Remove Rookinews.com: Stop Intrusive Ads

Rookinews.com: Complete Uninstall Steps

Rookinews.com is a deceptive website that uses a clickbait technique to trick visitors into agreeing to receive notifications and redirect to suspicious pages. Users don’t often visit misleading sites like this intentionally. Quite often, they end up on such pernicious domains due to clicking on dubious ads, mistyping URLs, or when their computers are infected with potentially unwanted programs (PUPs). This type of browser-based intruder enters the targeted systems stealthily using deceptive tactics like software bundling, and then starts running intrusive advertising campaign and redirecting people to phishing sites like this one.

Rookinews.com Displays Annoying Advertisements:

Once you press the “Allow” button, the Rookinews.com starts delivering intrusive pop-up ads directly on your phone screen or computer desktop, even if the browsers are not in use. You should not interact with these adverts or even with the ads provided by the adware itself as they might redirect you to potentially insecure domains. Once you click on these commercial content, you might be rerouted to various phishing, malware-laden, porn, gaming, gambling, tech support scam or other hazardous portals, and end up with exposing your sensitive data to scammers, infecting your device with PUPs and so on.

Although Rookinews.com pop-up ads deliver offers, coupons, deals, and other online shopping material, there is nothing useful about this application. You should exit the window if the redirect occurs once or twice on the screen. Nonetheless, frequent redirects to this page show that your machine is already affected by the adware that runs its processes in the background. One of the functions that this site has is data tracking. Once Rookinews.com gets traffic from its visitors, each click on the browser, site, or pop-up gives access to browsing information and preferences such as:

• most visited sites;
• IP address;
• location;
• browsing history;
• Search queries;
• most searched items.

Developers of this notorious domain are associated with advertisers and can share these details with third-party companies. Commercial content creators customize advertising material based on these preferences and trick users into installing applications they endorse. In some cases, these PUPs can also gather personal data like banking and credit card details which could be later on misused by the scammers for making fraudulent transactions, unauthorized purchases and other deceptive purposes. Therefore, presence of this nasty adware in your work-station may result in huge financial losses. So, Rookinews.com removal should not be delayed from the computer.

Penetration Of Rookinews.com:

According to researchers, adware or other potentially unwanted programs are mostly injected into the targeted computer systems with the help of bundled software. This occurs when people download a free application from popular site like cnet.com, download.com, soft32.com, softonic.com and then install it using the Quick or Recommended mode set. Moreover, if you have a habit of clicking on random ads while web surfing, you may infiltrate PUPs as well.

The best way to protect your device and browsers from adware attacks is by leveling up your attention while completing browsing work. Remember that the best installation mode is Custom or Advanced and all Quick functions need to be avoided. Moreover, stay away from unknown pages, peer-to-peer networks, and secondary software downloading links. Last but not least, make sure that you keep all of your apps regularly updated, especially, your antivirus tool. But at the moment, you must remove Rookinews.com from the PC as early as possible.

Antimalware Details And User Guide

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Important Note: This malware asks you to enable the web browser notifications. So, before you go the manual removal process, execute these steps.

Google Chrome (PC)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the Menu button
• Select “Settings”. Scroll the mouse downward to choose “Advanced” option
• Go to “Privacy and Security” section by scrolling downward and then select “Content settings” and then “Notification” option
• Find each suspicious URLs and click on three dots on the right side and choose “Block” or “Remove” option

Google Chrome (Android)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the menu button and then click on “Settings”
• Scroll down further to click on “site settings” and then press on “notifications” option
• In the newly opened window, choose each suspicious URLs one by one
• In the permission section, select “notification” and “Off” the toggle button

Mozilla Firefox

• On the right corner of the screen, you will notice three dots which is the “Menu” button
• Select “Options” and choose “Privacy and Security” in the toolbar present in the left side of the screen
• Slowly scroll down and go to “Permission” section then choose “Settings” option next to “Notifications”
• In the newly opened window, select all the suspicious URLs. Click on the drop-down menu and select “Block”

Internet Explorer

• In the Internet Explorer window, select the Gear button present on the right corner
• Choose “Internet Options”
• Select “Privacy” tab and then “Settings” under the “Pop-up Blocker” section
• Select all the suspicious URLs one by one and click on the “Remove” option

Microsoft Edge

• Open the Microsoft Edge and click on the three dots on the right corner of the screen to open the menu
• Scroll down and select “Settings”
• Scroll down further to choose “view advanced settings”
• In the “Website Permission” option, click on “Manage” option
• Click on switch under every suspicious URL

Safari (Mac):

• On the upper right side corner, click on “Safari” and then select “Preferences”
• Go to “website” tab and then choose “Notification” section on the left pane
• Search for the suspicious URLs and choose “Deny” option for each one of them

Manual Steps to Remove Rookinews.com:

Remove the related items of Rookinews.com using Control-Panel

Windows 7 Users

Click “Start” (the windows logo at the bottom left corner of the desktop screen), select “Control Panel”. Locate the “Programs” and then followed by clicking on “Uninstall Program”

Windows XP Users

Click “Start” and then choose “Settings” and then click “Control Panel”. Search and click on “Add or Remove Program’ option

Windows 10 and 8 Users:

Go to the lower left corner of the screen and right-click. In the “Quick Access” menu, choose “Control Panel”. In the newly opened window, choose “Program and Features”

Mac OSX Users

Click on “Finder” option. Choose “Application” in the newly opened screen. In the “Application” folder, drag the app to “Trash”. Right click on the Trash icon and then click on “Empty Trash”.

In the uninstall programs window, search for the PUAs. Choose all the unwanted and suspicious entries and click on “Uninstall” or “Remove”.

After you uninstall all the potentially unwanted program causing Rookinews.com issues, scan your computer with an anti-malware tool for any remaining PUPs and PUAs or possible malware infection. To scan the PC, use the recommended the anti-malware tool.

How to Remove Adware (Rookinews.com) from Internet Browsers

Delete malicious add-ons and extensions from IE

Click on the gear icon at the top right corner of Internet Explorer. Select “Manage Add-ons”. Search for any recently installed plug-ins or add-ons and click on “Remove”.

Additional Option

If you still face issues related to Rookinews.com removal, you can reset the Internet Explorer to its default setting.

Windows XP users: Press on “Start” and click “Run”. In the newly opened window, type “inetcpl.cpl” and click on the “Advanced” tab and then press on “Reset”.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 Users: Press the Windows logo, type inetcpl.cpl in the start search box and press enter.  In the newly opened window, click on the “Advanced Tab” followed by “Reset” button.

For Windows 8 Users: Open IE and click on the “gear” icon. Choose “Internet Options”

Select the “Advanced” tab in the newly opened window

Press on “Reset” option

You have to press on the “Reset” button again to confirm that you really want to reset the IE

Remove Doubtful and Harmful Extension from Google Chrome

Go to menu of Google Chrome by pressing on three vertical dots and select on “More tools” and then “Extensions”. You can search for all the recently installed add-ons and remove all of them.

Optional Method

If the problems related to Rookinews.com still persists or you face any issue in removing, then it is advised that your reset the Google Chrome browse settings. Go to three dotted points at the top right corner and choose “Settings”. Scroll down bottom and click on “Advanced”.

At the bottom, notice the “Reset” option and click on it.

In the next opened window, confirm that you want to reset the Google Chrome settings by click on the “Reset” button.

Remove Rookinews.com plugins (including all other doubtful plug-ins) from Firefox Mozilla

Open the Firefox menu and select “Add-ons”. Click “Extensions”.  Select all the recently installed browser plug-ins.

Optional Method

If you face problems in Rookinews.com removal then you have the option to rese the settings of Mozilla Firefox.

Open the browser (Mozilla Firefox) and click on the “menu” and then click on “Help”.

Choose “Troubleshooting Information”

In the newly opened pop-up window, click “Refresh Firefox” button

The next step is to confirm that really want to reset the Mozilla Firefox settings to its default by clicking on “Refresh Firefox” button.

Remove Malicious Extension from Safari

Open the Safari and go to its “Menu” and select “Preferences”.

Click on the “Extension” and select all the recently installed “Extensions” and then click on “Uninstall”.

Optional Method

Open the “Safari” and go menu. In the drop-down menu, choose “Clear History and Website Data”.

In the newly opened window, select “All History” and then press on “Clear History” option.

Delete Rookinews.com (malicious add-ons) from Microsoft Edge

Open Microsoft Edge and go to three horizontal dot icons at the top right corner of the browser. Select all the recently installed extensions and right click on the mouse to “uninstall”

Optional Method

Open the browser (Microsoft Edge) and select “Settings”

Next steps is to click on “Choose what to clear” button

Click on “show more” and then select everything and then press on “Clear” button.

Conclusion

In most cases, the PUPs and adware gets inside the marked PC through unsafe freeware downloads. It is advised that you should only choose developers website only while downloading any kind of free applications.  Choose custom or advanced installation process so that you can trace the additional PUPs listed for installation along with the main program.