Sound familiar? You see pop-up adverts from betolot.com while browsing web sites that usually don’t advertise in pop-up windows. The pop ups manage to escape the built-in pop-up blockers in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Maybe the betolot.com pop-ups appear when clicking search results from Google? Or does the pop-ups show up even when you’re not browsing?

Here’s a screen capture of the reg4.betolot.com pop-up ad when it showed up on my system:

If this sounds like what you are seeing on your system, you most likely have some adware installed on your computer that pops up the betolot.com ads. There’s no use contacting the owners of the website you were browsing. The ads are not coming from them. I’ll try help you with the betolot.com removal in this blog post.

For those that are new to the blog: Some time ago I dedicated a few of my lab computers and purposely installed some adware programs on them. I have been monitoring the actions 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 auto-updates, or if it downloads and installs additional unwanted software on the computers. I first spotted the betolot.com pop-up on one of these lab machines.

So, how do you remove the betolot.com pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the betolot.com ads I had istartsurf, Movie Wizard and MedPlayerNewVersion installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the betolot.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. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the pop-ups.

Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the betolot.com ads removal:

The first thing I would do to remove the betolot.com pop-ups is to examine the software 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 OS 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 suspicious listed there or something that you don’t remember installing? Tip: Sort on the “Installed On” column to see if some program was installed about the same time as you started getting the betolot.com pop-ups.

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

I think most users will be able to find 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’ve developed since 2006. Freefixer is a tool built to manually find 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 won’t require you to purchase the program just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.

And if you’re having a mess figuring out if a file is safe or unsafe in FreeFixer’s scan result, click on the More Info link for the file. That will open up a web page which contains additional information about the file. On that web page, check out the VirusTotal report which can be quite 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 betolot.com pop-up ads? Please let me know or how I can improve this blog post.

Thank you!