Remove 1matchmaking.com Pop Up Ads

Did you just get a pop-up from 1matchmaking.com and ponder where it came from? Did the 1matchmaking.com ad appear to have been initiated from a web site that under normal circumstances don’t use advertising such as pop-up windows? Or did the 1matchmaking.com pop-up show up while you clicked a link on one of the major search engines, such as Google, Bing or Yahoo?

Here is how the 1matchmaking.com ad looked like on my computer:

1matchmaking.com pop up

(I know, lots of watermarks. Have to do it to stop the copy-cats.)

Does this sound like what you see your machine, you almost certainly have some adware installed on your computer that pops up the 1matchmaking.com ads. So there’s no idea contacting the owner of the web site you currently were browsing. The ads are not coming from them. I’ll try help you to remove the 1matchmaking.com pop-ups in this blog post.

I found the 1matchmaking.com pop-up on one of the lab computers where I have some adware running. I’ve talked about this in some of the previous blog posts. The adware was installed on purpose, and from time to time I check if something new has appeared, such as pop-up windows, new tabs in the browsers, injected ads on web site that usually don’t show advertisements, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.

1matchmaking.com was registered on 2014-07-30. 1matchmaking.com resolves to the 94.242.203.99 IP address.

So, how do you remove the 1matchmaking.com pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the 1matchmaking.com ads I had WebShield, mystartsearch, Wajam, PhaseProfessor, FastSearch, PrimaryColor, SSFK.exe, SFKEX64.exe, YTDownloader and acengine installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the 1matchmaking.com pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Mozilla Firefox.

The issue with pop ups like the one described in this blog post is that it can be popped up by many variants of adware. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the pop-ups.

Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the 1matchmaking.com ads removal:

  1. What software do you have installed if you look in the Add/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel? Something that you don’t remember installing yourself or that was recently installed?
  2. You can also check the add-ons that you have in your browser. Same thing here, do you see something that you don’t remember installing?
  3. If that didn’t solve the problem, you can give FreeFixer a try. FreeFixer is built to assist users when manually tracking down adware and other types of unwanted software. It is a freeware utility that I’ve been working since 2006 and it scans your machine at lots of locations where unwanted software is known to hook into your system. If you would like to get additional details about a file in FreeFixer’s scan result, you can just click the More Info link for that file and a web page with a VirusTotal report will open up, which can be very useful to determine if the file is safe or malware:

    FreeFixer More Info link example
    An example of FreeFixer’s “More Info” links. Click for full size.

Here you can see FreeFixer in action removing pop-up ads:

Did this blog post help you to remove the 1matchmaking.com pop-up ads? Please let me know or how I can improve this blog post.

Thank you!

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