Did you just get a pop-up from applestore.com-mobile.gift and ask yourself where it came from? Did the applestore.com-mobile.gift 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 applestore.com-mobile.gift pop-up show up while you clicked a link on one of the major search engines, such as Google, Bing or Yahoo?

Here is how the applestore.com-mobile.gift ad looked like on my machine:

Does this sound like what you see your system, you apparently have some adware installed on your computer that pops up the applestore.com-mobile.gift ads. Contacting the owner of the site would be a waste of time. They are not responsible for the ads. I’ll try help you with the applestore.com-mobile.gift removal in this blog post.

I found the applestore.com-mobile.gift 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.

applestore.com-mobile.gift was registered on 2015-06-19. applestore.com-mobile.gift resolves to the 23.15.7.107 IP address.

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

The problem with pop-ups like this one 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 remove the applestore.com-mobile.gift pop-up ads you need to review your system 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. How about your add-ons you have in your browsers. Anything in the list 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 machine at lots of locations where unwanted software is known to hook into your computer. 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 applestore.com-mobile.gift ads? Please post the name of the adware you uninstalled from your machine in the comment below.

Thank you!