How to remove Rex-news.org adware

Simple methods to delete Rex-news.org

Rex-news.org pop-up is displayed on dubious websites that users visit during web browsing session on Mozilla Firefox, IE, Google chrome, Safari and others. Users visit this page unintentionally – they are redirected by some potentially unwanted programs that already installed into their system. Aside from causing redirects to shady sites, they deliver intrusive advertisements and collect data related to users browsing activities.

When visiting Rex-news.org page, users see a pop-up that states the following:

Rex-news.org wants to Show notifications
Click Allow to start downloading…

This is just a technique to deceive users into enabling their browser notifications. Further, it recommends you to click on the allow button in order to prove that you are not a robot. Following the instructions, the users will end up with intrusive advertisements. Those delivered ads are in form of pop-ups, banners, coupons, discounts, deals, offers, commercial ads and other similar adverts. The delivered ads are more than just a annoyance but they are also considered to be dangerous.

These annoying ads have the deceptive feature as well, on interacting users are redirected to harmful, deceptive or unreliable pages. Some of the ads might run malicious scripts to cause computer infection. Following to successful infiltrate, they change the settings of installed browser that could be spotted on homepage and new tab page and open new browsing tab for sponsored sites that reroutes web traffic to dubious pages.

Another feature associated with adware infection is data tracking. These apps track users browsing habits and collect their browsing related data all the time. The collected data includes IP addresses, search queries, visited websites, viewed pages and etc that typically contain personally identifiable information. What’s more, developers share all gathered details with third parties or misuse those details to generate revenue in various other similar ways. Therefore, the data tracking can result into huge risk of privacy and even identity theft. So, PUP removal is highly recommended.

How did adware infection intrude?

Potentially unwanted programs mostly come bundled with other software download. The technique which is used to distribute the bundled apps is called bundling. In this method, the multiple ads are attached and offers for downloads the package in a single on third party sites. Users who do not pay close attention during installation moment, also those who are not cautious when selecting source for chosen software download, often lead the inadvertent installation of unwanted applications. This happens only when users rushed through downloads/installations (such as, ignored terms, skipped steps, use pre-set options and so on). On the other hand, PUAs also spread these applications by clicking on intrusive adverts that are displayed on their operating system or browsers. Clicking on those ads mistakenly cause downloads and installations of potentially unwanted applications by executing malicious scripts.

How to avoid installation of PUAs?

Intrusion of potentially unwanted apps can be prevented but to do so you need to be careful during browsing session and downloading and installing software. Avoid using untrustworthy downloading sources as they offer bundled content. For any software download, always rely on official and trustworthy pages and through direct download links. Further, be attentive during installation of any program and carefully analyze each and every step and opt out for additional included programs and dismiss offers to download and install them with the help of chosen software for download. Moreover, it is recommended not to click on ads displayed on shady pages as they open various untrustworthy sites or cause unwanted downloads/installations.

Remove Rex-news.org

To remove Rex-news.org from the system, you can use reputable antivirus tool or go through step by step manual removal instructions that are provided under this article. However, researchers suggest you to go through the first option because second option is too lengthy as well as requires computer knowledge to perform virus removal process. Now, the choice is yours.

Threat summary

Name: Rex-news.org

Type: Adware, PUP, pop-up ads, push notification ads

Description: display lots of unwanted and annoying ads and pop-ups on your desktop as well as redirect you to doubtful websites continually.

Damage: steal financial as well as personal information, browser tracking-possibly privacy issues, identity theft and allow other additional malware infections.

Symptoms: Your web browser begins to display various types of online advertisements which result in slowing down of your machine.

Distribution: spam email campaigns, malicious ads or popup, bundles of freeware and shareware programs, corrupted websites, harmful links and many more.

Removal: To remove Rex-news.org and all harmful malware, we recommend you to use powerful anti-malware removal tool or go through given mentioned removal instructions.

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 Rex-news.org:

Remove the related items of Rex-news.org 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 Rex-news.org 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 (Rex-news.org) 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 Rex-news.org 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 Rex-news.org 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 Rex-news.org 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 Rex-news.org 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 Rex-news.org (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.