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

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

(Sorry for the large number of watermarks. If I don’t add them, the screenshot will be used without attribution at some other blogs)

If this description sounds like what you are seeing, you probably have some adware installed on your computer that pops up the casino-x.com ads. So don’t write angry emails to the web site you were browsing, the ads are almost certainly not coming from them, but from the adware on your machine. I’ll do my best to help you with the casino-x.com removal in this blog post.

If you have been visiting this blog already know this, but if you are new: Recently I dedicated some of my lab computers and deliberately installed some adware programs on them. Since then I have been monitoring the behaviour on these computers to see what kinds of advertisements that are displayed. I’m also looking on other interesting things such as if the adware auto-updates, or if it installs additional unwanted software on the computers. I first spotted the casino-x.com pop-up on one of these lab computers.

casino-x.com resolves to the 88.208.60.246 address.

So, how do you remove the casino-x.com pop-up ads? On the machine where I got the casino-x.com ads I had WebShield, SFKEX64.exe, PrimaryColor, PhaseProfessor, mystartsearch, FastSearch, SSFK.exe, Wajam and YTDownloader installed. I removed them with FreeFixer and that stopped the casino-x.com pop-ups and all the other ads I was getting in Mozilla Firefox.

The problem with pop-ups such as this one is that it can be initiated by many variants of adware. This makes it impossible to say exactly what you need to remove to stop the pop-ups.

Anyway, here’s my suggestion for the casino-x.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. How about your add-ons you have in your browsers. Anything in the list that you don’t remember installing?
3. If that didn’t 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’s a video tutorial which shows FreeFixer in action removing adware that caused pop-up ads:

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

Thank you!