Yourwownewz.com Ad Spam - How to remove

Yourwownewz.com is an advertising site that uses notifications to flood your screen with pop-up ads. It advertises dubious sites, showing pop-ups on your screen at random intervals.

You can stop Yourwownewz.com from showing you ads by changing your browser settings. Considering the sites surrounding Yourwownewz.com, it’s recommended to check your device for malware, too.

Yourwownewz.com in short:

Classification	Adware, browser hijacker.
How Yourwownewz.com affects web browsers	It delivers ads as browser notifications (pop-ups in the corner or the top of the screen), it tricks visitors into subscribing to its notifications.
How to avoid notification spammers	Block malicious websites, disable notification prompts.
How to stop Yourwownewz.com ads	Block notifications from unwanted sites, find and delete adware and other malware (Spyhunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, others).

How Yourwownewz.com delivers ads

Yourwownewz.com is advertised on file download sites, movie streaming sites, often – on various pirating sites. Pirating sites do tend to show ads for shady, even malicious products and sites. It’s just how it is – maybe the operators of pirating websites are lenient about what kinds of ads they accept, or maybe few non-malicious advertisers want to associate with pirating (and thus, potentially illegal) websites.

Usually, the ad for Yourwownewz.com looks like a white page with an animated loading bar in the middle. It asks you to allow its notifications “and continue watching”. This implies that Yourwownewz.com is somehow connected to you being able to watch videos online. But it’s not. You’re free to ignore this page.

And you should, as Yourwownewz.com does nothing but send you ads via notifications. Notifications are great when they’re used to tell you about a new direct message on a chat site, but nothing is stopping Yourwownewz.com from using the same notifications to deliver ads. And that’s what it does, together with other sites, such as Alltopposts.com, Leezeemu.com, and others.

There is another side to Yourwownewz.com – a news site-like front that’s filled with articles taken straight from LA Times. I’m not sure what the point of this is, besides making Yourwownewz.com seem less suspicious.

How to avoid notification hijackers

As Yourwownewz.com is advertised online, you could use an ad blocker to try and avoid similar sites in the future. You’re unlikely to encounter malicious ads on mainstream sites, so it’s fine to turn off the blocker on those sites. But on free movie sites and pirating sites, it’s best to keep the blocker on.

Alternatively, you could look into using anti-malware programs and malicious site blockers. Some of these programs can recognize malicious scripts and malicious files that attempt to download themselves. At this time, multiple antivirus scanners detect Yourwownewz.com as malicious: Virustotal.com.

But Yourwownewz.com entirely relies on notifications to deliver its ads, so, the most basic thing to do to stop it is to disable notification prompts. Nothing to download and install – just change a setting in your browser. After this, it becomes almost impossible to allow notifications by accident.

How to stop ads from Yourwownewz.com

Yourwownewz.com is a website, so it’s not like you can delete it from your computer. But stopping its ads is actually very simple – you just need to change your browser settings, like this:

• Chrome – open Settings, scroll down to Site settings (under Privacy and security), click on Notifications.
• Edge (Chromium) – open Settings, click Site Permissions, Notifications.
• Firefox – open Settings, Privacy & Security, scroll down to Permissions, and click on Settings next to Notifications.
• Safari – in the Safari menu, choose Preferences, Websites, Notifications.

On the notification settings page, find Yourwownewz.com and other sites that you might not want to hear from, then make sure that their status is set to “Blocked”. This blocks notifications (not the sites themselves) as opposed to the “Remove” button, which just allows Yourwownewz.com to ask to send you notifications if you visit it again.

After that, you might want to scan your computer with an anti-malware program, such as Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for macOS, and others. That’s to see if any of the sites that Yourwownewz.com advertises infected your device with any malware. When I encountered Yourwownewz.com, it was alongside various browser hijackers and other adware viruses, so it is a real concern.

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