News-wuzima.cc pop-ups appear out of the blue, distracting and irritating you. Nonetheless, that is much more than annoying notifications – their origins is clearly malignant, and they can bring other malicious stuff to your device. In this post, I will guide you on how to remove News-wuzima.cc pop-up advertisements and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any time you interact with News-wuzima.cc pop-up advertisements will be ineffective at best. At worst, the websites it can throw you to may introduce malware to your system. These push notifications 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-wuzima.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-ups and News-wuzima.cc pop-ups is the malicious origins of the latter. Common pop-up advertisements are offered for you to enable with a legitimate purpose – notify you about the fresh publications, discounts and so on. It is a useful thing to help your site to retain visitors and help the interested users to have the best deal.
Short summary of the News-wuzima.cc pop-ups:
| Name | News-wuzima.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 | Open, Wow, Fly |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
News-wuzima.cc pop-ups, on the other hand, are related to unlegit sites. You will generally witness the offer to turn them on after a redirection from another site. Redirects are OK unless they throw you to such a dubious place. In this case, turning on pop-ups is served under the guise of the anti-bot check. In other cases, the web pages can refuse to show you the content unless you enable these pop-ups. These demands should be the red flag, as websites commonly feature a different anti-bot mechanism. Spectating such an requirement should be the reason to skip the site right away. In some cases, even when you click “Allow”, you will not get to the site – the sole page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up notifications.
News-wuzima.cc push notification.
How does this work?
Most of web browsers support turning on pop-ups from websites. Sites, on the other hand, may send notifications with the content of their choice. It may be an advertisement of the product or a page published on this particular site, or an ad of their partner page. As a result, you can see the pop-up from site X, but interacting with it will redirect you to site Y – because a link to the latter was added.
Scoundrels bear on this ability in their approach to earn money using illegal advertising. They trick victims into allowing the pop-ups, and after that just spread hundreds of banners of anyone they have a deal with. As you may suppose, no normal organisations will have a deal with fraudsters. All the News-wuzima.cc popups you can see lead to other fraudulent sites. At some point, the same victim can be trapped by several pop-up spamming sites, 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 negligible payment for one view, but when you can send ads to hundreds of users and show them hundreds of ads every day – that is a much more significant sum. Even though the majority of such ads are ineffective, it may still bring all the participants a lot of money.
Are News-wuzima.cc pop-up notifications dangerous?
Yes, they are. Initially, they can look harmless – just a colourful window that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the things this window promotes differ sharply from what you generally see in pop-up advertisements. News-wuzima.cc website is controlled by fraudsters, who deliberately show tons of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any manners of advertising and can launch sporadic push notifications into a storm of promotions. For weak computers, that may be enough to make the system slower. But troubles are not over at this point.
As any other thing that touches illegal advertising, News-wuzima.cc pop-up ads don’t have legit deals to offer. Even though crooks make the banners similar to ones from Amazon, Walmart or Ebay, the web page these banners 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 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-wuzima.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-wuzima.cc pop-ups?
Fortunately, News-wuzima.cc push notifications removal is pretty easy. They parasite in the browser and cannot conceal themselves in the system. However, as I told before, some pop-up notifications can promote malicious programs to your computer. It is hard to predict all of the cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is inconvenient. For that reason, after getting rid of the pop-ups it is recommended to use anti-malware software. This step is especially recommended in the case when you have never allowed pop-up notifications, and they still appeared. This situation can be a sign of adware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both recovery and malware checkup purposes, thanks to its abilities of system recovery and multi-layer detection system.
First and foremost, you should reset your browser settings. You can do that in both manual and automatic manner. The former, obviously, takes 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 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:
# 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-wuzima.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-wuzima.cc Pop-ups?
Name: News-wuzima.cc
Description: News-wuzima.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-wuzima.cc push notifications?” or “why do News-wuzima.cc pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with News-wuzima.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.
