WorldCoolNewz Pop-up Ads Removal — How to Fix Your Browser?

WorldCoolNewz pop-up advertisements unexpectedly appear, causing frustration and annoyance. However, these notifications are more than just a nuisance; they are malicious and can introduce harmful elements to your system. In this article, we will discuss how to remove WorldCoolNewz pop-ups and provide guidance on preventing their occurrence in the future.

Engaging with WorldCoolNewz pop-up advertisements is futile and can have detrimental consequences. At the very least, they are a waste of time, while in the worst-case scenario, they can lead to malware infections on your system. These pop-ups may also direct you to fake online shopping sites that aim to steal your money and payment information. Ultimately, this can result in the complete loss of funds associated with the compromised card.

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What are WorldCoolNewz 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 WorldCoolNewz notifications is the malignant origins of the latter. Common pop-up advertisements are offered for you to enable with a benevolent purpose – notify you about the new posts, goods for sale and so on. It is a useful tool to help your website to retain visitors and help the interested users to have the best price.

Short summary of the Worldcoolnewz.com pop-up ads:

WorldCoolNewz pop-up advertisements, as opposed, have a deal with untrustworthy websites. You will commonly see the proposition to turn them on following the redirection from another page. It’s OK to see redirects unless it throws you into such a dubious place. At that point, enabling pop-up ads is offered under the guise of the anti-bot check-up. In other cases, the sites may deny showing you the content unless you turn on these pop-up ads. These requirements should already be the red flag, as sites usually feature a different anti-bot mechanism. Spectating such an demand should be the reason to leave the page doubtlessly. Sometimes, even after clicking “Allow”, you will not get to the web page – it has only a landing page with the offer to turn on the push notifications.

WorldCoolNewz push notification.

How does this work?

Most of web browsers support enabling pop-ups from websites. Sites, on the other hand, can send out notifications with the content they like. It can be a promotion of the page posted on this site, as well as an ad of the page of their partner. As a result, you may see the pop-up from site X, but opening it will throw you to website Y – because a link to that website was built in.

Crooks bear on this feature in their approach to earn money through advertising. They trick victims into allowing the pop-ups, and then just spread hundreds of promotions of anyone they have a deal with. As you can suppose, no image-caring organisations will contract with fraudsters. All the WorldCoolNewz notifications you can see lead to other fraudulent sites. In some cases, the same victim may be trapped by several pop-up spamming web pages, and its browser will turn into a complete mess.

The ads these criminals show are paid under the pay-per-view model. It usually provides a miserable payment for one person, but when you can send ads to a huge number of users and make it hundreds of times each day – that is a way bigger sum. Even though most of these ads are ineffective, it may still give all the participants a lot of profit.

Are WorldCoolNewz pop-up notifications dangerous?

Yes, they are. Initially, they may look safe – just a blinking pop-up that appears a couple times in an hour. However, the things this window promotes differ drastically from what you generally see in pop-up advertisements. Worldcoolnewz.com website is ruled by crooks, who deliberately throw hundreds of irrelevant ads in pop-ups. They also never follow any manners of advertising and can make sporadic pop-up ads into a storm of banners. For weak computers, that may be enough to make the system slower. But troubles are not over at this point.

As any other thing related to illegal advertising, WorldCoolNewz pop-up ads lack legit deals to offer. Even when crooks make the ads looking similar to ones from well-known retailers, 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 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, WorldCoolNewz pop-up advertisements are not recommended to click on either, and the best solution is to disable them as soon as possible.

How to remove WorldCoolNewz pop-ups?

Fortunately, WorldCoolNewz push notifications removal is not very complicated. They reside in the browser and cannot conceal themselves on a disk. Nonetheless, as I stated above, some push notifications may deliver malware to your system. It is hard to show all of the cases, and manual attempts to remove malware is a bad idea. Therefore, after disabling the pop-ups the best option is to use anti-malware software. I’d especially recommend that if you have never allowed push notifications, but they still appeared. That may be a sign of adware 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.

First of all, 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 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:

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 WorldCoolNewz 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.