Does this sound like what you are seeing right now? You see pop-up ads from afternooncrow.country while browsing at sites that typically don’t advertise in pop-up windows. The pop-ups manage to get round the built-in pop-up blockers in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Perhaps the afternooncrow.country pop-ups show up when clicking search results from Google? Or does the pop-ups appear even when you’re not browsing?

Here’s a screen capture of the afternooncrow.country pop-up ad when it showed up on my computer:

If you also see this on your computer, you almost certainly have some adware installed on your system that pops up the afternooncrow.country ads. There’s no use contacting the owners of the site you were browsing. The ads are not coming from them. I’ll try help you with the afternooncrow.country removal in this blog post.

I found the afternooncrow.country pop-up on one of the lab systems 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.

afternooncrow.country was registered on 2015-01-07. 8zxzz.super-promo.afternooncrow.country resolves to the 45.56.115.53 IP address and afternooncrow.country to 184.73.247.179.

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

The problem with this type of pop-up is that it can be initiated by many variants of adware, not just the adware running 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 afternooncrow.country ads removal:

1. Check what programs you have installed in the Add/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel. Do you see something that you don’t remember installing or that was recently installed?
2. You can also check the add-ons you installed in your browsers. Same thing here, do you see something that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that didn’t help, 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 you can see FreeFixer in action removing the adware that caused pop-up ads:

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

Thank you!