Last week, I saw a ton of messages like “my browser demonstrates to me unwanted News-bigeye.cc pop-up advertisements, is it a virus?” or “these News-bigeye.cc pop-up advertisements in my Chrome making me insane, how to handle them?”. Due to the statistics for last months, virus creators began a wide adware delivery campaign. Let me demonstrate you, how you can get rid of the viruses from your computer, as well as forget about the irritating News-bigeye.cc pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a News-bigeye.cc) offer you pop-up advertisements. The message can contain something like “do you want to receive notifications regarding the most recent news?” or “enable notifications to be reported about latest discount rates?”. Typically, such messages are safe, and may only distract you with its abrupt showing up. Plus it can be easily turned off, in case notifications from this web site are no longer needed.
Pop-up notifications are quite an reliable advertising and marketing tool. If you want goods of some kind, you can allow pop-ups from the site where you can buy this things, and also as quickly as these items are in inventory again, or if you can have a discount – you will get the notice regarding this. The counterparty – online stores, automobile lending services, etc – will certainly be in profit, too – buyer will undoubtedly obtain a tip concerning the item he/she planned to pay for. And also such a marketing technique is practically free of charge – this aspect is really important for companies.
| Site | News-bigeye.cc |
| IP Address | 193.108.117.165 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Wishluckme.com, Lsicircuitsa.top, Trafficmoon.com |
News-bigeye.cc Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But in some cases pop-up promotions can appear without your confirmation, and with a content which is entirely different from your existing attentions or search queries. And also, besides unwanted News-bigeye.cc pop-ups from the unknown origin, you can at the same time see a lot of ads, consisting of ones on the pages which initially have no promotions at all. Such a scenario can be the proof of adware presence.
Adware is the kind of virus which injects into your system, and then starts suggesting you various ads. Their content usually has no match with your normal search queries. Besides banner advertisements, your browser can also show you a big amount of different News-bigeye.cc pop-up ads, which come into view in the bottom right corner.
The model of adware use is very sly. The large pack of adware is distributed with trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your personal computer earlier. Promotions, which are shown to you by virus, are paid by their creators. In several weeks, all anti-malware programs began to stop these adware, for this reason, trojan loses in productivity. And to rub out the user’s PC, virus distributors begin ransomware distribution via these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your desktop might still be impacted by adware virus. A substantial number of ads in addition to News-bigeye.cc pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your regular tasks will be difficult to do in common way.
How Can I Deal With News-bigeye.cc Pop-Ups?
Concluding the text above: your PC, and your information, is in a severe danger. To quit this virus, you require to use anti-virus program. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to deal with News-bigeye.cc pop-ups virus. Nevertheless, it can’t change the web browser changes which were implemented by harmful program. One more downside of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its certain susceptability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender via the Group Policies after being implanted to your PC.
To be 100% sure that your PC is clean of any viruses now, and will be clean in future, I can offer you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and remove all unwanted applications on your personal computer, including News-bigeye.cc 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 malware, because it scans only the most popular registry entries and directories.
You can observe the detected viruses sorted by their possible hazard till the scan process. But to perform any actions against the viruses, you need to wait until the scan is over, or to stop the scan.
To set the action for each spotted malicious or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malware. 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 is not able to be counteracted by News-bigeye.cc malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be located in the Tools tab.
After choosing the Reset Browser Settings button, the menu will be shown, where you can choose, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without using third-party programs
Besides using antivirus software for browser recovery, you can choose 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 News-bigeye.cc 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.
