Did you just get interrupted by a pop-up ad from chickenboot.kim?. You are not alone. I also get the chickenboot.kim pop-ups while browsing. Do the pop-ups also evade the pop-up blocker in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Then read on…
Here is a screen dump on the chickenboot.kim pop-up from my computer:
If this description sounds like what you are seeing, you almost certainly have some adware installed on your system that pops up the chickenboot.kim ads. Contacting the owner of the website would be a waste of time. They are not responsible for the ads. I’ll try help you with the chickenboot.kim removal in this blog post.
For those that are new to the blog: A little while back I dedicated some of my lab machines and deliberately installed some adware programs on them. I’ve been following the behaviour on these computers to see what kinds of adverts that are displayed. I’m also looking on other interesting things such as if the adware auto-updates, or if it downloads additional unwanted software on the machines. I first observed the chickenboot.kim pop-up on one of these lab systems.
chickenboot.kim was created on 2015-02-05. vlwzz.super-promo.chickenboot.kim resolves to 107.191.51.93 and chickenboot.kim to the 184.73.247.179 IP address.
So, how do you remove the chickenboot.kim pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the chickenboot.kim ads I had TinyWallet, BlockAndSurf and BrowserWarden installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the chickenboot.kim pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Mozilla Firefox.
The issue with pop-ups like this one is that it can be initiated by many variants of adware. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the pop-ups.
So, what should done to solve the problem? To remove the chickenboot.kim 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:
The first thing I would do to remove the chickenboot.kim pop-ups is to examine the software installed on the machine, by opening the “Uninstall programs” dialog. You can open this dialog from the Windows Control Panel. If you are using one of the more recent versions of Windows you can just type in “uninstall” in the Control Panel’s search field to find that dialog:
Click on the “Uninstall a program” link and the Uninstall programs dialog will open up:
Do you see something dubious listed there or something that you don’t remember installing? Tip: Sort on the “Installed On” column to see if something was installed about the same time as you started observing the chickenboot.kim pop-ups.
The next thing to check would be your browser’s add-ons. Adware often show up under the add-ons menu in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Is there anything that looks suspicious? Something that you don’t remember installing?
I think you will be able to track down and uninstall the adware with the steps outlined above, but in case that did not work you can try the FreeFixer removal tool to identify and remove the adware. FreeFixer is a freeware tool that I started develop about 8 years ago. Freefixer is a tool designed to manually find and uninstall unwanted software. When you’ve tracked down the unwanted files you can simply tick a checkbox and click on the Fix button to remove the unwanted file.
FreeFixer’s removal feature is not locked like many other removal tools out there. It will not require you to pay for the program just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.
And if you’re having a mess determining if a file is clean or unwanted in FreeFixer’s scan report, click on the More Info link for the file. That will open up your web browser with a page which contains more information about the file. On that web page, check out the VirusTotal report which can be very useful:
Here you can see FreeFixer in action removing the adware that caused pop-up ads:
Did this blog post help you to remove the chickenboot.kim pop-up ads? Please let me know or how I can improve this blog post.
Thank you!