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

Here’s a screenshot of the consumerwebsurveys.com pop-up ad when it showed up on my machine:

If this sounds like what you are seeing on your machine, you most likely have some adware installed on your system that pops up the consumerwebsurveys.com 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 to remove the consumerwebsurveys.com pop-ups in this blog post.

Those that have been visiting this blog already know this, but here we go: A little while back I dedicated some of my lab computers and intentionally installed a few adware programs on them. Since then I have been tracking the behaviour on these machines 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 found the consumerwebsurveys.com pop-up on one of these lab systems.

consumerwebsurveys.com resolves to 198.41.204.100. consumerwebsurveys.com was created on 2015-02-09. Here’s the traffic ranking, thanks to Alexa:

So, how do you remove the consumerwebsurveys.com pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the consumerwebsurveys.com ads I had TinyWallet, BlockAndSurf and TinyWallet installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the consumerwebsurveys.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 on my system. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the pop-ups.

Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the consumerwebsurveys.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 add-ons you have in your browsers. Same thing here, do you see something that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that did not 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 machine 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 pop-up ads:

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

Thank you!