Did you just get a pop-up from alp.couplead.com and ask yourself where it came from? Did the alp.couplead.com ad appear to have been popped up from a web site that under normal circumstances don’t use aggressive advertising such as pop-up windows? Or did the alp.couplead.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 alp.couplead.com pop-up from my machine:

When I first spotted this pop-up it redirected to adcash.com.

Does this sound like your story, you most likely have some adware installed on your computer that pops up the alp.couplead.com ads. So don’t blame the people that runs the website you were at, the ads are probably not coming from that web site, but from the adware that’s installed on your machine. I’ll do my best to help you with the alp.couplead.com removal in this blog post.

I found the alp.couplead.com pop-up on one of the lab machines 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 web site that usually don’t show ads, or if some new files have been saved to the hard-drive.

alp.couplead.com resolves to 208.43.241.241. alp.couplead.com was created on 2014-09-18.

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

BlockAndSurf was the adware that caused the pop-ups in my case. The pop-up was labelled “Ads by BlockAndSurf“.

What label did your pop-up ad have? Please share by posting a comment below.

The problem with pop-ups such as this one is that it can be launched by many variants of adware. I think that adware such as NewPlayer, Salus, Checkmeup and safersurf can also be responsible for the alp.couplead.com popups. And there are probably other variants too. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the pop-ups.

Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the alp.couplead.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. You can also review the add-ons you installed in your browsers. Same thing here, do you see anything that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that did not help, 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 system at lots of locations where unwanted software is known to hook into your machine. 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 you can see FreeFixer in action removing the alp.couplead.com pop-up ads:

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

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

Thank you!