Does this sound familiar? You see pop-up ads from lp.musicboxnewtab.com while browsing sites that generally don’t advertise in pop-up windows. The pop-ups manage to bypass the built-in pop-up blockers in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Perhaps the lp.musicboxnewtab.com pop-ups appear when clicking search results from Google? Or does the pop-ups show up even when you’re not browsing?

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

Does this sound like what you see your computer, you presumably have some adware installed on your system that pops up the lp.musicboxnewtab.com ads. Contacting the site owner would be a waste of time. The ads are not coming from them. I’ll try help you to remove the lp.musicboxnewtab.com pop-ups in this blog post.

For those that are new to the blog: Not long ago I dedicated a few of my lab computers and intentionally installed some adware programs on them. Since then I have been monitoring 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 auto-updates, or if it installs additional unwanted software on the computers. I first spotted the lp.musicboxnewtab.com pop-up on one of these lab machines.

musicboxnewtab.com resolves to 94.31.0.55 IP and the same goes for lp.musicboxnewtab.com. lp.musicboxnewtab.com was registered on 2015-05-04.

So, how do you remove the lp.musicboxnewtab.com pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the lp.musicboxnewtab.com ads I had istartsurf, MedPlayerNewVersion and Movie Wizard installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the lp.musicboxnewtab.com pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Mozilla Firefox.

It seems as lp.musicboxnewtab.com is getting quite a lot of traffic, based on Alexa’s traffic rank:

The problem with this type of pop-up is that it can be initiated 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.

So, what can be done to solve the problem? To remove the lp.musicboxnewtab.com pop-up ads you need to examine your computer for adware or other types of unwanted software and uninstall it. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:

The first thing I would do to remove the lp.musicboxnewtab.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 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 suspect in there or something that you don’t remember installing? Tip: Sort on the “Installed On” column to see if some program was installed approximately about the same time as you started seeing the lp.musicboxnewtab.com pop-ups.

The next thing to check would be your browser’s add-ons. Adware often show up under the add-ons dialog in Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer or Safari. Is there something that looks suspicious? Something that you don’t remember installing?

I think most users will be able to track down and remove 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 designed to manually track down and remove unwanted software. When you’ve found 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 locked like many other removal tools out there. It will not require you to pay a fee just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.

And if you’re having difficulties deciding if a file is safe or adware in the FreeFixer scan result, click on the More Info link for the file. That will open up a web page which contains more 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 you find any adware on your machine? Did that stop the lp.musicboxnewtab.com ads? Please post the name of the adware you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.

Thank you!

Does this sound like what you are seeing right now? You see pop-up ads from privilegesbox.net while browsing websites that usually don’t advertise in pop-up windows.

The pop-ups manage to bypass the built-in pop-up blockers in Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer or Safari. Maybe the privilegesbox.net pop-ups show up when clicking search results from Google? Or does the pop-ups show up even when you’re not browsing?

Here another privilegesbox.net pop up ad:

If this sounds like what you are seeing on your computer, you presumably have some adware installed on your machine that pops up the privilegesbox.net ads. So there’s no idea contacting the owner of the website you were browsing. The ads are not coming from them. I’ll try help you to remove the privilegesbox.net pop-ups in this blog post.

If you have been reading this blog already know this, but if you are new: Recently I dedicated some of my lab machines and knowingly installed some adware programs on them. I have been monitoring the behaviour on these systems to see what kinds of ads 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 machines. I first observed the privilegesbox.net pop-up on one of these lab computers.

privilegesbox.net resolves to the 162.159.246.105 IP address. privilegesbox.net was registered on 2014-12-30.

So, how do you remove the privilegesbox.net pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the privilegesbox.net ads I had istartsurf, MedPlayerNewVersion and Movie Wizard installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the privilegesbox.net 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 privilegesbox.net ads, the answer is probably yes. Check out the traffic rank from Alexa:

The problem with pop-ups such as this one is that it can be launched by many variants of adware, not just the adware on my machine. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the pop-ups.

So, what can be done? To remove the privilegesbox.net pop-up ads you need to review your machine for adware or other types of unwanted software and uninstall it. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:

1. What software do you have installed if you look in the Add/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel? Something that you don’t remember installing yourself or that was recently installed?
2. You can also examine the add-ons you installed in Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer or Safari. 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’s a video tutorial on how to remove the pop-ups with FreeFixer:

Did you find any adware on your machine? Did that stop the privilegesbox.net ads? Please post the name of the adware you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.

Thank you!

Did you just get a pop-up from surveysforconsumers.com and wonder where it came from? Did the surveysforconsumers.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 surveysforconsumers.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 a screenshot on the surveysforconsumers.com pop-up from my system:

(I’m sorry for the many watermarks. If I don’t add them, the screenshot always show up at some copy-cat blogs.)

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 surveysforconsumers.com ads. So don’t flame the people that owns the website you were at, the ads are most likely not coming from that website, but from the adware that’s installed on your system. I’ll do my best to help you remove the surveysforconsumers.com pop-up in this blog post.

I found the surveysforconsumers.com pop-up on one of the lab systems 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.

surveysforconsumers.com was created on 2015-05-06. surveysforconsumers.com resolves to 162.159.241.141. According to YouGetSignal’s reverse lookup service, the following domains are located on the same server:

• 123-videos.fr
• bayarea.yurisnight.net
• buckhamduffy.com
• chinammm.net
• guvengroup.com.tr
• mobilyukle.com.tr
• nuagra.com
• onroaders.com
• restaurantsbrighton.co.uk
• studentlaunchpad.com
• surveysforconsumers.com
• t1l1.org
• tribundergi.com
• www.automaticcorporation.com
• www.digiscore.com.au
• www.drinksmixer.com
• www.lovejoyhospice.org
• www.motorbikesandparts.co.uk
• www.senatoronline.org.au
• www.swesspharma.com
• zoywiki.com

So, how do you remove the surveysforconsumers.com pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the surveysforconsumers.com ads I had istartsurf, MedPlayerNewVersion and Movie Wizard installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the surveysforconsumers.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 surveysforconsumers.com ads, the answer is probably yes. Check out the traffic rank from Alexa:

The bad news 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 that’s installed on my system. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the pop-ups.

To remove the surveysforconsumers.com pop up ads you need to examine your computer for adware or other types of unwanted software and uninstall it. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:

The first thing I would do to remove the surveysforconsumers.com pop-ups is to examine the software installed on the machine, by opening the “Uninstall programs” dialog. You can find this dialog from the Windows Control Panel. If you are using one of the more recent versions of Windows 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 strange-looking listed there or something that you don’t remember installing? Tip: Sort on the “Installed On” column to see if some program was installed approximately about the same time as you started getting the surveysforconsumers.com pop-ups.

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

I think you will be able to identify and remove 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 identify 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 pay a fee just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.

And if you’re having a hard time figuring out if a file is legitimate or unsafe in the FreeFixer scan report, click on the More Info link for the file. That will open up your web browser with a page which contains more information about the file. On that web page, check out the VirusTotal report which can be quite useful:

Here’s a video tutorial which shows FreeFixer in action removing adware that caused pop-up ads:

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

Thank you!

Did you just get a pop-up from easydriverpro.com and ask yourself where it came from? Did the easydriverpro.com 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 easydriverpro.com pop-up 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 easydriverpro.com pop-up ad when it showed up on my machine:

Does this sound like your experience, you almost certainly have some adware installed on your computer that pops up the easydriverpro.com ads. There’s no use contacting the owners of the site you currently were browsing. The ads are not coming from them. I’ll do my best to help you with the easydriverpro.com removal in this blog post.

For those that are new to the blog: Some time ago I dedicated some of my lab systems and knowingly installed a few adware programs on them. Since then I’ve been following the actions on these computers 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 additional unwanted software on the computers. I first noticed the easydriverpro.com pop-up on one of these lab machines.

easydriverpro.com resolves to 107.22.218.171.

So, how do you remove the easydriverpro.com pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the easydriverpro.com ads I had CPUMiner, PineTree and GamesDesktop installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the easydriverpro.com pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Mozilla Firefox.

The issue with pop-ups like this one is that it can be popped up 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 easydriverpro.com ads removal:

1. What software do you have installed if you look in the Add/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel? Something that you don’t remember installing yourself 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, 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 guide showing how to remove pop-up ads with FreeFixer:

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

Thank you!

Does this sound like your story? You see pop-up advertisements from view.contextualyield.com while browsing sites that typically don’t advertise in pop-up windows. The pop-ups manage to bypass the built-in pop-up blockers in Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer or Safari. Perhaps the view.contextualyield.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 screenshot of the view.contextualyield.com pop-up ad when it showed up on my machine:

(Sorry for the ridiculous use of watermarks. I have to do it to stop the copy-cats.)

If this description sounds like your computer, you probably have some adware installed on your machine that pops up the view.contextualyield.com ads. Contacting the owner of the website would be a waste of time. They are not responsible for the ads. I’ll try help you with the view.contextualyield.com removal in this blog post.

Those that have been spending some time on this blog already know this, but here we go: A little while back I dedicated some of my lab computers and intentionally installed some adware programs on them. I have been tracking the behaviour on these computers 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 view.contextualyield.com pop-up on one of these lab computers.

view.contextualyield.com resolves to 46.105.156.73. view.contextualyield.com was registered on 2015-06-25. bycontext.com is also located at the same IP according to YouGetSignal’s reverse lookup service.

So, how do you remove the view.contextualyield.com pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the view.contextualyield.com ads I had istartsurf, MedPlayerNewVersion and Movie Wizard installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the view.contextualyield.com pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Mozilla Firefox.

It seems as view.contextualyield.com is getting quite a lot of traffic, based on Alexa’s traffic rank:

The issue with this type of pop-up 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.

So, what can be done to solve the problem? To remove the view.contextualyield.com pop-up ads you need to review your computer for adware or other types of unwanted software and uninstall it. Here’s my suggested removal procedure:

1. What software do you have installed if you look in the Add/Remove programs dialog in the Windows Control Panel? Something that you don’t remember installing yourself or that was recently installed?
2. You can also check the add-ons you have in your browsers. Same thing here, do you see anything 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 computer at lots of locations where unwanted software is known to hook into your system. 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:

   

Here’s a video tutorial which shows FreeFixer in action removing adware that caused pop-up ads:

Did you find any adware on your machine? Did that stop the view.contextualyield.com ads? Please post the name of the adware you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.

Thank you!

Does this sound like what you are seeing right now? You see pop-up ads from thedailytrader.net while browsing sites that in general don’t advertise in pop-up windows. The pop-ups manage to find a way round the built-in pop-up blockers in Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer or Safari. Perhaps the thedailytrader.net pop-ups appear when clicking search results from the Google search engine? Or does the pop-ups appear even when you’re not browsing?

Here is how the thedailytrader.net ad looked like on my system, when it popped up in a new tab:

If this description sounds like your story, you presumably have some adware installed on your machine that pops up the thedailytrader.net ads. So don’t write angry emails to the web site you were browsing, the ads are apparently not coming from them, but from the adware on your computer. I’ll do my best to help you with the thedailytrader.net removal in this blog post.

For those that are new to the blog: Some time ago I dedicated some of my lab machines and intentionally installed some adware programs on them. Since then I have been tracking the actions on these computers 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 machines. I first found the thedailytrader.net pop-up on one of these lab systems.

thedailytrader.net resolves to the 50.7.157.122 address. thedailytrader.net was created on 2014-08-19. According to YouGetSignal’s reverse IP service, the following domains are also located at the same IP:

• b32.binaryinstructor.net
• b34.binaryinstructor.net
• b40.binaryinstructor.net
• b55.bincodesupport.com
• c17.bluetradingonline.net
• copytraderpro.com
• dailyprofitmethod.org
• guidetobinarytrading.com
• media.guidetobinarytrading.com
• w21.copytraderpro.com
• w22.copytraderpro.com
• www.freepatentsonline.com
• www.guidetobinarytrading.com

So, how do you remove the thedailytrader.net pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the thedailytrader.net ads I had Movie Wizard, istartsurf and MedPlayerNewVersion installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the thedailytrader.net pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in .

It seems as thedailytrader.net is getting quite a lot of traffic, based on Alexa’s traffic rank:

The site started to get some major traffic in the beginning of April 2015.

The problem with pop-ups like this one 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 thedailytrader.net ads removal:

The first thing I would do to remove the thedailytrader.net pop-ups is to examine the software installed on the machine, by opening the “Uninstall programs” dialog. You can find this dialog from the Windows Control Panel. If you are using one of the more recent versions of Windows Operating System 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 shady listed there or something that you don’t remember installing? Tip: Sort on the “Installed On” column to see if something was installed about the same time as you started getting the thedailytrader.net pop-ups.

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

I think you will be able to find and remove 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 started develop about 8 years ago. It’s a tool designed to manually track down and uninstall unwanted software. When you’ve tracked down 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 locked like many other removal tools out there. It will not require you to purchase the program just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.

And if you’re having difficulties determining if a file is clean or adware in the FreeFixer scan result, click on the More Info link for the file. That will open up a web page which contains additional details about the file. On that web page, check out the VirusTotal report which can be very useful:

Here you can see FreeFixer in action removing pop-up ads:

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

Thank you!