Rocking Hollywood News Pop-up Ads Removal — How to Fix Your Browser?

Rocking Hollywood News pop-ups appear out of the blue, detracting and irritating you. Nonetheless, that is way more than annoying notifications – their nature is clearly malignant, and they may introduce other malware to your system. In this post, I will show you how to remove Rocking Hollywood News pop-ups and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any time you interact with Rocking Hollywood News push notifications will be useless at best. At worst, the web pages it can show you may introduce malware to your system. These pop-ups can 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.

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What are Rocking Hollywood News pop-up advertisements?

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 push notifications and Rocking Hollywood News pop-ups is the malignant origins of the latter. Normal pop-up notifications are offered for you to enable on different sites with a straightforward purpose – notify you about the latest posts, discounts and so on. It is a useful thing to help your site to retain visitors and help the interested ones to have the best price.

Brief description of the Rocking-hollywood-news.com pop-up ads:

Rocking Hollywood News pop-up notifications, as opposed, have a deal with less legit sites. You will generally witness the offer to enable them after a redirection from another page. It’s OK to see redirects unless it throws you to such a questionable place. At that point, enabling pop-up advertisements is served under the guise of the anti-DDoS check. In other cases, the web pages may deny showing you the content unless you apply these pop-up ads. These demands should already raise suspicion, as sites generally have a less obscure anti-bot mechanism. Seeing such an demand is a reason to close the website doubtlessly. In some cases, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not see the website – the only page it has is a landing page with the offer to turn on the push notifications.

Rocking Hollywood News push notification.

How does this work?

The vast majority of browsers support turning on pop-ups from sites. Sites, on the other hand, can send out notifications with the content of their choice. It may be a promotion of the page listed for sale on this particular site, as well as a promotion of their partner page. As a result, you can see the push notification from site X, but opening it will redirect you to site Y – because a link to the latter was embedded.

Cybercriminals bear on this ability in their attempt to earn money using illegal advertising. They trick users into turning on pop-ups, and after that just spread hundreds of promotions of anyone they contract with. As you can suppose, no image-caring organisations will have a business with fraudsters. All the Rocking Hollywood News push ads you may see lead to other untrustworthy sites. At some point, the same victim can be trapped by several pop-up spamming web pages, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.

The ads these rascals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It usually provides a miserable pay for one viewer, but when you can send ads to hundreds of victims and show them hundreds of ads every day – that is a much more significant sum. Even though the majority of these banners are ineffective, it can still give all the participants a lot of money.

Are Rocking Hollywood News pop-ups dangerous?

Yes, they are. At the surface, they can look harmless – just a colourful window that appears from time to time. However, the things this window promotes differ drastically from what you used to see in pop-ups. Rocking-hollywood-news.com web page is controlled by fraudsters, who intentionally throw hundreds and thousands of malicious ads in pop-ups. They also don’t follow any common sense and can launch sporadic pop-up advertisements into a hurricane of ads. For weak computers, that may be enough to cause performance issues. But problems are not over at this point.

As any other thing related to illegal ads, Rocking Hollywood News pop-up advertisements don’t have legit deals to offer. Even though hackers make the ads similar to ones from Walmart or Amazon, 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 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, Rocking Hollywood News pop-up ads are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Rocking Hollywood News pop-ups?

Fortunately, Rocking Hollywood News push notifications removal is not very complicated. They sit in the web browser and cannot conceal themselves on a disk. However, as I stated before, some pop-up ads can introduce malware to your system. It is hard to show all of the cases, and manual malware removal is a bad idea. Therefore, after disabling the pop-up notifications 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, and they still appeared. That may be a sign of malware activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best both system recovery and malware scanning purposes, because of its system recovery functionality and advanced 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 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:

1. Open “Settings and more” tab in upper right corner, then find here “Settings” button. In the appeared menu, choose “Reset settings” option:

2. 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:

1. Open Menu tab (three strips in upper right corner) and click the “Help” button. In the appeared menu choose “troubleshooting information”:

2. In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option:

After choosing this option, you will see the next message:

If you use Google Chrome

1. Open Settings tab, find the “Advanced” button. In the extended tab choose the “Reset and clean up” button:

2. In the appeared list, click on the “Restore settings to their original defaults”:

3. 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

1. 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:


2. 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:

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 Rocking Hollywood News 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).

1. More about this malware type on GridinSoft Encyclopedia.
2. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.