Remove cash-o-matic.com Pop Up Ads

Having problems with pop-ups from cash-o-matic.com? If so, you may have adware installed on your computer. I got the cash-o-matic.com pop-ups in Firefox, but they can appear if you are using Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari or Opera too.

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

cash-o-matic.com pop up

Does this sound like what you are seeing, you presumably have some adware installed on your machine that pops up the cash-o-matic.com ads. So there’s no idea contacting the owner of the website you were browsing. The ads are not coming from them. I’ll try help you with the cash-o-matic.com removal in this blog post.

Those that have been spending some time on this blog already know this, but for new visitors: Some time ago I dedicated a few of my lab computers and wilfully installed a few adware programs on them. Since then I have been tracking the behaviour on these computers to see what kinds of advertisements that are displayed. I’m also looking on other interesting things such as if the adware auto-updates, or if it downloads additional unwanted software on the machines. I first found the cash-o-matic.com pop-up on one of these lab computers.

cash-o-matic.com was registered on 2015-03-01.

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

The cash-o-matic.com domain is attracting quite a lot of traffic, just check out the Alexa traffic rank:

cash-o-matic.com traffic

The problem with pop-ups such as this one is that it can be popped up by many variants of adware, not just the adware that’s installed 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 cash-o-matic.com ads removal:

  1. Examine what programs you have installed in the Add/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel. Do you see anything that you don’t remember installing 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 does not help, 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 computer at lots of locations where unwanted software is known to hook into your computer. 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’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 cash-o-matic.com ads? Please post the name of the adware you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.

Thank you!