Recently, I saw a huge amount of posts like “my browser demonstrates to me undesirable News-memifo.com pop-up ads, is it a computer virus?” or “these News-memifo.com pop-up ads in my Chrome making me insane, how to deal with them?”. According to the data for last months, virus suppliers began a vast adware distribution campaign. Let me demonstrate you, how you can get rid of the viruses from your PC, as well as forget about the annoying News-memifo.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a News-memifo.com) offer you pop-up ads. The message can contain something like “do you want to have notices relating to the most up to date news?” or “allow alerts to be reported about new price cuts?”. Usually, such messages are risk-free, and can only sidetrack you with its unexpected visual appeal. Moreover, it can be easily disabled, in case notifications from this web page are no longer desired.
Pop-up alerts are rather an reliable marketing tool. If you have an interest in items of some kind, you can enable pop-ups from the website where you can buy this stuff, and as soon as these things are in store again, or if you can have a discount – you will obtain the notice concerning this. The counterparty – online stores, cars and truck lending services, etc – will be in profit, too – customer will surely obtain a reminder regarding the product he/she intended to purchase. And also such an advertising and marketing approach is nearly cost-free – this element is very important for firms.
| Site | News-memifo.com |
| IP Address | 23.158.56.123 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Dawint.xyz, News-wevude.com, Mumadspod.com |
News-memifo.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However often pop-up promotions can appear without your permission, and with a content which is totally various from your present interests or search questions. And, besides undesirable News-memifo.com pop-ups from the unknown site, you can simultaneously see a great deal of promotions, consisting of ones on the web pages which primarily have no promotions at all. Such a situation can be the signal of adware presence.
Adware is the kind of computer virus which infiltrates into your computer, after that starts displaying you various promotions. Their content typically has no connection with your usual search questions. Besides banner ads, your web browser can additionally suggest you a substantial quantity of different News-memifo.com pop-up advertisements, which show up in the bottom right area.
The model of adware use is really sly. The large pack of adware is distributed via trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your system earlier. Advertisements, which are displayed to you by malware, are paid by their makers. In a few weeks, all anti-malware programs began to block these adware, for this reason, trojan loses in earnings. And to rub out the user’s computer, malware distributors start ransomware distribution via these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your PC may continue to be influenced by adware virus. A significant amount of promotions along with News-memifo.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your typical tasks will be difficult to perform in common way.
How Can I Deal With News-memifo.com Pop-Ups?
Presuming the text above: your personal computer, as well as your information, is in a severe risk. To stop this virus, you need to utilize anti-virus tool. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to take care of News-memifo.com pop-ups virus. Nevertheless, it can not revert the browser alterations which were applied by malicious program. Another downside of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its certain susceptability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender via the Group Policies after being infiltrated to your computer.
To be 100% sure that your personal computer 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 erase all malicious programs on your computer, including News-memifo.com 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 spectate the detected malware sorted by their possible hazard till the scan process. But to choose any actions against malicious programs, you need to wait until the scan is over, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for each detected virus or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malicious app. By default, all the viruses will be moved to quarantine.
Reset browser settings to original ones
To revert your browser settings, you are required to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action cannot be counteracted by News-memifo.com malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be located in the Tools tab.
After pressing 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 using third-party software
Besides using anti-malware tools for browser restoration, you can pick the “Reset browser settings” option, which is usually embedded in all popular 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 News-memifo.com 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.
