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

Here is how the com-onlinegiveaways.info ad looked like on my machine:

If this sounds like what you are seeing on your computer, you presumably have some adware installed on your system that pops up the com-onlinegiveaways.info ads. Contacting the owner of the web site would be a waste of time. They are not responsible for the ads. I’ll do my best to help you with the com-onlinegiveaways.info removal in this blog post.

I found the com-onlinegiveaways.info pop-up on one of the lab machines 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 site that usually don’t show ads, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.

com-onlinegiveaways.info was registered on 2015-07-30. Both com-onlinegiveaways.info and hem.com-onlinegiveaways.info resolves to the 109.237.108.131 IP address.

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

The problem with pop-ups like this one is that it can be launched by many variants of adware. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the pop-ups.

So, what can be done? To remove the com-onlinegiveaways.info pop up ads you need to check your computer for adware or other types of unwanted software and uninstall it. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:

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 you have in your browsers. Anything in the list 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 you can see FreeFixer in action removing the adware that caused pop-up ads:

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

Thank you!