Does this sound like what you are seeing right now? You see pop-up ads from qleads4u.com while browsing on web sites that normally don’t advertise in pop-up windows. The pop-ups manage to evade the built-in pop-up blockers in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari or Opera. Perhaps the qleads4u.com pop-ups appear when clicking search results from Google? Or does the pop-ups show up even when you’re not browsing?

Here’s a screenshot of the qleads4u.com pop-up ad when it showed up on my system:

Does this sound like your system, you probably have some adware installed on your system that pops up the qleads4u.com ads. There’s no use contacting the owners of the website you were browsing. The ads are not coming from them. I’ll try help you to remove the qleads4u.com pop-ups in this blog post.

Those that have been visiting this blog already know this, but for new visitors: Some time ago I dedicated some of my lab machines and intentionally installed some adware programs on them. Since then I’ve been observing the actions on these machines to see what kinds of advertisements that are displayed. I’m also looking on other interesting things such as if the adware updates itself, or if it downloads and installs additional unwanted software on the systems. I first noticed the qleads4u.com pop-up on one of these lab machines.

qleads4u.com was registered on 2015-11-02. se.qleads4u.com and qleads4u.com resolves to the 77.233.247.67 address.

So, how do you remove the qleads4u.com pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the qleads4u.com ads I had gosearch.me, SmartComp Safe Network, Live Malware Protection and Windows Menager installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the qleads4u.com pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Mozilla Firefox.

The problem with this type of pop-up is that it can be initiated by many variants of adware, not just the adware running on my computer. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the pop-ups.

Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the qleads4u.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. How about your add-ons that you have in your browser. Anything in the list that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that didn’t solve the problem, I’d recommend a scan with FreeFixer to manually track down the adware. FreeFixer is a freeware tool that I’m working on that scans your computer at lots of locations, such as browser add-ons, processes, Windows services, recently modified files, etc. If you want to get additional details about a file in the scan result, you can click the More Info link for that file and a web page will open up with a VirusTotal report which will be very useful to determine if the file is safe or malware:

   

Here’s a video tutorial which shows FreeFixer in action removing adware that caused pop-up ads:

Did you find any adware on your machine? Did that stop the qleads4u.com ads? Please post the name of the adware you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.

Thank you!