Does this sound like your story? You see pop-up advertisements from ads.displayincloud.com while browsing at websites that commonly don’t advertise in pop-up windows. The pop-ups manage to circumvent the built-in pop-up blockers in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari or Opera. Maybe the displayincloud.com pop-ups turn up when clicking search results from the Google search engine? Or does the pop-ups appear even when you’re not browsing?

Here’s how the ads.displayincloud.com pop-up looked like when I got it on my machine:

Does this sound like what you see your system, you presumably have some adware installed on your computer that pops up the ads.displayincloud.com ads. Contacting the owner of the site would be a waste of time. They are not responsible for the ads. I’ll do my best to help you remove the ads.displayincloud.com pop-up in this blog post.

I found the ads.displayincloud.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 something new has appeared, such as pop-up windows, new tabs in the browsers, injected ads on site that usually don’t show advertisements, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.

ads.displayincloud.com resolves to the 130.211.190.23 IP address. ads.displayincloud.com was created on 2014-04-01.

So, how do you remove the ads.displayincloud.com pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the ads.displayincloud.com ads I had BlockAndSurf, BrowserWarden and TinyWallet installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the ads.displayincloud.com pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Firefox.

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

The issue with pop-ups like this one 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.

Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the ads.displayincloud.com ads removal:

The first thing I would do to remove the ads.displayincloud.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 strange-looking listed there or something that you don’t remember installing? Tip: Sort on the “Installed On” column to see if something was installed approximately about the same time as you started getting the ads.displayincloud.com pop-ups.

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

I think you 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. 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 crippled like many other removal tools out there. It will not require you to pay for the program just when you are about to remove the unwanted files.

And if you’re having a mess determining if a file is clean or adware in the FreeFixer 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 on how to remove the pop-ups with FreeFixer:

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

Thank you!