Last week, I saw a ton of posts like “my web browser displays me unwanted News-jocobu.cc pop-up promotions, is it a virus?” or “these News-jocobu.cc pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me crazy, how to handle them?”. Due to the stats for last months, pc virus suppliers started a large adware circulation campaign. Let me demonstrate you, how you can delete the computer viruses from your computer, and also forget about the bothersome News-jocobu.cc pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a News-jocobu.cc) offer you pop-up promotions. The message can contain something like “do you want to have notices about the most recent information?” or “allow alerts to be reported about new discounts?”. Generally, such messages are safe, and may just distract you with its sudden showing up. And it can be quite easily turned off, in case notifications from this web page are no longer needed.
Pop-up notices are quite an reliable advertising mechanism. If you are interested in products of some type, you can allow pop-ups from the website where you can get this things, and also as quickly as these items are in store again, or if you can have a price cut – you will certainly obtain the alert regarding this. The counterparty – online stores, car lending companies, etc – will remain in profit, too – buyer will surely get a reminder regarding the item he/she intended to buy. And such an advertising technique is almost free of charge – this element is really essential for corporations.
| Site | News-jocobu.cc |
| IP Address | 149.7.16.209 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Mysecuritydatabase.live, Weather-in.xyz, Topcontactinc.com |
News-jocobu.cc Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However in some cases pop-up advertisements can come out without your approval, and also with an information which is entirely different from your present interests or search queries. And, besides unwanted News-jocobu.cc pop-ups from the unknown site, you can simultaneously see a great deal of advertisements, consisting of ones on the pages which originally have no promotions whatsoever. Such a situation can be the proof of adware existence.
Adware is the type of computer virus which infiltrates into your computer, and then starts showing you different promotions. Their subject , in most cases, has no correlation with your normal search questions. Besides banner ads, your browser can additionally display you a huge number of different News-jocobu.cc pop-up promotions, which come into view in the lower right corner.
The model of adware use is extremely sly. The big pack of adware is dispersed via trojan viruses, which are injected in your desktop previously. Advertisements, which are displayed to you by malicious app, are paid by their makers. In a couple of weeks, all anti-malware programs began to stop these adware, thus, trojan sheds in earnings. And to finish the user’s personal computer, virus distributors start ransomware distribution via these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your desktop may continue to be influenced by adware virus. A significant amount of promotions along with News-jocobu.cc pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your common tasks will certainly be difficult to carry out in typical manner.
How Can I Deal With News-jocobu.cc Pop-Ups?
Concluding the text above: your computer, and your information, is in a severe risk. To stop this infection, you need to make use of security tool. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to take care of News-jocobu.cc pop-ups virus. Nonetheless, it can not reset the browser changes which were implemented by harmful program. An additional drawback of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its certain susceptability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender with the Group Policies after being injected to your desktop.
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 eliminate all unwanted programs on your desktop, including News-jocobu.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 malicious apps, 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 finished, 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 malware. By default, all the viruses will be removed 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 intercepted by News-jocobu.cc malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This option can be found in the Tools tab.
After choosing the Reset Browser Settings option, the menu will be shown, where you can specify, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without making use of third-party software
Besides using antivirus programs for browser restoration, you can 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-jocobu.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.
