Clicking on the News-Icevu ad may trigger the injection of different malware or unwanted programs. In this post, you will see the manual of News-Icevu popups removal in several methods, as well as checking your PC for extra malware presence.

What are News-Icevu pop-ups?

News-Icevu popups are an effect of adware action. Adware is a type of malware that shows you the pay-per-view of pay-per-click promotions, which generates a massive volume of income for adware distributors. These ads may consist of explicit content, or have a web link to harmful content/website, due to the fact that adware maintainers have no purpose to check the goodness of the content they are going to show – their single target is cash.

News-Icevu push notification.

Pop-up marketing itself is an excellent, low-priced and also extremely effective marketing method¹. It makes it possible for the vendor to attach the customers’ attention to their website, and the customers to get the dynamic updates on the goods they want to purchase. When the person will get a pop-up alert that the TV set he wishes to buy is offered at the online store he/she saw earlier with a 15% price cut, one will definitely use this possibility and get it. Considering the incredibly low cost for the popups and their targeting, such an advertising tool is a favorite thing amongst the marketing teams of large online retail stores.

However, such a profitable scheme could not be missed by malware creators. Potential to demonstrate the popup ads forcibly to the targets of malware attack is a perfect basis for malevolent manipulations with the popup advertisements. And News-icevu.cc advertisements is just one of hundreds that are “employed” in this scheme.

Site	News-icevu.cc
Hosting	AS63023 GTHost United Kingdom, London
Infection Type	Adware, Push notifications, Unwanted Ads, Pop-up Ads
IP Address	149.7.16.246
Symptoms	Annoying pop-up ads in the right corner.
Similar behavior	News, Eyourcom, Mentsinto
Fix Tool	GridinSoft Anti-MalwareTo remove possible virus infections, try to scan your PC

How have I got the News-Icevu virus?

There are a lot of methods of getting infected by the adware that result in the News-Icevu popups tornado. A lion’s part of this malware incidents is after the free software or cracked programs, that are distributed on the peering networks. Freeware can likewise be downloaded from the official site, and the adware is offered as a legit bundled program.

There is no need to blame yourself. A huge amount of individuals oftentimes make use of the unreliable programs from untrusted sources: abandonware, various apps that are free, or even hacked programs. All of these types of programs are dangerous, since it is very easy to integrate a News-Icevu malware under the guise of part of the license hacking script, or as a component of the self-made algoritm within the Windows optimization tool.

News-Icevu popup malware can additionally be concealed in the promotion somewhere on the odd web page. Such websites are in most cases packed with bright and blinking advertisements, and their owners generally permit any promotions to be placed on their page. Hence, clicking on such banners is a risky thing: only the ad provider realizes what will occur when you click this ad. Besides some “light” viruses, like adware or unwanted programs, you can also receive something much more damaging, like ransomware or coin miner; the substantial share of coin miners distribution is exactly after the malicious ads.

The statistic shows that people dislike popup advertising more than other types of promotions

Potentially unwanted programs, like News-Icevu popup virus may cause a lot of problems on your computer. Distracting is not the only effect – pop-ups may present you the banners, where you are offered to download another dubious program, or “a effective anti-malware tool”. Scareware is often spread with the use of the last slogun. Potentially unwanted programs, in turn, can have spyware functions. And it is pretty hard to distinguish the undesirable app from a legit one, if you don’t know the exact names. Besides the PUPs and dubious antiviruses, popup-related promotions are also used as a distribution method by various trojan viruses, for instance – coin miners. The consequences of actions of such malware is 100% unwanted, and can cost you hundreds or even thousands of dollars. And even if you are not tapping these banners, they may be clicked by whoever who also makes use of your computer – parents, children, spouse, etc. So the things may become much more serious, and it will be much harder to deal with it without data and money loss. It is recommended to get rid of the viruses with antivirus programs as soon as possible.

How can I get rid of News-Icevu pop-up advertisements?

The manual of News-Icevu adware removal includes 2 sections. Initially, we need to remove the malware, and afterwards deal with the effects of its activity. The elimination procedure is really easy, since it can be done even with the use of Microsoft Defender – anti-malware software that is present on all personal computers with Windows 8/10. Nevertheless, as a result of its huge resources consumption, along with some problems that may be crucial for some types of individuals, Defender is frequently disabled by the users, so its use is likely impossible. Furthermore, a variety of trojan viruses can shut off the embedded antivirus. It is much better to use the separated program that will not have such vulnerabilities.

I would certainly recommend you to utilize Gridinsoft Anti-Malware² – a well-proven security tool that will undoubtedly exterminate the malware from your PC and create an invulnerable cover with a Proactive protection function. But let’s deal with News-Icevu adware initially.

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Removing News-Icevu popup virus with GridinSoft Anti-Malware

• Download and install GridinSoft Anti-Malware. After the installation, you will be offered to perform the Standard Scan. Approve this action.
• Standard scan checks the logical disk where the system files are stored, together with the files of programs you have already installed. The scan lasts up to 6 minutes.
• When the scan is over, you may choose the action for each detected virus. For all files of News-Icevu malware the default option is “Delete”. Press “Apply” to finish the malware removal.

Now, when the computer is clean of viruses, we can proceed to the browser reset. You can do this step manually, as well as with the use of GridinSoft Anti-Malware.

Reset browser settings to default

Manual method of browser reset

1. Open “Settings and more” tab in upper right corner, then find here “Settings” button. In the appeared menu, choose “Reset settings” option :
2. After picking the Reset Settings option, you will see the following menu, stating about the settings which will be reverted to original :

1. Open Menu tab (three strips in upper right corner) and click the “Help” button. In the appeared menu choose “troubleshooting information” :
2. In the next screen, find the “Refresh Firefox” option :

After choosing this option, you will see the next message :

1. Open Settings tab, find the “Advanced” button. In the extended tab choose the “Reset and clean up” button :
2. In the appeared list, click on the “Restore settings to their original defaults” :
3. Finally, you will see the window, where you can see all the settings which will be reset to default :

1. 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 :


2. After clicking the “Restore settings…” button, you will see the window, where all settings, which will be reset, are shown :

When the browsers are reset, you need to make sure that your web browser will definitely be connected the proper DNS while connecting to the site you need. Make a text file named “hosts” on your desktop, after that open it and fill it with the following content³:

# Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a ‘#’ symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
# localhost name resolution is handle within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost

Find the hosts.txt file in C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc directory. Rename this file to “hosts.old.txt” (to distinguish it from the new one), and then move the file you created on the desktop to this folder. Remove the hosts.old from this folder. Now you have your hosts file as good as new.

Nevertheless, there is one issue that makes things a lot more difficult to restore, specifically without the anti-malware program. The majority of adware variations that are used to show you the News-Icevu pop-up advertisements are adjusting the deep browser configurations, disabling an access to the settings tab. So, if you attempt to fix your browser settings after your computer was infected by pop-up-related malware, your browser will crash quickly. In certain cases, you will see no crash, but huge lag spike after pushing the “settings” key. Browser will stop responding for ~ 30 secs, and afterwards it will be back to the typical, till you attempt to open settings one more time.

Reset your browser settings with GridinSoft Anti-Malware

To reset your browser with GridinSoft Anti-Malware, open the Tools tab, and click the “Reset browser settings” button.

You can see the list of the options for each browser. By default, they are set up in the manner which fits the majority of users. Press the “Reset” button (lower right corner). In a minute your browser will be as good as new.

The browser reset is recommended to perform through the antivirus tool by GridinSoft, because last is also able to reset the HOSTS file without any additional commands.

References

1. More about pop-up ads on Wikipedia.
2. GridinSoft Anti-Malware overview and the reasons why I recommend it for malware removal.
3. Official Microsoft guide for hosts file reset.