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

Here is a screen-cap on the c.you-win-gratis.com pop-up from my system:

Does this sound like your experience, you probably have some adware installed on your computer that pops up the c.you-win-gratis.com ads. Don’t blame the people that runs the web site you were at, the ads are almost certainly not coming from that web site, but from the adware that’s installed on your machine. I’ll do my best to help you remove the c.you-win-gratis.com pop-up in this blog post.

For those that are new to the blog: A little while back I dedicated some of my lab computers and deliberately installed a few adware programs on them. 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 updates itself automatically, or if it downloads additional unwanted software on the machines. I first observed the c.you-win-gratis.com pop-up on one of these lab machines.

c.you-win-gratis.com was registered on 2015-09-24. you-win-gratis.com resolves to 192.185.5.138 and c.you-win-gratis.com to the 96.17.161.106 IP address.

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

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

Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the c.you-win-gratis.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 add-ons you installed in your browsers. 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:

   

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

Thank you!