Did you just get a pop-up from qbm.warmmovie.com and ponder where it came from? Did the qbm.warmmovie.com ad appear to have been popped up from a web site that under normal circumstances don’t use aggressive advertising such as pop-up windows? Or did the qbm.warmmovie.com pop-up show up while you clicked a link on one of the big search engines, such as Google, Bing or Yahoo?

Here’s a screenshot of the qbm.warmmovie.com pop-up ad when it showed up on my machine:

Does this sound like what you are seeing, you probably have some adware installed on your system that pops up the qbm.warmmovie.com ads. Contacting the site owner would be a waste of time. The ads are not coming from them. I’ll do my best to help you with the qbm.warmmovie.com removal in this blog post.

I found the qbm.warmmovie.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 web site that usually don’t show ads, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.

qbm.warmmovie.com was registered on 2015-01-01. qbm.warmmovie.com resolves to the 208.43.241.247 address.

So, how do you remove the qbm.warmmovie.com pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the qbm.warmmovie.com ads I had PriceLess, SpeedCheck, OfferBoulevard and PriceHorse installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the qbm.warmmovie.com pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Firefox.

The issue with pop-ups such as this one is that it can be popped up by many variants of adware, not just the adware that’s installed on my machine. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the pop-ups.

So, what can be done? To remove the qbm.warmmovie.com pop-up ads you need to examine your system for adware or other types of unwanted software and uninstall it. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:

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. How about your browser add-ons. Anything in the list 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 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’s a video tutorial on how to remove the qbm.warmmovie.com pop-ups with FreeFixer:

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

Thank you!