Viewlivenews Promos - How to remove

Viewlivenews Promos is a browser extension solely made to show pop-up ads to everyone who has installed it. Supposedly, it’s a way to make up for the Viewlivenews.co site being free. Once installed, View Live News Promos injects ads into your web browser like an aggressive adware program. It logs your browsing data, interferes with your web browsing, and wastes your time. Luckily, besides showing unwanted ads, the Viewlivenews Promos extension is not dangerous and is easy enough to remove.

In short about View Live News Promos:

Classification	Adware, PUP (potentially unwanted program).
Issues with Viewlivenews Promos	Reads your browsing data, shows unwanted pop-up ads, may have been installed unintentionally.
How unwanted extensions spread	Bundled with free programs, bundled with other browser extensions, advertised dishonestly.
How to remove Viewlivenews Promos	Uninstall unwanted browser extensions, check your computer with an antivirus tool (Combo Cleaner for macOS, Spyhunter for Windows, etc.).

Problems with Viewlivenews ads

Viewlivenews Promos is the same type of extension as Media Converter Promos, Easy File Converter Promos, and Easy Driving Directions Promos. A browser extension that works as adware. Viewlivenews Promos being a browser extension (What is a Web Browser?) means that it gets installed on your browser as an add-on, getting access to some browser settings, and to the webpages that are displayed by your browser. Some browser extensions are great (like ones that block malicious websites, or password managers), but others are a bit suspicious. Some companies make browser extensions solely to herd users to their websites and to show them ads, then they use deceptive tactics to get as many people as possible to install the extension. Whish somewhat describes Viewlivenews Promos.

Viewlivenews is on the Chrome Web Store, its description says very clearly what it does:

• shows you ads while you’re browsing the internet,
• tracks your browsing habits and uses that information to target those ads.

Ads by Viewlivenews.co are labeled as it’s required, so you know which ads are displayed by it. Viewlivenews injects ads into webpages on your computer, after you download them –  so, the ads don’t always mesh well with the sites they’re shown on. Distracting, annoying, and easy to accidentally click on while you’re trying to close them.

To achieve its goals, Viewlivenews Promos asks for only one permission: reading and changing your data on all the sites that you visit. This is pretty intrusive, as this permission may let Viewlivenews read some of your personal data. Viewlivenews promises to strip out that data and not to log it, but it’s something that you have to trust it to do. And it can be hard to trust an adware extension.

Another issue is that there are ads on Viewlivenews.co already. Why does there need to be an adware extension to “pay” for a site that’s already monetized? Many of the ads are for other adware extensions, by the way.

How browser hijackers spread

Viewlivenews Promos has over thirty thousand users on the Chrome Web Store – and no reviews. Lack of reviews is pretty common for browser hijackers, extensions that get installed without asking your permission. There are a few ways that this can happen:

• Viewlivenews Promos being bundled with other browser extensions,
• Viewlivenews Promos being advertised dishonestly,
• adware bundlers installing browser extensions.

By Viewlivenews Promos being bundled with other extensions, I mean it being offered straight after the installation of another browser extension, without making it clear that this is a new installation. For example, by showing a button called “Continue”, some sites trick people into installing one extension while they think it’s some other extension. Sometimes three or more browser installations are chained together this way.

Adware bundles are free programs that bundle potentially unwanted software inside. You only get to see what that software is once you’re in the setup. Usually, you can refuse the programs, but it’s easy to miss those options and end up with a bunch of junkware on your computer.

How to remove Viewlivenews Promos

You can uninstall Viewlivenews Promos manually from your web browser settings. And if you did not install this extension yourself, I would advise you to use an antivirus program (like Combo Cleaner for Mac, Spyhunter for PC, etc.) to check your computer for malware seeing as Viewlivenews Promos could have been installed together with adware.

If you still get pop-up ads from Viewlivenews.co, check this article on blocking unwanted web push notifications.

I don’t believe that you need to be concerned about your private data being spied on by Viewlivenews. But if you want to be extra careful, then just change your passwords (after removing all suspicious programs from your computer) and make sure that 2-step verification is turned on where possible. Viewlivenews may not be malicious (it’s adware, not malware), but there are some bad browser extensions out there, so be very careful about what you install.

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Manual removal instructions

How to remove Viewlivenews Promos using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Viewlivenews Promos install some of their components as regular Windows programs as well as additional software. This part of malware can be uninstalled from the Control Panel. To access it, do the following.

• Start→Control Panel (older Windows) or press Windows Key→Search and enter Control Panel and then press Enter (Windows 8, Windows 10).
• Choose Uninstall Program (if you don't see it, click in the upper right next to "View by" and select Category).
• Go through the list of programs and select entries related to Viewlivenews Promos . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Viewlivenews Promos easier to find.
• Click the Uninstall button. If you're asked if you really want to remove the program, click Yes.
• In many cases anti-malware programs are better at detecting related parasites, thus I recommend installing Spyhunter to identify other programs that might be a part of this infection.

TopRemoving Viewlivenews Promos from Chrome

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Google Chrome window. Select “Settings”.
  
• Click “Extensions” on the left menu bar.
• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to Viewlivenews Promos. Click on the trash bin icon next to Viewlivenews Promos or other add-ons you want to remove.
  
• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.
  
• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.
  
• Restart Chrome.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to Viewlivenews Promos, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
  
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on the Reset settings button.
  
• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

TopRemoving Viewlivenews Promos from Firefox

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla window and select the “Add-ons” icon (or press Ctrl+Shift+A on your keyboard).
  
• Go through Extensions and Addons list, remove everything Viewlivenews Promos related and items you do not recognise. If you do not know the extension and it is not made by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or Adobe then you probably do not need it.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to Viewlivenews Promos, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla Firefox window. Click on the Help button.
  
• Choose Troubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.