Did you just get a pop-up from advicefireman.kim and wonder where it came from? Did the advicefireman.kim ad appear to have been launched from a web site that under normal circumstances don’t use aggressive advertising such as pop-up windows? Or did the advicefireman.kim 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 screen dump of the advicefireman.kim pop-up ad when it showed up on my machine:

If this sounds like what you are seeing on your system, you almost certainly have some adware installed on your machine that pops up the advicefireman.kim ads. Contacting the owner of the website would be a waste of time. They are not responsible for the ads. I’ll do my best to help you with the advicefireman.kim removal in this blog post.

I found the advicefireman.kim 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.

advicefireman.kim was registered on 2015-02-05. anazz.super-promo.advicefireman.kim resolves to the 45.56.126.210 address and advicefireman.kim to 184.73.247.179.

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

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.

Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the advicefireman.kim ads removal:

The first thing I would do to remove the advicefireman.kim pop-ups is to examine the programs 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 suspicious 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 seeing the advicefireman.kim pop-ups.

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

I think most users will be able to track down and uninstall 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 built to manually find and remove 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 malware 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:

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

Thank you!