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

Here’s a screengrab of the yui.coldphotograph.com pop-up ad when it showed up on my machine:

Does this sound like what you see your system, you most likely have some adware installed on your system that pops up the yui.coldphotograph.com ads. So there’s no use contacting the site owner. The ads are not coming from them. I’ll do my best to help you with the yui.coldphotograph.com removal in this blog post.

Those that have been visiting this blog already know this, but for new visitors: Recently I dedicated some of my lab systems and intentionally installed some adware programs on them. Since then I’ve been following the behaviour 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 noticed the yui.coldphotograph.com pop-up on one of these lab systems.

yui.coldphotograph.com was created on 2015-01-01. yui.coldphotograph.com resolves to 208.43.241.241.

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

The issue with pop-ups such as this one is that it can be initiated by many variants of adware, not just the adware that’s installed 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 yui.coldphotograph.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 check the browser add-ons. 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 system at lots of locations where unwanted software is known to hook into your system. 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 yui.coldphotograph.com pop-ups with FreeFixer:

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

Thank you!