Last week, I saw a great deal of messages like “my internet browser shows me undesirable News-kicefa.com pop-up advertisements, is it a computer virus?” or “these News-kicefa.com pop-up ads in my Chrome making me mad, how to handle them?”. According to the statistics for last months, pc virus creators started a vast adware delivery project. Let me show you, how you can get rid of the viruses from your computer, and also forget about the bothersome News-kicefa.com pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a News-kicefa.com) offer you pop-up advertisements. The message can contain something like “do you want to get notifications concerning the most recent news?” or “allow alerts to be reported regarding recent discount rates?”. Usually, such messages are harmless, and may just distract you with its sudden showing up. Plus it can be easily turned off, in case alerts from this site are no longer required.
Pop-up notifications are quite an efficient advertising and marketing tool. If you want goods of some type, you can enable pop-ups from the site where you can buy this things, and also as quickly as these things are in inventory again, or if you can have a price cut – you will certainly obtain the notice about this. The counterparty – online retailers, cars and truck lending services, etc – will certainly be in profit, too – customer will definitely get a reminder concerning the product he/she meant to purchase. And also such an advertising and marketing method is almost free – this aspect is extremely important for corporations.
| Site | News-kicefa.com |
| 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 | Getcaptcha.top, Qpsh.online, News-gujume.com |
News-kicefa.com Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But in some cases pop-up advertisements can appear without your permission, as well as with a content which is completely various from your existing attentions or search queries. And also, besides undesirable News-kicefa.com pop-ups from the unknown website, you can simultaneously see a lot of ads, consisting of ones on the pages which originally have no advertisements at all. Such a scenario can be the indication of adware existence.
Adware is the sort of computer virus which infiltrates into your computer, after that begins demonstrating to you numerous advertisements. Their content often has no connection with your usual search questions. Besides banner promotions, your web browser can additionally suggest you a substantial quantity of various News-kicefa.com pop-up advertisements, which appear in the bottom right area.
The model of adware usage is extremely sly. The huge pack of adware is distributed with trojan viruses, which are injected in your computer earlier. Promotions, which are shown to you by malicious program, are paid by their creators. In several weeks, all anti-malware programs began to catch these adware, for this reason, trojan sheds in profitability. And to dispatch the user’s computer system, malware distributors begin ransomware distribution via these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your desktop may still be influenced by adware virus. A big quantity of ads along with News-kicefa.com pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your common activities will certainly be difficult to carry out in common manner.
How Can I Deal With News-kicefa.com Pop-Ups?
Presuming the text above: your personal computer, and your data, is in a serious danger. To quit this virus, you need to make use of anti-virus software. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to deal with News-kicefa.com pop-ups malware. Nevertheless, it can not revert the web browser changes which were applied by harmful program. Another drawback of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its certain vulnerability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender through the Group Policies after being injected to your PC.
To be 100% sure that your computer 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 programs on your computer, including News-kicefa.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 malicious apps, because it scans only the most popular registry entries and directories.
You can spectate the detected viruses sorted by their possible harm till the scan process. But to choose any actions against malware, you need to hold on until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To set the action for each detected virus or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malicious program. By default, all malware 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 is not able to be counteracted by News-kicefa.com virus, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be located in the Tools tab.
After pressing 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 restoration, 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:
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-kicefa.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.