Last week, I saw a huge amount of messages like “my internet browser presents me unwanted News-cowasu.cc pop-up promotions, is it a pc virus?” or “these News-cowasu.cc pop-up advertisements in my Chrome making me mad, how to manage them?”. According to the stats for last months, pc virus creators started a vast adware distribution campaign. Let me demonstrate you, how you can delete the viruses from your PC, and also forget about the irritating News-cowasu.cc pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a News-cowasu.cc) offer you pop-up ads. The message can contain something like “do you want to have notifications regarding the current information?” or “allow notifications to be reported regarding recent discounts?”. Typically, such messages are safe, and can just distract you with its abrupt visual appeal. And it can be easily disabled, in case notifications from this site are no longer wanted.
Pop-up notifications are quite an effective advertising mechanism. If you are interested in items of some sort, you can allow pop-ups from the internet site where you can purchase this things, and as quickly as these products are in inventory again, or if you can have a price cut – you will certainly get the notification about this. The counterparty – online retailers, automobile lending services, etc – will certainly be in profit, too – purchaser will undoubtedly obtain a pointer regarding the item he/she intended to purchase. And such an advertising and marketing approach is practically free of charge – this factor is extremely important for corporations.
| Site | News-cowasu.cc |
| IP Address | 193.108.118.59 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Odessolutions.com, Inroadslab.com, News-fezome.com |
News-cowasu.cc Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However sometimes pop-up promotions can show up without your approval, and with a text which is totally various from your current attentions or search questions. And, besides undesirable News-cowasu.cc pop-ups from the unknown origin, you can simultaneously see a great deal of promotions, consisting of ones on the pages which originally have no ads at all. Such a situation can be the proof of adware presence.
Adware is the type of malware which infiltrates into your system, after that starts demonstrating to you numerous promotions. Their content usually has no match with your regular search questions. Besides banner ads, your browser can also display you a substantial quantity of various News-cowasu.cc pop-up promotions, which come into view in the bottom right corner.
The model of adware use is very sly. The large pack of adware is distributed through trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your personal computer earlier. Advertisements, which are demonstrated to you by virus, are paid by their makers. In a few weeks, all antivirus programs began to catch these adware, hence, trojan sheds in productivity. And to end up the user’s computer, virus distributors begin ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer may continue to be impacted by adware virus. A big amount of ads along with News-cowasu.cc pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your regular tasks will be impossible to perform in usual way.
How Can I Deal With News-cowasu.cc Pop-Ups?
Presuming the paragraphs above: your computer, along with your information, is in a major risk. To quit this virus, you require to use antivirus tool. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to deal with News-cowasu.cc pop-ups virus. However, it can’t reset the web browser alterations which were put into effect by malicious program. An additional disadvantage of the antivirus by Microsoft is its specific vulnerability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender with the Group Policies after being implanted to your desktop.
To be 100% sure that your desktop 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 applications on your computer, including News-cowasu.cc pop-ups virus, with GridinSoft Anti-Malware, it’s better to use Standard or Full scan. Quick Scan is not able to find all the viruses, because it scans only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can see the detected malicious programs sorted by their possible harm till the scan process. But to perform any actions against malicious apps, you need to hold on until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To set the action for each detected virus or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malware. By default, all malware will be removed to quarantine.
Reset browser settings to original ones
To reset your browser settings, you need to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action cannot be intercepted by News-cowasu.cc malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be found in the Tools tab.
After pressing the Reset Browser Settings button, the menu will be displayed, where you can choose, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without utilizing third-party software
Besides using anti-malware programs for browser reset, you may choose the “Reset browser settings” option, 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-cowasu.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.
