Special Trending News Notification Removal — How to Fix Your Browser

Special Trending News pop-up notifications appear when you do not expect, bothering and annoying you. Still, they are much more than just notifications – their essence is clearly malignant, and they may introduce other malware to your system. In this article, I will guide you on how to remove Special Trending News pop-ups and explain how to avoid them in the future.

Any interaction with Special Trending News pop-up advertisements will be ineffective at best. In worst case scenario, the websites it can open can introduce malware to your system. These push notifications may also promote 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.

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What are Special Trending News pop-ups?

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 Special Trending News pop-ups is the malignant origins of the latter. Normal pop-up notifications are offered for you to enable with a benevolent purpose – notify you about the fresh posts, discounts and so on. It is an effective approach to help your site to keep visitor’s attention and help the interested ones to have the best price.

Short summary of the Special-trending-news.com pop-up ads:

Special Trending News pop-ups, in contrast, have a deal with untrustworthy sites. You will commonly observe the proposition to enable them following the redirection from another site. It’s OK to see redirects unless it throws you to such a questionable place. In this case, turning on pop-ups is offered under the guise of the anti-DDoS check-up. Alternatively, the sites can refuse to show you the content unless you apply these pop-up ads. These requirements should be the red flag, as sites commonly feature a different anti-bot mechanism. Witnessing such an offer should be the reason to skip 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.

Special Trending News push notification.

How does this work?

Most of web browsers support enabling push notifications from sites. Sites, on the other hand, can send out notifications with the content they like. It may 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 may see the push notification from site X, but clicking it will throw you to site Y – because a link to the latter was added.

Cyber burglars rely on this ability in their attempt to gain money through advertising. They trick users into turning on pop-ups, and after that just spread hundreds of promotions of other crooks they contract with. As you can suppose, no benevolent companies will have a business with fraudsters. All the Special Trending News push ads you can see lead to other fraudulent sites. At some point, the same victim may be trapped by several pop-up spamming web pages, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.

The banners these crooks show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It usually provides a miserable pay for one viewer, but when you have a huge number of users and make it hundreds of times every day – that is a much bigger sum. Even though most of these ads are ineffective, it can still give all the parties a lot of money.

Are Special Trending News pop-up advertisements dangerous?

Yes, they are. At the surface, they may look safe – just a blinking pop-up that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the contents of this window differ drastically from what you generally see in push notifications. Special-trending-news.com site is controlled by crooks, who deliberately throw hundreds of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any common sense and can make sporadic pop-up advertisements into a hurricane of banners. For weak systems, that may be enough to make the system slower. But that is not all troubles these pop-up ads carry.

As any other thing that touches illegal ads, Special Trending News pop-up ads don’t have legit offers. Even though crooks make the banners looking similar to ones from Amazon, Walmart or Ebay, the site these banners 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 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, Special Trending News push notifications are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove Special Trending News pop-ups?

Fortunately, Special Trending News pop-ups removal is pretty easy. They reside in the browser and cannot hide themselves among system files. However, as I stated above, some push notifications may introduce malware to your system. It is nearly impossible to describe all cases, and manual malware removal is a poor idea. Therefore, after removing the source of the pop-ups it is recommended to use anti-malware software. That is especially recommended if you have never allowed pop-ups, and they still appeared. That may be a sign of malicious software activity. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will perfectly fit both system recovery and malware checkup purposes, because of its abilities of system recovery and advanced 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:

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 site 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 Special Trending 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.