Last week, I saw a huge amount of messages like “my web browser displays me undesirable News-honixu.cc pop-up ads, is it a virus?” or “these News-honixu.cc pop-up ads in my Chrome making me mad, how to manage them?”. Due to the statistics for last months, virus distributors started a vast adware circulation campaign. Let me show you, how you can remove the pc virus from your personal computer, and forget about the irritating News-honixu.cc pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a News-honixu.cc) use you pop-up advertisements. The message can include something like “do you want to receive alerts about the most recent news?” or “allow alerts to be reported about latest discounts?”. Typically, such messages are harmless, and can only distract you with its abrupt appearance. And it can be simply disabled, in case alerts from this web page are no longer wanted.
Pop-up alerts are rather an efficient advertising and marketing instrument. If you have an interest in items of some kind, you can enable pop-ups from the internet site where you can acquire this things, and also as soon as these items are in inventory again, or if you can have a price cut – you will obtain the notice about this. The counterparty – online merchants, car lending services, etc – will certainly be in profit, too – purchaser will certainly obtain a tip about the product he/she intended to pay for. And such an advertising and marketing method is practically free of charge – this aspect is very vital for companies.
| Site | News-honixu.cc |
| IP Address | 193.108.118.106 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Eastfeukufunde.com, Goadslab.com, Koddams.xyz |
News-honixu.cc Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But often pop-up promotions can show up without your permission, and also with an information which is totally various from your current interests or search questions. And, besides unwanted News-honixu.cc pop-ups from the unknown website, you can simultaneously see a great deal of advertisements, including ones on the web pages which originally have no promotions whatsoever. Such a scenario can be the indicator of adware existence.
Adware is the type of virus which infiltrates into your system, then begins showing you various promotions. Their material usually has no correlation with your regular search queries. Besides banner promotions, your web browser can also demonstrate you a massive quantity of different News-honixu.cc pop-up ads, which appear in the bottom right area.
The model of adware use is extremely sly. The large pack of adware is dispersed via trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your system previously. Promotions, which are displayed to you by virus, are paid by their creators. In several weeks, all antivirus programs began to stop these adware, hence, trojan sheds in profitability. And to end up the user’s computer system, virus distributors begin ransomware distribution via these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your desktop may continue to be impacted by adware virus. A huge amount of ads in addition to News-honixu.cc pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your regular activities will certainly be difficult to do in typical way.
How Can I Deal With News-honixu.cc Pop-Ups?
Concluding the text above: your personal computer, as well as your information, is in a serious risk. To quit this virus, you need to make use of antivirus tool. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to handle News-honixu.cc pop-ups malware. Nevertheless, it can’t return the browser changes which were implemented by harmful program. Another downside of the anti-virus by Microsoft is its certain susceptability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender via the Group Policies after being infiltrated to your PC.
To be 100% sure that your personal computer 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 desktop, including News-honixu.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 apps, because it checks only the most popular registry entries and directories.
You can spectate the detected malware sorted by their possible harm simultaneously with the scan process. But to choose any actions against malicious apps, you need to wait until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To choose the action for every detected malicious 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 revert your browser settings, you need to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action cannot be counteracted by News-honixu.cc malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be found 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 making use of third-party software
Besides using antivirus software for browser restoration, you can 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-honixu.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.
