Recently, I saw a great deal of posts like “my web browser presents me unwanted News-gexico.com pop-up ads, is it a virus?” or “these News-gexico.com pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me crazy, how to handle them?”. Due to the data for last months, computer virus suppliers started a massive adware circulation project. Let me show you, how you can delete the viruses from your PC, and also forget about the bothersome News-gexico.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a News-gexico.com) use you pop-up ads. The message can have something like “do you want to receive notices about the most recent information?” or “enable alerts to be reported regarding new price cuts?”. Normally, such messages are riskless, and may just sidetrack you with its sudden arrival. Plus it can be quickly turned off, in case notices from this site are no longer needed.
Pop-up notices are quite an efficient marketing instrument. If you want items of some sort, you can enable pop-ups from the website where you can get this things, and also as quickly as these things are in inventory again, or if you can have a discount – you will certainly obtain the alert regarding this. The counterparty – online retailers, automobile lending services, etc – will remain in profit, too – buyer will surely get a suggestion about the product he/she meant to buy. And such an advertising and marketing technique is almost free of charge – this factor is very vital for corporations.
| Site | News-gexico.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 | Recogniano.com, Ratenowpage.site, Sogema.xyz |
News-gexico.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But sometimes pop-up promotions can show up without your approval, and with a material which is entirely different from your current attentions or search questions. And also, besides unwanted News-gexico.com pop-ups from the unknown resource, you can at the same time see a lot of promotions, consisting of ones on the pages which originally have no ads whatsoever. Such a situation can be the indicator of adware appearance.
Adware is the sort of virus which infiltrates into your system, and then starts demonstrating you various ads. Their subject often has no correlation with your usual search queries. Besides banner advertisements, your browser can additionally show you a huge amount of various News-gexico.com pop-up ads, which appear in the bottom right corner.
The model of adware use is extremely sly. The large pack of adware is spread through trojan viruses, which are injected in your computer earlier. Promotions, which are shown to you by malware, are paid by their creators. In several weeks, all anti-malware programs began to block these adware, therefore, trojan loses in earnings. And to ruin the user’s computer system, malware distributors begin ransomware distribution with these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer may still be impacted by adware virus. A substantial number of promotions together with News-gexico.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your normal tasks will be difficult to execute in typical way.
How Can I Deal With News-gexico.com Pop-Ups?
Thinking the text above: your desktop, along with your information, is in a significant risk. To stop this virus, you require to utilize anti-virus program. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to take care of News-gexico.com pop-ups virus. However, it can’t return the web browser changes which were put into effect by malicious program. An additional downside of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its certain vulnerability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender via the Group Policies after being injected to your desktop.
To be 100% sure that your PC is clean of any viruses now, and will be clean in future, I can advice you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and remove all unwanted applications on your personal computer, including News-gexico.com 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 checks only the most popular registry entries and directories.
You can observe the detected malicious programs sorted by their possible harm during the scan process. But to choose any actions against malicious programs, you need to hold on until the scan is over, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for every spotted virus or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected virus. By default, all malware will be moved to quarantine.
Reset browser settings to original ones
To reset your browser settings, you need to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action is not able to be counteracted by News-gexico.com virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This option can be located 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 using third-party software
Besides using antivirus tools for browser recovery, you may pick the “Reset browser settings” function, 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-gexico.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.
