News-xezanu.cc push notifications appear out of the blue, disturbing and annoying you. Nonetheless, that is slightly more than simple pop-up ads – their essence is purely malignant, and they may install other malware to your PC. In this post, I will show you the guide how to remove News-xezanu.cc pop-ups and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any interaction with News-xezanu.cc pop-up advertisements will be ineffective at best. In worst case scenario, the sites it can throw you to may introduce malware to your system. These pop-up advertisements may also promote fake shopping websites 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-xezanu.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-xezanu.cc notifications is the malignant origins of the latter. Normal push notifications are offered for you to enable with a legitimate purpose – keep you aware about the new articles, goods for sale and so on. It is a useful tool to help your site to keep visitors and help the interested visitors to have the best deal.
Brief description of the News-xezanu.cc pop-ups:
| Name | News-xezanu.cc |
| Hosting | AS63023 GTHost Germany, Frankfurt am Main |
| 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 | Uidtime, Easylifescan, News |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
News-xezanu.cc pop-up advertisements, in contrast, are related to less legit websites. You will commonly witness the offer to turn them on after a redirection from another page. There’s nothing bad in redirecting unless they throw you into such a questionable place. At that point, turning on pop-up advertisements is served under the guise of the anti-DDoS check-up. In other cases, the websites can deny showing you the content unless you turn on these push notifications. These requirements should raise suspicion, as sites generally have a different anti-bot mechanism. Seeing such an demand is a reason to skip the page right away. In some cases, even when you click “Allow”, you will not get to the site – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up notifications.
News-xezanu.cc push notification.
How does it work?
Most of web browsers support enabling push notifications from websites. Websites, on the other hand, may send notifications with the content they want. It can be an advertisement of the product posted on this particular website, or an ad of their partner page. As a result, you can see the push notification from site X, but interacting with it will throw you to website Y – because a link to that website was embedded.
Cyber burglars rely on this feature in their approach to earn money using illegal advertising. They trick users into allowing the pop-ups, and then just spread numerous ads of anyone they have a deal with. As you can suppose, no legit companies will have a business with fraudsters. All the News-xezanu.cc push ads you can see lead to other untrustworthy sites. In some cases, the same user may be trapped by several pop-up spamming sites, and its web browser will turn into a complete mess.
The banners these criminals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It generally provides a miserable pay for one person, but when you can send ads to a huge number of users and show them hundreds of ads every day – that is a much bigger sum. Despite most of these banners giving no result at all, it may still bring all the participants a lot of profit.
Are News-xezanu.cc push notifications dangerous?
Yes, they are. At the surface, they can look safe – 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 pop-up notifications. News-xezanu.cc web page is ruled by fraudsters, who intendedly show tons of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any common sense and can make sporadic pop-up advertisements into a hurricane of ads. For weak computers, that may be enough to make the system slower. But that is not all troubles these pop-up notifications carry.
As any other thing related to illegal ads, News-xezanu.cc pop-up ads do not contain any legit offers. Even when crooks make the ads looking similar to ones from well-known retailers, the web page these banners 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-ups 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-xezanu.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-xezanu.cc pop-ups?
Fortunately, News-xezanu.cc pop-up notifications removal is pretty easy. They reside in the web browser and cannot hide themselves among system files. Nonetheless, as I stated above, some pop-up advertisements can promote malware to your system. It is hard to predict all cases, and manual malware removal is a bad idea. For that reason, after getting rid of the pop-up advertisements the best option is to use anti-malware software. I’d especially recommend that in the case when you have never allowed pop-up advertisements, but they still appeared. This situation can be a sign of malicious software activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will perfectly fit both recovery and malware checkup purposes, because of its abilities of system recovery and multi-component detection system.
First and foremost, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to accomplish in manual or automated way. 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 may 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-xezanu.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-xezanu.cc Pop-ups?
Name: News-xezanu.cc
Description: News-xezanu.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-xezanu.cc push notifications?” or “why do News-xezanu.cc pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with News-xezanu.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.
