appeared. That can point at malicious software activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both system recovery and malware scanning and removal purposes, because of its abilities of system recovery and advanced detection system.
First of all, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to accomplish in manual or automated way. The former, obviously, requires more time to complete and can 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-wivoli.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-wivoli.cc Pop-ups?
Name: News-wivoli.cc
Description: News-wivoli.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-wivoli.cc push notifications?” or “why do News-wivoli.cc pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with News-wivoli.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.
