How to remove apps designed to promote lootynews.com?

What is lootynews[.]com?

Lootynews[.]com is a website designed to check the IP address and then either display deceptive content or open two, three other shady pages. Lootynews[.]com is similar to kaba-zaba[.]com, stream-your-vids[.]com, scleriends[.]website, and hundreds of other pages of this type.

Lootynews[.]com in detail

Usually, websites like lootynews[.]com ask permission to show notifications (most of them use one or another clickbait technique to trick users into allowing them to show notifications). They often display a fake CAPTCHA test encouraging users to click the "Allow" button to prove their age, show messages saying that users need to click the aforementioned button to prove their age, continue loading the page, etc.

As a rule, notifications from websites like lootynews[.]com contain links to potentially malicious websites, deceptive, misleading advertisements, etc. Therefore, it is highly advisable not to allow any untrustworthy pages to show their notifications

Also, lootynews[.]com might open websites designed to trick visitors into downloading and installing various browser hijackers, adware (or other unwanted software), providing login credentials (such as usernames, email addresses, passwords), credit card details, and so on. A couple of examples of pages that lootynews[.]com could be designed to promote are "You Are Our Winner Today!", "McAfee Tollfree", "Code #007d3Cx0d".

In most cases, pages like lootynews[.]com are promoted through deceptive ads, shady or even malicious websites, or potentially unwanted applications (PUAs). In one way or another, they rarely get visited by users intentionally.

More about PUAs

Another problem with most PUAs is that they gather data and (or) generate advertisements. Usually, they collect IP addresses, entered search queries, geolocations, addresses of visited pages, or other browsing data.

However, apps of this kind can be designed to collect sensitive information (for example, saved passwords, credit card details) as well. Having an app of this kind could be harmful - it may lead to problems related to online privacy, browsing safety, monetary loss, and other issues.

Examples of ads that advertising-supported PUAs generate are coupons, banners, surveys, pop-up ads. Those ads can be designed to promote untrustworthy pages or distribute unwanted software by running certain scripts.

Threat Summary:

Name	Ads by lootynews.com
Threat Type	Push notifications ads, Unwanted ads, Pop-up ads
Serving IP Address	213.174.135.2
Symptoms	Seeing advertisements not originating from the sites you are browsing. Intrusive pop-up ads. Decreased Internet browsing speed.
Distribution Methods	Deceptive pop-up ads, potentially unwanted applications (adware)
Damage	Decreased computer performance, browser tracking - privacy issues, possible additional malware infections.
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PUAs and pages like lootynews[.]com in general

To summarize, lootynews[.]com and other websites of this type are untrustworthy and should be avoided. As mentioned in previous paragraphs, websites like lootynews[.]com often are promoted through applications that users rarely download and install knowingly.

It is worth mentioning that most of those apps are useless and can cause various problems. Therefore, any installed PUAs should be uninstalled as soon as possible (instructions on how to remove unwanted apps are provided below).

How did adware install on my computer?

Quite often, potentially unwanted applications are offered as optional applications in downloaders or installers for other programs. This distribution method is known as "bundling".

Optional applications can be found and deselected before finishing downloads or installations. Typically, downloaders, installers with additional offers have "Custom", "Advanced", "Manual", or other settings (or checkboxes) that can be used to decline those offers.

Users allow for PUAs to be downloaded or installed when they finish downloads or installations without changing those settings. It is worthwhile to mention that usually PUAs are bundled with free programs.

In some cases, PUAs are distributed through deceptive advertisements by designing those ads to run certain scripts. Users cause unwanted downloads, installations by clicking them.

How to avoid installation of potentially unwanted applications?

Programs (and files) should be downloaded from trustworthy, official websites and through direct links. It is not recommended to use third-party downloaders, installers, Peer-to-Peer networks (like torrent clients, eMule, etc.), unofficial web pages, etc., to download or install any programs (or files) because they can be used to distribute malware or other unwanted software.

Downloaders and installers with ticked checkboxes, "Advanced", "Custom" or other settings usually have optional applications in them. Unwanted offers and should be declined before finishing downloads, installations.

Advertisements on questionable websites could open untrustworthy websites or cause unwanted downloads, installations. Therefore, it is advisable not to click those ads as well.

Additionally, a browser should not have any suspicious extensions, add-ons, plug-ins installed on it. If your computer is already infected with rogue applications, we recommend running a scan with Combo Cleaner Antivirus for Windows to automatically eliminate them.

Appearance of lootynews[.]com website (GIF):

Notification from lootynews[.]com:

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Quick menu:

• What is Ads by lootynews.com?
• STEP 1. Remove spam notifications from Google Chrome
• STEP 2. Remove spam notifications from Google Chrome (Android)
• STEP 3. Remove spam notifications from Mozilla Firefox
• STEP 4. Remove spam notifications from Microsoft Edge
• STEP 5. Remove spam notifications from Safari (macOS)

Disable unwanted browser notifications:

Video showing how to disable web browser notifications:

Remove spam notifications from Google Chrome:

Click the Menu button (three dots) on the right upper corner of the screen and select "Settings". In the opened window select "Privacy and security", then click on "Site Settings" and choose "Notifications".

In the "Allowed to send notifications" list search for websites that you want to stop receiving notifications from. Click on the three dots icon near the website URL and click "Block" or "Remove" (if you click "Remove" and visit the malicious site once more, it will ask to enable notifications again).

Remove spam notifications from Google Chrome (Android):

Tap the Menu button (three dots) on the right upper corner of the screen and select "Settings". Scroll down, tap on "Site settings" and then "Notifications".

In the opened window, locate all suspicious URLs and tap on them one-by-one. Once the pop-up shows up, select either "Block" or "Remove" (if you tap "Remove" and visit the malicious site once more, it will ask to enable notifications again).

Remove spam notifications from Mozilla Firefox:

Click the Menu button (three bars) on the right upper corner of the screen. Select "Settings" and click on "Privacy & Security" in the toolbar on the left hand side of the screen. Scroll down to the "Permissions" section and click the "Settings" button next to "Notifications".

In the opened window, locate all suspicious URLs and block them using the drop-down menu or either remove them by clicking "Remove Website" at the bottom of the window (if you click "Remove Website" and visit the malicious site once more, it will ask to enable notifications again).

Remove spam notifications from Microsoft Edge:

Click the menu button (three dots) on the right upper corner of the Edge window and select "Settings". Click on "Cookies and site permissions" in the toolbar on the left hand side of the screen and select "Notifications".

Click three dots on the right hand side of each suspicious URL under "Allow" section and click "Block" or "Remove" (if you click "Remove" and visit the malicious site once more, it will ask to enable notifications again).

Remove spam notifications from Safari (macOS):

Click "Safari" button on the left upper corner of the screen and select "Preferences...". Select the "Websites" tab and then select "Notifications" section on the left pane.

Check for suspicious URLs and apply the "Deny" option using the drop-down menu or either remove them by clicking "Remove" at the bottom of the window (if you click "Remove" and visit the malicious site once more, it will ask to enable notifications again)

How to avoid browser notification spam?

Internet users should be very skeptical when being asked to allow notifications. While this is a useful feature that allows you to receive timely news from websites you like, deceptive marketers frequently abuse it.

Only allow notifications from websites that you fully trust. For added security - use an anti-malware application with a real-time web browsing monitor to block shady websites that tries to trick you into allowing spam notifications. We recommend using Combo Cleaner Antivirus for Windows.

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