Did you just get interrupted by a new tab or a pop-up ad from ads.adplxmd.com? You are not alone. I also get the ads.adplxmd.com tabs while browsing. Do the pop-up tabs also circumvent the pop-up blocker in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari. Then read on…

Here’s a screenshot of the ads.adplxmd.com pop-up ad when it showed up on my computer:

If this sounds like what you are seeing on your machine, you apparently have some adware installed on your machine that pops up the ads.adplxmd.com ads. There’s no use contacting the owners of the web site you currently were browsing. The ads are not coming from them. I’ll do my best to help you with the ads.adplxmd.com removal in this blog post.

If you have been spending some time on this blog already know this, but if you are new: Not long ago I dedicated some of my lab systems and wilfully installed a few adware programs on them. Since then I’ve been following the behaviour on these computers to see what kinds of adverts that are displayed. I’m also looking on other interesting things such as if the adware updates itself, or if it downloads and installs additional unwanted software on the systems. I first found the ads.adplxmd.com pop-up on one of these lab computers.

ads.adplxmd.com was created on 2013-05-09. ads.adplxmd.com resolves to the 130.211.124.19 address and adplxmd.com to 205.186.187.178.

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

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

The issue with pop-ups like the one described in this blog post is that it can be popped up 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 solve the problem? To remove the ads.adplxmd.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:

The first thing I would do to remove the ads.adplxmd.com pop-ups is to examine the software installed on the machine, by opening the “Uninstall programs” dialog. You can open 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 dubious 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 observing the ads.adplxmd.com pop-ups.

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

I think most users 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. Freefixer is 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 pay a fee just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.

And if you’re having troubles deciding if a file is legit or adware in FreeFixer’s scan report, 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 quite useful:

Here’s a video tutorial showing FreeFixer in action removing pop-up ads:

Are you a Mac or Linux user and get the ads.adplxmd.com pop-ups? What did you do to stop the pop-up in your browser? Please share in the comments below. Thank you!

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

Thank you!