Recently, I saw a plenty of posts like “my browser demonstrates to me undesirable News-gepepe.cc pop-up advertisements, is it a pc virus?” or “these News-gepepe.cc pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me mad, how to handle them?”. Due to the stats for last months, computer virus creators started a vast adware delivery project. Let me demonstrate you, how you can delete the viruses from your computer, and forget about the aggravating News-gepepe.cc pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a News-gepepe.cc) offer you pop-up promotions. The message can contain something like “do you want to get notices regarding the most recent news?” or “allow alerts to be reported about latest discount rates?”. Usually, such messages are harmless, and can just distract you with its abrupt showing up. And it can be quite easily turned off, in case notices from this website are no longer wanted.
Pop-up alerts are quite an efficient advertising mechanism. If you are interested in products of some type, you can give a permission to the pop-ups from the web site where you can purchase this things, and also as soon as these things are in store again, or if you can have a discount – you will get the notice about this. The counterparty – online sellers, auto lending companies, etc – will be in profit, too – customer will definitely obtain a pointer regarding the item he/she intended to purchase. And also such an advertising and marketing approach is nearly free of charge – this factor is really vital for companies.
| Site | News-gepepe.cc |
| IP Address | 193.108.118.54 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Your-result.net, Waupheresurvey.space, Hazzbonew.com |
News-gepepe.cc Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However occasionally pop-up advertisements can show up without your approval, and with a content which is totally different from your present attentions or search queries. And, besides unwanted News-gepepe.cc pop-ups from the unknown website, you can at the same time see a lot of advertisements, consisting of ones on the pages which primarily have no promotions whatsoever. Such a situation can be the indicator of adware presence.
Adware is the kind of virus which injects into your system, and then starts demonstrating to you different advertisements. Their content often has no connection with your ordinary search questions. Besides banner promotions, your web browser can likewise show you a huge amount of various News-gepepe.cc pop-up advertisements, which show up in the bottom right area.
The model of adware use is very sly. The big pack of adware is dispersed through trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your system earlier. Promotions, which are suggested to you by malware, are paid by their makers. In a few weeks, all anti-malware programs began to stop these adware, for this reason, trojan loses in earnings. And to end up the user’s desktop, malware distributors begin ransomware distribution via these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer system can continue to be influenced by adware virus. A massive quantity of ads together with News-gepepe.cc pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your regular jobs will be difficult to carry out in usual way.
How Can I Deal With News-gepepe.cc Pop-Ups?
Presuming the text above: your personal computer, and your information, is in a significant risk. To stop this infection, you need to make use of antivirus program. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to take care of News-gepepe.cc pop-ups virus. Nevertheless, it can not reset the browser changes which were applied by malicious program. An additional drawback of the antivirus by Microsoft is its certain susceptability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender via the Group Policies after being injected to your desktop.
To be 100% sure that your computer is clean of any malicious programs now, and will be clean in future, I can offer you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and delete all unwanted applications on your computer, including News-gepepe.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 malicious programs, because it scans only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can see the detected malicious apps sorted by their possible harm during the scan process. But to perform any actions against malicious apps, you need to wait until the scan is over, or to stop the scan.
To set the action for each detected malicious or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malicious program. By default, all malware will be moved to quarantine.
Reverting browser settings to original ones
To revert your browser settings, you need to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action cannot be intercepted by News-gepepe.cc virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be found in the Tools tab.
After choosing the Reset Browser Settings option, the menu will be displayed, where you can specify, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without making use of third-party software
Besides using anti-malware programs for browser restoration, you can choose 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:
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-gepepe.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.