Recently, I saw a ton of posts like “my internet browser displays me unwanted News-pijowo.cc pop-up promotions, is it a virus?” or “these News-pijowo.cc pop-up promotions in my Chrome making me insane, how to take care of them?”. Due to the statistics for last months, computer virus suppliers began a vast adware circulation project. Let me show you, how you can get rid of the computer viruses from your personal computer, and also forget about the irritating News-pijowo.cc pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some websites (like a News-pijowo.cc) show you pop-up promotions. The message can contain something like “do you want to have notifications concerning the most up to date information?” or “enable notifications to be reported regarding new discounts?”. Usually, such messages are risk-free, and may only sidetrack you with its sudden arrival. Also it can be easily turned off, in case alerts from this online resource are no longer desired.
Pop-up notifications are rather an effective marketing mechanism. If you are interested in goods of some sort, you can enable pop-ups from the web site where you can buy this stuff, and also as soon as these items are in store again, or if you can have a price cut – you will obtain the alert about this. The counterparty – online stores, automobile lending services, etc – will certainly be in profit, too – purchaser will surely get a reminder about the product he/she intended to pay for. As well as such a marketing technique is almost free – this element is extremely important for corporations.
| Site | News-pijowo.cc |
| IP Address | 193.108.117.25 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Captchatoday.top, Reepratic.com, Astirvantblog.com |
News-pijowo.cc Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However sometimes pop-up advertisements can come out without your confirmation, and with an information which is entirely various from your current cares or search queries. And also, besides undesirable News-pijowo.cc pop-ups from the unknown site, you can simultaneously see a lot of promotions, including ones on the web pages which at first have no promotions at all. Such a scenario can be the trace of adware appearance.
Adware is the type of malware which injects into your computer, and then begins showing you different promotions. Their subject typically has no correlation with your normal search questions. Besides banner advertisements, your browser can likewise demonstrate to you a significant amount of different News-pijowo.cc pop-up promotions, which come into view in the bottom right area.
The model of adware usage is extremely sly. The huge pack of adware is distributed through trojan viruses, which are infiltrated in your PC earlier. Ads, which are suggested to you by virus, are paid by their creators. In a couple of weeks, all anti-malware programs began to catch these adware, thus, trojan loses in earnings. And to ruin the user’s computer system, malware distributors begin ransomware distribution through these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer may continue to be affected by adware virus. A significant number of promotions in addition to News-pijowo.cc pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your typical tasks will be difficult to perform in usual way.
How Can I Deal With News-pijowo.cc Pop-Ups?
Concluding the paragraphs above: your PC, and your information, is in a severe risk. To stop this virus, you need to use anti-virus tool. Microsoft Defender, which is installed in every Windows 10 distribution, is able to take care of News-pijowo.cc pop-ups virus. Nonetheless, it can not return the web browser changes which were applied by harmful program. Another negative aspect of the anti-virus by Microsoft is its certain vulnerability: malware can disable Microsoft Defender via the Group Policies after being infiltrated to your PC.
To be 100% sure that your computer is clean of any malware now, and will be clean in future, I can advice you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and delete all unwanted programs on your personal computer, including News-pijowo.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 programs, because it scans only the most popular registry entries and folders.
You can see the detected malicious programs sorted by their possible hazard simultaneously with the scan process. But to choose any actions against the viruses, you need to hold on until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To set the action for each detected malicious or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malicious app. 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 cannot be counteracted by News-pijowo.cc malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be located in the Tools tab.
After choosing the Reset Browser Settings button, the menu will be shown, where you can specify, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without utilizing third-party software
Besides using antivirus programs for browser reset, you may choose 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-pijowo.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.
