Nkingwitheaa push notifications appear out of the blue, disturbing and annoying you. Nonetheless, they are way more than annoying notifications – their nature is purely malignant, and they may bring other malware to your computer. In this post, I will show you the guide how to remove Nkingwitheaa pop-up advertisements and explain how to avoid them in the future.
Any interaction with Nkingwitheaa pop-up notifications will be ineffective at best. In worst case scenario, the websites it can open may introduce malware to your system. These pop-up notifications 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 Nkingwitheaa 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 Nkingwitheaa pop-ups is the malignant origins of the latter. Common pop-ups are offered for you to enable with a understandable purpose – keep you aware about the latest articles, goods for sale and so on. It is an effective approach to help your website to keep visitor’s attention and help the interested users to have the best price.
Short summary of the Nkingwitheaam.com pop-up ads:
Name | Nkingwitheaam.com |
Hosting | AS14618 Amazon.com, Inc. United States, Ashburn |
IP Address | 54.162.51.18 |
Malware type | Adware1 |
Effect | Unwanted pop-up advertisements |
Hazard level | Medium |
Malware source | Apps from third-party websites, ads on dubious websites |
Similar behavior | Majorinryesopert, Bukers, Dojars |
Removal method | To remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC |
Nkingwitheaa pop-ups, in contrast, have a deal with untrustworthy websites. You will generally see the offer to turn them on after a redirection from another site. Redirects are OK unless they throw you to such a dubious place. At that point, turning on pop-ups is offered as the anti-DDoS check-up. Alternatively, the web pages may refuse to show you the contents unless you apply these pop-up ads. These demands should be the red flag, as sites usually have a less obscure anti-bot mechanism. Spectating such an demand should be the reason to close the page right away. In some cases, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not see the site – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the pop-up ads.
How does this work?
Most of browsers support enabling push notifications from websites. Websites, on the other hand, can send out notifications with the content they like. It can be an advertisement of the page listed on this website, or an ad of the page of their partner. As a result, you can see the push notification from site X, but interacting with it will direct you to website Y – because a link to the latter was added.
Cybercriminals bear on this ability in their approach to earn money using illegal advertising. They trick victims into allowing them to show the banners, and after that just spread hundreds of banners of anyone they contract with. As you may suppose, no normal companies will contract with fraudsters. All the Nkingwitheaa push ads you can see lead to other fraudulent sites. In some cases, the same victim may be trapped by multiple pop-up spamming websites, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.
The banners these rascals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It usually provides a negligible pay for one view, but when you can send ads to hundreds of users and make it hundreds of times each day – that is a much bigger sum. Even though the majority of these banners are ineffective, it may still bring all the parties a lot of profit.
Are Nkingwitheaa pop-ups dangerous?
Yes, they are. Initially, they can look harmless – just a colourful pop-up that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the contents of this window differ sharply from what you used to see in pop-up notifications. Nkingwitheaam.com website is ruled by crooks, who intentionally show tons of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any manners of advertising and can launch sporadic pop-up advertisements into a hurricane of ads. For weak computers, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But that is not all troubles these pop-up ads carry.
As any other thing that touches illegal ads, Nkingwitheaa push notifications lack legit deals to offer. Even though crooks make the banners looking similar to ones from well-known retailers, the site 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 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, Nkingwitheaa 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 Nkingwitheaa pop-ups?
Fortunately, Nkingwitheaa pop-ups removal is not very complicated. They reside in the browser and can’t conceal themselves in the system. Nonetheless, as I stated before, some pop-ups may introduce malicious software to your computer. It is nearly impossible to predict all of the cases, and manual malware removal is inconvenient. Therefore, after getting rid of the pop-up notifications the best option is to use anti-malware software. That is especially recommended in the case when you have never allowed pop-ups, and they still appeared. This situation may be a sign of malware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will perfectly fit both recovery and malware scanning purposes, because of its abilities of system recovery and multi-component detection system.
Initially, you should reset your browser settings. It is possible to accomplish 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 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 Nkingwitheaa 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 Nkingwitheaa Pop-ups?
Name: Nkingwitheaa
Description: Nkingwitheaa - 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 Nkingwitheaam.com push notifications?” or “why do Nkingwitheaam.com pop-ups keep appearing on Chrome even after AdBlock installation?”. In this article we will show you how to deal with Nkingwitheaa 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.