Did you just get a pop-up from windows-updates.amazingnewapps.com and ponder where it came from? Did the windows-updates.amazingnewapps.com 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 windows-updates.amazingnewapps.com pop-up show up while you clicked a link on one of the major search engines, such as Google, Bing or Yahoo?

Here is how the windows-updates.amazingnewapps.com ad looked like on my machine:

(Sorry for the watermarks. Need to add them to prevent the most blatant attempts of other bloggers using my screenshots without attribution)

The pop up showed a message saying “Attention! Your Windows Might Be Infected!“:

If this description sounds like your experience, you most likely have some adware installed on your computer that pops up the windows-updates.amazingnewapps.com ads. So don’t blame the people that runs the site you were at, the ads are apparently not coming from that website, but from the adware that’s installed on your system. I’ll try help you with the windows-updates.amazingnewapps.com removal in this blog post.

I found the windows-updates.amazingnewapps.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 site that usually don’t show ads, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.

windows-updates.amazingnewapps.com resolves to 208.79.236.224. windows-updates.amazingnewapps.com was registered on 2015-05-22. According to DomainTools and YouGetSignal are the following domains located on the same server:

• appsthatshine.com
• besttrendingapps.com
• mobile-security.amazingnewapps.com
• www.private.message.amazingnewapps.com

So, how do you remove the windows-updates.amazingnewapps.com pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the windows-updates.amazingnewapps.com ads I had WebShield, mystartsearch, Wajam, PhaseProfessor, FastSearch, PrimaryColor, SSFK.exe, SFKEX64.exe, YTDownloader and acengine installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the windows-updates.amazingnewapps.com pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Mozilla Firefox.

If you are wonder if there are many others out there also getting the windows-updates.amazingnewapps.com ads, the answer is probably yes. Check out the traffic rank from Alexa:

The issue with this type of pop-up is that it can be launched by many variants of adware, not just the adware 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 windows-updates.amazingnewapps.com ads removal:

1. Check what programs you have installed in the Add/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel. Do you see anything that you don’t remember installing or that was recently installed?
2. How about your browser add-ons. Anything in the list that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that didn’t 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 you can see FreeFixer in action removing the adware that caused pop-up ads:

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

Thank you!