How to remove Gofenews.com ads

Easy tips to delete Gofenews.com

Gofenews.com is designed for the sole motive to scam users with push notifications and redirect them to affiliated pages that engage them in suspicious activities. Upon stumbling to the site, you met a wheel that you can spin to get some prize. The reality is that, there are many fakes pages claim to give prizes to random visitors by doing nothing.

The site asks you to enable notifications so as later on it can scam you with pop-up ads that contain links that lead to dangerous pages. Users put themselves at risk on clicking such links as they can be sent to the pages of same kind and any other pages by which they might suffer financial loss and identity theft if they provide their personal info.

Fake giveaways are still commonly used among scammers

As said, when you access the website, you see a wheel that you can spin. If you spin it, you will be redirected to some other domain where you are informed that you have won certain prize. On clicking different buttons on this page, you can get redirected to other shady pages.

And, you get no prize as it is claiming about. It is all the way to lure you in associated pages. This is a social engineering technique used by fraudsters to manipulate users. It is very unlikely that completely unknown site is just giving away stuff for free.

Usually, these kinds of pages are hidden in already shady pages that are full of deceptive ads and sneaky redirects. There is a slim chance that you found it through web search. Of course, you can get redirected to questionable pages due to adware infection.

Where does that Gofenews.com lead to?

During the investigation, the website leads to some suspicious website where users were asked to register to earn tokens for various gifts. We suggest you being careful about such sites and always search for the site for the review before trusting it.

It is likely that such pages can track the web browsing session using cookies. This way, they can see your IP addresses, the links you clicked on, what purchases you made and etc. We suggest you using some reputable antivirus tool get rid of them immediately.

If you see pop-ups appearing on the top of the screen, you can disable it from the browsers’ settings by checking for permission granted to the sites like Gofenews.com to send notifications and undoing it. But, this push notification can be a sign of more serious problem, which is adware.

You might have been redirected to the shady website by a program hidden on your system. If you have recently installed some type of program from a freeware distribution site, it is likely to get installed along with the download/ installation.

You could download the program because it was disguised as a very handy tool or it was included as bundled software and you have no idea about it. Unofficial pages for freeware distribution are the main channels behind this problem.

To prevent this secret installation, you should require choosing Custom/Advanced installation method and reading the Privacy Policy and Terms of use. The important step is to check the list of the files. If you se anything suspicious, just un-tick it.

On the other hand, if PUA is already installed, it can be harder to locate it. It is unknown which particular app is causing redirect to Gofenews.com page. Thus, we suggest you run a full system scan using some reputable antivirus tool to find the unwanted app and remove the virus and suspicious processes and remove them.

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 Gofenews.com :

Remove the related items of Gofenews.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 Gofenews.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 (Gofenews.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 Gofenews.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 Gofenews.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 Gofenews.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 Gofenews.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 Gofenews.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.