Last week, I saw a plenty of messages like “my browser displays me undesirable News-hecana.cc pop-up ads, is it a computer virus?” or “these News-hecana.cc pop-up ads in my Chrome making me insane, how to handle them?”. According to the data for last months, virus suppliers began a vast adware distribution project. Let me demonstrate you, how you can eliminate the viruses from your PC, and forget about the bothersome News-hecana.cc pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a News-hecana.cc) use you pop-up ads. The message can have something like “do you want to receive notifications concerning the current information?” or “permit notifications to be reported about recent discount rates?”. Normally, such messages are riskless, and may only sidetrack you with its sudden visual appeal. Moreover, it can be quickly disabled, in case alerts from this site are no longer desired.
Pop-up notices are rather an effective marketing mechanism. If you want products of some kind, you can allow pop-ups from the website where you can acquire this stuff, and also as soon as these products are in stock again, or if you can have a discount – you will certainly obtain the notification concerning this. The counterparty – online sellers, cars and truck lending companies, etc – will certainly remain in profit, too – customer will undoubtedly obtain a pointer concerning the product he/she intended to pay for. And also such an advertising and marketing method is almost cost-free – this aspect is extremely vital for firms.
| Site | News-hecana.cc |
| IP Address | 193.108.118.121 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Dev-protection.com, Calmer.live, News-rusixi.cc |
News-hecana.cc Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However sometimes pop-up advertisements can appear without your permission, and with a text which is totally various from your existing attentions or search queries. And also, besides unwanted News-hecana.cc pop-ups from the unknown resource, you can at the same time see a lot of ads, including ones on the web pages which at first have no advertisements whatsoever. Such a scenario can be the signal of adware presence.
Adware is the kind of malware which injects into your personal computer, then starts demonstrating you different ads. Their subject usually has no connection with your typical search queries. Besides banner promotions, your browser can additionally demonstrate to you a significant quantity of various News-hecana.cc pop-up advertisements, which come into view in the lower right corner.
The model of adware use is extremely sly. The big pack of adware is spread through trojan viruses, which are injected in your computer previously. Ads, which are demonstrated to you by malicious program, are paid by their makers. In a few weeks, all antivirus programs began to catch these adware, therefore, trojan loses in profitability. And to dispatch the user’s personal computer, malware distributors begin ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your PC may still be affected by adware virus. A massive number of ads along with News-hecana.cc pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your typical activities will certainly be impossible to do in normal way.
How Can I Deal With News-hecana.cc Pop-Ups?
Concluding the paragraphs above: your personal computer, along with your information, is in a major risk. To stop this virus, you require to utilize virus removal program. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to take care of News-hecana.cc pop-ups malware. Nonetheless, it can not revert the web browser alterations which were implemented by harmful program. One more negative aspect of the anti-virus by Microsoft is its specific susceptability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender through the Group Policies after being injected to your computer.
To be 100% sure that your personal computer is clean of any malware now, and will be clean in future, I can advice you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and delete all malicious programs on your desktop, including News-hecana.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 viruses, because it scans only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can observe the detected malicious apps sorted by their possible hazard till the scan process. But to perform any actions against malware, you need to wait until the scan is over, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for every spotted malicious or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected virus. By default, all the viruses will be moved to quarantine.
Reset browser settings to original ones
To reset your browser settings, you are required to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action cannot be intercepted by News-hecana.cc virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This option can be found in the Tools tab.
After choosing the Reset Browser Settings button, 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 programs
Besides using antivirus programs for browser recovery, 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:
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-hecana.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.
