Did you just get a pop up from vosmangas.com and wonder where it came from? Did the vosmangas.com ad appear to have been initiated from a web site that under normal circumstances don’t use advertising such as pop-up windows? Or did the vosmangas.com pop-up show up while you clicked a link on one of the major search engines, such as Google, Bing or Yahoo?

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

If you also see this on your machine, you probably have some adware installed on your machine that pops up the vosmangas.com ads. So don’t flame the people that owns the web site you were at, the ads are almost certainly not coming from that website, but from the adware that’s installed on your computer. I’ll try help you to remove the vosmangas.com pop-ups in this blog post.

I found the vosmangas.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 anything new has appeared, such as pop-up windows, new tabs in the browsers, injected ads on website that usually don’t show ads, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.

vosmangas.com resolves to 81.17.24.202. vosmangas.com was registered on 2012-07-24.

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

It seems as vosmangas.com is getting quite a lot of traffic, based on Alexa’s traffic rank:

The problem with pop-ups like this one is that it can be launched by many variants of adware. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the pop-ups.

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

1. Check what programs you have installed in the Add/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel. Do you see something 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 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:

   

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

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

Thank you!