News-ziyike.cc pop-up notifications appear out of the blue, detracting and irritating you. Still, that is way more than annoying notifications – their nature is purely malignant, and they can introduce other malicious stuff to your PC. In this post, I will show you how to remove News-ziyike.cc push notifications and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any interaction with News-ziyike.cc pop-up advertisements will be useless at best. At worst, the websites it can open can introduce malware to your system. These pop-up notifications can also advertise fake online 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-ziyike.cc push 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-ziyike.cc notifications is the malicious origins of the latter. Normal pop-ups are offered for you to enable on different sites with a benevolent purpose – keep you aware about the fresh publications, discounts and so on. It is a useful thing to help your website to retain visitors and help the interested users to have the best deal.
Short summary of the News-ziyike.cc pop-ups:
| Name | News-ziyike.cc |
| Hosting | AS63023 GTHost Germany, Frankfurt am Main |
| IP Address | 193.108.118.59 |
| Malware type | Adware1 |
| Effect | Unwanted pop-up advertisements |
| Hazard level | Medium |
| Malware source | Apps from third-party websites, ads on dubious websites |
| Similar behavior | Choalauysurvey, Browser, Fastvideobase |
| Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
News-ziyike.cc pop-up advertisements, in contrast, are related to unlegit sites. You will generally see the proposition to turn them on following the redirection from another site. There’s nothing bad in redirecting unless it throws you into such a dubious place. In this case, enabling pop-ups is served under the guise of the anti-DDoS check-up. In other cases, the web pages can deny showing you the contents unless you turn on these pop-up notifications. These requirements should be the red flag, as sites commonly have a different anti-bot mechanism. Seeing such an offer is a reason to close the website right away. In some cases, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not get to the website – the only page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-ups.
News-ziyike.cc push notification.
How does it work?
The vast majority of web browsers support enabling pop-ups from sites. Websites, on the other hand, can send out notifications with the content they want. It may be a promotion of the page posted on this website, or an ad of the page of their partner. As a result, you may see the push notification from site X, but clicking it will redirect you to website Y – because a link to the latter was added.
Cyber burglars rely on this feature in their approach to gain money using illegal advertising. They trick victims into turning on pop-ups, and after that just spread hundreds of promotions of anyone they have a deal with. As you may suppose, no benevolent organisations will have a business with fraudsters. All the News-ziyike.cc popups you may see lead to other fraudulent sites. At some point, the same user can get into a trap of several pop-up spamming web pages, and its web browser will turn into a complete mess.
The ads these crooks show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It usually 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 much more significant sum. Even though the majority of such ads giving no result at all, it can still give all the participants a lot of profit.
Are News-ziyike.cc pop-ups dangerous?
Yes, they are. At the surface, they may look safe – just a colourful pop-up that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the contents of this window differ drastically from what you generally see in pop-ups. News-ziyike.cc website is ruled by fraudsters, who intentionally show tons of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any manners of advertising and can make sporadic push notifications into a hurricane of promotions. For weak computers, that may be enough to make the system slower. But problems are not over at this point.
As with any other thing related to illegal advertising, News-ziyike.cc pop-ups lack legit offers. Even when hackers make the banners looking similar to ones from Amazon, Walmart or Ebay, the website 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 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-ziyike.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-ziyike.cc pop-ups?
Fortunately, News-ziyike.cc pop-up advertisements removal is pretty easy. They parasite in the web browser and can’t hide themselves in the system. However, as I stated above, some pop-up advertisements can introduce malicious programs to your system. It is hard to show all cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is a bad idea. For that reason, after removing the source of the push notifications the best option is to use anti-malware software. I’d especially recommend that in the case when you have never clicked “Allow” to pop-up ads, but they still appeared. This situation may point at malicious software activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will perfectly fit both recovery and malware 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 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 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-ziyike.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-ziyike.cc Pop-ups?
Name: News-ziyike.cc
Description: News-ziyike.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-ziyike.cc push notifications?” or “why do News-ziyike.cc pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with News-ziyike.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.
