Remove Mycoolnewz Adware From PC

Mycoolnewz: Complete Guide To Uninstall

Mycoolnewz is a precarious web domain similar to fastcaptcharesolve.com and others that use social engineering to make people enable the built-in notification feature on their internet browsers. It’s a mere scam site and users are more often redirected to it due to adware running inside their computers. This potentially unwanted program focuses on showing coupons, offers, deals, banners and other commercial material in order to attract users to affiliated web portals. Such behavior of adware generally redirects users to possibly hazardous places on the web including Mycoolnewz site. To get rid of this domain appearance on your browser, you need to terminate the PUP hiding inside your machine.

Mycoolnewz Employs Misleading Tactics To Allow Notifications:

Mycoolnewz urge visitors to click the ‘Allow’ button to prove that they are 18+. Allegedly, they will be only able to view the content of the page through this way. Nonetheless, once they press the “Allow” button, they are flooded with intrusive ads not only during the online sessions but also when they are offline. These ads trigger redirects to other ad-supported pages and sponsored sites to generate revenue for the developer and publisher. This advertising network is used by other spiteful applications and browser-based intruders to show advertisements and deceive people into visiting more sites like this.

Mycoolnewz adware is not a dangerous computer virus, but advertising campaign, commercial contents create frustration while web surfing. Moreover, Redirects caused by it can expose the users to malware-laden sites or other deceptive pages, lead to malware intrusion, privacy issues, identity theft and various types of fraud. PUPs generally involve all types of services and websites in these malvertising campaigns, so you have absolutely no guarantee that the site and content you get to access and view, is harmless and doesn’t contain malware or virus.

Tracking victims’ online activities allows the Mycoolnewz adware to generate tons of personalized advertisements tailored to their interests. This increases the chance of these ads being clicked more often. Every click on these adverts adds traffic to sponsored web portals and also generates revenues for the PUP creators via pay-per-click mechanism. Due to the presence of this adware in your computer, your internet experience will be noticeably slower than usual and more labor intensive. And thus, an instant Mycoolnewz removal is strongly recommended from the device.

Adware Are Spread In Software Bundle Packages:

Potentially unwanted applications are most often distributed via software bundling. It’s a nasty and deceptive marketing technique that presents users with optional applications within a singular installer. Additional components are typically hidden with the help of small print text, pre-ticked boxes, illusive button placements, and similar tactics. When you download a freeware from unreliable site and then perform rushed installation process (ignoring terms and sections, skipping steps, using pre-set options etc.), you risk installing all the components added to the package.

For that reason, paying attention when installing freeware or shareware is very important as– most of the unwanted programs intrude the machine this way. You should never rush the installation process and check each of the installation steps cautiously, un-check the pre-ticked boxes, make sure ToS and Privacy Policy is included and always opt for Advanced/Custom installation settings. In case your device is already infected with this PUP, you must remove Mycoolnewz from the work-station 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 Mycoolnewz:

Remove the related items of Mycoolnewz 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 Mycoolnewz 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 (Mycoolnewz) 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 Mycoolnewz 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 Mycoolnewz 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 Mycoolnewz 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 Mycoolnewz 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 Mycoolnewz (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.