How to stop news-wulacu.com redirects

news-wulacu.com is a dubious website that users may get randomly redirected to. The site tries to trick users into allowing ads on their desktops by misusing a legitimate browser feature. If you get redirected to the site, you will get a prompt saying “news-wulacu.com wants to show notifications”. Clicking “Allow” means authorizing the site to show ads.

 

 

When you first get redirected to news-wulacu.com, you will see a video player start loading and suddenly stop. A browser pop-up will appear saying “news-wulacu.com wants to show notifications”. The site will also display a message saying you need to click “Allow” to watch the video. If users get redirected to this site while trying to stream copyrighted content illegally, this trick may work. When users give permission, the site starts spamming ads. These ads will appear on the right side of the screen, similarly to where system notifications pop up. Clicking on those ads is not a good idea because you could be redirected to highly questionable websites that conceal malware or promote various scams. Fortunately, if you have given news-wulacu.com permission to show notifications, you can easily revoke this permission via your browser’s settings.

The feature does have legitimate uses. As long as a site is safe, it can be given permission to show notifications. For example, if you frequently visit a particular website and want to see its content without having to visit the site, allowing it to show notifications can be useful. If you get tired of the notifications, you can easily revoke the permission.

What triggers news-wulacu.com redirects?

If you get randomly redirected to a site like news-wulacu.com, it’s usually because you browse high-risk websites without an adblocker. Certain websites expose users to highly questionable ads. For example, sites that have pornographic and/or pirated content are known to trigger ads/redirects when users click on anything. A good anti-virus program should be able to prevent these unwanted redirects.

Another trigger for random redirects may be adware. It’s a minor but very annoying infection because its main purpose is to expose users to as much advertisement content as possible. It’s usually installed via the software bundling method. The way it works is infections like adware are attached to free programs as extra offers. These extra offers are technically optional but they are preselected to install alongside automatically. Users can prevent them from installing but the offers are hidden in settings users don’t usually use. This makes software bundling a frowned-upon method, and programs that use it are often detected as potential threats by anti-virus programs.

As long as you pay attention when installing programs, you can easily prevent these unwanted installations. When installing a program, choose Advanced (Custom) settings instead of Default when given the option. The installation window will recommend using Default settings but if you do that, all added offers will be authorized to install. Advanced settings, on the other hand, will make all offers visible. You would also be given the option to deselect the offers you do not want. Unless you want to fill your computer with junk programs like adware and browser hijackers, always deselect all offers. Legitimate programs do not use this installation method

How to stop news-wulacu.com notifications

Because adware could be triggering the redirects to news-wulacu.com, we recommend scanning your computer with an anti-virus program like WiperSoft. If adware is detected, removing it will stop the redirects. Adware can be difficult to deal with manually, so using an anti-virus program is much easier. If adware is not the issue, installing an adblocker program will stop the redirects.

If you were tricked into allowing news-wulacu.com to show notifications, you can easily revoke the permission in your browser’s settings. If you do not know how to do it, follow the below instructions.

• For Mozilla Firefox: Open Menu (the three bars top-right corner) -> Options -> Privacy & Security. Scroll down to Permissions, press Settings next to Notifications, and remove news-wulacu.com and any other questionable websites. You can permanently turn off these notification requests by checking the “Block new requests asking to allow notifications” box in the same Notifications settings.
• For Google Chrome: Open Menu (the three dots top-right corner) -> Settings -> Privacy and security -> Site Settings. Click on Notifications under Permissions, and remove news-wulacu.com and any other questionable websites. You can stop these notification requests permanently by toggling off “Sites can ask to send notifications”.
• For Microsoft Edge: Open Menu (the three dots top-right corner) -> Settings -> Cookies and site permissions -> Notifications. Review which sites have permission and remove news-wulacu.com and any other questionable websites. You can permanently turn off these notification requests by toggling off “Ask before sending”.