Recently, I saw a lot of messages like “my web browser shows me unwanted News-wicofa.cc pop-up advertisements, is it a computer virus?” or “these News-wicofa.cc pop-up ads in my Chrome making me mad, how to manage them?”. Due to the statistics for last months, computer virus creators began a massive adware circulation project. Let me demonstrate you, how you can remove the viruses from your personal computer, as well as forget about the annoying News-wicofa.cc pop-ups.
Pop-Ups : Discovering The Nature
You can admit that some sites (like a News-wicofa.cc) offer you pop-up ads. The message can contain something like “do you want to get notifications regarding the latest information?” or “allow notifications to be reported regarding latest discounts?”. Generally, such messages are risk-free, and can just sidetrack you with its abrupt visual appeal. And it can be simply turned off, in case notifications from this web site are no longer desired.
Pop-up alerts are fairly an efficient marketing mechanism. If you are interested in goods of some kind, you can give a permission to the pop-ups from the site where you can get this things, and also as soon as these items are in inventory again, or if you can have a discount – you will certainly get the notification regarding this. The counterparty – online sellers, vehicle lending services, etc – will be in profit, too – customer will surely get a suggestion regarding the item he/she planned to buy. And such an advertising and marketing approach is practically free – this element is really important for corporations.
| Site | News-wicofa.cc |
| IP Address | 149.7.16.233 |
| Infection Type | Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads |
| Symptoms | Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner. |
| Similar behavior | Steady-protection.com, Big-news.xyz, News-fiwosu.cc |
News-wicofa.cc Pop-Ups Are Not So Safe
However occasionally pop-up promotions can show up without your permission, as well as with a content which is entirely different from your current attentions or search queries. And also, besides unwanted News-wicofa.cc pop-ups from the unknown website, you can simultaneously see a lot of advertisements, consisting of ones on the web pages which initially have no ads at all. Such a situation can be the indicator of adware presence.
Adware is the sort of pc virus which infiltrates into your personal computer, after that begins demonstrating to you different promotions. Their subject often has no correlation with your usual search questions. Besides banner promotions, your web browser can likewise demonstrate you a substantial number of various News-wicofa.cc pop-up promotions, which come into view in the lower right corner.
The model of adware usage is extremely sly. The big pack of adware is spread through trojan viruses, which are injected in your computer earlier. Advertisements, which are demonstrated to you by malware, are paid by their creators. In a couple of weeks, all antivirus programs began to stop these adware, thus, trojan loses in earnings. And to end up the user’s computer, virus distributors begin ransomware distribution with these trojans.
Even if there is no active ransomware distribution, your computer system might still be influenced by adware virus. A big quantity of ads together with News-wicofa.cc pop-ups can make your PC as slow-moving as snail, so your regular work will be difficult to do in common way.
How Can I Deal With News-wicofa.cc Pop-Ups?
Thinking the text above: your computer, along with your information, is in a significant danger. To stop this infection, you need to utilize anti-malware software. Microsoft Defender, which is embedded in every Windows 10 distribution, has the ability to handle News-wicofa.cc pop-ups malware. However, it can not revert the browser changes which were implemented by harmful program. An additional drawback of the anti-malware program by Microsoft is its specific susceptability: viruses can disable Microsoft Defender with the Group Policies after being injected to your computer system.
To be 100% sure that your desktop is clean of any malicious programs now, and will be clean in future, I can offer you to use GridinSoft Anti-Malware.
To detect and erase all malicious programs on your computer, including News-wicofa.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 spectate the detected malware sorted by their possible harm till the scan process. But to perform any actions against malware, you need to wait until the scan is finished, or to stop the scan.
To set the action for each spotted malicious or unwanted program, click the arrow in front of the name of detected malicious app. By default, all malware will be removed to quarantine.
Reverting browser settings to original ones
To revert your browser settings, you are required to use the Reset Browser Settings option. This action cannot be intercepted by News-wicofa.cc malware, hence, you will surely see the result. This action can be found in the Tools tab.
After choosing the Reset Browser Settings button, the menu will be shown, where you can choose, which settings will be reverted to original.
Reset browser setiings without using third-party applications
Besides using antivirus programs for browser reset, you can 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-wicofa.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.
