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

Here’s a screenshot of the tracking.binary.investments pop-up ad when it showed up on my machine:

Does this sound like what you see your system, you most likely have some adware installed on your system that pops up the tracking.binary.investments ads. So there’s no use contacting the site owner. The ads are not coming from them. I’ll do my best to help you remove the tracking.binary.investments pop-up in this blog post.

Those that have been visiting this blog already know this, but for new visitors: Some time ago I dedicated some of my lab machines and knowingly installed some adware programs on them. Since then I have been tracking the behaviour 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 updates itself automatically, or if it downloads additional unwanted software on the computers. I first found the tracking.binary.investments pop-up on one of these lab machines.

tracking.binary.investments resolves to the 54.165.77.185 address. tracking.binary.investments was created on 2015-05-04.

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

The issue with this type of pop-up is that it can be initiated by many variants of adware, not just the adware running on my computer. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the pop-ups.

To remove the tracking.binary.investments pop-up ads you need to examine your machine for adware or other types of unwanted software and uninstall it. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:

1. Examine 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. How about your add-ons you installed in your browsers. Anything in the list that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that didn’t solve the problem, you can give FreeFixer a try. FreeFixer is built to assist users when manually tracking down adware and other types of unwanted software. It is a freeware utility that I’ve been working since 2006 and it scans your machine at lots of locations where unwanted software is known to hook into your machine. If you would like to get additional details about a file in FreeFixer’s scan result, you can just click the More Info link for that file and a web page with a VirusTotal report will open up, which can be very useful to determine if the file is safe or malware:

   

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

Thank you!