Did you just get interrupted by a pop-up ad from s.ltmmty.com? You are not alone. I also get the s.ltmmty.com pop-ups while browsing. Do the pop ups also sidestep the pop-up blocker in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Then read on…

Here’s a screenshot of the s.ltmmty.com pop-up ad when it showed up on my system:

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

If this description sounds like what you are seeing, you probably have some adware installed on your system that pops up the s.ltmmty.com ads. Contacting the owner of the site would be a waste of time. They are not responsible for the ads. I’ll do my best to help you remove the s.ltmmty.com pop-up in this blog post.

If you have been reading this blog already know this, but if you are new: A little while back I dedicated a few of my lab machines and intentionally installed some adware programs on them. I have been monitoring the behaviour on these machines to see what kinds of adverts that are displayed. I’m also looking on other interesting things such as if the adware updates itself automatically, or if it installs additional unwanted software on the systems. I first found the s.ltmmty.com pop-up on one of these lab machines.

s.ltmmty.com resolves to 23.21.66.87. s.ltmmty.com was registered on 2015-03-09.

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

Judging from Alexa’s traffic rank, s.ltmmty.com is getting quite a lot of traffic:

The issue with pop-ups like the one described in this blog post 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.

Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the s.ltmmty.com ads removal:

The first thing I would do to remove the s.ltmmty.com pop-ups is to examine the software installed on the machine, by opening the “Uninstall programs” dialog. You can open this dialog from the Windows Control Panel. If you are using one of the more recent versions of Windows OS 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 strange-looking listed 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 observing the s.ltmmty.com pop-ups.

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

I think you will be able to identify and remove 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 started develop many years ago. It’s a tool designed to manually track down and uninstall unwanted software. When you’ve found 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 won’t require you to pay a fee just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.

And if you’re having a mess deciding if a file is clean or malware in FreeFixer’s scan result, click on the More Info link for the file. That will open up a web page which contains additional information about the file. On that web page, check out the VirusTotal report which can be very useful:

Here’s a video guide showing how to remove pop-up ads with FreeFixer:

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

Thank you!