Last week, I saw a great deal of posts like “my browser demonstrates me undesirable News-lajaju.cc pop-up promotions, is it a pc virus?” or “these News-lajaju.cc pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me mad, how to take care of them?”. Due to the statistics for last months, virus suppliers began a vast adware delivery project. Let me show you, how you can get rid of the viruses from your PC, as well as forget about the frustrating News-lajaju.cc pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a News-lajaju.cc) offer you pop-up advertisements. The message can include something like “do you want to have notifications about the most up to date information?” or “allow alerts to be reported regarding recent discount rates?”. Usually, such messages are harmless, and may just distract you with its unexpected appearance. Also it can be quite easily turned off, in case alerts from this website are no longer desired.
Pop-up alerts are quite an effective advertising mechanism. If you want products of some kind, you can enable pop-ups from the web site where you can buy this things, and also as quickly as these things are in inventory again, or if you can have a discount – you will obtain the alert about this. The counterparty – online stores, car lending services, etc – will certainly remain in profit, too – purchaser will undoubtedly obtain a reminder concerning the product he/she meant to buy. And also such an advertising method is nearly free of charge – this element is really essential for companies.
| Site | News-lajaju.cc |
| IP Address | 193.108.118.59 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Thescads.com, Rocklightstep.com, Rockblackstep.com |
News-lajaju.cc Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But occasionally pop-up promotions can come out without your permission, and also with a material which is completely various from your existing interests or search queries. And, besides unwanted News-lajaju.cc pop-ups from the unknown website, you can at the same time see a lot of promotions, consisting of ones on the web pages which primarily have no advertisements at all. Such a situation can be the trace of adware existence.
Adware is the kind of virus which injects into your system, and then begins demonstrating you various promotions. Their content often has no connection with your usual search queries. Besides banner advertisements, your browser can also demonstrate you a huge amount of different News-lajaju.cc pop-up advertisements, which come into view in the lower right area.
The model of adware use is extremely sly. The huge pack of adware is distributed via trojan viruses, which are injected in your personal computer previously. Promotions, which are demonstrated to you by malicious program, are paid by their makers. In several weeks, all antivirus programs began to catch these adware, therefore, trojan sheds in productivity. And to terminate the user’s computer, malware distributors start ransomware distribution via these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer might continue to be impacted by adware virus. A big amount of advertisements in addition to News-lajaju.cc pop-ups can make your PC as slow as snail, so your common tasks will be difficult to do in common manner.
How Can I Deal With News-lajaju.cc Pop-Ups?
Concluding the text above: your desktop, as well as your data, is in a significant risk. To stop this virus, you need to use antivirus tool. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to deal with News-lajaju.cc pop-ups virus. Nevertheless, it can not revert the web browser alterations which were implemented by malicious program. Another disadvantage of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its particular vulnerability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender through the Group Policies after being implanted to your computer.
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 remove all unwanted programs on your desktop, including News-lajaju.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 checks only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can observe the detected malicious programs sorted by their possible harm till 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 spotted virus or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malware. 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-lajaju.cc malware, 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 shown, where you can specify, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without making use of third-party programs
Besides using antivirus tools for browser reset, 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-lajaju.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.
