Does this sound like your story? You see pop-up ads from lightinthebox.com while browsing on web sites that usually don’t advertise in pop-up windows. The pop-ups manage to circumvent the built-in popup blockers in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Maybe the lightinthebox.com pop-ups appear when clicking search results from Google? Or does the pop-ups appear even when you’re not browsing?

Here is a screen capture on the lightinthebox.com pop-up from my computer:

Does this sound like your system, you presumably have some adware installed on your computer that pops up the lightinthebox.com ads. So there’s no use contacting the site owner. The advertisements are not coming from them. I’ll do my best to help you remove the lightinthebox.com pop-up in this blog post. The removal is done by uninstalling unwanted adware(s) from your machine.

I found the lightinthebox.com pop-up on one of the lab machines 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 website that usually don’t show advertisements, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.

So, how do you remove the lightinthebox.com pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the lightinthebox.com ads I had istartsurf, Movie Wizard and MedPlayerNewVersion installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the lightinthebox.com pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in .

The issue with pop-ups like this one is that it can be initiated by many variants of adware, not just the adware that’s installed on my machine. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the pop-ups.

So, what can be done to solve the problem? To remove the lightinthebox.com pop-up ads you need to review your system 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 lightinthebox.com pop-ups is to examine the programs installed on the machine, by opening the “Uninstall programs” dialog. You can reach 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 in there or something that you don’t remember installing? Tip: Sort on the “Installed On” column to see if some program was installed approximately about the same time as you started observing the lightinthebox.com pop-ups.

Then I would check the browser add-ons. Adware often appear under the add-ons menu in Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer or Safari. Is there anything that looks suspicious? Something that you don’t remember installing?

I think most users will be able to track down and remove 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 many years ago. Freefixer is a tool built to manually track down and remove unwanted software. When you’ve identified 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 crippled like many other removal tools out there. It will not require you to pay a fee just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.

And if you’re having troubles deciding if a file is clean or malware in the FreeFixer scan report, click on the More Info link for the file. That will open up a web page which contains more information about the file. On that web page, check out the VirusTotal report which can be quite useful:

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

Thank you!