Recently, I saw a lot of messages like “my web browser demonstrates to me undesirable News-jivuka.cc pop-up promotions, is it a virus?” or “these News-jivuka.cc pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me crazy, how to manage them?”. Due to the stats for last months, virus suppliers started a large adware distribution campaign. Let me show you, how you can remove the pc virus from your computer, and forget about the aggravating News-jivuka.cc pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a News-jivuka.cc) offer you pop-up advertisements. The message can have something like “do you want to have notifications concerning the latest news?” or “allow alerts to be reported about latest discounts?”. Generally, such messages are riskless, and may just sidetrack you with its abrupt showing up. Plus it can be simply turned off, in case notices from this website are no longer desired.
Pop-up notifications are quite an efficient marketing mechanism. If you want goods of some type, you can enable pop-ups from the site where you can buy this stuff, and as soon as these products are in stock again, or if you can have a price cut – you will certainly obtain the notice about this. The counterparty – online merchants, car lending companies, etc – will certainly remain in profit, too – purchaser will certainly get a reminder about the product he/she planned to pay for. And such an advertising method is practically free – this element is really vital for corporations.
| Site | News-jivuka.cc |
| IP Address | 149.7.16.70 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Protectionsrequired.com, Defenceprogramm.com, Xtrasuper3.xyz |
News-jivuka.cc Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But in some cases pop-up promotions can show up without your confirmation, as well as with a text which is completely various from your current cares or search queries. And, besides undesirable News-jivuka.cc pop-ups from the unknown website, you can simultaneously see a lot of promotions, consisting of ones on the web pages which originally have no advertisements whatsoever. Such a scenario can be the signal of adware appearance.
Adware is the kind of virus which injects into your PC, then begins showing you various promotions. Their material often has no connection with your normal search queries. Besides banner advertisements, your web browser can likewise demonstrate you a significant number of different News-jivuka.cc pop-up promotions, which come into view in the bottom right corner.
The model of adware usage is extremely sly. The large pack of adware is spread through trojan viruses, which are injected in your desktop earlier. Ads, which are shown to you by malware, are paid by their makers. In a couple of weeks, all antivirus programs began to catch these adware, hence, trojan sheds in profitability. And to terminate the user’s personal computer, virus distributors begin ransomware distribution with these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your PC may continue to be affected by adware virus. A significant amount of promotions along with News-jivuka.cc pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your regular work will be difficult to do in normal manner.
How Can I Deal With News-jivuka.cc Pop-Ups?
Concluding the paragraphs above: your computer, as well as your data, is in a major risk. To stop this virus, you require to make use of security tool. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to handle News-jivuka.cc pop-ups virus. Nevertheless, it can not reset the web browser changes which were put into effect by malicious program. Another downside of the antivirus by Microsoft is its specific vulnerability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender with the Group Policies after being injected to your PC.
To be 100% sure that your desktop is clean of any viruses now, and will be clean in future, I can advice you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and eliminate all unwanted applications on your computer, including News-jivuka.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 malware, because it scans only the most popular registry entries and directories.
You can observe the detected viruses sorted by their possible harm during the scan process. But to choose any actions against malicious apps, you need to wait until the scan is over, or to stop the scan.
To set the action for every spotted virus or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malicious program. 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-jivuka.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 choose, 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 may choose 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-jivuka.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.
