News-xepixa.cc pop-up notifications appear out of the blue, detracting and irritating you. However, that is much more than just notifications – their nature is cleanly malignant, and they can introduce other malicious stuff to your PC. In this article, I will show you how to remove News-xepixa.cc pop-up notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any interaction with News-xepixa.cc pop-up advertisements will be ineffective at best. In worst case scenario, the sites it can throw you to can introduce malware to your system. These pop-up advertisements can 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-xepixa.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 ads and News-xepixa.cc notifications is the malignant origins of the latter. Normal pop-up ads are offered for you to enable on different sites with a legitimate purpose – keep you aware about the fresh posts, goods for sale and so on. It is an effective approach to help your site to keep visitors and help the interested ones to have the best price.
Brief description of the News-xepixa.cc pop-up ads:
| Name | News-xepixa.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 | Axegrinder, Kafis, Ooumoughtcall |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
News-xepixa.cc pop-up advertisements, in contrast, are related to untrustworthy sites. You will generally witness the offer to enable them after a redirection from another page. There’s nothing bad in redirecting unless they throw you into such a questionable place. In this case, turning on pop-up advertisements is offered as the anti-bot filtering. Alternatively, the web pages can refuse to show you the content unless you turn on these pop-ups. These theses should already be the red flag, as websites generally have a more convenient anti-bot mechanism. Witnessing this requirement should be the reason to leave the site doubtlessly. In some cases, even when you click “Allow”, you will not see the website – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-ups.
News-xepixa.cc push notification.
How does this work?
The vast majority of web browsers support enabling pop-ups from sites. Websites, on the other hand, can send notifications with the content they want. It can be a promotion of the product published on this particular site, as well as an ad of the page of their partner. As a result, you can see the pop-up from site X, but interacting with it will direct you to site Y – because a link to the latter was built in.
Cyber burglars bear on this ability in their approach to gain money using illegal advertising. They trick users into allowing the pop-ups, and after that just spread numerous promotions of anyone they contract with. As you can suppose, no legit organisations will have a business with fraudsters. All the News-xepixa.cc push ads you may see lead to other untrustworthy sites. At some point, the same victim may get into a trap of multiple pop-up spamming sites, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.
The banners these rascals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It generally provides a negligible payment for one view, but when you have hundreds of victims and make it hundreds of times every day – that is a much bigger sum. Despite the majority of such ads are ineffective, it can still give all the parties a lot of money.
Are News-xepixa.cc pop-up ads dangerous?
Yes, they are. Initially, they may look harmless – just a colourful pop-up that appears from time to time. However, the things this window promotes differ drastically from what you used to see in push notifications. News-xepixa.cc website is controlled by crooks, who deliberately throw tons of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any common sense and can launch sporadic pop-up advertisements into a hurricane of banners. For weak systems, that may be enough to make the system slower. But problems are not over at this point.
As with any other thing that touches illegal advertising, News-xepixa.cc pop-up notifications lack legit deals to offer. Even when crooks make the banners looking similar to ones from well-known retailers, 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 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-xepixa.cc pop-up advertisements are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.
How to remove News-xepixa.cc pop-ups?
Fortunately, News-xepixa.cc pop-ups removal is not very complicated. They reside in the web browser and can’t conceal themselves on a disk. Nonetheless, as I pointed out before, some pop-up ads may deliver malicious software to your computer. It is nearly impossible to show all 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. I would especially recommend that if you have never allowed push notifications, but they still appeared. That may point at adware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will perfectly fit both system recovery and malware scanning and removal purposes, because of its system recovery functionality and multi-layer detection system.
Initially, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to do in both manual and automatic manner. 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 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-xepixa.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-xepixa.cc Pop-ups?
Name: News-xepixa.cc
Description: News-xepixa.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-xepixa.cc push notifications?” or “why do News-xepixa.cc pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with News-xepixa.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.
