Remove productreview.mobi (samsung.productreview.mobi) Pop Up Ads

Does this sound like your story? You see pop-up ads from samsung.productreview.mobi while browsing web sites that typically don’t advertise in pop-up windows. The pop-ups manage to bypass the built-in pop-up blockers in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Maybe the samsung.productreview.mobi pop-ups show up when clicking search results from a Google search? Or does the pop-ups show up even when you’re not browsing?

Here is how the samsung.productreview.mobi ad looked like on my machine:

samsung.productreview.mobi

(Sorry for the ridiculous use of watermarks. I have to do it to stop the copy-cats.)

If this sounds like what you are seeing on your machine, you almost certainly have some adware installed on your system that pops up the samsung.productreview.mobi ads. Contacting the owner of the website would be a waste of time. They are not responsible for the advertisements. I’ll do my best to help you with the samsung.productreview.mobi removal in this blog post.

For those that are new to the blog: Recently I dedicated a few of my lab machines and intentionally installed some adware programs on them. Since then I have been observing 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 auto-updates, or if it downloads and installs additional unwanted software on the computers. I first spotted the samsung.productreview.mobi pop-up on one of these lab computers.

productreview.mobi resolves to the 72.47.244.113 address and samsung.productreview.mobi to 72.47.244.113. samsung.productreview.mobi was created on 2015-09-24. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s other pop ups such as  iphone.productreview.mobi.

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

The problem with pop-ups such as this one 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 should done to solve the problem? To remove the samsung.productreview.mobi pop-up ads you need to check your machine 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. You can also review the browser add-ons. Same thing here, do you see something that you don’t remember installing?
  3. If that didn’t 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:

    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 samsung.productreview.mobi ads? Please post the name of the adware you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.

Thank you!