{"id":2801,"date":"2014-11-12T19:10:36","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T19:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=2801"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:01:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:01:52","slug":"remove-ace-couprace-com-pop-up-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-ace-couprace-com-pop-up-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove ace.couprace.com Pop-Up Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you are getting bombarded with\u00a0pop-ups ads<\/strong> from ace.couprace.com<\/strong>\u00a0you have some adware installed on your machine. I got the pop-up in Firefox<\/strong>, but it can also appear if you are browsing the web with Chrome<\/strong> or Internet Explorer<\/strong>. Here’s how the pop-up ad look on my computer:<\/p>\n

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I got the pop-ups when clicking links in Google’s search results. I think the ads can appear when using other search engines such as Yahoo and Bing. This raised some red flags since these search engines never shows ads in pop-ups.<\/p>\n

I’ve noticed this type of pop-up ad triggered by adware such as BlockNSurf<\/a>, New Player<\/a>, Speed Check<\/a> and SaferSurf<\/a>. Sometimes the pop-up window is labeled with the adware name. Mine\u00a0was labeled “Ads by BlockAndSurf<\/a>” in the upper right corner of the browser:<\/p>\n

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

Were the ace.couprace.com\u00a0ads you were getting also labeled? Please post what the label said on your machine. Thanks!<\/p>\n

So, if you’d like to stop the ace.couprace.com\u00a0pop-up ads<\/strong>, I’d check if I could find something suspicious on the computer by looking in the Add\/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel. You can sort on the “Installed On” date to see if somehing was added recently.<\/p>\n

You can also check your browser’s add-ons to see if you find something there.<\/p>\n

If that does not help, try the freeware FreeFixer<\/a> tool to track down the adware launching the pop-ups. Tip: If you don’t know if a file in FreeFixer’s scan result is legitimate or adware, click the More Info link for that file. It will show a VirusTotal<\/a> report for the file which will help a lot.<\/p>\n

\"freefixer-more-info-blockandsurf\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Thank you for reading. Did this help you remove the ace.couprace.com\u00a0pop-ups?<\/p>\n

Update 2014-11-14<\/strong>: Thanks to “Ainigma” for reporting in that the ace.couprace.com pop-ups can appear when running Linux<\/strong> based Ubuntu<\/strong> and Google Chrome.<\/p>\n

I’ve been keeping an eye on the Google Analytics page for this blog post, and there are some indications that Mac users are also seeing the ace.couprace.com ads<\/strong>. If you are a Mac user and get the\u00a0ace.couprace.com popup, please post a comment below. What browser do you use? Did you find out how to remove the adware responsible for the\u00a0ace.couprace.com pop-ups?<\/p>\n

Seems like it’s mostly users from Europe and Southeast Asian that are having problems with the\u00a0couprace.com ads. Are you also from this part of the world? I’m living in Sweden.<\/p>\n

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If you are getting bombarded with\u00a0pop-ups ads from ace.couprace.com\u00a0you have some adware installed on your machine. I got the pop-up in Firefox, but it can also appear if you are browsing the web with Chrome or Internet Explorer. Here’s how the pop-up ad look on my computer: I got the pop-ups when clicking links in … Continue reading Remove ace.couprace.com Pop-Up Ads<\/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":[3,16,185],"tags":[232],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801"}],"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=2801"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2822,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions\/2822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}