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

Here is how the static.millionairetruth.com ad looked like on my machine:

(I know, lots of watermarks. Have to do it to stop the copy-cats.)

If this description sounds like what you are seeing, you probably have some adware installed on your machine that pops up the static.millionairetruth.com ads. So don’t send angry emails to the site you were browsing, the ads are most likely not coming from them, but from the adware on your machine. I’ll do my best to help you with the static.millionairetruth.com removal in this blog post.

I found the static.millionairetruth.com 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 pop-up windows, new tabs in the browsers, injected ads on web site that usually don’t show advertisements, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.

static.millionairetruth.com was created on 2015-10-07. millionairetruth.com resolves to 94.126.69.160 and static.millionairetruth.com to the 104.28.31.218 IP address.

So, how do you remove the static.millionairetruth.com pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the static.millionairetruth.com ads I had SmartComp Safe Network, Live Malware Protection, Windows Menager and gosearch.me installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the static.millionairetruth.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 static.millionairetruth.com ads, the answer is probably yes. Check out the traffic rank from Alexa:

The issue with pop-ups such as this one is that it can be popped up by many variants of adware, not just the adware that’s installed 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 static.millionairetruth.com 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 check the add-ons you installed in your browsers. Same thing here, do you see something that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that didn’t solve the problem, 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 static.millionairetruth.com pop-up ads? Please let me know or how I can improve this blog post.

Thank you!