Having a hard time with pop-ups from wealthinaweek.co? If that is the case, you may have adware installed on your machine. I got the wealthinaweek.co popups in Firefox, but they can appear if you are using Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari or Opera too.

Here is a screenshot on the wealthinaweek.co pop-up from my machine:

If you also see this on your computer, you almost certainly have some adware installed on your computer that pops up the wealthinaweek.co ads. Contacting the owner of the site would be a waste of time. They are not responsible for the advertisements. I’ll do my best to help you remove the wealthinaweek.co pop-up in this blog post.

I found the wealthinaweek.co pop-up on one of the lab computers 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 anything new has appeared, such as popup 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.

wealthinaweek.co was registered on 2015-03-01.

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

Judging from Alexa’s traffic rank, wealthinaweek.co is getting quite a lot of traffic:

The issue with pop-ups like the one described in this blog post is that it can be launched 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 wealthinaweek.co ads removal:

1. Check what programs you have installed in the Add/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel. Do you see something that you don’t remember installing or that was recently installed?
2. You can also examine the add-ons you installed in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Same thing here, do you see anything 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’s a video tutorial showing FreeFixer in action removing pop-up ads:

Did this blog post help you to remove the wealthinaweek.co popup ads? Please let me know or how I can improve this blog post.

Thank you!