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

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

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

I found the mobilbet.com 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 web site that usually don’t show ads, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.

mobilbet.com resolves to the 78.110.18.155 IP address. mobilbet.com was registered on 2007-08-25.

So, how do you remove the mobilbet.com pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the mobilbet.com ads I had PriceFountain, PineTree, GamesDesktop and CheckMeUp installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the mobilbet.com pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Mozilla Firefox.

The problem with this type of pop-up is that it can be initiated by many variants of adware, not just the adware running on my machine. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the pop-ups.

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

The first thing I would do to remove the mobilbet.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 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 some program was installed approximately about the same time as you started seeing the mobilbet.com pop-ups.

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

I think you will be able to track down and uninstall the adware with the 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 find and uninstall 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 require you to purchase the program just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.

And if you’re having difficulties determining if a file is legitimate or unwanted 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 very useful:

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

Thank you!