Category Archives: pop-ups

Remove ash.coupbat.com Pop-Ups Ads

November 19, 2014adware, pop-upsCoup Pop-UpRoger Karlsson

Does this sound like your story? You see pop-up ads from ash.coupbat.com while browsing sites that generally don’t advertise in pop-up windows. The pop-ups manage to circumvent the built-in pop-up blockers in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Perhaps the ash.coupbat.com pop-ups appear when clicking search results from Google? Or does the pop-ups appear even when you’re not browsing?

Here’s how the ash.coupbat.com pop-up looked like when I got it on my computer:

(Sorry for the ridiculous use of watermarking. If I don’t add them my screenshots always show up at some copy-cat blogs.)

If this description sounds like what you are seeing, you almost certainly have some adware installed on your machine that pop up the ash.coupbat.com ads. So don’t send angry emails to the site you were browsing, the ads are presumably not coming from them, but from the adware on your machine. I’ll try help you to remove the ash.coupbat.com in this blog post.

If you have been spending some time on this blog already know this, but if you are new: Recently I dedicated a few of my lab machines and purposely installed a few adware programs on them. I’ve been monitoring the actions on these systems 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 installs additional unwanted software on the systems. I first noticed the ash.coupbat.com pop-up on one of these lab machines.

So, how do you remove the ash.coupbat.com pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the ash.coupbat.com ads I had TinyWallet, BrowserWarden and BlockAndSurf installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the ash.coupbat.com pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Firefox.

BlockAndSurf was the adware that caused the pop-ups in my case. I could see this since it was kind enough to label the pop-up ad with “Ads by BlockAndSurf“:

What label did your pop-up ad have? Please share in the comments area.

The issue with this type of pop-up is that it can be launched by many variants of adware. I think that adware such as NewPlayer, CheckMeUp, Salus and SaferSurf can also be responsible for the ash.coupbat.com popups. And there are probably other variants too. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the pop-ups.

Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the ash.coupbat.com ads removal:

The first thing I would do to remove the ash.coupbat.com pop-ups is to examine the software installed on the machine, by opening the “Uninstall programs” dialog. You can find this dialog from the Windows Control Panel. If you are using one of the more recent versions of Windows Operating System you can just type in “uninstall” in the Control Panel’s search field to find that dialog:

Click on the “Uninstall a program” link and the Uninstall programs dialog will open up:

Do you see something strange-looking in there or something that you don’t remember installing? Tip: Sort on the “Installed On” column to see if some program was installed about the same time as you started observing the ash.coupbat.com pop-ups.

The next thing to check would be your browser’s add-ons. Adware often appear under the add-ons menu in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari or Opera. Is there something that looks suspicious? Anything that you don’t remember installing?

I think most users will be able to identify and remove the adware with the two steps outlined above, but in case that did not work you can try the FreeFixer removal tool to identify and remove the adware. FreeFixer is a freeware tool that I’ve developed since 2006. It’s a tool designed to manually identify and uninstall unwanted software. When you’ve found the unwanted files you can simply tick a checkbox and click on the Fix button to remove the unwanted file.

FreeFixer’s removal feature is not locked like many other removal tools out there. It won’t ask pay a fee just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.

And if you’re having difficulties determining if a file is clean or unsafe in the FreeFixer scan report, click on the More Info link for the file. That will open up your web browser with a page which contains more details about the file. On that web page, check out the VirusTotal report which can be quite useful:

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

Are you a Mac or Linux user and get the ash.coupbat.com pop-ups? What did you do to stop the pop-up in your browser? Please share in the comments below. Thanks!

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

Thank you!

Remove aff.couploss.com Pop-Up Ads

November 18, 2014pop-upsCoup Pop-UpRoger Karlsson

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

If this sounds like your story, it’s very likely that you have some unwanted advertising software on your computer. This type of software is often called adware. I’ll try to give you some advice on how to remove the aff.couploss.com pop-ups in this blog post which hopefully will help you to completely stop the popups.

In my case I had an adware called BlockAndSurf installed on my machine which I remove with FreeFixer. Problem solved. As a matter of fact, the pop-up was actually labeled with the adware name. What label did your pop-up have?

But the problem is that this type of pop-up is popped up by other adware too, which makes it difficult to say exactly what should be removed.

I would start checking in the Add/Remove programs dialog for something suspicious, then check the browser’s add-on menu.

If you don’t find the adware there, try the FreeFixer removal tool. It’s a free tool that can help you track down and remove the adware. If you find something that looks suspicious in the scan result, click the More Info link to the a VirusTotal report.

What adware did you find on your machine? When you removed them, did that stop the aff.couploss.com pop-up ads?

Remove ami.coupplayoffgame.com Pop-Up Ads

November 13, 2014adware, freefixer, pop-upsCoup Pop-UpRoger Karlsson

Getting pop-up ads from ami.coupplayoffgame.com? Do the pop-ups bypass Firefox’, Chrome’s and Internet Explorer’s pop-up blockers? Do the ami.coupplayoffgame.com popups appear on sites that normally don’t show any pop-ups? Most likely, you have some adware install and running on your machine. On the computer where I got these pop-ups I had Safer-Surf, SmarterOnes and Support 1.80 installed. I removed these with FreeFixer and the problem was solved.

Here’s how the ami.coupplayoffgame.com pop-up looked like:

Sorry for the silly use of watermarks in the screenshot, but if I don’t that the screenshot always show up at some copy-cat blogs 🙂

In my case, the adware responsible for the ami.coupplayoffgame.com pop-ups was SaferSurf, since the pop-up was labeled with the adware name. What name appeared in your pop-up?

So, how do you remove the ami.coupplayoffgame.com pop-ups? I would do it like this:

First I’d check the Add/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel. Do you find some adware there? Uninstall it.
Then I would check the browser’s add-on menu. Does something suspicious show up? Uninstall it.
If that did not help, you can try the FreeFixer removal tool which is designed to manually track down and remove unwanted software. If you have difficulties to determine if some files in FreeFixer’s scan result are legit or malware, try the More Info link which will show a VirusTotal report for the file:

freefixer-more-info-blockandsurf — More Info links in FreeFixer. Click for full size.

Did you find this blog post useful. Please let me know by posting a comment.

Thanks for reading!

How To Stop s.ptrk-wn.com Pop-Up Ads

November 12, 2014adware, pop-upsRoger Karlsson

Having problems with pop-ups from s.ptrk-wn.com? If so, you might have adware installed on your machine. I got the s.ptrk-wn.com pop-ups on my lab machine where I had the TinyWallet, Browser Warden and BlockAndSurf adware installed. I got the pop-up in Firefox, but it can appear if you are using Chrome or Internet Explorer.

To remove the s.ptrk-wn.com pop-up ads you need to review your machine for adware or other types of unwanted software and uninstall it. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:

Check what programs you have installed in the Add/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel. Do you see something that you don’t remember installing and that was recently installed?
You can also review the add-ons that you have in your browser. Same thing here, do you see something that you don’t remember installing?
If that does not help, 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:

FreeFixer More Info Links — The More Info links in FreeFixer. Click for full size.

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

Thank you for reading!

Remove ace.couprace.com Pop-Up Ads

November 12, 2014adware, freefixer, pop-upsCoup Pop-UpRoger Karlsson

If you are getting bombarded with pop-ups ads from ace.couprace.com you have some adware installed on your machine. I got the pop-up in Firefox, but it can also appear if you are browsing the web with Chrome or Internet Explorer. Here’s how the pop-up ad look on my computer:

I got the pop-ups when clicking links in Google’s search results. I think the ads can appear when using other search engines such as Yahoo and Bing. This raised some red flags since these search engines never shows ads in pop-ups.

I’ve noticed this type of pop-up ad triggered by adware such as BlockNSurf, New Player, Speed Check and SaferSurf. Sometimes the pop-up window is labeled with the adware name. Mine was labeled “Ads by BlockAndSurf” in the upper right corner of the browser:

Were the ace.couprace.com ads you were getting also labeled? Please post what the label said on your machine. Thanks!

So, if you’d like to stop the ace.couprace.com pop-up ads, I’d check if I could find something suspicious on the computer by looking in the Add/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel. You can sort on the “Installed On” date to see if somehing was added recently.

You can also check your browser’s add-ons to see if you find something there.

If that does not help, try the freeware FreeFixer tool to track down the adware launching the pop-ups. Tip: If you don’t know if a file in FreeFixer’s scan result is legitimate or adware, click the More Info link for that file. It will show a VirusTotal report for the file which will help a lot.

Thank you for reading. Did this help you remove the ace.couprace.com pop-ups?

Update 2014-11-14: Thanks to “Ainigma” for reporting in that the ace.couprace.com pop-ups can appear when running Linux based Ubuntu and Google Chrome.

I’ve been keeping an eye on the Google Analytics page for this blog post, and there are some indications that Mac users are also seeing the ace.couprace.com ads. If you are a Mac user and get the ace.couprace.com popup, please post a comment below. What browser do you use? Did you find out how to remove the adware responsible for the ace.couprace.com pop-ups?

Seems like it’s mostly users from Europe and Southeast Asian that are having problems with the couprace.com ads. Are you also from this part of the world? I’m living in Sweden.

Remove ais.coupat-bat.com Pop-Up Ads

November 12, 2014adware, freefixer, pop-upsCoup Pop-UpRoger Karlsson

If you get pop-ups ads from ais.coupat-bat.com you probably have adware on your machine. Here’s how the pop-up ad look on my machine:

I’ve seen this type of pop-up launched by adware such as BlockAndSurf, NewPlayer, SpeedCheck and SaferSurf. Sometimes the pop-up window is tagged with the name of the adware. Here’s a screenshot from my machine where the ad was labeled “Ads by BlockAndSurf” in the upper right corner of the browser window:

Were the ais.coupat-bat.com pop-ups you were getting also labeled? Please post what the label said on your machine. Thank you!

So, if you’d like to remove the ais.coupat-bat.com pop-up ads, I’d check if I could find something suspicious on the machine by looking in the Remove Programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel. Sort on the “Installed On” date to see if anything was added recently.

I would also check my browser’s add-ons to see if something unexpected shows up there.

If that does not help, try the freeware tool FreeFixer to track down the adware responsible for the pop-ups. Tip: If you don’t know whether a file in FreeFixer’s scan result is legit or malware, please click the More Info link for the file. It will show a VirusTotal report for the file which will help a lot.

Thank you for reading. Did this help you remove the ais.coupat-bat.com pop-ups?

Remove ant.coupmatchup.com Pop-Up Ads

November 12, 2014adware, pop-upsCoup Pop-UpRoger Karlsson

Does this sound familiar? You see pop-up ads from ant.coupmatchup.com while browsing web sites that normally don’t advertise in pop-up windows. The pop-ups manage to bypass the built-in pop-up blockers in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer. Perhaps the ant.coupmatchup.com popups appear when clicking search results from Google? Or does the pop-ups appear even when you’re not browsing?

If this description sounds like your experience you most likely have some adware installed on your system that pop up the ant.coupmatchup.com ads. So don’t write angry emails to the site you were browsing, the ads are most likely not coming from them, but from the adware on your machine 🙂 I’ll try help you with the ant.coupmatchup.com removal in this blog post.

Here’s how the ant.coupmatchup.com pop-up looked like when I got it on my machine:

Sorry for the extensive use of watermarks in the screenshot, but if I don’t watermark it some copy-cat bloggers will use it in their blogs 🙂

Those that have been reading this blog already know this, but here we go: Recently I dedicated a few of my lab machines and deliberately installed a few adware programs on them. I’ve been following the behaviour on these machines to see what kinds of different 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 machines. I first spotted the ant.coupmatchup.com pop-up on one of these lab machines.

So, how do you remove the ant.coupmatchup.com pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the ant.coupmatchup.com ads I had the CheckMeUp adware and the TinyWallet adware installed. I removed these with FreeFixer and that stopped the ant.coupmatchup.com pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Firefox. CheckMeUp was the adware that caused the pop-ups in my case. I could see this since it was kind enough to label the pop-up ad with the adware name:

What label did your pop-up ad have? Please share in the comments area below.

The issue with this type of pop-up is that it can be launched by many variants of adware. I think the following adware programs can also be responsible for the ant.coupmatchup.com popups:

And probably many other variants of adware programs too, which makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the pop-ups. Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the ant.coupmatchup.com ads removal:

The first thing I would do to remove the ant.coupmatchup.com pop-ups is to examine the programs installed on the machine, by opening the “Uninstall programs” dialog. You can reach this dialog from the Windows Control Panel. If you are using one of the more recent versions of Windows you can just type in “uninstall” in the Control Panel’s search field to find that dialog:

Click on the “Uninstall a program” link and the Uninstall programs dialog will open up:

Do you see something suspicious in there or something that you don’t remember installing? Tip: Sort on the “Installed On” column to see if something was installed approximately about the same time as you started seeing the pop-ups.

The next thing to check would be your browser’s add-ons. Adware often appear under the add-ons menu in Mozilla Firefox, Google’s Chrome and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Is there anything that look suspicious? Something that you don’t remember installing?

I think most users will be able to identify the adware with the two steps outlined above, but in case that did not work you can try the FreeFixer removal tool to identify and remove the adware. FreeFixer is a freeware tool that I’ve developed since 2006. It’s a tool designed to manually track down unwanted software. When you’ve identified the unwanted files you can simply tick a checkbox and click on the Fix button to remove the unwanted file.

FreeFixer’s removal feature is not crippled like many other removal tools out there. It will not ask you to pay for the program just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.

And if you’re having problem determining if a file is malware or clean in the FreeFixer scan result, click on the More Info link for the file. That will open up a web page which contains additional information about the file. On that web page, check out the VirusTotal report which can be very useful:

Are you a Mac or Linux (Ubuntu) user and get the ant.coupmatchup.com pop-ups? A few users reported that removing some unwanted browser extension in Chrome solved the problem. What did you do to stop the ant.coupmatchup.com pop-ups on your Mac or Linux machine? Please share in the comments below. Thank you very much!

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

Thank you!

How To Remove ago.coupround.com Pop-Up Ads

November 11, 2014adware, pop-upsCoup Pop-UpRoger Karlsson

If you are getting pop-ups from ago.coupround.com you probably have some adware installed on your machine.

I’ve seen this type of pop-up launched by the following adware: BlockAndSurf, Safer-Surf, NewPlayer and SpeedCheck.

Here’s my suggested removal procedure for ago.coupround.com:

Check the programs in the Add/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel. Do you see something suspicious?
Check the add-ons in your browser. Does anything suspicious come up?
If that did not help you to stop the ago.coupround.com pop-up ads, you can scan your computer with FreeFixer that hopefully can help you track down the adware.

What adware did you find on your machine? Please share by posting a comment below.

Thank you for reading.

Remove adz.coupfinal.com Pop-Up Ads

November 10, 2014adware, pop-upsCoup Pop-UpRoger Karlsson

Getting lots of pop-ups from adz.coupfinal.com? Do you get these pop-ups ads on sites that never show pop-ups such as Google, Bing and Yahoo? Then you probably have some adware on your machine.

The pop-up URL also mention a domain named inb.csrvrgroup.com:

Sorry for this short post, but I’m in a hurry. The hosting company I’m staying at has upgraded their servers to Ubuntu, so I’m fixing a few problems on the freefixer.com web site right now. Hope to have it running 100% tonight. Currently, the pie charts are broken.

Anyway, I know that this type of pop-up can be opened by adware such as BlockAndSurf, Safer-Surf, NewPlayer and SpeedCheck. Uninstall these if you find them on your machine. If you are having problems tracking down the adware that cause the adz.coupfinal.com pop-ups, please check out FreeFixer which can help you find the adware and remove the adz.coupfinal.com pop-ups.

Thanks for reading!

What adware did you remove to stop the adz.coupfinal.com pop-ups? Please share by posting a comment below.

inb.genorithm.com – Will it also get blocked due to forgery or phishing?

November 9, 2014pop-upsRoger Karlsson

Recently I’ve been looking at some pop-ups that are launched by adware. These pop-ups, such as enh.guzzlepraxiscommune.com and aal.coupmatch.com, loaded some content from wkj.datropy.com. wkj.datropy.com just recently got blocked in Firefox and Safari due to “Reported Web Forgery” and “Suspected Phishing”. Now the pop-ups appear to load content from inb.genorithm.com instead. It will be interesting to see if inb.genorithm.com also gets blocked by the browsers in the near future.