{"id":3667,"date":"2014-12-18T21:44:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T21:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=3667"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:01:09","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:01:09","slug":"remove-sgg-cooleas-com-pop-up-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-sgg-cooleas-com-pop-up-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove sgg.cooleas.com Pop-Up Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you just get a <strong>pop-up<\/strong> from <strong>sgg.cooleas.com<\/strong> and ask yourself where it came from? Did the sgg.cooleas.com ad appear to have been launched from a web site that under normal circumstances don&#8217;t use aggressive advertising such as pop-up windows? Or did the sgg.cooleas.com pop-up show up while you clicked a link on one of the big search engines, such as Google, Bing or Yahoo?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the sgg.cooleas.com pop-up looked like when I got it on my computer:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sgg.cooleas.com-pop-up.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3668\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sgg.cooleas.com-pop-up.png\" alt=\"sgg.cooleas.com pop-up\" width=\"345\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sgg.cooleas.com-pop-up.png 345w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sgg.cooleas.com-pop-up-300x175.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 345px) 100vw, 345px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After a while, the pop-up redirected me to <a title=\"Remove intl.codecpackriver.eu Pop-Up Ads caused by Adware\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-intl-codecpackriver-eu-pop-up-ads-caused-by-adware\/\">intl.codecpackriver.eu<\/a>, which the redirected to <a title=\"Remove reimageplus.com Pop-Up Ads\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-reimageplus-com-pop-up-ads\/\">reimageplus.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If this description sounds like your computer, you most likely have some adware installed on your system that pops up the sgg.cooleas.com ads. There&#8217;s no use contacting the owners of the web site you currently were browsing. The ads are not coming from them. I&#8217;ll try help you to <strong>remove the sgg.cooleas.com<\/strong> pop-ups in this blog post.<\/p>\n<p>I found the sgg.cooleas.com pop-up on one of the lab systems where I have some adware running. I&#8217;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&#8217;t show ads, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.<\/p>\n<p>sgg.cooleas.com resolves to the 208.43.241.241 IP address. sgg.cooleas.com was registered on 2014-11-23. According to YouGetSignal&#8217;s reverse whois service, there&#8217;s a bunch of other domains hosted on that IP:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>dso.maptickets.net<\/li>\n<li>dvl.cooloideas.com<\/li>\n<li>enl.trepage.net<\/li>\n<li>gip.driverdiv.net<\/li>\n<li>gir.driveropti.net<\/li>\n<li>gld.pathticket.net<\/li>\n<li>glp.jssection.net<\/li>\n<li>gnr.cimapping.net<\/li>\n<li>gyr.mappingsection.net<\/li>\n<li>jco.mappre.net<\/li>\n<li>jcp.drivermapping.net<\/li>\n<li>jcw.driverpre.net<\/li>\n<li>luu.lightquartrate.com<\/li>\n<li>nsl.mapticket.net<\/li>\n<li>phone.addresses.com<\/li>\n<li>phone.theyellowpages.com<\/li>\n<li>wvd.proresync.net<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, how do you <strong>remove the sgg.cooleas.com pop-up ads<\/strong>? On the machine where I got the sgg.cooleas.com ads I had <a title=\"TinyWallet - Removal Instructions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-tinywallet\/\">TinyWallet<\/a>, <a title=\"Ads By BlockAndSurf - Removal Instructions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/ads-by-blockandsurf-removal\/\">BlockAndSurf<\/a> and <a title=\"BrowserWarden Ads - Removal Instructions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-browser-warden\/\">BrowserWarden<\/a> installed. I removed them with <a title=\"About the FreeFixer removal tool\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a> and that stopped the sgg.cooleas.com pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Mozilla Firefox.<\/p>\n<p>BlockAndSurf was the adware that caused the pop-ups in my case.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with pop ups such as this one is that it can be initiated by many variants of adware, not just the adware that&#8217;s installed on my machine. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the pop-ups.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s my suggestion for the sgg.cooleas.com ads removal:<\/p>\n<p>The first thing I would do to <strong>remove the sgg.cooleas.com pop-ups<\/strong> is to examine the software installed on the machine, by opening the &#8220;Uninstall programs&#8221; dialog. You can reach this dialog from the Windows Control Panel. If you are using one of the more recent versions of Windows you can just type in &#8220;uninstall&#8221; in the Control Panel&#8217;s search field to find that dialog:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Uninstall-a-program-search.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2849\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Uninstall-a-program-search.png\" alt=\"Uninstall a program search\" width=\"471\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Uninstall-a-program-search.png 471w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Uninstall-a-program-search-300x102.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click on the &#8220;<strong>Uninstall a program<\/strong>&#8221; link and the Uninstall programs dialog will open up:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Uninstall-a-program-dialog.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2853\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Uninstall-a-program-dialog.png\" alt=\"Uninstall a program dialog\" width=\"356\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Uninstall-a-program-dialog.png 356w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Uninstall-a-program-dialog-300x245.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you see something dubious listed there or something that you don&#8217;t remember installing? Tip: Sort on the &#8220;<strong>Installed On<\/strong>&#8221; column to see if something was installed approximately about the same time as you started seeing the sgg.cooleas.com pop-ups.<\/p>\n<p>Then I would check the browser add-ons. Adware often appear under the add-ons menu in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Is there anything that looks suspicious? Something that you don&#8217;t remember installing?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Firefox-add-ons-manager.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2927 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Firefox-add-ons-manager-300x190.png\" alt=\"Firefox add-ons manager\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Firefox-add-ons-manager-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Firefox-add-ons-manager.png 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think most users will be able to track down and remove the adware with the steps outlined above, but in case that did not work you can try the <a title=\"About FreeFixer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer removal tool<\/a> to identify and remove the adware. FreeFixer is a freeware tool that I started develop about 8 years ago. It&#8217;s a tool built to manually track down and uninstall unwanted software. When you&#8217;ve identified the unwanted files you can simply tick a checkbox and click on the Fix button to remove the unwanted file.<\/p>\n<p>FreeFixer&#8217;s removal feature is not locked down like many other removal tools out there. It will not require you to purchase the program just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.<\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;re having difficulties figuring out if a file is clean or unwanted in FreeFixer&#8217;s scan report, click on the <strong>More Info<\/strong> link for the file. That will open up a web page which contains additional information about the file. On that web page, check out the <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 which can be quite useful:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2521\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2521\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/freefixer-more-info-skype_setup.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2521 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/freefixer-more-info-skype_setup-1024x291.png\" alt=\"FreeFixer More Info link example\" width=\"604\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/freefixer-more-info-skype_setup-1024x291.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/freefixer-more-info-skype_setup-300x85.png 300w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/freefixer-more-info-skype_setup.png 1262w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An example of FreeFixer&#8217;s &#8220;More Info&#8221; links. Click for full size.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video tutorial which shows FreeFixer in action removing adware that caused pop-up ads:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z1kjsWGZP3Q\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Are you a <strong>Mac<\/strong> or <strong>Linux<\/strong> user and get the sgg.cooleas.com pop-ups? What did you do to stop the pop-up in your browser? Please share in the comments below. Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>Did you find any adware on your machine? Did that stop the sgg.cooleas.com ads? Please post the name of the adware you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you just get a pop-up from sgg.cooleas.com and ask yourself where it came from? Did the sgg.cooleas.com ad appear to have been launched from a web site that under normal circumstances don&#8217;t use aggressive advertising such as pop-up windows? Or did the sgg.cooleas.com pop-up show up while you clicked a link on one of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-sgg-cooleas-com-pop-up-ads\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Remove sgg.cooleas.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":[3,185],"tags":[326,232],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667"}],"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=3667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3670,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions\/3670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}