Sound familiar? You see pop-up ads from turkeysheet.country while browsing at websites that normally don’t advertise in pop-up windows. The pop-ups manage to evade the built-in pop-up blockers in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Perhaps the turkeysheet.country pop-ups appear when clicking search results from a Google search? Or does the pop-ups appear even when you’re not browsing?

Here’s how the turkeysheet.country pop-up looked like when I got it on my computer:

If you also see this on your machine, you probably have some adware installed on your computer that pops up the turkeysheet.country ads. Don’t write angry emails to the site you were browsing, the ads are probably not coming from them, but from the adware on your system. I’ll do my best to help you with the turkeysheet.country removal in this blog post.

Those that have been reading this blog already know this, but here we go: Recently I dedicated a few of my lab machines and deliberately installed some adware programs on them. I’ve been tracking the actions on these machines to see what kinds of ads 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 machines. I first noticed the turkeysheet.country pop-up on one of these lab machines.

turkeysheet.country was created on 2015-01-07. turkeysheet.country resolves to the 184.73.247.179 address and effzz.super-promo.turkeysheet.country to 108.61.203.154.

So, how do you remove the turkeysheet.country pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the turkeysheet.country ads I had TinyWallet, BrowserWarden and BlockAndSurf installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the turkeysheet.country pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Mozilla Firefox.

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

Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the turkeysheet.country ads removal:

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. How about your browser add-ons. Anything in the list that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that didn’t solve the problem, 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 pop-up ads:

Did this blog post help you to remove the turkeysheet.country pop up ads? Please let me know or how I can improve this blog post.

Thank you!