{"id":1938,"date":"2014-10-03T12:11:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T12:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=1938"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:02:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:02:00","slug":"remove-ads-by-checkmeup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-ads-by-checkmeup\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove Ads by CheckMeUp"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello there and welcome to the FreeFixer blog. Just a short post on an adware<\/strong> called CheckMeUp<\/strong>. If the CheckMeUp adware is installed on your machine, you’ll find ads labeled “Ads by CheckMeUp”<\/strong>, a new add-on named CheckMeUp added into Internet Explorer and Firefox and a process called CheckMeUp.exe<\/strong> running in the Windows Task Manager. I’ll show how to remove CheckMeUp in this blog post with the FreeFixer<\/a> removal tool.<\/p>\n

\"Ads<\/a> \"Ads<\/a> \"Ads<\/a><\/p>\n

\"checkmeup.exe<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s how CheckMeUp shows up in Firefox and Internet Explorer:<\/p>\n

\"CheckMeUp<\/a> \"CheckMeUp<\/a><\/p>\n

CheckMeUp is distributed by a tactic called bundling<\/strong>. Bundling means that a piece of software – in this case CheckMeUp – is included in other software’s installers. When I first found CheckMeUp, it was bundled with a download called FLV Player <\/strong>by OutBrowse<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"OutBrowse<\/a><\/p>\n

Generally, you can avoid bundled software such as CheckMeUp by being careful when installing software and declining the bundled offers in the installer.<\/p>\n

When I find some new bundled software I usually upload it to VirusTotal to see if the anti-malware tools there detect something. 3 of the 55 anti-virus scanners detected the file. The CheckMeUp.exe file is detected as AddLyrics<\/strong> by Sophos and Revizer (fs)<\/strong> by VIPRE.<\/p>\n

\"CheckMeUp.exe<\/a><\/p>\n

Since you probably want to remove CheckMeUp<\/strong>, these are the items you should check for removal if you want to remove it with FreeFixer<\/a>. You might have to restart your machine to complete the removal. Problem taken care of.<\/p>\n

\"CheckMeUp<\/a> \"CheckMeUp<\/a> \"CheckMeUp<\/a><\/p>\n

Hope that helped you to figure out how to do the removal.<\/p>\n

Any idea how CheckMeUp was installed on your computer? Please let me and the readers know by posting a comments. Thank you!<\/p>\n

Thanks for reading. Welcome back!<\/p>\n

Update 2014-12-06<\/strong>: CheckMeUp is now using files named\u00a0webinstrNewH.sys<\/a>,\u00a0184_x64.dll<\/a> and\u00a0184.dll<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Hello there and welcome to the FreeFixer blog. Just a short post on an adware called CheckMeUp. If the CheckMeUp adware is installed on your machine, you’ll find ads labeled “Ads by CheckMeUp”, a new add-on named CheckMeUp added into Internet Explorer and Firefox and a process called CheckMeUp.exe running in the Windows Task Manager. … Continue reading Remove Ads by CheckMeUp<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,16],"tags":[115,172,173],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1938"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3468,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions\/3468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}