Last week, I saw a ton of posts like “my browser presents me unwanted 24-news.info pop-up promotions, is it a computer virus?” or “these 24-news.info pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me insane, how to take care of them?”. Due to the stats for last months, virus distributors began a large adware delivery project. Let me show you, how you can erase the viruses from your PC, and forget about the frustrating 24-news.info pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a 24-news.info) use you pop-up promotions. The message can include something like “do you want to receive alerts relating to the most up to date information?” or “allow alerts to be reported regarding latest price cuts?”. Generally, such messages are harmless, and can just distract you with its abrupt visual appeal. Also it can be quickly disabled, in case alerts from this online resource are no longer wanted.
Pop-up notices are rather an efficient advertising tool. If you want goods of some sort, you can give a permission to the pop-ups from the site where you can buy this things, and also as soon as these products are in store again, or if you can have a discount – you will get the notification concerning this. The counterparty – online retailers, auto lending services, etc – will certainly be in profit, too – purchaser will certainly get a suggestion concerning the product he/she planned to pay for. And also such an advertising and marketing technique is almost free of charge – this element is extremely important for companies.
| Site | 24-news.info |
| IP Address | 87.236.16.171 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Amazing-dates.top, Bitblog.click, Ugroocuw.net |
24-news.info Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However sometimes pop-up promotions can appear without your confirmation, and also with a content which is entirely various from your present attentions or search questions. And, besides unwanted 24-news.info pop-ups from the unknown website, you can simultaneously see a lot of ads, including ones on the web pages which primarily have no promotions at all. Such a scenario can be the indication of adware presence.
Adware is the kind of pc virus which injects into your PC, then begins demonstrating you different promotions. Their subject often has no match with your usual search queries. Besides banner ads, your web browser can also display you a huge amount of various 24-news.info pop-up ads, which come into view in the lower right area.
The model of adware usage is really sly. The big pack of adware is spread via trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your personal computer earlier. Advertisements, which are suggested to you by malicious app, are paid by their makers. In a couple of weeks, all antivirus programs began to catch these adware, thus, trojan sheds in productivity. And to ruin the user’s computer system, malware distributors start ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your PC may continue to be influenced by adware virus. A huge amount of promotions together with 24-news.info pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your typical jobs will certainly be difficult to do in typical manner.
How Can I Deal With 24-news.info Pop-Ups?
Assuming the text above: your PC, as well as your data, is in a serious danger. To quit this infection, you need to utilize anti-malware program. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to handle 24-news.info pop-ups virus. However, it can’t reset the web browser changes which were applied by malicious program. One more downside of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its certain susceptability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender through the Group Policies after being infiltrated to your PC.
To be 100% sure that your PC is clean of any malicious programs now, and will be clean in future, I can advice you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and remove all unwanted programs on your personal computer, including 24-news.info pop-ups virus, with GridinSoft Anti-Malware, it’s better to utilize Standard or Full scan. Quick Scan is not able to find all the viruses, because it checks only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can observe the detected malware sorted by their possible harm simultaneously with the scan process. But to perform any actions against malicious programs, you need to hold on until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for each spotted virus or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malicious program. By default, all malware will be moved to quarantine.
Reset browser settings to original ones
To revert your browser settings, you need to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action is not able to be counteracted by 24-news.info malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be located in the Tools tab.
After choosing the Reset Browser Settings option, the menu will be shown, where you can specify, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without making use of third-party programs
Besides using antivirus programs for browser recovery, you may pick the “Reset browser settings” function, which is usually embedded in all popular web browsers.
Reset Microsoft Edge ⚙ Settings
- 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:
Reset Mozilla Firefox ⚙ Settings
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
After choosing this option, you will see the next message:
Reset Opera ⚙ Settings
Reset Google Chrome ⚙ Settings
As an afterword, I want to say that the time plays against you and your PC. The activity of browser hijacker 24-news.info must be stopped as soon as possible, because of possibility of other malware injection. This malware can be downloaded autonomously, or offered for you to download in one of the windows with advertisements, which are shown to you by the hijacker. You need to act as fast as you can.
