Does this sound like what you are seeing right now? You see pop up ads from appleproducts-winner.com while browsing web sites that normally don’t advertise in pop-up windows. The pop-ups manage to find a way round the built-in pop-up blockers in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari or Opera. Perhaps the appleproducts-winner.com pop-ups appear when clicking search results from Google? Or does the pop-ups appear even when you’re not browsing?

Here’s a screen-cap of the appleproducts-winner.com pop-up ad when it showed up on my computer:

If this description sounds like your computer, you almost certainly have some adware installed on your machine that pops up the appleproducts-winner.com ads. There’s no use contacting the owners of the site you currently were browsing. The ads are not coming from them. I’ll try help you to remove the appleproducts-winner.com pop-ups in this blog post.

I found the appleproducts-winner.com pop-up on one of the lab computers 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 site that usually don’t show advertisements, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.

appleproducts-winner.com was created on 2016-01-22. appleproducts-winner.com resolves to the 8.29.155.176 IP address.

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

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

So, what can be done to solve the problem? To remove the appleproducts-winner.com pop-up ads you need to check your machine 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. You can also review 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, I’d recommend a scan with FreeFixer to manually track down the adware. FreeFixer is a freeware tool that I’m working on that scans your computer at lots of locations, such as browser add-ons, processes, Windows services, recently modified files, etc. If you want to get additional details about a file in the scan result, you can click the More Info link for that file and a web page will open up with a VirusTotal report which will be very useful to determine if the file is safe or malware:

   

Here’s a video tutorial which shows FreeFixer in action removing adware that caused pop-up ads:

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

Thank you!