{"id":2855,"date":"2014-11-13T16:21:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T16:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=2855"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:01:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:01:51","slug":"remove-ami-coupplayoffgame-com-pop-up-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-ami-coupplayoffgame-com-pop-up-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove ami.coupplayoffgame.com Pop-Up Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Getting <strong>pop-up ads<\/strong> from\u00a0<strong>ami.coupplayoffgame.com<\/strong>? Do the pop-ups bypass Firefox&#8217;, Chrome&#8217;s and Internet Explorer&#8217;s pop-up blockers? Do the ami.coupplayoffgame.com popups appear on sites that normally don&#8217;t show any pop-ups? Most likely, you have some adware install and running on your machine. On the computer\u00a0where I got these pop-ups I had <a title=\"Ads by SaferSurf \u2013 Removal Instructions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-ads-by-safersurf\/\">Safer-Surf<\/a>, <a title=\"Remove \u201cpowered by SmartOnes\u201d Ads\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-powered-by-smartones-ads\/\">SmarterOnes<\/a> and <a title=\"PriceLess and Supporter 1.80 Removal Instructions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/priceless-removal-instructions\/\">Support 1.80<\/a> installed. I removed these with <a title=\"About FreeFixer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a> and the problem was solved.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the <strong>ami.coupplayoffgame.com\u00a0<\/strong>pop-up looked like:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ami.coupplayoffgame.com-pop-up1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2858 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ami.coupplayoffgame.com-pop-up1.png\" alt=\"ami.coupplayoffgame.com pop-up ad in Firefox\" width=\"482\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ami.coupplayoffgame.com-pop-up1.png 482w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ami.coupplayoffgame.com-pop-up1-300x181.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sorry for the silly use of watermarks in the screenshot, but if I don&#8217;t that the\u00a0screenshot always show up at some copy-cat blogs \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>In my case, the <strong>adware responsible for the ami.coupplayoffgame.com pop-ups was SaferSurf<\/strong>, since the pop-up was labeled with the adware name. What name appeared in your pop-up?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Ads-by-SaferSurf.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2856\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Ads-by-SaferSurf.png\" alt=\"Ads by SaferSurf\" width=\"229\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, how do you <strong>remove the\u00a0ami.coupplayoffgame.com pop-ups<\/strong>? I would do it like this:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>First I&#8217;d check the Add\/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel. Do you find some adware there? Uninstall it.<\/li>\n<li>Then I would check the browser&#8217;s add-on menu. Does something suspicious show up? Uninstall it.<\/li>\n<li>If that did not help, you can try the <a title=\"About FreeFixer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a> removal tool which is designed to manually track down and remove unwanted software. If you have difficulties to determine if some files in FreeFixer&#8217;s scan result are\u00a0legit or malware, try the <strong>More Info<\/strong> link which will show a <a title=\"How To Scan a File for Viruses with VirusTotal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/scan-files-for-viruses-virustotal\/\">VirusTotal<\/a> report for the file:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2498\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2498\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/freefixer-more-info-blockandsurf.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2498 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/freefixer-more-info-blockandsurf-1024x333.png\" alt=\"freefixer-more-info-blockandsurf\" width=\"604\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/freefixer-more-info-blockandsurf-1024x333.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/freefixer-more-info-blockandsurf-300x97.png 300w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/freefixer-more-info-blockandsurf.png 1191w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">More Info links in FreeFixer. Click for full size.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Did you find this blog post useful. Please let me know by posting a comment.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting pop-up ads from\u00a0ami.coupplayoffgame.com? Do the pop-ups bypass Firefox&#8217;, Chrome&#8217;s and Internet Explorer&#8217;s pop-up blockers? Do the ami.coupplayoffgame.com popups appear on sites that normally don&#8217;t show any pop-ups? Most likely, you have some adware install and running on your machine. On the computer\u00a0where I got these pop-ups I had Safer-Surf, SmarterOnes and Support 1.80 installed. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-ami-coupplayoffgame-com-pop-up-ads\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Remove ami.coupplayoffgame.com Pop-Up Ads<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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\/2855"}],"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=2855"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2862,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855\/revisions\/2862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}