Did you just get a pop-up from bara10kronor.com and wonder where it came from? Did the bara10kronor.com ad appear to have been launched from a web site that under normal circumstances don’t use advertising such as pop-up windows? Or did the bara10kronor.com popup show up while you clicked a link on one of the major search engines, such as Google, Bing or Yahoo?

Here is a screen capture on the bara10kronor.com pop-up from my computer:

If this description sounds like your story, you presumably have some adware installed on your machine that pops up the bara10kronor.com ads. Contacting the site owner would be a waste of time. The ads are not coming from them. I’ll do my best to help you with the bara10kronor.com removal in this blog post.

Those that have been spending some time on this blog already know this, but here we go: Some time ago I dedicated some of my lab systems and intentionally installed some adware programs on them. I have been following the behaviour 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 automatically, or if it downloads and installs additional unwanted software on the machines. I first found the bara10kronor.com pop-up on one of these lab machines.

bara10kronor.com was created on 2014-04-03. bara10kronor.com resolves to the 78.109.84.175 IP address. roger-fix.fr is located on the same IP.

So, how do you remove the bara10kronor.com pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the bara10kronor.com ads I had istartsurf, MedPlayerNewVersion and Movie Wizard installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the bara10kronor.com pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Mozilla Firefox.

The issue with pop-ups like this one is that it can be launched by many variants of adware, not just the adware running on my system. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the pop-ups.

Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the bara10kronor.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 examine the add-ons you installed in your browsers. Same thing here, do you see something that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that did 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:

   

Here’s a video tutorial on how to remove the pop-ups with FreeFixer:

Did you find any adware on your machine? Did that stop the bara10kronor.com ads? Please post the name of the adware you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.

Thank you!