Sound familiar? You see pop-up ads from ane.couphit.com while browsing websites that usually don’t advertise in pop-up windows. The pop-ups manage to circumvent the built-in pop-up blockers in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Perhaps the ane.couphit.com pop-ups show up when clicking search results from Google? Or does the popups appear even when you’re not browsing?

Here is how the ane.couphit.com ad looked like on my machine:

If this description sounds like your experience, you almost certainly have some adware installed on your machine that pops up the ane.couphit.com ads. There’s no use contacting the owners of the site you currently were browsing. The advertisements are not coming from them. I’ll try help you with the ane.couphit.com removal in this blog post.

I found the ane.couphit.com pop-up on one of the lab machines where I have some adware running. I’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 something new has appeared, such as pop-up windows, new tabs in the browsers, injected ads on website that usually don’t show ads, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.

ane.couphit.com was registered on 2014-09-18. ane.couphit.com resolves to 208.43.241.244.

So, how do you remove the ane.couphit.com pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the ane.couphit.com ads I had TinyWallet, BrowserWarden and BlockAndSurf installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the ane.couphit.com pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Firefox.

BlockAndSurf was the adware that caused the pop-ups in my case.

It seems as ane.couphit.com is getting quite a lot of traffic, based on Alexa’s traffic rank:

The issue with this type of pop-up is that it can be initiated by many variants of adware. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the pop-ups.

Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the ane.couphit.com ads removal:

The first thing I would do to remove the ane.couphit.com pop-ups is to examine the programs installed on the machine, by opening the “Uninstall programs” dialog. You can reach this dialog from the Windows Control Panel. If you are using one of the more recent versions of Windows OS you can just type in “uninstall” in the Control Panel’s search field to find that dialog:

Click on the “Uninstall a program” link and the Uninstall programs dialog will open up:

Do you see something suspect listed there or something that you don’t remember installing? Tip: Sort on the “Installed On” column to see if something was installed approximately about the same time as you started getting the ane.couphit.com pop-ups.

Then you can examine you browser add-ons. Adware often show up under the add-ons menu in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari or Opera. Is there something that looks suspicious? Anything that you don’t remember installing?

I think most users will be able to identify and uninstall the adware with the steps outlined above, but in case that did not work you can try the FreeFixer removal tool to identify and remove the adware. FreeFixer is a freeware tool that I started develop about 8 years ago. It’s a tool designed to manually track down and uninstall unwanted software. When you’ve found the unwanted files you can simply tick a checkbox and click on the Fix button to remove the unwanted file.

FreeFixer’s removal feature is not crippled like many other removal tools out there. It won’t require you to pay for the program just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.

And if you’re having issues determining if a file is legit or malware in the FreeFixer scan report, click on the More Info link for the file. That will open up a web page which contains additional details about the file. On that web page, check out the VirusTotal report which can be very useful:

Here’s a video tutorial showing FreeFixer in action removing the ane.couphit.com pop-up ads:

Are you a Mac or Linux user and get the ane.couphit.com pop-ups? What did you do to stop the pop-up in your browser? Please share in the comments below. Thank you!

Did you find any adware on your machine? Did that stop the ane.couphit.com ads? Please post the name of the adware you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.

Thank you!

Does this sound like your story? You see pop-up ads from ain.couptwo.com while browsing websites that typically don’t advertise in pop-up windows. The pop ups manage to escape the built-in pop-up blockers in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari or Opera. Maybe the ain.couptwo.com pop-ups show up when clicking search results from Google? Or does the pop-ups appear even when you’re not browsing?

Here’s how the ain.couptwo.com pop-up looked like when I got it on my system:

Does this sound like your system, you probably have some adware installed on your computer that pops up the ain.couptwo.com ads. So there’s no idea contacting the owner of the site you were browsing. The advertisements are not coming from them. I’ll do my best to help you with the ain.couptwo.com removal in this blog post.

Those that have been reading this blog already know this, but for new visitors: Not long ago I dedicated some of my lab machines and wilfully installed a few adware programs on them. Since then I have been tracking the behaviour on these systems to see what kinds of advertisements that are displayed. I’m also looking on other interesting things such as if the adware auto-updates, or if it downloads and installs additional unwanted software on the computers. I first noticed the ain.couptwo.com pop-up on one of these lab machines.

ain.couptwo.com resolves to 208.43.241.247. ain.couptwo.com was created on 2014-09-18.

So, how do you remove the ain.couptwo.com pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the ain.couptwo.com ads I had TinyWallet, BrowserWarden and BlockAndSurf installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the ain.couptwo.com pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Firefox.

BlockAndSurf was the adware that caused the pop-ups in my case.

The problem with this type of pop up is that it can be popped up by many variants of adware. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the pop-ups.

Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the ain.couptwo.com ads removal:

1. What software do you have installed if you look in the Add/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel? Something that you don’t remember installing yourself or that was recently installed?
2. You can also review the add-ons you installed in your browsers. Same thing here, do you see anything that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that didn’t solve the problem, you can give FreeFixer a try. FreeFixer is built to assist users when manually tracking down adware and other types of unwanted software. It is a freeware utility that I’ve been working since 2006 and it scans your system at lots of locations where unwanted software is known to hook into your computer. If you would like to get additional details about a file in FreeFixer’s scan result, you can just click the More Info link for that file and a web page with a VirusTotal report will open up, which can be very useful to determine if the file is safe or malware:

   

Here you can see FreeFixer in action removing the adware that caused the ain.couptwo.com pop-up ads:

Are you a Mac or Linux user and get the ain.couptwo.com popups? What did you do to stop the pop-up in your browser? Please share in the comments below. Thank you very much!

Did you find any adware on your machine? Did that stop the ain.couptwo.com ads? Please post the name of the adware you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.

Thank you!

Update 2014-12-18: I’ve been documenting this type of pop-ups. I’m calling them “Coup Pop-Ups“, since they often use “Coup” in the domain name. For example, couptwo.com and coupthree.com. But what about one, four, five, six, etc? I think the following domains are registered by the same company, and that we might see them in pop-ups in the future:

• CoupFive.com
• CoupSix.com

Did you just get interrupted by a pop-up ad from dbd.cooldeas.com? You are not alone. I also get the dbd.cooldeas.com pop-ups while browsing. Do the pop-ups also circumvent the pop-up blocker in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Then read on…

Here’s a screenshot of the dbd.cooldeas.com pop-up ad when it showed up on my system:

If you also see this on your computer, you most likely have some adware installed on your machine that pops up the dbd.cooldeas.com ads. So don’t blame the people that owns the web site you were at, the ads are most likely not coming from that site, but from the adware that’s running on your computer. I’ll do my best to help you remove the dbd.cooldeas.com pop up in this blog post.

If you have been following this blog already know this, but if you are new: Not long ago I dedicated some of my lab machines and intentionally installed a few adware programs on them. Since then I’ve been following the actions on these computers to see what kinds of advertisements that are displayed. I’m also looking on other interesting things such as if the adware auto-updates, or if it downloads and installs additional unwanted software on the computers. I first found the dbd.cooldeas.com pop-up on one of these lab computers.

dbd.cooldeas.com was created on 2014-11-23. dbd.cooldeas.com resolves to 208.43.241.245.

So, how do you remove the dbd.cooldeas.com pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the dbd.cooldeas.com ads I had TinyWallet, BlockAndSurf and BrowserWarden installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the dbd.cooldeas.com pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Firefox.

BlockAndSurf was the adware that caused the pop-ups in my case.

The issue with this type of pop-up is that it can be launched by many variants of adware, not just the adware on my computer. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the pop-ups.

Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the dbd.cooldeas.com ads removal:

1. What software do you have installed if you look in the Add/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel? Something that you don’t remember installing yourself or that was recently installed?
2. You can also review the add-ons that you have in your browser. Same thing here, do you see something that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that didn’t solve the problem, you can give FreeFixer a try. FreeFixer is built to assist users when manually tracking down adware and other types of unwanted software. It is a freeware utility that I’ve been working since 2006 and it scans your computer at lots of locations where unwanted software is known to hook into your machine. If you would like to get additional details about a file in FreeFixer’s scan result, you can just click the More Info link for that file and a web page with a VirusTotal report will open up, which can be very useful to determine if the file is safe or malware:

   

Here’s a video tutorial showing FreeFixer in action removing the dbd.cooldeas.com pop-up ads:

Did this blog post help you to remove the dbd.cooldeas.com pop-up ads? Please let me know or how I can improve this blog post.

Thank you!