{"id":7589,"date":"2015-08-28T05:06:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T05:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=7589"},"modified":"2015-09-28T05:20:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T05:20:41","slug":"remove-cpayard-com-pop-up-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-cpayard-com-pop-up-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove cpayard.com Pop Up Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sound familiar? You see <strong>pop-up ads<\/strong> from <strong>cpayard.com<\/strong> while browsing websites that in general don&#8217;t advertise in pop-up windows. The pop-ups manage to sidestep the built-in pop-up blockers in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari or Opera. Maybe the cpayard.com pop-ups show up when clicking search results from Google? Or does the pop-ups appear even when you&#8217;re not browsing?<\/p>\n<p>Here is a screenshot on the cpayard.com pop-up from my machine:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/cpayard.com-pop-up.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7591\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/cpayard.com-pop-up.png\" alt=\"cpayard.com pop up\" width=\"676\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/cpayard.com-pop-up.png 676w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/cpayard.com-pop-up-300x101.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Sorry for the ridiculous use of watermarks. I have to do it to stop the copy-cats.)<\/p>\n<p>Does this sound like what you see your system, you apparently have some adware installed on your machine that pops up the cpayard.com ads. So there&#8217;s no idea contacting the owner of the web site you currently were browsing. The ads are not coming from them. I&#8217;ll try help you with the <strong>cpayard.com removal<\/strong> in this blog post.<\/p>\n<p>If you have been visiting this blog already know this, but if you are new: A little while back I dedicated a few of my lab computers and knowingly installed some adware programs on them. I have been monitoring the behaviour on these machines to see what kinds of advertisements that are displayed. I&#8217;m also looking on other interesting things such as if the adware auto-updates, or if it installs additional unwanted software on the machines. I first spotted the cpayard.com pop-up on one of these lab computers.<\/p>\n<p>cpayard.com was created on 2013-10-15. cpayard.com resolves to the 8.29.157.12 IP address.\u00a0According to DomainTools and YouGetSignal are the following sites located on the same IP:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>connect2forties.com<\/li>\n<li>connect2fifties.com<\/li>\n<li>dates4single.com<\/li>\n<li>just4single.com<\/li>\n<li>www.dietyard.com<\/li>\n<li>www.getyourmatch.com<\/li>\n<li>www.just4singleparents.com<\/li>\n<li>www.landtreff.de<\/li>\n<li>www.marksmanelectronicsandsecurity.com<\/li>\n<li>youlucky2014.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, how do you <strong>remove the cpayard.com pop-up ads<\/strong>? On the machine where I got the cpayard.com ads I had gosearch.me, <a title=\"Remove SmartComp Safe Network\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-jelbrus-secure-web-adware\/\">SmartComp Safe Network<\/a>, <a title=\"How To Remove mlwps.exe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/library\/file\/mlwps.exe-174582\/\">Live Malware Protection<\/a> and <a title=\"Remove Windows Menager.exe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/library\/file\/Windows%20menager.exe-196920\/\">Windows Menager<\/a> installed. I removed them with <a title=\"Read more on FreeFixer here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a> and that stopped the cpayard.com pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Mozilla Firefox.<\/p>\n<p>The cpayard.com domain is attracting quite a lot of traffic, just check out the Alexa traffic rank:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/cpayard.com-.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7592\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/cpayard.com-.png\" alt=\"cpayard.com\" width=\"582\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/cpayard.com-.png 582w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/cpayard.com--300x155.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The issue with this type of pop up is that it can be initiated by many variants of adware, not just the adware that&#8217;s installed on my computer. 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 cpayard.com ads removal:<\/p>\n<p>The first thing I would do to <strong>remove the cpayard.com pop-ups<\/strong> is to examine the software installed on the machine, by opening the &#8220;Uninstall programs&#8221; dialog. You can find this dialog from the Windows Control Panel. If you are using one of the more recent versions of Windows Operating System 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 suspect 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 observing the cpayard.com pop-ups.<\/p>\n<p>The next thing to check would be your browser&#8217;s add-ons. Adware often appear under the add-ons menu in Chrome, 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 find and remove the adware with the steps outlined above, but in case that did not work you can try the <a title=\"About the FreeFixer removal tool\" 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&#8217;ve developed since 2006. Freefixer is a tool built to manually find and uninstall unwanted software. When you&#8217;ve found 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 crippled like many other removal tools out there. It will not require you to pay a fee just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.<\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;re having problems figuring out if a file is legit or adware in FreeFixer&#8217;s scan result, click on the <strong>More Info<\/strong> link for the file. That will open up your browser with a 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 very 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 you can see FreeFixer in action removing 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>Did this blog post help you to remove the cpayard.com pop-up ads? Please let me know or how I can improve this blog post.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sound familiar? You see pop-up ads from cpayard.com while browsing websites that in general don&#8217;t advertise in pop-up windows. The pop-ups manage to sidestep the built-in pop-up blockers in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari or Opera. Maybe the cpayard.com pop-ups show up when clicking search results from Google? Or does the pop-ups appear &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-cpayard-com-pop-up-ads\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Remove cpayard.com Pop Up Ads<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[185],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7589"}],"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=7589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7594,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7589\/revisions\/7594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}