Does this sound like what you are seeing right now? You see pop-up ads from consumer-feedback.net while browsing web sites that generally don’t advertise in pop-up windows. The pop-up surveys manage to circumvent the built-in pop-up blockers in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Maybe the consumer-feedback.net 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 consumer-feedback.net pop-up ad when it showed up on my system:

If this description sounds like your machine, you most likely have some adware installed on your system that pops up the consumer-feedback.net surveys. So there’s no use contacting the site owner. The ads are not coming from them. I’ll do my best to help you with the consumer-feedback.net removal in this blog post.

I found the consumer-feedback.net 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.

consumer-feedback.net was registered on 2015-01-05. The domain resolves to 8.29.137.208.

So, how do you remove the consumer-feedback.net pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the consumer-feedback.net ads I had CheckMeUp installed. I removed it with FreeFixer and that stopped the consumer-feedback.net pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Mozilla Firefox.

The problem with pop-ups like the one described in this blog post is that it can be popped up 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 consumer-feedback.net pop-up ads you need to examine your machine for adware or other types of unwanted software and uninstall it. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:

1. Review 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 browser add-ons. 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 machine at lots of locations where unwanted software is known to hook into your machine. 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:

   

Here you can see FreeFixer in action removing pop-up ads:

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

Thank you!

There’s a bunch of sites located on the same IP as consumer-feedback.net. Here’s some of them:

• australia.consumers-research.com
• biebervsbell.exclusive-offer.com
• canada.consumers-research.com
• christianmatchmaker.exclusive-invitation.net
• consumer-response.info
• consumer-responses.com
• consumers-feedback.org
• consumers-research.com
• costco.exclusive-offer.com
• exclusive-invitation.net
• exclusive-offer.com
• france.consumers-research.com
• germany.consumers-research.com
• konsumentenforschung.org
• kroger.exclusive-offer.com
• macys.exclusive-offer.com
• overstock.exclusive-offer.com
• projectfree.tv.consumers-research.com
• qvc.exclusive-offer.com
• sears.exclusive-offer.com
• spanish.consumers-research.com
• sweden.consumers-research.com
• unitedkingdom.consumers-research.com
• usafreedownload.com
• walmart.exclusive-offer.com
• womenshealth.consumers-research.com
• www.consumers-research.com
• www.exclusive-offer.com
• www.newzealand.consumers-research.com