Did you just get a pop-up from tradingforwinners.org in a new tab and wonder where it came from? Did the tradingforwinners.org ad appear to have been popped up from a web site that under normal circumstances don’t use advertising such as pop-up windows? Or did the tradingforwinners.org pop-up show up while you clicked a link on one of the major search engines, such as Google, Bing or Yahoo?

Here is a screen capture on the tradingforwinners.org pop-up tab from my computer:

Does this sound like what you are seeing, you almost certainly have some adware installed on your machine that pops up the tradingforwinners.org ads. So there’s no idea contacting the owner of the site you currently were browsing. The ads are not coming from them. I’ll try help you with the tradingforwinners.org removal in this blog post.

Those that have been visiting this blog already know this, but here we go: Recently I dedicated a few of my lab systems and knowingly installed some adware programs on them. Since then I have been monitoring the behaviour on these systems to see what kinds of advertisements that are displayed. I’m also looking on other interesting things such as if the adware auto-updates, or if it installs additional unwanted software on the computers. I first noticed the tradingforwinners.org pop-up on one of these lab computers.

tradingforwinners.org resolves to the 107.170.160.232 IP address. tradingforwinners.org was created on 2014-08-19.

So, how do you remove the tradingforwinners.org pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the tradingforwinners.org ads I had MedPlayerNewVersion, Movie Wizard and istartsurf installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the tradingforwinners.org 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 launched by many variants of adware, not just the adware that’s installed 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 tradingforwinners.org 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 examine 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, 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 guide showing how to remove pop-up ads with FreeFixer:

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

Thank you!