Last week, I saw a ton of messages like “my web browser displays me undesirable News-page.net pop-up ads, is it a computer virus?” or “these News-page.net pop-up ads in my Chrome making me crazy, how to manage them?”. Due to the stats for last months, pc virus distributors began a massive adware delivery campaign. Let me show you, how you can delete the pc virus from your computer system, and also forget about the bothersome News-page.net pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a News-page.net) use you pop-up ads. The message can contain something like “do you want to have notices about the current news?” or “permit notifications to be reported regarding recent discount rates?”. Normally, such messages are risk-free, and may only sidetrack you with its abrupt appearance. Moreover, it can be quickly disabled, in case notifications from this site are no longer needed.
Pop-up alerts are rather an reliable advertising and marketing mechanism. If you are interested in products of some type, you can give a permission to the pop-ups from the web site where you can acquire this things, and also as quickly as these items are in inventory again, or if you can have a price cut – you will obtain the notification concerning this. The counterparty – online stores, car lending companies, etc – will certainly remain in profit, too – buyer will surely get a tip concerning the item he/she intended to buy. And such an advertising and marketing method is almost free – this aspect is very important for companies.
| Site | News-page.net |
| IP Address | 185.87.187.160 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Telemobile.site, Protection-availability.xyz, Safepro.vip |
News-page.net Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
But often pop-up ads can show up without your permission, and with a material which is totally different from your existing attentions or search questions. And, besides unwanted News-page.net pop-ups from the unknown origin, you can simultaneously see a lot of advertisements, including ones on the pages which at first have no promotions whatsoever. Such a scenario can be the indication of adware presence.
Adware is the kind of virus which infiltrates into your personal computer, and then begins suggesting you various promotions. Their content typically has no correlation with your usual search questions. Besides banner promotions, your browser can additionally suggest you a massive amount of various News-page.net pop-up promotions, which show up in the lower right area.
The model of adware usage is really sly. The big pack of adware is distributed through trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your PC previously. Advertisements, which are suggested to you by virus, are paid by their makers. In several weeks, all antivirus programs began to stop these adware, thus, trojan sheds in profitability. And to end up the user’s computer system, virus distributors start ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer system can continue to be impacted by adware virus. A huge number of promotions in addition to News-page.net pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your common work will certainly be impossible to do in usual manner.
How Can I Deal With News-page.net Pop-Ups?
Presuming the text above: your personal computer, and your data, is in a severe risk. To quit this virus, you need to make use of anti-virus tool. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to deal with News-page.net pop-ups virus. Nonetheless, it can’t revert the browser alterations which were applied by harmful program. An additional disadvantage of the antivirus by Microsoft is its certain susceptability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender via the Group Policies after being infiltrated to your computer.
To be 100% sure that your PC 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 computer, including News-page.net 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 viruses, because it scans only the most popular registry entries and directories.
You can see the detected malicious apps 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 detected virus or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected virus. By default, all the viruses will be moved to quarantine.
Reset browser settings to original ones
To reset your browser settings, you need to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action is not able to be counteracted by News-page.net 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 shown, where you can specify, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without making use of third-party software
Besides using anti-malware tools for browser restoration, you can pick 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-page.net 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.
