Did you just get a pop-up tab from campaigns.radioplanets.com and ask yourself where it came from? Did the campaigns.radioplanets.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 campaigns.radioplanets.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 screengrab of the campaigns.radioplanets.com pop-up ad when it showed up on my machine in a new tab:

Does this sound like what you see your system, you presumably have some adware installed on your system that pops up the campaigns.radioplanets.com ads. Contacting the owner of the site would be a waste of time. They are not responsible for the ads. I’ll try help you with the campaigns.radioplanets.com removal in this blog post.

Those that have been reading this blog already know this, but here we go: A little while back I dedicated some of my lab machines and knowingly installed some adware programs on them. Since then I’ve been observing 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 updates itself, or if it downloads additional unwanted software on the machines. I first spotted the campaigns.radioplanets.com pop-up tab on one of these lab machines.

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

The problem with this type of pop-up is that it can be launched by many variants of adware. 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 campaigns.radioplanets.com pop-up ads you need to check your computer 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 examine the browser add-ons. Same thing here, do you see something that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that didn’t help, 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 you can see FreeFixer in action removing the adware that caused pop-up ads:

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

Thank you!